Lori Lightfoot: Gay Chigo mayor leav plited legacy

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Chigo Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who ma headl a uple of years ago when she beme the first black woman and first openly gay person to lead the cy, has lost reelectn.  

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FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR

Lori Lightfoot's historic term as the first openly gay mayor of Chigo may be remembered as one of the most ght s recent history.  * mayor of chicago gay *

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. “Do I wish we would actually challenge homophobia, sexism?

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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.

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