Chigo Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-electn bid Tuday, endg her historic n as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve the job.
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- FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
- LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
- OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- LORI LIGHTFOOT, CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR
- LIGHTFOOT INGURATN: CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, AIN AMERIN WOMAN OFFICIALLY SWORN AS MAYOR
FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
Lori Lightfoot is the Mayor of Chigo. Wng 73 percent of the vote, she's the first black, female, and openly gay mayor of the cy. But who is Lori Lightfoot's wife? Amy Eshleman has been supportg her wife om the begng, but has had a reer of her own. * is the mayor of chicago gay *
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.
LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
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Lori Lightfoot has officially been gurated, beg the first black female and openly gay 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.
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.
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.
OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'
Lori Lightfoot ma history on April 2 when she beme the first openly gay black woman to be elected mayor of Chigo. A polil newer, her progrsive polici, personal history and stat as… * is the mayor of chicago gay *
She won the key endorsement of a black Gospel rerdg mogul reared a church that nsirs homosexualy a s.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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. * is the mayor of chicago gay *
” 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 .
LORI LIGHTFOOT, CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR
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. 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.
LIGHTFOOT INGURATN: CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, AIN AMERIN WOMAN OFFICIALLY SWORN AS MAYOR
“Do I wish we would actually challenge homophobia, sexism? 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. Not only is she the first black female mayor, but she’s also the first openly gay mayor the cy’s history.