Mra Healey be first gay woman elected Massachetts ernor - Los Angel Tim

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• MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
• HEALEY IS 1ST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
• MRA HEALEY ULD MAKE HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR AFTER WNG MASSACHETTS PRIMARY
• COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
• MASS GOP NVENTN NOMAT MOST EXTREME PRO-GAY GOVERNOR & LT. GOVERNOR NDIDAT HISTORY
• MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
• EXECUTIVE ORR NO. 407: GOVERNOR'S COMMISSN ON GAY AND LBIAN YOUTH
• EXECUTIVE ORR NO. 325: GOVERNOR'S MISSN ON GAY AND LBIAN YOUTH

MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

BOSTON (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the natn’s first openly lbian, the state’s first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office, feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Donald Tmp. “I stand before you tonight proud to be the first woman and the first gay person ever elected ernor of Massachetts, ” she told supporters at a Boston hotel that he had lled Healey to ngratulate her on her w.

HEALEY IS 1ST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

”Healey — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general. Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Tmp.

Healey and Democrat Ta Kotek, a ndidate for ernor Oregon, each began the day wh a chance to bee the first openly lbian person elected ernor of a — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general.

Healey, the state’s first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office, feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Donald Tmp.

MRA HEALEY ULD MAKE HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR AFTER WNG MASSACHETTS PRIMARY

Healey — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general. LIVE MIDTERM ELECTION RESULTS"I stand before you tonight proud to be the first woman and the first gay person ever elected ernor of Massachetts," Healey said Tuday night. Jared Polis beme the first openly gay man to be elected ernor 2018.

Jim McGreevey was not out when he was elected to office 2001; he me out as gay his 2004 rignatn speech. An affordable hog project for LGBTQ senrs was vandalized wh homophobic and threateng graffi July, and Augt, Boston’s Children’s Hospal ma natnal headl when  received a bomb threat for providg genr-affirmg re to transgenr youths.

COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB

Ta Kotek, the projected wner of the Oregon ernor's race, will be only the send woman elected to lead her, who was the first openly gay attorney general elected the untry 2014, was prevly a civil rights lawyer. The 2022 midterm electns livered the most diverse slate of elected officials the history of the natn, cludg breakthroughs by women and what’s beg lled a “rabow wave” — a wng slate of lbian, gay and bisexual ndidat across the untry. Democrat Mra Healey rang three firsts: first woman elected ernor of Massachetts; wh her nng mate, the state’s first all-female ernor/litenant ernor pair; and the natn’s first openly lbian elected ernor, soon followed by Oregon’s Ta her acceptance speech, Healey argued her electn showed that barriers were now down for women and lbian, gay and bisexual ndidat, clarg, “To every ltle girl and every young LGBTQ person out there, I hope tonight shows you that you n be whatever, whoever you want to be.

”Healey’s optimism ntrasts wh s of rearch fdg that voters who hold strong sexist or antigay attus are more likely to oppose women and lbian, gay and bisexual ndidat, Healey right? How we did our rearchTo fd out, we ed Healey’s historic ndidacy to study whether eher sexism or antigay attus fluenced voters Massachetts, one of the natn’s most liberal stat — but which has lagged behd others electg women to statewi ran a Universy of Massachetts Amherst/WCVB poll of 700 Massachetts registered voters, field onle by YouGov om Oct.

” To measure antigay attus, we asked rponnts to dite “on a sle om 0 (lst) to 100 (warmt) how do you feel about lbian, gay, and bisexual people?

MASS GOP NVENTN NOMAT MOST EXTREME PRO-GAY GOVERNOR & LT. GOVERNOR NDIDAT HISTORY

Meanwhile, attus toward lbian, gay and bisexual people are also associated wh Massachetts voters’ choic 2022. Those wh the most antigay views preferred Diehl over Healey by a 74-22 marg, while those wh the least antigay attus backed Healey over Diehl by a marg of 82 to 12.

MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

When we ran a statistil mol that clud the factors as ntrols, we found that while sexism predicted Massachetts voters’ cisns, attus toward lbian, gay and bisexual people did not. Antigay attus did not fluence Healey’s electn. We fdg that antigay attus were not fluencg Massachetts voters surprised .

We wonred whether they rulted om our g what’s lled a “feelg thermometer” to measure antigay attus; we speculated that might be overly blunt and subject to social sirabily bias, or the sire to give the socially approved answer. We gave the other group one more optn to select: the ndidate is gay or lbian. We foced on the optns “gay or lbian” as Healey publicly intifi as a lbian.

Bee both groups were asked only to report how many quali would get them to oppose the ndidat and not which on, rponnts the send group uld feel they were makg their choic whout revealg their antigay beliefs. As a rult, if the send group chose more quali as al-breakers than the ntrol group, we would know that some of them wouldn’t choose someone who was gay or there was no statistil difference between the average number of albreaker quali ced by the ntrol group and the experimental group.

EXECUTIVE ORR NO. 407: GOVERNOR'S COMMISSN ON GAY AND LBIAN YOUTH

The share of rponnts for whom a ndidate’s sexual orientatn mattered is vanishgly small, at least rearch fds that lbian ndidat fare better than gay male ndidat and that lbian, gay and bisexual ndidat wh prev ernment experience enjoy greater electoral support than lbian, gay and bisexual ndidat whout prr ernmental experience. Healey, of urse, is lbian rather than a gay man and was a highly popular two-term state attorney general — a posn she ran for 2014 after havg served the attorney general’s office for seven years.

The factors have creased the fluence of antigay attus both this electn and among our rponnts, who of urse knew that Healey was the most proment ndidate on the state remas, while attus toward lbian and gay people changeNeverthels, our fdgs suggt remarkable social change, at least of the same sex didn’t w the right to marry the state until 2004 — although, of urse, Massachetts was the first state the untry that legally regnized and performed such marriag. But our rults suggt that at least some of Healey’s optimism is warranted: Women and lbian, gay, and bisexual ndidat do face fewer barriers than the past. Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the office.

Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the office, NBC News projected. By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated PrsBOSTON (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the natn's first openly lbian, the state’s first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office, feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Donald electn returns the ernor’s office to Democrats after eight years of Republin learship unr the popular Gov.

EXECUTIVE ORR NO. 325: GOVERNOR'S MISSN ON GAY AND LBIAN YOUTH

Healey ma history as the state's first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the office.

"I stand before you tonight, proud to be the first woman and the first gay person ever elected Governor of Massachetts. Healey - elected eight years ago as the natn's first openly gay attorney general - snapped what's bee known Massachetts as the "curse of the attorney general. BOSTON — Attorney General Mra Healey won the Democratic primary for Massachetts ernor on Tuday, brgg her one step closer to beg the first openly gay ndidate and first woman elected to the state’s top polil office — eight years after she was elected the natn’s first openly gay attorney, whose only rival for the nomatn dropped out of the race but remaed on the ballot, will be the heavy favore November agast the wner of the Republin primary.

The origal Governor's Commissn on Gay and Lbian Youth was signed to rpond to high suici risk among gay and lbian youth the Commonwealth.