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- FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
- LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
- CHIGO ULD SOON BEE THE LARGT U.S. CY TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'I FEEL THE EARTH MOVG UNR MY FEET'
- CHIGO IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE GAYT CY COUNCIL IN THE COUNTRY
FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
Chigo Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-electn bid Tuday, endg her historic n as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve the job. * chicago gay mayor *
Chigo will swear s first black female and first openly gay mayor Monday, ncludg Lori Lightfoot's astonishg, yearlong rise om near anonymy to lear of the natn's third-largt cy. Lori Lightfoot has officially been gurated, beg the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chigo. The imag of that moment looked like a sneak preview of a New Ameri breakg through – a black, gay woman kissg her whe wife before a mi-rabow aln of onlookers.
Many of the same black voters who asked her to lead their cy wouldn’t dare ask her to lead their own church bee she is a gay woman. And while largely whe nomatns like the Uned Church of Christ, the Epispal Church and the Prbyterian Church (USA) affirm gays and lbians, most black church Ameri still have a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that forc s LGBTQ members to live the closet or be nsumed by self-loathg. She won the key endorsement of a black Gospel rerdg mogul reared a church that nsirs homosexualy a s.
LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
Lori Lightfoot is the Mayor of Chigo. Wng 73 percent of the vote, she's the first black, female, and openly gay mayor of the cy. But who is Lori Lightfoot's wife? Amy Eshleman has been supportg her wife om the begng, but has had a reer of her own. * chicago gay mayor *
” Both church groups ce a battery of scriptur to fend their treatment of women and their stance that homosexualy is a s. I once attend a black Baptist church where the senr pastor wouldn’t allow women to preach and tght that homosexualy was a s.
There was one tch – his right-hand man was gay, and virtually everybody the church seemed to know .
Wilson is also the “vout product” of a socially nservative black church that teach that homosexualy is a s, acrdg to a Chigo Sun-Tim story. How, for example, are black churchgoers’ votg habs any different than those of whe evangelils who support Tmp and oppose gay rights? He says ’s simplistic to say most black church are homophobic and anti-women.
CHIGO ULD SOON BEE THE LARGT U.S. CY TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'I FEEL THE EARTH MOVG UNR MY FEET'
Chigo is on the cp of electg for the first time a black woman as mayor. If Lori Lightfoot’s elected, she also would bee the cy’s first openly gay lear. * chicago gay mayor *
“Do I wish we would actually challenge homophobia, sexism? But do I thk black church are jt bastns of homophobia and sexism? What about the members of the LGBTQ muny who nnot be regnized for their full humany – like the ai to the pastor who was gay?
“It’s betiful bee that brother who everybody knew who was gay probably found life that muny and had thory that space he probably wouldn’t have anywhere else. CHICAGO — Chigo Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-electn Tuday, endg her historic n as the cy’s first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve the posn.
Not only is she the first black female mayor, but she’s also the first openly gay mayor the cy’s history.
CHIGO IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE GAYT CY COUNCIL IN THE COUNTRY
New Details On Kansas' First Gay Rep And First Native Amerin Woman In CongrsBut throughout her mpaign, there was one person who stood by her: her are six thgs to know about Amy Eshleman, who beme Chigo’s first lady when Lightfoot was sworn Eshleman is om Illois. If Lightfoot is elected, she also would bee the cy’s first openly gay mayor. ”Chigo has a long history at the foreont of LGBTQ issu, wh the cy’s historilly margalized muny makg great stris recent Baim, thor of “Out and Proud Chigo: An Overview of the Cy’s Gay Communy, ” noted that Henry Gerber found the Society for Human Rights Chigo, which is nsired by some to be the first Amerin gay rights group, though quickly the ’60s, Baim said, “a few dozen brave souls” created the group Mattache Midwt after prev attempts failed.
The anizatn was “the cy’s first endurg gay rights anizatn, ” nng a monthly newsletter on gay muny news and advotg for gay people, acrdg to the Chigo LGBT Hall of Fame. “This is an amazg leap forward the trajectory of gay rights Chigo that started s ago, ” Baim said. Bsman Jim Flt moved to Chigo 1964, after leavg the Navy, and rells dark days for gay people Chigo.
Equaly Illois -founr Art Johnston me here 1972, at a time when Chigo didn’t have openly gay attorneys, bankers or other profsnals “bee they’d lose their jobs, ” he 1983, Johnston said, he lled police on an unly ctomer at his bar, Sitrack. A p arrived and arrted him for beg gay, Johnston said. But 33 years later, the same spot where the jail stood is now low-e hog for gay and lbian, Johnston said, he has to schle ndidat who want to e Sitrack for events so they don’t n to one asked what would mean to have an LGBTQ mayor, he said, “I feel the Earth movg unr my feet.