Democratic Atty. Gen. 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.
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- QUEER AND ROVG ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE MASSACHETTS SENATEIN PART ONE, THE DOWNFALL OF ONE OUT STATE SENATOR CID WH THE RISE OF ANOTHER, SETTG THE STAGE FOR THE LATTER'S 2018 RE-ELECTN {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEOCTOBER 22, 2018/2:07 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2744PX;WIDTH:3662PX;}LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEOCTOBER 22, 2018 / 2:07 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"QUEER AND ROVG ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE MASSACHETTS SENATE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-10-22T18:07:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-10-22T18:07:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","KEYWORDS":"ELECTN","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PROVCETOWN MATAS A SPECIAL PLACE MANY A QUEER HEART. THE INILLY GAY HAVEN AT THE TIP OF CAPE COD, MASS. LURCHG TO LIFE THE SUMMER MONTHS. FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS MY IENDS AND I HAVE MA OUR SOJOURN TO PTOWN WHERE WE ARE EQUENTLY GREETED BY JULIAN CYR. A NATIVE OF NEIGHBORG TRO, JULIAN ACTED AS OUR RMAL TOUR GUI DURG OUR NASCENT VOYAG. I HAD ORIGALLY MET HIM WHEN WERE BOTH AT NYU, THOUGH MY KNOWLEDGE OF HIM BACK THEN WAS LIMED TO HIS FANATIC LOVE OF HILLARY CLTON. AS OUR ANNUAL GAYTN BEME A TRADN, WE’D END EACH TRIP AT HIS PARENTS’ RTRANT, ADRIAN’S, A FAVORE OF THE OUTER CAPE’S SMALL MUNY. JULIAN HAD WORKED HIS FORMATIVE YEARS THERE AS A WAER, UNTIL CLOSED, AFTER 28 YEARS, 2012. THAT EXPERIENCE PROVED VALUABLE AT HIS CURRENT JOB, STATE SENATOR OF MASSACHETTS, REPRENTG 20 ASTAL MUNI OM MASHPEE TO MARTHA’S VEYARD TO PTOWN—A DISTRICT OF ABOUT 200,000 PEOPLE.LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MASSACHETTS STATE SENATOR JULIAN CYR WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“EVERYONE ALWAYS ASKS ME WHAT THIS JOB IS LIKE AND I’M ALWAYS LIKE, ‘HAVE YOU EVER WAED ON TABL?’ BEE ’S JT LIKE THAT,” CYR TELLS ME DURG ONE OF OUR MANY ROAD TRIPS AROUND THE CAPE AS HE SEEKS RE-ELECTN THIS FALL. “YOU HAVE TO AL WH ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE, YOU KD OF HAVE YOUR SCHTICK AND PENDS WHAT KD OF PARTY YOU’RE WAG ON—WHETHER ’S A PARTY OF 13, OR A UPLE THAT WANTS TO HAVE AN TIMATE DNER, OR REGULAR CTOMERS WHO BASILLY WANT TO ENGAGE WH YOU. THAT’S WHAT THE LIVED EXPERIENCE FEELS LIKE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN ONE OF THE FEW BRIGHT SPOTS OF THE 2016 ELECTN, CYR, A LONG SHOT FIRST-TIME NDIDATE, WAS ELECTED TO THE MASSACHETTS SENATE, WHERE, AT 32, HE IS CURRENTLY THE YOUNGT AND THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER. BUT THAT WASN’T ALWAYS THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHEN I STARTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2011 AS A LEGISLATIVE LIAISON, THE FIRST MEETG I HAD WAS WH STAN ROSENBERG ABOUT THE ‘BEAVER EXPLOSN’ WTERN MASSACHETTS,” CYR RELLS. “MY MD WAS BLOWN. THIS IS PUBLIC HEALTH? THIS IS PUBLIC POLICY? I JT THOUGHT WAS THE MOST ABSURD, RIDICULO, AMAZG THG I’D EVER BEEN A PART OF AND GOT ME REALLY JAZZED ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKG WH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“AND ONCE I ANNOUNCED I WAS NNG—I’M PRETTY SURE I GAVE [STAN] A LL AND TOLD HIM—HE ULDN’T WEIGH PUBLICLY FOR ME BEE I HAD A PRIMARY, BUT HE WAS CLEARLY ROOTG FOR ME. HE WAS THE ONLY OUT MEMBER OF THE SENATE AT THE TIME AND I THK HE WAS EXCED ABOUT HAVG A YOUNG, QUEER MEMBER OF THE SENATE. SO OUR RELATNSHIP KD OF VELOPED THROUGH THE MPAIGN. HE WAS TREMENDOLY SUPPORTIVE AFTER THE PRIMARY, HE WAS HUGELY SUPPORTIVE HARNSG ROURC, HELPG ME RAISE MONEY, AND GIVG MPAIGN ADVICE. HE FELY WAS A MENTOR TO ME AND A IEND.”BOSTON GLOBE / GETTYBOSTON - JULY 31: MASSACHETTS STATE SENATE PRINT STAN ROSENBERG, SPEAKS BRIEFLY WH PHYSICIANS AND ANIZERS WH THE MASSACHETTS SOCIETY OF OPTOMETRISTS, OUTSI THE SENATE CHAMBERS AT THE MASS. STATE HOE BOSTON ON JULY 31, 2016, DURG A RARE SUNDAY SSN ON THE FAL DAY OF THEIR TWO-YEAR LEGISLATIVE PERD. (PHOTO BY DA RUDICK/THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN JULIAN CYR WAS JT G TO THIS WORLD, STANLEY ROSENBERG BEGAN HIS POLIL REER, LANDG A SEAT THE MASSACHETTS HOE OF REPRENTATIV. FIVE YEARS LATER HE MOVED TO THE SENATE. THERE, ROSENBERG QUIETLY AND METHODILLY BUILT A REPUTATN AS A RPECTED POLICY WONK PHG THROUGH PROGRSIVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“HE IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST STRATEGILLY BRILLIANT LEGISLATIVE MDS ON BEAN HILL,” SAYS CYR, REFERRG TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE, “AND GETTG THGS DONE.” HE C ROSENBERG’S EFFORT TO KEEP A BAN ON MARRIAGE EQUALY OFF THE BALLOT, CLEARG THE WAY FOR MASSACHETTS TO BEE THE FIRST STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOTORLY PRIVATE AND STILL THE CLOSET, ROSENBERG MET LLEGE STUNT BRYON HEFNER, 37 YEARS HIS JUNR, 2008. A SOCIAL AND POLIL CLIMBER WHO WAS AMB TO A FLT, THE 21-YEAR-OLD HEFNER SECURED A PAID SUMMER JOB THE SENATOR'S OFFICE AND STARTED DATG ROSENBERG SOON AFTER HIS GIG END. LIKE ROSENBERG, HEFNER HAD GROWN UP THE FOSTER RE SYSTEM AND THE TWO MEN BOND OVER THEIR SHARED HISTORI, THOUGH OM THE OUTSI THEY DIDN’T HAVE MUCH ELSE MON. BUT THEIR LOVE PERSEVERED, AND SPIRED BY HIS NEW BE, ROSENBERG PUBLICLY ME OUT 2009. SHORTLY AFTER, ROSENBERG WAS DIAGNOSED WH NCER AND HEFNER STUCK BY HIM, NURSG HIM BACK TO HEALTH. ROSENBERG NEVER FOT THAT KDNS, EVEN WHEN THGS TURNED CIDLY SOUR YEARS LATER. BUT BEFORE ROSENBERG'S PRECIPO FALL, THEY MARRIED A PRIVATE CEREMONY AT CAMBRIDGE CY HALL SEPTEMBER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEFNER MAY HAVE ALSO SPIRED ROSENBERG TO N FOR SENATE PRINT AGA AFTER A FAILED BID 2002. IN 2015, HE WON THE PRINCY ON A PROMISE TO REVOLUTNIZE LEARSHIP THE STATE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE OLD WAY THE SENATE AND MOST LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS N IS TOP DOWN, THE SENATE PRINT LLS THE SHOTS,” CYR EXPLAS. “STAN BELIEV AND RAN ON AND IMPLEMENTED THIS SHARED LEARSHIP MOL, WHICH TREATS SENATORS AS EQUALS AND MAK SURE EVERY SENATOR HAS A SAY. SO WHEN I WALKED TO THIS ENVIRONMENT WHERE, UNR A PRR REGIME, I WOULD’VE BEEN TERRIFIED TO SPEAK UP, I WASN’T AAID, AND I WAS ENURAGED, TO SPEAK UP BEE OF STAN.”LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR (SEATED) WH CHIEF OF STAFF PAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE ROSENBERG WAS BY ON BEAN HILL, HEFNER WAS GETTG BY ON THE G. WHEN NOT FLATG HIS OWN IMPORTANCE THE LEGISLATURE, HEFNER SHOWED NO DIFFICULTY LEVERAGG HIS HBAND’S POWER AND PRIVILEGE TO FURTHER HIS OWN SIR, WHICH—ACRDG TO BOSTON MAGAZE—MANIFTED “UNSOLICED DICK PICS, CSANT SEXUAL E-ONS, AND WANTON GROPG” OF SENATE STAFFERS AND POLIL OPERATIV. HEFNER’S DISCRETNS MAY HAVE BEEN A “WI-OPEN SECRET ON BEAN HILL” BUT ROSENBERG’S PARTICIPATN, AWARENS, OR PLICNS SOON BEME AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE #METOO MOVEMENT HAS ATTEMPTED TO HOLD MANY POWERFUL MEN ACUNTABLE FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSLT, THOUGH THE EXTENT OF THAT ACUNTABILY IS NSTANTLY BEG TTED, PARTICULARLY ALONG PARTY L. WHILE THE REPUBLIN PARTY SEEMS FORTABLE WH ALLOWG AN ACCED PEDOPHILE TO N FOR ERNOR AND AN ACCED ASSLTER-MONSTRATED LIAR-PARTISAN NSPIRACY THEORIST ONTO THE UNED STAT SUPREME COURT, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS SHED TO ACT QUICKLY AND CISIVELY TO CLEAN THEIR OWN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHEN TO #METOO, THE SEQUENCE OF THE RPONSE IS DRIVEN BY WHO HAS A SEAT AT THE TABLE,” CYR OBSERV. “IN DEMOCRATIC POLICS, THERE ARE JT MORE WOMEN WHO HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STAN ROSENBERG’S CIRCUMSTANC WERE DIFFERENT BUT HE PAID A FAIAR PRICE. BY THE TIME ROSENBERG MARRIED HIM, HEFNER WAS ALREADY A NTROVERSIAL FIGURE FOR BRAGGG ABOUT HIS FLUENCE THE LEGISLATURE AND CELLY MOCKG HIS HBAND’S PRECSOR ON TWTER. BUT WHEN THE BOSTON GLOBE REPORTED ON FOUR MEN ACCG HEFNER OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT, ROSENBERG STEPPED DOWN AS SENATE PRINT. FOLLOWG ANOTHER BOSTON GLOBE REPORT FEBARY OF THIS YEAR THAT ROSENBERG HAD GIVEN HEFNER UNFETTERED ACCS TO HIS EMAILS AND HEFNER TURN HAD TRIED TO AFFECT THE STATE BUDGET AND TERFERE SENATE BS, THE SENATE COMMTEE ON ETHICS LNCHED AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE RULTG REPORT, ROSENBERG WASN’T FOUND TO HAVE BROKEN ANY SENATE L, BUT HIS REPUTATN AND CREDIBILY WERE FOREVER TARNISHED, AND HIS 32-YEAR POLIL REER EFFECTIVELY OVER. ROSENBERG MAY HAVE TECHNILLY DONE NOTHG WRONG, BUT HE ALSO DID NOTHG, OR DIDN’T DO ENOUGH, TO REIGN HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“STAN’S ROLE THIS IS PROFOUNDLY PLITED,” CYR SAYS, EXPLAG THAT APPEARS STAN WAS ALSO A VICTIM OF BRYON’S ABE. “IF YOU WANT TO SK YOUR TEETH TO THE [SCE] REPORT ’S VERY CLEAR,” CYR SAYS, ADDG, “MEMBERS OF [STAN’S] STAFF WERE TREATED ABIVELY BY HEFNER OVER A LONG PERD OF TIME, WHICH WAS PECIALLY CEL GIVEN THAT VICTIMS’ LIVELIHOOD WAS TIED TO THEIR WORK TERACTG WH THE SENATE.” CYR NTUED, “IT WAS AWFUL TO WATCH STAN’S REER END THAT WAY, BUT THE SENATE IS MOVG FORWARD AND STEPS ARE BEG TAKEN TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE FAR BETTER REPORTG TO PREVENT ABE OF ALL KDS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A DAY AFTER MASSACHETTS GOVERNOR CHARLIE BAKER AND ATTORNEY GENERAL MRA HEALEY (THE FIRST AND ONLY OUT AG THE UNTRY) LLED FOR HIS RIGNATN, ROSENBERG ACQUICED, LEAVG JULIAN CYR THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER REMAG THE SENATE.LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR ADDRSG A LOL PFLAG CHAPTER WT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHEN THE STORY FIRST BROKE, WE AS A SENATE ME TOGETHER A UC AND MET FOR, LIKE EIGHT HOURS. IN SOME WAY I WAS REALLY LOOKED TO TO SPEAK FOR AND TRANSLATE WHAT THE GAY EXPERIENCE AND THE LGBTQ EXPERIENCE WAS—WHICH AT FIRST I KD OF DID READILY, BUT AS THE SNDAL WORE ON I BEME MORE AND MORE RETICENT BEE I THK FOLKS KD OF RETREATED TO THEIR RNERS. I GOT TO GET TO KNOW MY LLEAGU A WAY THAT I WOULD HAVE NEVER GOTTEN TO KNOW THEM—YOU GET TO SEE SOMEONE’S CHARACTER AND THAT’S A HUGE GIFT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROSENBERG’S EX ALSO SET THE STAGE FOR CYR TO NTUE HIS UPWARD TRAJECTORY ON BEAN HILL, SHOULD HE W RE-ELECTN AGAST REPUBLIN JOHN FLOR, A CY UNCILOR OM BARNSTABLE, THE MOST POPULO TOWN CYR’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IN PART DUE TO STAN’S PARTURE—AND PART BEE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER SENATORS FOR A WHOLE LIST OF REASONS WHO WILL HAVE LEFT THE BODY— JANUARY, IF I’M LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE RE-ELECTED, I WILL HAVE SENRY OVER NE OTHER DEMOCRATS, WHICH A 40-MEMBER BODY IS HUGE. IN A WAY I’VE ONLY BEEN FURTHER TAPULTED BY THAT SHAKE-UP. A PART OF ME FEELS PROFOUNDLY SAD AND ANOTHER PART OF JT REERAT THAT EVERYTHG POLICS IS ABOUT TIMG. IT’S SO MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU. IT’S ABOUT BEG THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.”LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR MEETG WH FIREFIGHTERS AT THE CENTERVILLE-OSTERVILLE MARSTONS MILLS FIRE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHAT A TIME IS. THE NATNAL NVERSATN OVER POLICS SEEMS ONLY TO GET WORSE WH EACH PASSG NEWS CYCLE. SO MUCH SO THAT WE FET WHAT POLICS SHOULD BE ABOUT—NOT PARTI, BUT PEOPLE. WH THE FERAL ERNMENT CREASGLY AT ODDS—IF NOT OUTRIGHT WARRG—WH THE WANTS, NEEDS, AND SIR OF THE ELECTORATE, LOL POLICS IS THE BULWARK OF THE PEOPLE. THROUGH A MPAIGN LIKE JULIAN CYR’S, ONE N SEE WHAT TAK TO BE A POLICIAN—A QUEER POLICIAN, A YOUNG POLICIAN, A LIBERAL POLICIAN— THIS POST-TMP, POST-TTH WORLD, HOW THE NATNAL NVERSATN EVABLY BLEEDS TO WHAT’S HAPPENG LOLLY, AND HOW LOL POLICS REFLECTS WHAT’S HAPPENG AROUND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DAY I ARRIVED BOSTON, THE AIR STILL RRIED THE LGERG STG OF THE ROSENBERG SNDAL, WHICH NO DOUBT RMED THE NCERNED CIZEN BEHD AN ANONYMO LETTER CIRCULATG ON BEAN HILL ATTEMPTG TO IMPLITE A BET SECRETARY SOMETHG UNSAVORY WH SOME MAN, PICTURED ON THE REVERSE SI. WHO THAT MAN WAS OR WHAT WAS UNTOWARD ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP REMAED AS MYSTER AS THE SIGNEE OF THE LETTER, KNOWN ONLY AS “TTHFULNS.”LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FIRST OFFICIAL STOP ON MY TOUR OF CYR FOR SENATE 2018 WAS BOSTON CHOPS, ACRDG TO JULIAN, THE “PREMIER GAY STEAKHOE” ALL OF BOSTON. UPON SOME LIGHT DISCSN WH OUR MUTUAL IENDS WHO HAD E TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT, S GAYNS WAS PREDITED ON THE FACT THAT JULIAN JT LIKED HOSTG FUNDRAISERS THERE. THIS ONE WAS TEND TO CELEBRATE NATNAL COMG OUT DAY WH CYR’S QUEER SUPPORTERS, BUT BEE HE WAS SCHLED TO BE ON THE CAPE ON OCTOBER 11, THE ACTUAL NATNAL COMG OUT DAY, BOSTON’S MONIED HOMOSEXUALS GATHERED AT THIS “PREMIER GAY STEAKHOE” THE NIGHT BEFORE. I HAD ALWAYS HOPED THAT POLICS, ON SOME LEVEL, WAS N BY A QUEER BAL OF WEALTHY GAYS. THIS WAS THE CLOST I’VE E TO SEEG MY HOP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMONG CYR’S SUPPORTERS WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL HEALEY, RECENTLY NAMED A “BADASS WOMAN” BY INSTYLE, AND FOR GOOD REASON. SHE WAS ELECTED MASSACHETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL 2014 AND HAS SCE DISTGUISHED HERSELF AS A TOUGH OPPONENT AGAST THE TMP ADMISTRATN, SUG THEM OVER TWO DOZEN TIM SCE 2017, OVER ISSU OM THE MLIM BAN TO DACA (DEFERRED ACTN FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS, AKA THE DREAMERS) TO THE GUTTG OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTN AGENCY.LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR AND MRA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2007, THEN-ATTORNEY GENERAL MARTHA COAKLEY HIRED HEALEY AS CHIEF OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISN, AND THAT ROLE SHE BROUGHT THE FIRST SUCCSFUL LAWSU CHALLENGG THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA), WHICH LIMED MARRIAGE TO ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. IN 2011, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN CEASED FENDG DOMA AND THE SUPREME COURT STCK DOWN 2013 THE SE OF UNED STAT V. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STANDG TALL AT A DIMUTIVE 5’4", HEALEY IS POISED FOR THE ERNORSHIP, IF NOT MORE. BUT FIRST, LIKE CYR, SHE MT W RE-ELECTN, WHICH MAY BE A FOREGONE NCLN WH MASSACHETTS BEG A LIBERAL STRONGHOLD AND A BEAN OF NEW ENGLAND PROGRSIVENS. BUT CYR’S DISTRICT IS LARGELY NSERVATIVE AND TENDS TO VOTE PENNT. ISSU LIKE THE OPID CRISIS, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND A STAABLE YEAR-ROUND ENOMY LOOM LARGE FOR HIS NSTUENTS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER, MORE SID ELEMENTS CREEPG , SUCH AS THE Y ON 3 FIGHT. WH THE TMP ADMISTRATN ACTIVELY ACTG TO ERASE THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MASSACHETTS FDS SELF WH A BALLOT QUTN TO THAT VERY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“QUTN 3 IS A BALLOT IATIVE THAT WAS BROUGHT BY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO ROLL BACK THE STATE’S NONDISCRIMATN PROTECTNS FOR TRANSGENR AND GENR NONNFORMG PEOPLE,” CYR EXPLAS. “VOTERS ULD POTENTIALLY ROLL BACK THE CIVIL RIGHTS FOR A PROTECTED CLASS WHICH IS SOMETHG THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED HERE BEFORE. THE SMALL MORY OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DO THIS, IF THEY EVEN GET A FOOTHOLD MASSACHETTS, EVEN IF THE BALLOT IATIVE IS OPPOSED, THEY’RE GOG TO E THAT AS FODR TO TAKE THE SORT OF BALLOT-PROVEN EFFORTS TO PUT TRANS RIGHTS ON THE BALLOT OF OTHER STAT THAT ARE MUCH MORE FAVORABLE. IF YOU N DO MASSACHETTS, ’S A HECK OF A LOT EASIER TO DO ELSEWHERE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND AS I WOULD LEARN OVER THE G DAYS, FLOR, CYR'S OPPONENT, SEEMS TO BE BORROWG GGERLY OM THE TMP PLAYBOOK, PEDALG HALF-TTHS AND PANRG WH OUTRAGE. HE’S PART OF A DISTURBG TREND THE UNTRY, BUT THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER TREND, ONE FAR MORE HEARTENG AND SPIRG. THE VICTORY FUND LLS A RABOW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2018, OVER 600 LGBTQ NDIDAT RAN FOR OFFICE AND OF THAT HISTORIC NUMBER, 391 WILL APPEAR ON THE BALLOT E NOVEMBER. WHATEVER HAPPENS WH CONGRS—AND AT THIS POT, NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW FIVELY—HEALEY, CYR, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER QUEER AMERINS ARE STANDG UP FOR SOMETHG WHEN ’S ALL TOO EASY THE DAYS TO FALL FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UP NEXT: PART 2 — THE PRCE OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[IMAGE SRC="WP-ATTACHMENT://620666" TLE="LOGO TERACTIVE LGBTQ NDIDAT ELECTORAL MAP" ALT="LOGO TERACTIVE LGBTQ NDIDAT ELECTORAL MAP"]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLICK THE GRAPHIC ABOVE TO LEARN ABOUT LGBTQ NDIDAT NNG FOR OFFICE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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- BEHD THE MPAIGN TO ELECT THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MASSACHETTS STATE LEGISLATOR
- MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
QUEER AND ROVG ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE MASSACHETTS SENATEIN PART ONE, THE DOWNFALL OF ONE OUT STATE SENATOR CID WH THE RISE OF ANOTHER, SETTG THE STAGE FOR THE LATTER'S 2018 RE-ELECTN {FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}LIFEBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEOCTOBER 22, 2018/2:07 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:2744PX;WIDTH:3662PX;}LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEBY LTER FABIAN BRATHWAEOCTOBER 22, 2018 / 2:07 PM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"QUEER AND ROVG ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL: THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER OF THE MASSACHETTS SENATE","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-10-22T18:07:36.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-10-22T18:07:36.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"LTER FABIAN BRATHWAE","KEYWORDS":"ELECTN","ARTICLESECTN":"LIFE"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}PROVCETOWN MATAS A SPECIAL PLACE MANY A QUEER HEART. THE INILLY GAY HAVEN AT THE TIP OF CAPE COD, MASS. LURCHG TO LIFE THE SUMMER MONTHS. FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS MY IENDS AND I HAVE MA OUR SOJOURN TO PTOWN WHERE WE ARE EQUENTLY GREETED BY JULIAN CYR. A NATIVE OF NEIGHBORG TRO, JULIAN ACTED AS OUR RMAL TOUR GUI DURG OUR NASCENT VOYAG. I HAD ORIGALLY MET HIM WHEN WERE BOTH AT NYU, THOUGH MY KNOWLEDGE OF HIM BACK THEN WAS LIMED TO HIS FANATIC LOVE OF HILLARY CLTON. AS OUR ANNUAL GAYTN BEME A TRADN, WE’D END EACH TRIP AT HIS PARENTS’ RTRANT, ADRIAN’S, A FAVORE OF THE OUTER CAPE’S SMALL MUNY. JULIAN HAD WORKED HIS FORMATIVE YEARS THERE AS A WAER, UNTIL CLOSED, AFTER 28 YEARS, 2012. THAT EXPERIENCE PROVED VALUABLE AT HIS CURRENT JOB, STATE SENATOR OF MASSACHETTS, REPRENTG 20 ASTAL MUNI OM MASHPEE TO MARTHA’S VEYARD TO PTOWN—A DISTRICT OF ABOUT 200,000 PEOPLE.LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}MASSACHETTS STATE SENATOR JULIAN CYR WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“EVERYONE ALWAYS ASKS ME WHAT THIS JOB IS LIKE AND I’M ALWAYS LIKE, ‘HAVE YOU EVER WAED ON TABL?’ BEE ’S JT LIKE THAT,” CYR TELLS ME DURG ONE OF OUR MANY ROAD TRIPS AROUND THE CAPE AS HE SEEKS RE-ELECTN THIS FALL. “YOU HAVE TO AL WH ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE, YOU KD OF HAVE YOUR SCHTICK AND PENDS WHAT KD OF PARTY YOU’RE WAG ON—WHETHER ’S A PARTY OF 13, OR A UPLE THAT WANTS TO HAVE AN TIMATE DNER, OR REGULAR CTOMERS WHO BASILLY WANT TO ENGAGE WH YOU. THAT’S WHAT THE LIVED EXPERIENCE FEELS LIKE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN ONE OF THE FEW BRIGHT SPOTS OF THE 2016 ELECTN, CYR, A LONG SHOT FIRST-TIME NDIDATE, WAS ELECTED TO THE MASSACHETTS SENATE, WHERE, AT 32, HE IS CURRENTLY THE YOUNGT AND THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER. BUT THAT WASN’T ALWAYS THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHEN I STARTED AT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH 2011 AS A LEGISLATIVE LIAISON, THE FIRST MEETG I HAD WAS WH STAN ROSENBERG ABOUT THE ‘BEAVER EXPLOSN’ WTERN MASSACHETTS,” CYR RELLS. “MY MD WAS BLOWN. THIS IS PUBLIC HEALTH? THIS IS PUBLIC POLICY? I JT THOUGHT WAS THE MOST ABSURD, RIDICULO, AMAZG THG I’D EVER BEEN A PART OF AND GOT ME REALLY JAZZED ABOUT PUBLIC HEALTH AND WORKG WH THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“AND ONCE I ANNOUNCED I WAS NNG—I’M PRETTY SURE I GAVE [STAN] A LL AND TOLD HIM—HE ULDN’T WEIGH PUBLICLY FOR ME BEE I HAD A PRIMARY, BUT HE WAS CLEARLY ROOTG FOR ME. HE WAS THE ONLY OUT MEMBER OF THE SENATE AT THE TIME AND I THK HE WAS EXCED ABOUT HAVG A YOUNG, QUEER MEMBER OF THE SENATE. SO OUR RELATNSHIP KD OF VELOPED THROUGH THE MPAIGN. HE WAS TREMENDOLY SUPPORTIVE AFTER THE PRIMARY, HE WAS HUGELY SUPPORTIVE HARNSG ROURC, HELPG ME RAISE MONEY, AND GIVG MPAIGN ADVICE. HE FELY WAS A MENTOR TO ME AND A IEND.”BOSTON GLOBE / GETTYBOSTON - JULY 31: MASSACHETTS STATE SENATE PRINT STAN ROSENBERG, SPEAKS BRIEFLY WH PHYSICIANS AND ANIZERS WH THE MASSACHETTS SOCIETY OF OPTOMETRISTS, OUTSI THE SENATE CHAMBERS AT THE MASS. STATE HOE BOSTON ON JULY 31, 2016, DURG A RARE SUNDAY SSN ON THE FAL DAY OF THEIR TWO-YEAR LEGISLATIVE PERD. (PHOTO BY DA RUDICK/THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY IMAG){BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THIRTY TWO YEARS AGO, WHEN JULIAN CYR WAS JT G TO THIS WORLD, STANLEY ROSENBERG BEGAN HIS POLIL REER, LANDG A SEAT THE MASSACHETTS HOE OF REPRENTATIV. FIVE YEARS LATER HE MOVED TO THE SENATE. THERE, ROSENBERG QUIETLY AND METHODILLY BUILT A REPUTATN AS A RPECTED POLICY WONK PHG THROUGH PROGRSIVE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“HE IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE MOST STRATEGILLY BRILLIANT LEGISLATIVE MDS ON BEAN HILL,” SAYS CYR, REFERRG TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE, “AND GETTG THGS DONE.” HE C ROSENBERG’S EFFORT TO KEEP A BAN ON MARRIAGE EQUALY OFF THE BALLOT, CLEARG THE WAY FOR MASSACHETTS TO BEE THE FIRST STATE TO ALLOW SAME-SEX MARRIAGE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}NOTORLY PRIVATE AND STILL THE CLOSET, ROSENBERG MET LLEGE STUNT BRYON HEFNER, 37 YEARS HIS JUNR, 2008. A SOCIAL AND POLIL CLIMBER WHO WAS AMB TO A FLT, THE 21-YEAR-OLD HEFNER SECURED A PAID SUMMER JOB THE SENATOR'S OFFICE AND STARTED DATG ROSENBERG SOON AFTER HIS GIG END. LIKE ROSENBERG, HEFNER HAD GROWN UP THE FOSTER RE SYSTEM AND THE TWO MEN BOND OVER THEIR SHARED HISTORI, THOUGH OM THE OUTSI THEY DIDN’T HAVE MUCH ELSE MON. BUT THEIR LOVE PERSEVERED, AND SPIRED BY HIS NEW BE, ROSENBERG PUBLICLY ME OUT 2009. SHORTLY AFTER, ROSENBERG WAS DIAGNOSED WH NCER AND HEFNER STUCK BY HIM, NURSG HIM BACK TO HEALTH. ROSENBERG NEVER FOT THAT KDNS, EVEN WHEN THGS TURNED CIDLY SOUR YEARS LATER. BUT BEFORE ROSENBERG'S PRECIPO FALL, THEY MARRIED A PRIVATE CEREMONY AT CAMBRIDGE CY HALL SEPTEMBER {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}HEFNER MAY HAVE ALSO SPIRED ROSENBERG TO N FOR SENATE PRINT AGA AFTER A FAILED BID 2002. IN 2015, HE WON THE PRINCY ON A PROMISE TO REVOLUTNIZE LEARSHIP THE STATE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE OLD WAY THE SENATE AND MOST LEGISLATIVE CHAMBERS N IS TOP DOWN, THE SENATE PRINT LLS THE SHOTS,” CYR EXPLAS. “STAN BELIEV AND RAN ON AND IMPLEMENTED THIS SHARED LEARSHIP MOL, WHICH TREATS SENATORS AS EQUALS AND MAK SURE EVERY SENATOR HAS A SAY. SO WHEN I WALKED TO THIS ENVIRONMENT WHERE, UNR A PRR REGIME, I WOULD’VE BEEN TERRIFIED TO SPEAK UP, I WASN’T AAID, AND I WAS ENURAGED, TO SPEAK UP BEE OF STAN.”LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR (SEATED) WH CHIEF OF STAFF PAT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}WHILE ROSENBERG WAS BY ON BEAN HILL, HEFNER WAS GETTG BY ON THE G. WHEN NOT FLATG HIS OWN IMPORTANCE THE LEGISLATURE, HEFNER SHOWED NO DIFFICULTY LEVERAGG HIS HBAND’S POWER AND PRIVILEGE TO FURTHER HIS OWN SIR, WHICH—ACRDG TO BOSTON MAGAZE—MANIFTED “UNSOLICED DICK PICS, CSANT SEXUAL E-ONS, AND WANTON GROPG” OF SENATE STAFFERS AND POLIL OPERATIV. HEFNER’S DISCRETNS MAY HAVE BEEN A “WI-OPEN SECRET ON BEAN HILL” BUT ROSENBERG’S PARTICIPATN, AWARENS, OR PLICNS SOON BEME AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE #METOO MOVEMENT HAS ATTEMPTED TO HOLD MANY POWERFUL MEN ACUNTABLE FOR SEXUAL HARASSMENT AND ASSLT, THOUGH THE EXTENT OF THAT ACUNTABILY IS NSTANTLY BEG TTED, PARTICULARLY ALONG PARTY L. WHILE THE REPUBLIN PARTY SEEMS FORTABLE WH ALLOWG AN ACCED PEDOPHILE TO N FOR ERNOR AND AN ACCED ASSLTER-MONSTRATED LIAR-PARTISAN NSPIRACY THEORIST ONTO THE UNED STAT SUPREME COURT, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS SHED TO ACT QUICKLY AND CISIVELY TO CLEAN THEIR OWN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHEN TO #METOO, THE SEQUENCE OF THE RPONSE IS DRIVEN BY WHO HAS A SEAT AT THE TABLE,” CYR OBSERV. “IN DEMOCRATIC POLICS, THERE ARE JT MORE WOMEN WHO HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STAN ROSENBERG’S CIRCUMSTANC WERE DIFFERENT BUT HE PAID A FAIAR PRICE. BY THE TIME ROSENBERG MARRIED HIM, HEFNER WAS ALREADY A NTROVERSIAL FIGURE FOR BRAGGG ABOUT HIS FLUENCE THE LEGISLATURE AND CELLY MOCKG HIS HBAND’S PRECSOR ON TWTER. BUT WHEN THE BOSTON GLOBE REPORTED ON FOUR MEN ACCG HEFNER OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT, ROSENBERG STEPPED DOWN AS SENATE PRINT. FOLLOWG ANOTHER BOSTON GLOBE REPORT FEBARY OF THIS YEAR THAT ROSENBERG HAD GIVEN HEFNER UNFETTERED ACCS TO HIS EMAILS AND HEFNER TURN HAD TRIED TO AFFECT THE STATE BUDGET AND TERFERE SENATE BS, THE SENATE COMMTEE ON ETHICS LNCHED AN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN THE RULTG REPORT, ROSENBERG WASN’T FOUND TO HAVE BROKEN ANY SENATE L, BUT HIS REPUTATN AND CREDIBILY WERE FOREVER TARNISHED, AND HIS 32-YEAR POLIL REER EFFECTIVELY OVER. ROSENBERG MAY HAVE TECHNILLY DONE NOTHG WRONG, BUT HE ALSO DID NOTHG, OR DIDN’T DO ENOUGH, TO REIGN HIS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“STAN’S ROLE THIS IS PROFOUNDLY PLITED,” CYR SAYS, EXPLAG THAT APPEARS STAN WAS ALSO A VICTIM OF BRYON’S ABE. “IF YOU WANT TO SK YOUR TEETH TO THE [SCE] REPORT ’S VERY CLEAR,” CYR SAYS, ADDG, “MEMBERS OF [STAN’S] STAFF WERE TREATED ABIVELY BY HEFNER OVER A LONG PERD OF TIME, WHICH WAS PECIALLY CEL GIVEN THAT VICTIMS’ LIVELIHOOD WAS TIED TO THEIR WORK TERACTG WH THE SENATE.” CYR NTUED, “IT WAS AWFUL TO WATCH STAN’S REER END THAT WAY, BUT THE SENATE IS MOVG FORWARD AND STEPS ARE BEG TAKEN TO MAKE SURE THERE ARE FAR BETTER REPORTG TO PREVENT ABE OF ALL KDS.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}A DAY AFTER MASSACHETTS GOVERNOR CHARLIE BAKER AND ATTORNEY GENERAL MRA HEALEY (THE FIRST AND ONLY OUT AG THE UNTRY) LLED FOR HIS RIGNATN, ROSENBERG ACQUICED, LEAVG JULIAN CYR THE ONLY OPENLY GAY MEMBER REMAG THE SENATE.LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR ADDRSG A LOL PFLAG CHAPTER WT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“WHEN THE STORY FIRST BROKE, WE AS A SENATE ME TOGETHER A UC AND MET FOR, LIKE EIGHT HOURS. IN SOME WAY I WAS REALLY LOOKED TO TO SPEAK FOR AND TRANSLATE WHAT THE GAY EXPERIENCE AND THE LGBTQ EXPERIENCE WAS—WHICH AT FIRST I KD OF DID READILY, BUT AS THE SNDAL WORE ON I BEME MORE AND MORE RETICENT BEE I THK FOLKS KD OF RETREATED TO THEIR RNERS. I GOT TO GET TO KNOW MY LLEAGU A WAY THAT I WOULD HAVE NEVER GOTTEN TO KNOW THEM—YOU GET TO SEE SOMEONE’S CHARACTER AND THAT’S A HUGE GIFT.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ROSENBERG’S EX ALSO SET THE STAGE FOR CYR TO NTUE HIS UPWARD TRAJECTORY ON BEAN HILL, SHOULD HE W RE-ELECTN AGAST REPUBLIN JOHN FLOR, A CY UNCILOR OM BARNSTABLE, THE MOST POPULO TOWN CYR’S {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“IN PART DUE TO STAN’S PARTURE—AND PART BEE THERE ARE A NUMBER OF OTHER SENATORS FOR A WHOLE LIST OF REASONS WHO WILL HAVE LEFT THE BODY— JANUARY, IF I’M LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE RE-ELECTED, I WILL HAVE SENRY OVER NE OTHER DEMOCRATS, WHICH A 40-MEMBER BODY IS HUGE. IN A WAY I’VE ONLY BEEN FURTHER TAPULTED BY THAT SHAKE-UP. A PART OF ME FEELS PROFOUNDLY SAD AND ANOTHER PART OF JT REERAT THAT EVERYTHG POLICS IS ABOUT TIMG. IT’S SO MUCH BIGGER THAN YOU. IT’S ABOUT BEG THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.”LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR MEETG WH FIREFIGHTERS AT THE CENTERVILLE-OSTERVILLE MARSTONS MILLS FIRE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND WHAT A TIME IS. THE NATNAL NVERSATN OVER POLICS SEEMS ONLY TO GET WORSE WH EACH PASSG NEWS CYCLE. SO MUCH SO THAT WE FET WHAT POLICS SHOULD BE ABOUT—NOT PARTI, BUT PEOPLE. WH THE FERAL ERNMENT CREASGLY AT ODDS—IF NOT OUTRIGHT WARRG—WH THE WANTS, NEEDS, AND SIR OF THE ELECTORATE, LOL POLICS IS THE BULWARK OF THE PEOPLE. THROUGH A MPAIGN LIKE JULIAN CYR’S, ONE N SEE WHAT TAK TO BE A POLICIAN—A QUEER POLICIAN, A YOUNG POLICIAN, A LIBERAL POLICIAN— THIS POST-TMP, POST-TTH WORLD, HOW THE NATNAL NVERSATN EVABLY BLEEDS TO WHAT’S HAPPENG LOLLY, AND HOW LOL POLICS REFLECTS WHAT’S HAPPENG AROUND THE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DAY I ARRIVED BOSTON, THE AIR STILL RRIED THE LGERG STG OF THE ROSENBERG SNDAL, WHICH NO DOUBT RMED THE NCERNED CIZEN BEHD AN ANONYMO LETTER CIRCULATG ON BEAN HILL ATTEMPTG TO IMPLITE A BET SECRETARY SOMETHG UNSAVORY WH SOME MAN, PICTURED ON THE REVERSE SI. WHO THAT MAN WAS OR WHAT WAS UNTOWARD ABOUT THEIR RELATNSHIP REMAED AS MYSTER AS THE SIGNEE OF THE LETTER, KNOWN ONLY AS “TTHFULNS.”LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR WH {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE FIRST OFFICIAL STOP ON MY TOUR OF CYR FOR SENATE 2018 WAS BOSTON CHOPS, ACRDG TO JULIAN, THE “PREMIER GAY STEAKHOE” ALL OF BOSTON. UPON SOME LIGHT DISCSN WH OUR MUTUAL IENDS WHO HAD E TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT, S GAYNS WAS PREDITED ON THE FACT THAT JULIAN JT LIKED HOSTG FUNDRAISERS THERE. THIS ONE WAS TEND TO CELEBRATE NATNAL COMG OUT DAY WH CYR’S QUEER SUPPORTERS, BUT BEE HE WAS SCHLED TO BE ON THE CAPE ON OCTOBER 11, THE ACTUAL NATNAL COMG OUT DAY, BOSTON’S MONIED HOMOSEXUALS GATHERED AT THIS “PREMIER GAY STEAKHOE” THE NIGHT BEFORE. I HAD ALWAYS HOPED THAT POLICS, ON SOME LEVEL, WAS N BY A QUEER BAL OF WEALTHY GAYS. THIS WAS THE CLOST I’VE E TO SEEG MY HOP {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AMONG CYR’S SUPPORTERS WAS ATTORNEY GENERAL HEALEY, RECENTLY NAMED A “BADASS WOMAN” BY INSTYLE, AND FOR GOOD REASON. SHE WAS ELECTED MASSACHETTS ATTORNEY GENERAL 2014 AND HAS SCE DISTGUISHED HERSELF AS A TOUGH OPPONENT AGAST THE TMP ADMISTRATN, SUG THEM OVER TWO DOZEN TIM SCE 2017, OVER ISSU OM THE MLIM BAN TO DACA (DEFERRED ACTN FOR CHILDHOOD ARRIVALS, AKA THE DREAMERS) TO THE GUTTG OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTN AGENCY.LTER FABIAN {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CYR AND MRA {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2007, THEN-ATTORNEY GENERAL MARTHA COAKLEY HIRED HEALEY AS CHIEF OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISN, AND THAT ROLE SHE BROUGHT THE FIRST SUCCSFUL LAWSU CHALLENGG THE DEFENSE OF MARRIAGE ACT (DOMA), WHICH LIMED MARRIAGE TO ONE MAN AND ONE WOMAN. IN 2011, THE OBAMA ADMISTRATN CEASED FENDG DOMA AND THE SUPREME COURT STCK DOWN 2013 THE SE OF UNED STAT V. {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STANDG TALL AT A DIMUTIVE 5’4", HEALEY IS POISED FOR THE ERNORSHIP, IF NOT MORE. BUT FIRST, LIKE CYR, SHE MT W RE-ELECTN, WHICH MAY BE A FOREGONE NCLN WH MASSACHETTS BEG A LIBERAL STRONGHOLD AND A BEAN OF NEW ENGLAND PROGRSIVENS. BUT CYR’S DISTRICT IS LARGELY NSERVATIVE AND TENDS TO VOTE PENNT. ISSU LIKE THE OPID CRISIS, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND A STAABLE YEAR-ROUND ENOMY LOOM LARGE FOR HIS NSTUENTS, BUT THERE ARE OTHER, MORE SID ELEMENTS CREEPG , SUCH AS THE Y ON 3 FIGHT. WH THE TMP ADMISTRATN ACTIVELY ACTG TO ERASE THE RIGHTS OF TRANSGENR PEOPLE, MASSACHETTS FDS SELF WH A BALLOT QUTN TO THAT VERY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“QUTN 3 IS A BALLOT IATIVE THAT WAS BROUGHT BY PEOPLE WHO WANT TO ROLL BACK THE STATE’S NONDISCRIMATN PROTECTNS FOR TRANSGENR AND GENR NONNFORMG PEOPLE,” CYR EXPLAS. “VOTERS ULD POTENTIALLY ROLL BACK THE CIVIL RIGHTS FOR A PROTECTED CLASS WHICH IS SOMETHG THAT HAS NEVER HAPPENED HERE BEFORE. THE SMALL MORY OF PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DO THIS, IF THEY EVEN GET A FOOTHOLD MASSACHETTS, EVEN IF THE BALLOT IATIVE IS OPPOSED, THEY’RE GOG TO E THAT AS FODR TO TAKE THE SORT OF BALLOT-PROVEN EFFORTS TO PUT TRANS RIGHTS ON THE BALLOT OF OTHER STAT THAT ARE MUCH MORE FAVORABLE. IF YOU N DO MASSACHETTS, ’S A HECK OF A LOT EASIER TO DO ELSEWHERE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}AND AS I WOULD LEARN OVER THE G DAYS, FLOR, CYR'S OPPONENT, SEEMS TO BE BORROWG GGERLY OM THE TMP PLAYBOOK, PEDALG HALF-TTHS AND PANRG WH OUTRAGE. HE’S PART OF A DISTURBG TREND THE UNTRY, BUT THEN YOU HAVE ANOTHER TREND, ONE FAR MORE HEARTENG AND SPIRG. THE VICTORY FUND LLS A RABOW {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.49999999999999%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IN 2018, OVER 600 LGBTQ NDIDAT RAN FOR OFFICE AND OF THAT HISTORIC NUMBER, 391 WILL APPEAR ON THE BALLOT E NOVEMBER. WHATEVER HAPPENS WH CONGRS—AND AT THIS POT, NO ONE SEEMS TO KNOW FIVELY—HEALEY, CYR, AND HUNDREDS OF OTHER QUEER AMERINS ARE STANDG UP FOR SOMETHG WHEN ’S ALL TOO EASY THE DAYS TO FALL FOR {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}UP NEXT: PART 2 — THE PRCE OF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}[IMAGE SRC="WP-ATTACHMENT://620666" TLE="LOGO TERACTIVE LGBTQ NDIDAT ELECTORAL MAP" ALT="LOGO TERACTIVE LGBTQ NDIDAT ELECTORAL MAP"]{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}CLICK THE GRAPHIC ABOVE TO LEARN ABOUT LGBTQ NDIDAT NNG FOR OFFICE {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
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The inilly gay haven at the tip of Cape Cod, Mass. As our annual gaytn beme a tradn, we’d end each trip at his parents’ rtrant, Adrian’s, a favore of the Outer Cape’s small muny. ”In one of the few bright spots of the 2016 electn, Cyr, a long shot first-time ndidate, was elected to the Massachetts Senate, where, at 32, he is currently the youngt and the only openly gay member.
”A day after Massachetts Governor Charlie Baker and Attorney General Mra Healey (the first and only out AG the untry) lled for his rignatn, Rosenberg acquiced, leavg Julian Cyr the only openly gay member remag the addrsg a lol PFLAG chapter Wt Barnstable“When the story first broke, we as a senate me together a uc and met for, like eight hours. In some way I was really looked to to speak for and translate what the gay experience and the LGBTQ experience was—which at first I kd of did readily, but as the sndal wore on I beme more and more reticent bee I thk folks kd of retreated to their rners. ”Cyr wh supportersThe first official stop on my tour of Cyr for Senate 2018 was Boston Chops, acrdg to Julian, the “premier gay steakhoe” all of Boston.
Upon some light discsn wh our mutual iends who had e to show their support, s gayns was predited on the fact that Julian jt liked hostg fundraisers there. This one was tend to celebrate Natnal Comg Out Day wh Cyr’s queer supporters, but bee he was schled to be on the Cape on October 11, the actual Natnal Comg Out Day, Boston’s monied homosexuals gathered at this “premier gay steakhoe” the night before. I had always hoped that polics, on some level, was n by a queer bal of wealthy gays.
MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
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. 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.
BEHD THE MPAIGN TO ELECT THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MASSACHETTS STATE LEGISLATOR
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. I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011. She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs.
Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District.
Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U. Mra Healey ma history this month, beg the state's first openly gay or lbian ernor.
MRA HEALEY IS FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OUT GAY PERSON ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
Noble's electn to the Massachetts Hoe ma her the state's first openly gay or lbian elected official.
"When I ran for polil office, was really important to me to be open about my gayns, even though I felt a lot of prsure om people tellg me to eher downplay or not say anythg about at all, " she told filmmakers for a documentary about her, lled "Somethg Personal. This is the openg of the first ternatnal gay rights Congrs, " she told Morng people had plenty of exampl for how to n for elected office and when.
US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
Elae Noble, center, the first openly gay person elected to the Massachetts State Legislature, received an award om members of the Lambda Legal Defense and Edutn fund New York Cy, Monday night, Oct. " Maguire was happy about the electn of Mra Healey, the first woman and first openly gay person elected ernor Massachetts.
"Maguire herself is also an LGBTQ pneer: She hosted the show GayWay on WBUR.
SEN. STT BROWN: LEAVE GAY MARRIAGE TO THE STAT
Massachetts’ Democratic attorney general, Mra Healey, has been elected ernor, makg history as the state’s first woman and first openly gay ndidate elected to the feated the Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of Donald Tmp. Healey and Ta Kotek, a Democratic ndidate for ernor Oregon, each began the day wh a chance to bee the first out gay woman elected ernor of a the mpaign, Healey pledged to expand job trag programs, make childre more affordable and mornize schools.
A eply polarised US electorate has given the untry s first transgenr state senator and s first black gay ngrsman – but also s first lawmaker to have openly supported the basels QAnon nspiracy four members of the progrsive “Squad” of Democratic ngrswomen of lour – Alexandria Os-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Prsley and Rashida Tlaib – have been fortably re-elected, and Sarah McBri’s victory Delaware has ma her the hight-rankg trans official the US. Rchie Torr will be the first Ao-Lato gay member of the US Congrs after pturg New York’s 15th district.
”Rchie Torr, 32, a cy uncillor, will be the first Ao-Lato gay member of the US Congrs after fortably pturg New York’s 15th district, ranked on the Cook Polil Report’s Partisan Voter Inx as the most Democratic district the untry.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
“He was the clear standout ndidate as the youngt Lato elected to the NYC uncil, the son of a sgle workg mother om the Bronx and a champn for the sential workers of New York Cy, ” said Tony Cárnas, the chairman of Bold Pac, the Congrsnal Hispanic Cc’s mpaign Democrat Mondaire Jon, another black gay ndidate for Congrs, was clared later on Wednday the wner of his race and will follow Torr to the Hoe.
The road to marriage equaly began April 2001 when Gay and Lbian Advot and Defenrs, a nonprof group of attorneys that works on LBGTQIA+ issu, started a su agast the Massachetts Department of Public Health on behalf of seven gay and lbian upl who had been nied marriage licens.
BEHD THE MPAIGN TO ELECT THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MASSACHETTS STATE LEGISLATOR
Michelle Johnson and Myrna Greenfield joed dozens of other same-sex upl to be married the night gay marriage was legalized Massachetts.
MRA HEALEY BE FIRST GAY WOMAN ELECTED MASSACHETTS ERNOR
The fact that they liv a state wh legalized gay marriage ma a difference. “I have been really pleasantly surprised at how differently people treat you when you're officially married and how eager and willg people have been to wele gay people to the fold, ” said Myrna Greenfield, Johnson’s wife. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.
Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.
Leadg Democrats on Sunday ntued llg the supreme urt’s legimacy to qutn after took away the natnwi right to abortn last week, and some aga lobbied for appotg addnal jtic to the panel so as to blunt the nservative super-majory that ma the ntroversial lg Massachetts senator Elizabeth Warren suggted to ABC’s This Week that expandg the urt was an urgent matter bee supreme urt jtice Clarence Thomas dited Friday’s cisn to overturn the landmark Roe v Wa lg that he is open to rensirg precents guaranteeg the right to ntraceptn, same-sex marriage and nsensual gay sex.