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
- GAY FORMER N.J. ERNOR REVIS DIVORCE SU
- 10 YEARS AFTER RIGNG, JIM MCGREEVEY DON'T VIEW HIMSELF AS A GAY TRAILBLAZER
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
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Dpe two marriag and two children, the 47-year-old Democrat said the end he realized he was homosexual. “My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, ” he said. But he said he had allowed himself to bee volved an adultero homosexual affair, an act that vlated his marriage vows and prompted his rignatn.
McGreevey said he felt the affair and his homosexualy would leave the ernor’s office vulnerable to “mors” and stead he felt he should openly adm both. “And so my tth is that I am a gay Amerin and I am blsed to live the greatt natn wh the greatt tradn of civil liberti the world. McGreevey: "I am a gay Amerin.
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WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
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"We all know how difficult is to e out as openly gay, whether to fay or other loved on, " Garn State Equaly chairman Steven Goldste said. TRENTON – Ten years after he announced that he was a "gay Amerin" and would rign om office after a sndal-plagued stt as New Jersey ernor, Jim McGreevey is back ernment, this time mostly as an evangelist for prison reform.
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12, 2004, is " the rearview mirror, " he said, and he do not see himself as a gay rights trailblazer, though he remas the only person to have served as a ernor while openly gay. "When McGreevey officially left office three months after beg the natn's first — and so far only — openly gay ernor, Massachetts had jt bee the first state to regnize same-sex marriage. Now, 19 stat, cludg New Jersey, McGreevey announced he was gay, there were jt a handful of openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr elected officials the unty.
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10 YEARS AFTER RIGNG, JIM MCGREEVEY DON'T VIEW HIMSELF AS A GAY TRAILBLAZER
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”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.
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