AUSTIN — The number of Black LGBTQ state lawmakers Texas is about to triple. In May, Jolanda Jon beme the state’s first openly gay and Black state...
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- FIRST OPENLY GAY LEGISLATOR BRGS A FULL AGENDA TO ALBANY
- LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
- FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
- MUTED RPONSE TO FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN VA. LEGISLATURE SHOWS SOCIAL SHIFT
FIRST OPENLY GAY LEGISLATOR BRGS A FULL AGENDA TO ALBANY
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LATVIA BE 7TH NATN TO BE LED BY AN OPENLY GAY HEAD OF STATE
* first openly gay legislator *
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FLORIDA’S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR ON ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ PASSG: ‘THE AIR WAS TAKEN OUT OF THE ROOM’
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MUTED RPONSE TO FIRST OPENLY GAY WOMAN VA. LEGISLATURE SHOWS SOCIAL SHIFT
"Although New York has one of the untry's largt gay populatns, only two other elected officials the state are openly gay. Glick, the hate mail she received while mpaigng is ttimony to how pervasive homophobia remas a victory celebratn for Ms. Glick, Harvey Fierste, a gay playwright, said: "We now will wre our own laws and our own history.