Two years after ex-New Jersey ernor Jim McGreevey stunned the untry by announcg he was gay, he talks to Jeanne Marie Laskas about livg the lie
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- NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
- AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
- WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
- WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
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. * gay governor new jersey *
Dpe two marriag and two children, the 47-year-old Democrat said the end he realized he was homosexual. “My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, ” he said. But he said he had allowed himself to bee volved an adultero homosexual affair, an act that vlated his marriage vows and prompted his rignatn.
McGreevey said he felt the affair and his homosexualy would leave the ernor’s office vulnerable to “mors” and stead he felt he should openly adm both.
– In 2004, wh his wife by his si, Jim McGreevey announced at the New Jersey statehoe, "My tth is that I am a gay Amerin.
AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
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Facg allegatns that he gave his male lover a lucrative state job, Ameri's first openly gay ernor end his polil reer and abandoned his dreams of one day nng for print.
WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
Some the gay muny shunned him, accg him of g his sexualy to distract om his alleged rptn.
"I thk maybe 's bee I was gay. 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.
WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
"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.