Lori Lightfoot be first black female, openly gay Chigo mayor

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• FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
• LORI LIGHTFOOT PARTNER, DGHTER ADOPTED, GAY
• MEET CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST LADY
• LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
• LIGHTFOOT INGURATN: CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, AIN AMERIN WOMAN OFFICIALLY SWORN AS MAYOR
• CHIGO ELECTS LORI LIGHTFOOT AS FIRST GAY AND FIRST BLACK FEMALE MAYOR CY’S HISTORY
• OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'
• LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• LORI LIGHTFOOT SWORN AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'GET READY BEE REFORM IS HERE.'
• CHIGO'S 1ST OPENLY GAY, BLACK WOMAN MAYOR LOS RE-ELECTN

FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO 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. Is She Gay? She is openly gay and relish a married relatnship wh Amy Eshleman, who also happens to be the first-lady wh siar terts.

LORI LIGHTFOOT PARTNER, DGHTER ADOPTED, GAY

The openly gay duo was loved for their thenticy by the LGBTQ muny durg their uple tied the knot the same day when gay marriage was announced legal Illois after their 16 years long relatnship.

You Don't Want To Miss: Danielle Cohn Age, Height, Boyiend, Datg, Affair Net WorthLori Lightfoot feated ndidate Toni Preckwkle, and beme the first black woman and first openly gay polician to hold a posn as the 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.

MEET CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST LADY

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.

LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'

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. ” 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.

LIGHTFOOT INGURATN: CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, AIN AMERIN WOMAN OFFICIALLY SWORN AS MAYOR

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?

CHIGO ELECTS LORI LIGHTFOOT AS FIRST GAY AND FIRST BLACK FEMALE MAYOR CY’S HISTORY

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 (AP) — Lori Lightfoot ma history as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve as Chigo mayor, sailg to victory four years ago as an outsir who vowed to rid Cy Hall of rptn and liver a safer, more equable cy. Chigo's first openly gay, female, Ain-Amerin mayor arriv office wh another first: an openly gay first lady. Their openns as a married gay uple had three effects on the mpaign, says Brian Johnson, CEO of Equaly Illois, a Chigo-based nonprof dited to LGBTQ rights.

OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'

In late March, anti-gay flyers appeared on rs the parkg lots of Bronzeville church. " Lightfoot shot back, llg the ment a "dog whistle" to anti-gay voters.

Lori Lightfoot has officially been gurated, beg the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chigo.

LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

She was the first Ain Amerin woman and the first openly gay person to hold that office. Not only is she the first black female mayor, but she’s also the first openly gay mayor the cy’s history. 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.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- In a historic moment, Lori Lightfoot was sworn Monday as Chigo's 56th mayor, the cy's first Ain Amerin woman and the cy's first openly gay person to hold the office. “Beg the mayor of the third largt cy the untry, that’s humblg, but also giv me credible hope, ” she said, addg that she feels she mt be vigilant about provg she’s “worthy” of that of the past grand marshals of Chigo’s Pri paras have been trailblazers, and not jt om Chigo, evince that while the event n be a big party, has roots the Stonewall rts of 1969 — a revolt agast the regular police raids of gay bars those days and the seed of the LGBTQ rights movement. “Chigo was a mec for gay people throughout the Midwt.

If you were growg up Missouri, jt by example, you went to Chigo or Atlanta, " he said, notg those were big progrsive ci that ma easier for gay muni to we tend to hear about yuppi fg those years, gay activism also soared, ma more urgent by the AIDS crisis, Garcia said. “What you had the ’80s was this nfluence of thgs happeng — there was the gay rights legislatn — non-discrimatory legislatn that the (Chigo) Cy Council passed, and that took on high visibily.

LORI LIGHTFOOT SWORN AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'GET READY BEE REFORM IS HERE.'

So you had a lot of people now feelg fortable, feelg strong about llg for LGBTQ rights, but at that time jt lled gay rights.

And then you had young gay men dyg all over the untry, and the Act Up activists were out there really addrsg HIV and AIDS — and jt phg the muny farther, ” he said.

“But then you also had had televisn and theater that was addrsg gay issu more equently.

CHIGO'S 1ST OPENLY GAY, BLACK WOMAN MAYOR LOS RE-ELECTN

”While she attend Pri paras and worked for AIDS fundg over the years, Lightfoot’s equent rea is of gratu to those gay and lbian activists who she says paved the way for her personal and profsnal succs. At a recent Pri receptn, she ticked off trailblazers the LGBTQ muny cludg a well known-favore, Art Johnston, an activist and -owner of Sitrack bar, an anchor the Lakeview gay muny; Mary Morton, who served former Mayor Richard M. “Walkg down Halsted Street durg last year’s Pri Para hand hand wh Chigo’s first openly gay ndidate for mayor and wh our dghter was one of the most profound, emotnal and humblg experienc of my life, ” Chigo’s first lady, donng a shirt emblazoned wh the morn-day LGBTQ mantra “Love is Love, " told a crowd at a Pri month receptn last week.