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Contents:
- GLORIA SWORN AS SAN DIEGO’S FIRST MAYOR OF LOR, FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
- TWO FIRSTS: SAN DIEGO ELECTS OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF LOR
- TODD GLORIA REFLECTS ON REER, RPONSIBILY AS SAN DIEGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
GLORIA SWORN AS SAN DIEGO’S FIRST MAYOR OF LOR, FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
When Todd Gloria was sworn as San Diego mayor last year he ma history, beg not only the first person of lor to hold the office but the first to be openly gay. * san diego mayor gay *
”Gloria also noted that he is the cy’s first openly gay mayor addn to beg the first mayor of lor, which he said reflects San Diego’s changg mographics. “It is a place where the son of a hotel maid and a garner, a Native Amerin, Filipo, Puerto Rin, Dutch gay guy has jt bee your mayor.
TWO FIRSTS: SAN DIEGO ELECTS OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF LOR
San Diego jt experienced two firsts wh s recent electn: a new mayor who is openly gay and of lor, the Los Angel Tim reports. When Todd Gloria was sworn as San Diego mayor last year he ma history, beg not only the first person of lor to hold the office but the first to be openly gay.
TODD GLORIA REFLECTS ON REER, RPONSIBILY AS SAN DIEGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
"The teacher said there are two thgs you n't ever be if you ever want to be an elected official, he said number one is gay and to this day I don't know what number two was e I was so astound even the 90s that someone would say that, " Gloria that teacher didn't know was that Gloria had already volunteered on a succsful polil mpaign for San Diego's first openly gay uncil member, Christe Kehoe. In Febary, San Diego’s new mayor-elect, California State Assemblymember Todd Gloria, told LGBTQ Natn that beg gay is a superpower. Related: Chigo’s lbian mayor Lori Lightfoot reb cy uncil for anti-gay remarks.
He told LGBTQ Natn that beg the subject of homophobic bullyg high school and llege helped him fd his voice as an activist and ultimately, a polician. Todd Gloria ma history as he was sworn as San Diego's mayor Thursday, beg the first out member of the LGBTQ+ muny and first person of lor to hold the post on anythg but an terim, a gay Democrat who was terim mayor 2013-2014, took the oath of office before the San Diego Cy Council a Zoom ceremony nducted by Council Print Pro Tem Barbara Bry, who ran agast him for mayor November, NBC affiliate KNSD takg the oath, Gloria thanked his parents, Lda and Phil Gloria, notg his workg-class roots as "the son of a hotel maid and a garner.
S., is now the send-largt the natn wh a mayor om the LGBTQ+ muny and the largt ever to have an out gay man as mayor. Ed Koch, a closeted gay man, was mayor of New York Cy, the natn's largt, om 1978 to 1989. He died 2013, after which people who knew him well acknowledged publicly that he was gay.