The Fairfax County School Board on Thursday elected openly gay board member Karl Frisch as s vice chair.
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- HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
- WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE UNED STAT?
HARVEY MILK BE THE FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO PUBLIC OFFICE CALIFORNIA
Ann Arbor-based Kathy Kozachenko was the first openly gay person to be elected to office the U.
HRP foced on issu like workers’ rights, gay rights and racial jtice. Ann Arbor has long been nsired a progrsive cy, but three openly gay members of a cy uncil was unprecented anywhere the untry.
WHO WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL THE UNED STAT?
In 2015 Kozachenko told Bloomberg News, “Well, yeah, I felt left out, bee I am particularly proud of the fact that was a third party and not the Democratic Party that elected the first gay person. Many people’s attus about gayns are still far om healthy, but my mpaign forced some people at least to reexame their prejudic and stereotyp.
Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official the history of California, tak his place on the San Francis Board of Supervisors on January 8, 1978. The first and, for years, most visible openly gay polician Ameri, Milk was a longtime activist and pneerg lear of San Francis’s LGBT servg the Navy durg the Korean War, Milk held several whe-llar jobs New York Cy. Inially nservative and reluctant to advote for gay rights, Milk’s views changed around the time he and his then-partner opened a mera shop on Castro Street, the heart of the San Francis’s LGBT muny, many bs owners and cizens of the largely-gay Castro District, Milk was harassed by police and lol officials.
Dpe alienatg many Democrats, cludg other gay activists, wh his bombastic language and flower-child persona, he won the Castro district handily and me 10 out of 32 ndidat. Still, Milk and the Castro’s rise to power cid wh the rise of anti-gay reactnari like Ana Bryant, and Milk unrstood both the power and the danger of his posn as facto lear of the largt gay muny Ameri. On the nth anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, shortly after his partner mted suici and the face of nservative backlash across the untry, Milk addrsed San Francis’s gay pri para, begng wh his tchphrase “My name is Harvey Milk and I’m here to rec you” and endg wh a msage of “Hope for a better world, hope for a better tomorrow, hope for a better place to e to if the prsur at home are too great.