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NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR

Droppg a polil bombshell, New Jersey Gov. Jam McGreevey announced his rignatn Thursday after revealg that he is gay and that he had an adultero affair wh a man. * former gay governor of nj *

Dpe two marriag and two children, the 47-year-old Democrat said the end he realized he was homosexual.

WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER

Former New Jersey Gov. Jam McGreevey, who rigned om office after revealg that he was gay and had an affair wh a male staffer, is seekg ctody of his 5-year-old dghter and child support om his tranged wife. * former gay governor of nj *

“My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, ” he said. But he said he had allowed himself to bee volved an adultero homosexual affair, an act that vlated his marriage vows and prompted his rignatn. McGreevey said he felt the affair and his homosexualy would leave the ernor’s office vulnerable to “mors” and stead he felt he should openly adm both.

T RENTON –Ten years after he announced that he was a "gay Amerin" and would rign om office after a sndal-plagued stt as New Jersey ernor, Jim McGreevey is back ernment, this time mostly as an evangelist for prison reform. 12, 2004, is " the rearview mirror, " he said, and he do not see himself as a gay rights trailblazer, though he remas the only person to have served as a ernor while openly gay.

"When McGreevey officially left office three months after beg the natn's first — and so far only — openly gay ernor, Massachetts had jt bee the first state to regnize same-sex marriage. Now, 19 stat, cludg New Jersey, McGreevey announced he was gay, there were jt a handful of openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr elected officials the unty. Now there are about 500 by the unt of the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund.

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In Mae, openly gay U. Mike Michd is the nomated Democrat for McGreevey's rignatn speech is remembered mostly for his g out — livered wh his wife at his si and cludg the le, "My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " wh unrton of fiance and patrtism — the suatn was more plited than was upset over McGreevey's attempt to appot Golan Cipel — wh whom McGreevey would later say he had an affair — to be his top homeland secury adviser spe havg few qualifitns and beg unable to get feral secury clearanc. But is here, and is a pot every person's life, one has to look eply to the mirror of one's soul and ci one's unique tth the world, not as we may want to see or hope to see , but as so my tth is that I am a gay Amerin.

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However, I'm required to do now, to do what is right to rrect the nsequenc of my actns and to be tthful to my loved on, to my iends and my fay and also to mak ltle difference that as ernor I am gay.

TRENTON – Ten years after he announced that he was a "gay Amerin" and would rign om office after a sndal-plagued stt as New Jersey ernor, Jim McGreevey is back ernment, this time mostly as an evangelist for prison reform.

“And so my tth is that I am a gay Amerin and I am blsed to live the greatt natn wh the greatt tradn of civil liberti the world.

AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG

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McGreevey: "I am a gay Amerin. Would you vote for a gay polician? Jam McGreevey announced his rignatn Thursday after revealg that he is gay and that he had an adultero affair wh a his wife standg by his si, McGreevey -- a father of two -- spoke lm ton as he scribed his stggle wh his sexualy, "a certa sense that separated me om others.

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"And so, my tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " the Democrat said. " Garn State Equaly, a gay rights group, lled McGreevey's g-out speech "poignant" and said s members' thoughts were wh the ernor and his fay.

"We all know how difficult is to e out as openly gay, whether to fay or other loved on, " Garn State Equaly chairman Steven Goldste said. Jam McGreevey, who rigned om office after revealg that he was gay and had an affair wh a male staffer, is seekg ctody of his 5-year-old dghter and child support om his tranged E.

Jam McGreevey, who rigned om office after revealg that he was gay and had an affair wh a male staffer, is seekg ctody of his 5-year-old dghter and child support om his tranged revised divorce lawsu by McGreevey, who rigned November 2004, do not mentn the “matrimonial settlement agreement” that McGreevey origally said had rolved all ctody and support issu ncerng his dghter, Jacquele. – In 2004, wh his wife by his si, Jim McGreevey announced at the New Jersey statehoe, "My tth is that I am a gay Amerin. Facg allegatns that he gave his male lover a lucrative state job, Ameri's first openly gay ernor end his polil reer and abandoned his dreams of one day nng for print.

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