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Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the natn's first openly lbian ernor and the state's first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office.

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MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the natn’s first openly lbian ernor and the state’s first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office. * mass governor gay *

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 — 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.

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.

HEALEY IS 1ST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR

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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.

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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.

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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? 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.

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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.

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

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. * mass governor gay *

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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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