Droppg a polil bombshell, New Jersey Gov. Jam McGreevey announced his rignatn Thursday after revealg that he is gay and that he had an adultero affair wh a man.
Contents:
- WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
- AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
- WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
- WIFE OF FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR MCGREEVEY SAYS SHE NEVER KNEW HE WAS GAY
WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
Tho 's still early days, 2022 has already been an eventful year for equaly +LGBTQ rights NJ. Gay Marriage✅ ?Gay State Lawmakers✅ ? Gay Mayors✅ * former gay nj governor *
After Ga Genove won electn to the Long Hill Township Commtee 2004, homophob lashed of flyers were strewn about Town Hall this nservative Morris County municipaly falsely allegg that the openly gay Genove ma sexual advanc to a mor. In a separate cint, a man slapped an anti-gay sticker on her opposn did not stop Genove's mtee lleagu om appotg her mayor 2006, which ma her New Jersey’s first out mayor.
”Fifteen years after Genove’s electn, the landspe has shifted for elected officials who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.
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AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
Jam McGreevey, the gay former ernor of New Jersey who rigned his posn 2004, wr his soon-to-be-released memoir that he ed to engage sual sex at highway rt stops. * former gay nj governor *
Congrs has 10 out members and Pete Buttigieg, the gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is pollg the top five of the 23 Democratic printial memorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg that served as a talyst for the LGBT rights movement, and the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey spoke to gay elected officials about how the mpaign trail is different now om how was for Genove, what ’s like as an out ndidate to ask Print Donald Tmp supporters for their vote and why party boss stand the way of more LGBT people wng electns. ”Amerin voters first elected an openly gay person to office 1974 — not San Francis’s Harvey Milk, but the lser-known Kathy Kozachenko.
At least 41 of them intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or queer. "Tim Etace, 62, an ex-assemblyman who ma history as the first out gay person New Jersey voters elected mayor, said that if you unt the number of closeted gay people servg elective office, the unt of 41 would double. “There are muni New Jersey, believe or not, that are not very gay-iendly.
”Runng gay GOP townsAmerins have bee more acceptg of gay people, but many rema hostile to key LGBT 37% of Republins approve of same-sex marriage, acrdg to a March 2019 Pew Rearch Center poll. Voters there also elected five gay people to s six-person uncil and a gay Republin mayor, Mike Nohilly. “Gay and Republin … you don’t really fd those two quali one person, ” Nohilly he readi to n for a third term November wh no Democratic opposn, Nohilly, 55, said beg gay has "certaly never been a hdrance Interlaken.
WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
Kev Maxen, an associate strength ach wh the Jacksonville Jaguars, has bee the first male ach a major U.S.-based profsnal league to e out as gay. * former gay nj governor *
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Nearly 5% of the populatn intifi as lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, acrdg to a 2018 Gallup New Jersey, the domance of polil boss is one of the reasons for this unrreprentatn, LGBT advot areas of the state unr one-party ntrol, party boss provi the fundg, endorsements and proment ballot posn that often guarantee a victory at the polls. "The unty polil parti New Jersey, they anot their ndidat advance; they vet them for the voters, " said liberal, gay activist Jay Lasser. "Growg up New Jersey, I never imaged beg so fortably gay a profsnal and a polil way, " said DeF, 36.
JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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” She se only a rise ahead, as more and more gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr ndidat realize that the barriers that once existed have been broken down.
TRENTON – Ten years after he announced that he was a "gay Amerin" and would rign om office after a sndal-plagued stt as New Jersey ernor, Jim McGreevey is back ernment, this time mostly as an evangelist for prison reform. 12, 2004, is " the rearview mirror, " he said, and he do not see himself as a gay rights trailblazer, though he remas the only person to have served as a ernor while openly gay.
"When McGreevey officially left office three months after beg the natn's first — and so far only — openly gay ernor, Massachetts had jt bee the first state to regnize same-sex marriage. Now, 19 stat, cludg New Jersey, McGreevey announced he was gay, there were jt a handful of openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr elected officials the unty. Now there are about 500 by the unt of the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
In Mae, openly gay U. Mike Michd is the nomated Democrat for McGreevey's rignatn speech is remembered mostly for his g out — livered wh his wife at his si and cludg the le, "My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " wh unrton of fiance and patrtism — the suatn was more plited than was upset over McGreevey's attempt to appot Golan Cipel — wh whom McGreevey would later say he had an affair — to be his top homeland secury adviser spe havg few qualifitns and beg unable to get feral secury clearanc.
WIFE OF FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR MCGREEVEY SAYS SHE NEVER KNEW HE WAS GAY
Gay marriage dified. Gay marriage arrived New Jersey when a 2015 Supreme Court se legalized same-sex unns the stat (cludg NJ) whout gay marriage.