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.
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- NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
- WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
- AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
Tho 's still early days, 2022 has already been an eventful year for equaly +LGBTQ rights NJ. Gay Marriage✅ ?Gay State Lawmakers✅ ? Gay Mayors✅ * governor new jersey gay *
TRENTON – Today, Governor Phil Murphy signed legislatn (S2545) to tablish specific rights and protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, unsignated/non-bary, qutng, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) olr adults and HIV-posive rints of long-term re facili.
Gay marriage dified. Gay marriage arrived New Jersey when a 2015 Supreme Court se legalized same-sex unns the stat (cludg NJ) whout gay marriage. But wh a radilly nservative US Supreme Court poised to rensir that 2015 cisn, NJ state lawmakers were keen to dify gay marriage to state law.
WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
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The fal headunt was cisive, pecially the NJ Senate where the gay marriage bill passed 35 vot to 4. (Si note: In a petive district that jt might terme which party ntrols Congrs, Kean hop voters fet his (multiple) vot agast gay marriage and foc stead on on his (somewhat belated) evolutn on the issue. Newly-mted Assemblyman Don Guardian took the oath of office this week makg him the only Gay member of NJ’s 120-member General Assembly.
He’s the first gay republin state lawmaker NJ history and only the 3rd overall, followg the footsteps of Reed Gcra and Tim Etace, both mocrats.
I’m almost 50 and I remember the days when gay role mols were hard impossible to e by, pecially the world of polics.
AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
After Ga Genove won electn to the Long Hill Township Commtee 2004, homophob lashed of flyers were strewn about Town Hall this nservative Morris County municipaly falsely allegg that the openly gay Genove ma sexual advanc to a mor. In a separate cint, a man slapped an anti-gay sticker on her opposn did not stop Genove's mtee lleagu om appotg her mayor 2006, which ma her New Jersey’s first out mayor.
”Fifteen years after Genove’s electn, the landspe has shifted for elected officials who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr.
New Jersey has eight openly gay mayors, the U. Congrs has 10 out members and Pete Buttigieg, the gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is pollg the top five of the 23 Democratic printial memorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprisg that served as a talyst for the LGBT rights movement, and the USA TODAY NETWORK New Jersey spoke to gay elected officials about how the mpaign trail is different now om how was for Genove, what ’s like as an out ndidate to ask Print Donald Tmp supporters for their vote and why party boss stand the way of more LGBT people wng electns. ”Amerin voters first elected an openly gay person to office 1974 — not San Francis’s Harvey Milk, but the lser-known Kathy Kozachenko.