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Contents:
- WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
- TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’
- JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
- THE ARE THE REPUBLIN SENATORS WHO WILL VOTE TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS A RIGHT
- 118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
- ‘SHOCKED’: GAY SENATOR NONTED RUB AS HE LLED BILL ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’ ELEVATOR
- 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
- FLORIDA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR SPEAKS OUT ON 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
- DON'T SAY ANTI-GAY: AS GOP APPROVAL FOR SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS PLUMMETS, REPUBLIN SENATORS SIST THEY'RE ONLY G AFTER TRANS RIGHTS, NOT GAY RIGHTS
- THE 11 MOST PRO-GAY U.S. SENATORS
WHICH DEMOCRATIC U.S. SENATORS HAVE THE GAYT AND LEAST GAY STAFFS?
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TAMMY BALDW, WHO IS GAY, NONTED MAR RUB ABOUT LLG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE VOTE A ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’
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JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY A FIRST FOR US-BASED PRO LEAGU
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PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
Sen. Mar Rub (R-FL) told CNN that a vote on a bill to dify same-sex marriage was a “stupid waste of time” as he was walkg to an elevator where Sen. Tammy Baldw (D-WI), who is gay, was . She talks to CNN’s Jake Tapper about her rponse. * gay senators *
Bh’s mpaign manager 2004 and a former chairman of the Republin Natnal Commtee who me out as gay 2010, and Centerle Actn, a centrist nonprof fund by him and Regald Brown, a lawyer Mr. ImageKen Mehlman, seen 2010, has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly Heisler/The New York TimMr. Mehlman, who has worked to build greater acceptance among Republins for gay- and transgenr-iendly polici, also leaned on a work of Republins that he enlisted 2019 to urge the Supreme Court to clare that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 explicly prohibs discrimatn agast gay men, lbians and transgenr people the workplace.
Tmp; Ben Gsberg, the proment Republin lawyer; Mary Cheney, the openly gay and married dghter of former Vice Print Dick Cheney; Tom Ridge, the former homeland secury secretary unr Mr. More about Annie KarniA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 28 of the New York edn wh the headle: Proment Gay Republins Helped Smooth Way for the Marriage Bill. California still has an anti-gay marriage law on the books.
CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a subsequent legislative attempt to legalize gay marriage. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage natnally two years later.
Hoe Pass Bill Protectg Gay Marriage—47 Republins Vote ‘Y’ (Forb). Clarence Thomas: Court Should Rensir Gay Marriage, Birth Control Decisns Next After Overturng Roe (Forb). – who 2013 beme the first openly gay U.
Thirteen votg members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight number of openly LGB members history. Two senators and 11 members of the Hoe of Reprentativ intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center analysis of lawmakers’ official bgraphi, mpaign webs and news reports. In the 112th Congrs of 2011-13, jt four members – all reprentativ – intified as gay or lbian (and none as bisexual), acrdg to data om the Victory Fund, a polil actn mtee that works to elect LGBTQ policians.
THE ARE THE REPUBLIN SENATORS WHO WILL VOTE TO CODIFY GAY MARRIAGE AS A RIGHT
Data on the share of Amerins who are gay, lbian or bisexual om Gallup. As of the 118th Congrs, this clus lbian, gay and bisexual members. In the Hoe, all but one of the 11 openly gay or lbian reprentativ are Democrats.
The exceptn is Republin Gee Santos of New York, who the 2022 midterm cycle beme the first openly gay, non-cumbent Republin to w a ngrsnal electn. Seven of the 11 openly gay or lbian reprentativ the Hoe are returng members of Congrs. The four newly elected members clu Santos; Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the first openly gay immigrant elected to Congrs; Democrat Eric Sorensen, the first out gay ngrsperson to reprent Illois; and Democrat Bec Balt, the first woman and first openly LGB person to reprent Vermont.
Eight of the 11 Hoe members who intify as gay or lbian are gay men and three are lbians. The two new LGBTQ members of the Hoe will be the first openly gay Ain Amerin and Ao-Lato Congrs members: Mondaire Jon (D-N. All intify as eher gay or lbian.
118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
By sexual orientatn, 64 intify as gay, 56 as lbian, 14 as bisexual, 11 as queer, and four as pansexual.
Openly gay Tony Labranche, who at 18 won a seat the New Hampshire Hoe, will be among the youngt elected officials the number of out LGBTQ state legislators creased om 161 2020 to 175 who will be office 2021, an almost 9 percent crease, raisg the LGBTQ proportn of state legislators om 2. Tammy Baldw (D-WI), who is gay, was . C., and the forc of homophobia only amplify the nsequence when gay enunters make headl.
Many a gay sex sndal ret the urse of Amerin history and transformed the way natnal lears will be remembered for time immemorial.
‘SHOCKED’: GAY SENATOR NONTED RUB AS HE LLED BILL ‘STUPID WASTE OF TIME’ ELEVATOR
Pl Internatnal Airport known by thori as a popular spot for gay trysts saw s most notor occupant ever on June 11, 2007. Pl his emphatic claratn he had "never been gay" prompted men claimg to be his ex-lovers to speak out to the prs. The two never publicly acknowledged a sexual relatnship, but the closens earns scty even today, pecially wh Hoover's history of antagonizg gay people, but the FBI matas still that there was no evince Hoover was Foley Gets Too DeepHow much trouble did U.
17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
Some historians nsir the men to be the first gay print and vice Brgs Down LBJ HonchoWalter Jenks served as Print Lyndon Johnson's chief of staff, and by many acunts was key to brgg the former Texas senator to his historic posn of power. But the New York Post reported that the polician fact was payg for gay sex an tablishment n by Nazi foreign agents.
Alben Barkley that the Army handle such sndal by offerg an officer the tools for suici, acrdg to Charl Kaiser's The Gay Metropolis.
FLORIDA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY STATE SENATOR SPEAKS OUT ON 'DON'T SAY GAY' BILL
But the cint would be jt one mark on a sndal-plagued reer and he would eventually rign due to tax evasn by SndalIt would be nice if the first out ngrsman to serve Washgton's halls of power fact ma his own cisn to make his homosexualy known to the world. Dan Crane had had an affair wh a female page, Studds had to publicly acknowledge his gay sexualy.
DON'T SAY ANTI-GAY: AS GOP APPROVAL FOR SAME-SEX RELATNSHIPS PLUMMETS, REPUBLIN SENATORS SIST THEY'RE ONLY G AFTER TRANS RIGHTS, NOT GAY RIGHTS
He would go on to be an outspoken Hoe member supportg same-sex marriage and other gay rights long before public opn swung a directn helpful to LGBT Social Conservative to Out, Poz ActivistRepublin Congrsman Jon Hson started his reer as a young pol reprentg a socially nservative area of Mississippi. Instead, he beme an outspoken gay rights activist.
Jim McGreevey stunned the polil world 2004 when he announced he was gay and had been cheatg on his wife wh a man. Gay bar.
At the Tribe Film Ftival 2009, sent rippl across the polil world for intifyg several allegedly closeted policians as gay.
THE 11 MOST PRO-GAY U.S. SENATORS
In the wake of the Larry Craig sndal (see earlier this list), Dick suggted that policians who were a posn to vote agast gay rights spe beg gay themselv served special scty and srn. Many of the policians the film have nsistently nied mors they are gay, but the film ensur that discsn Number?
Fallg From the Bully PulpTed Haggard wasn't jt your n-of-the-l relig lear exposed as a hypocre when a gay sex sndal brought him down 2006. Bh, the man had practilly ma a reer of rallyg churchgoers around anti-LGBT polil , fightg agast same-sex marriage and labelg gay sex as an act nmned by God. A gay Florida lawmaker spoke out last week ahead of the passage of the state's ntroversial Parental Rights Edutn bill — nounced as "Don't Say Gay" by LGBTQ activists — offerg a personal take on how might affect stunts.
Democrat Shevr Jon is Florida's first openly gay state senator. Jon grew pecially emotnal when speakg about a book wrten by his dad and published jt weeks ago, which his father exprsed "disappotment" at learng that he was gay. Torr is the first openly gay and Ao-Latx member of ngrs.