He's young, green, Lato, openly gay -- and the mayor of Long Beach | Grist

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• ROBERT GARCIA BE FIRST OPENLY GAY AND FIRST LATO MAYOR OF LONG BEACH
• ROBERT GARCIA, 1ST LATO AND 1ST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF LONG BEACH, NNG FOR CONGRS
• HE’S YOUNG, GREEN, LATO, OPENLY GAY — AND THE MAYOR OF LONG BEACH
• LONG BEACH ELECTS FIRST LATO, OPENLY GAY MAYOR

ROBERT GARCIA BE FIRST OPENLY GAY AND FIRST LATO MAYOR OF LONG BEACH

I thk I have a unique perspective as an immigrant, as a gay person, that I hope to brg to the Congrs, " Garcia said.

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”Price, a puty district attorney for Orange County who was first elected to Cy Council 2014, told the Long Beach Post October that the race for mayor would be her last polil and Richardson were vyg to replace Robert Garcia, the first gay and Lato mayor of Long Beach. Garcia is set to bee the first gay immigrant the U.

ROBERT GARCIA, 1ST LATO AND 1ST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF LONG BEACH, NNG FOR CONGRS

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HE’S YOUNG, GREEN, LATO, OPENLY GAY — AND THE MAYOR OF LONG BEACH

He's also been elected to serve as Hoe Frhman Class was the first Lato and first openly gay mayor the history of Long Beach. LONG BEACH () — The cy of Long Beach has s first Lato and openly gay mayor wh the electn of Councilman Robert Garcia. On Wednday, Garcia told CBS2's Randy Paige he felt a rponsibily to make the Lato and gay muni proud but also vowed to work for all his nstuents.

LONG BEACH ELECTS FIRST LATO, OPENLY GAY MAYOR

Long Beach, Calif., n feel like a small town, but s populatn is bigger than Atlanta, Miami, Mneapolis and New Mayor of Long Beach, Robert Garcia, is such a lol (he lov Snoop Dogg and has attend Comic Con for 19 straight years) that 's easy to fet jt what a big al he is openly gay, the youngt mayor of all top 50 biggt U. "My entire fay, and a lot of immigrants, registered as Republins, " said Garcia, who was print of the Long Beach Young Republins club while seems unual for an openly gay recent cizen a heavily Democrat-leang area to be a Republin, that's bee is. But wh immigrants rights and the war, and me beg gay, we all realized that we were more progrsive, " Garcia said, notg that his whole fay has sce swched parti.