Where 'gay Amerin' Jim McGreevey is, 10 years later

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

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.

New Jersey has eight openly gay mayors, the U.

AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG

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.

WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER

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.

He lled the pri flag important for gay visibily, but said should be borough rints who prs for to be flown. 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.

JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU

"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. ” 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.

NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR

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.

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.

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.

WIFE OF FORMER NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR MCGREEVEY SAYS SHE NEVER KNEW HE WAS GAY

But wh a radilly nservative US Supreme Court poised to rensir that 2015 cisn, NJ state lawmakers were keen to dify gay marriage to state law. The fal headunt was cisive, pecially the NJ Senate where the gay marriage bill passed 35 vot to 4.

(Si note: In a petive district that jt might terme which party ntrols Congrs, Kean hop voters fet his (multiple) vot agast gay marriage and foc stead on on his (somewhat belated) evolutn on the issue. Newly-mted Assemblyman Don Guardian took the oath of office this week makg him the only Gay member of NJ’s 120-member General Assembly. He’s the first gay republin state lawmaker NJ history and only the 3rd overall, followg the footsteps of Reed Gcra and Tim Etace, both mocrats.