Oregon Secretary of State Kate Brown is set to bee the first openly bisexual ernor US history. As gay rights expand, bisexual and transgenr people are beg a greater part of the nversatn about human sexualy.
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GAY MUNY ON NEXT OREGON GOV. KATE BROWN: Y, SHE UNTS
Jim McGreevey me out as gay 2004 and rigned months later. Kate Brown, celebratg a gay rights victory Oregon. At the time of her public (and voluntary) “outg” by the Oregonian durg one of her many close mpaigns for public office, bisexuals were (and still are) perceived as “greedy, promiscuo or cisive” and shunned by both heterosexuals and gays alike.
Brown herself was told by gay iends that she was only “half queer. In many ways Oregon’s gay rights rerd is puzzlg. At the same time, though, the state has rehearsed some of the most vilent anti-gay rights mpaigns the untry.
Ined, the 1980s and ‘90s, Oregon was a ttg ground for a growg anti-gay movement.