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.
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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.
LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
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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.
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 *
She won the key endorsement of a black Gospel rerdg mogul reared a church that nsirs homosexualy a s.
” 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.
CHIGO IS ABOUT TO HAVE THE GAYT CY COUNCIL IN THE COUNTRY
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.