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MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

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Wh the announcement this week that liberal journalist Steve Kornacki of Salon will take over weekend roundtable show, Up, MSNBC is addg s third openly gay anchor to the lp. Maddow, who is gay, often lled upon Kornacki as a Roberts, who was recently married to Patrick Abner New York, also hosts his own midday show on the channel and was before that anchor for The Advote's onle newsst, which is no longer productn.

It's 2011, after all, and I live Manhattan, surround social and profsnal settgs by gay people. They didn't thk I was terted any kd of relatnship - straight or gay.

ARE GAY RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS?

And yet, while whizzg along the road to Damasc the fast lane, he has somehow found the time to lnch a csa to ‘protect the English language’ late the day, he has sudnly noticed that ‘gay’ means homosexual.

’ One such song is I Surrenr, Dear, which clus the l ‘I may seem blhe, I may seem gay, /It’s jt a pose, I’m not that way...

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Johnson’s ma argument agast ‘gay’ s current sense is that is too morn. ‘Some homosexuals, fendg their larceny, claim that ‘gay’ has a homosexual implitn gog back to the 18th century, ’ he not.

Havg reviewed the evince, however, he nclus that ‘there is no historil se for homosexual ownership of ‘gay’. John Sl, one of the prostut arrted durg the raid, explaed to the police that he and his associat were ‘gay’ even if the word had no pedigree, would matter? I thk difference, of urse, is that queer was origally ed agast homosexuals, not by them – as were nancy-boy, sissy, fag, fairy, queen, powr puff, daisy, pansy, limp-wrist, shirt-lifter, bum-band, manhole-spector, pillow-ber, meat-eater, faggot and numerable other terms of abe.

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Pl Johnson ‘Monster our Midst’ Passage Dcrib Homosexual Activist Slippery Slope U. From -crimalizatn of the “great moral evil” of homosexualy to a “powerful, clamourg, threateng, vengeful” Homosexual Lobby.

Corptg Children: As opposed to jad Amerins, Jamains are still shocked by the radil homosexual agenda — cludg pro-homosexual “children’s” picture books like the above, “Kg & Kg, ” about a “gay” prce who “marri” another prce rather than a prcs. The name of “passn” for homosexuals (rcdg anti-sodomy laws) morphed to a vengeful “monster our midst” — the powerful Homosexual Lobby.

MSNBC HIR ANOTHER GAY ANCHOR (WHO JT CAME OUT 2 YEARS AGO)

Today’s homosexual activists will even rpt the mds and souls of the very young their sperate qut to ratnalize their sful behavr, which God nmns. ) I have found nothg that better explas the evable slippery slope of dulged pro-homosexual activism — om the repeal of anti-sodomy laws (motivated by well-tend but misguid passn toward homosexuals as “victims”); to mands for “tolerance” of homosexualy; to the steady growth of a “gay rights” movement wng passage of laws grantg affirmative “rights” based on sexual perversn (and genr nfn); to homosexual and transgenr advocy schools (targetg even the very young [see book photo]); and ultimately, to the rise of a powerful, well-heeled Homosexual/Transgenr Lobby that achiev domance society at the expense of biblil tth, relig tradn, public health and the rights of others to disagree. Note that Johnson rrectly lls homosexualy a “great moral evil” – somethg I thk even many mted Christians – ntered by polil rrectns and s of “gay” propaganda – today would have a hard time admtg (to their shame).

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class="articleContent__Wrapper-sc-1rqfqf-0 bDtujo le-mon__article-ntent pi-ntent le-mon__gutenberg-ntent le-mon__gutenberg-ntent--articleContent" id="pi"><p>CHICAGO — Brandon Johnson and Pl Vallas are battlg for key LGBTQ backg while tryg to overe cricisms about their rerds as the mayoral electn enters s fal week.</p><p>Chigo has a strong history of LGBTQ volvement polil rac that has helped lnch LGBTQ-intifyg policians and alli to office. An timated 7.5 percent of adult Chigoans intify wh the LGBTQ muny, acrdg to a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Health Department study published 2018</a>.</p><p>Johnson, a former school teacher and current Cook County Commissner, and Pl Vallas, former Chigo schools CEO, have mpaigned to earn LGBTQ people’s vot.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href="><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 1920w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 1080w, 180w, 564w, 615w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-606643" alt="" src=" height="213" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/></a></figure><p>Both ndidat’ LGBTQ platforms emphasize public safety, pecially for trans and genr-nonnformg people. Johnson’s plan foc more on expandg social servic, while Vallas’ emphasiz votg more cy rourc to LGBTQ-owned bs.</p><p>Johnson tailed his plan at a virtual fom; an <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">terview wh the Wdy Cy Tim</a>, Chigo’s LGBTQ newspaper; and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">on his webse</a>.</p><p>He’s been backed by dozens of LGBTQ elected officials and muny advot, but he’s also been cricized for acceptg an endorsement om a lol pastor who opposed same-sex marriage.</p><iame class="" style="width:100%" width="640px" height="200px" src=" allowfullscreen=""></iame><p>Vallas has also laid out his <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">LGBTQ agenda on his webse</a> and held events wh LGBTQ bs lears. However, he did not attend the LGBTQ issu fom or fulfill the Wdy Cy Tim’ requts for an terview. </p><p>Still, Vallas has been backed by proment LGBTQ elected officials, cludg Ald. Tom Tunney (44th), who <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">fend Vallas’ equal rights rerd earlier this month</a>.</p><p>Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chigo’s first openly gay mayor, who lost her reelectn bid, has not announced plans to endorse eher ndidate.</p><p>The noff is April 4, and <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">early votg is unrway</a>.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 5184w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 507w, 1013w, 2025w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-622763" alt="" src=" height="683" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Jake Wtich/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">A aln of LGBTQ-intifyg elected officials and muny members cricized mayoral ndidate Pl Vallas for his rerd on LGBTQ rights durg a prs nference Wednday, March 8, 2023.</figptn></figure><h2>Campaigns Have Faced LGBTQ-Related Controversi</h2><p>Bishop Larry Trotter, a South Si pastor at Sweet Holy Spir Church, endorsed Johnson March 12, tellg his ngregatn the ndidate’s plan was “h” and “new,” acrdg to <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">the Sun-Tim</a>.</p><p>But Trotter was a vol opponent of same-sex marriage the years leadg up to s legalizatn Illois 2013. Trotter was among a aln of fah lears who rallied Sprgfield agast same-sex marriage, acrdg to a <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">2013 Tribune report</a>.</p><p>Johnson rpond to ncerns about this endorsement Wednday durg a virtual fom on LGBTQ issu hosted by people-of-lor-led anizatns servg LGBTQ people.</p><p>Johnson said he was raised by two pastors one of the largt Black nomatns the untry, but he n “regnize that wh all of our fah muni, that there are elements of our fah muny that they don’t get right.”</p><p>“There will be tim when people who are close to me, we will have disagreements, and there will be tim when we will agree,” Johnson said. “This is an opportuny to te people and make people stronger and better, and we get to do that as a llective group.”</p><p>The fom was -hosted by Equaly Illois, ALMA, Affy Communy Servic, the Chigo Black Gay Men’s Cc, Life is Work and TaskForce Preventn and Communy Servic.</p><p>Only Johnson attend, but both ndidat were ved, said morator Kim Hunt, executive director of Pri Actn Tank and senr director of policy and advocy operatns at AIDS Foundatn of Chigo.</p><p>“… You make of that what you want,” Hunt said.</p><p>The LGBTQ fom was origally schled at the same time as the mayoral ndidat’ Fox Chigo bate, the latter of which Vallas planned to attend, his spokperson said.</p><p>After the LGBTQ fom was rchled and swched to a virtual event, Vallas’ mpaign did not answer whether he would attend. After the fom, his spokperson cled to say why he wasn’t there.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 5184w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 507w, 1013w, 2025w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-622764" alt="" src=" height="683" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Jake Wtich/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) acced mayoral ndidate Pl Vallas of a “pattern of anti-LGBTQ cisns” durg a prs nference Wednday, March 8, 2023.</figptn></figure><p>Vallas has e unr fire after his Twter acunt <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">liked homophobic and racist posts</a><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">,</a> and after he spoke <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">at a fundraiser for Awake Illois</a>, a group cricized for s transphobic and homophobic rhetoric.</p><p>Vallas <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">told the Tribune</a> he do not “personally manage” his Twter acunt and later <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">said a hacker liked the ntroversial posts</a>. He also <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">told the Rear</a> he wouldn’t have attend the Awake Illois fundraiser if he’d known about s “hateful rhetoric.”</p><p>A group of LGBTQ lears, who <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">held a news nference March 8 nouncg Vallas</a>, said the actns were part of a lengthy history of anti-LGBTQ actns.</p><p>Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th) said Vallas ed his power as CPS chief 1999 to ncel LGBTQ clivy trag at the schools.</p><p>Vallas had walked back plans to show prcipals a documentary about how teachers n discs gay inty wh stunts, acrdg to an <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Associated Prs story om that time</a>.</p><p>After school officials said every prcipal the district would view the documentary at trag ssns and receive a py for their school, Vallas said he never tend for the vio to be shown to prcipals, acrdg to the AP.</p><p>“If a prcipal wants a py of the tape, they n requt ,” Vallas said at the time.</p><p>Ramirez-Rosa said the actn was part of a “quarter-century-long pattern wh this man.”</p><p>“A quick review of his track rerd shows that when he has been a posn of power and thory, he has ed that power and thory to harm the e of LGBTQ civil rights,” Ramirez-Rosa said at the March 8 news nference.</p><p>Vallas fend his LGBTQ rerd durg a Monday terview wh Block Club board Print Lra Washgton.</p><p>Vallas highlighted his work as the cy’s budget director Mayor Richard M. Daley’s admistratn to clu same-sex domtic partners cy ntracts so they uld be vered by their partner’s surance, which <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">the Wall Street Journal vered 1997</a>. He also said he was an early supporter of gay marriage when he ran for ernor 2002.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 2048w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 507w, 1013w, 2025w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-628351" alt="" src=" height="683" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Twter/Pl Vallas</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) speaks durg a Pl Vallas mpaign event at Barca Lakeview.</figptn></figure><p>Tunney, who <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">endorsed Vallas Febary</a>, prevly told Block Club that Vallas has been a “iend of the muny” sce at least the late ’80s and that his actns as schools chief need to be examed the ntext of where society stood on LGBTQ rights at the time.</p><p>“You’ve gotta look at 1996 and 1999, and Pl was very progrsive at the time,” Tunney said. “I was the muny dog work to make our muny part of our cy and culture, … and he has been a lifelong iend and done a lot of thgs for the time that today might not seem to be enough or reactnary.”</p><p>Tunney also said Vallas’ participatn the Awake Illois fundraiser was a “clumsy mistake, and he’s admted that.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 5184w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 507w, 1013w, 2025w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-627876" alt="" src=" height="683" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Jake Wtich/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Brandon Johnson speaks durg a fundraiser for his mayoral mpaign at Sitrack on Saturday, March 25, 2023.</figptn></figure><h2>Brandon Johnson’s LGBTQ Platform</h2><ul><li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Campaign webse</a> </li><li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">LGBTQ platform</a> </li><li>Feb. 7 terview wh Block Club: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Read</a>/<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Watch</a>/<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Listen</a> </li><li>March 15 terview wh Block Club: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Read</a>/<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Watch</a>/<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Listen</a> </li><li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Read all stori</a></li></ul><p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Johnson’s LGBTQ rights plan</a> emphasiz fightg the wave of anti-LGBTQ legislatn across the natn and promis to further vt Chigo as a “regnal hub for LGBTQ muny and culture.”</p><p>At the top of Johnson’s plan is a promise to protect LGBTQ people by ensurg hate crim are fully vtigated and solvg more murrs of transgenr people Chigo, which have been on the rise recent years, acrdg to <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">data llected by the Human Rights Campaign</a>.</p><p>Johnson elaborated on this plan durg Wednday’s fom, where he reerated part of his public safety plan to promote 200 more tectiv and make sure they’re traed how to solve s volvg vlence agast trans people.</p><p>But Johnson said work to protect trans people om vlence starts wh ensurg “every sgle agency is affirmg our trans muny.”</p><p>“It’s about preventn first,” Johnson said. “I want to make sure that our trans women, particularly our Black trans women, are affirmed, provid wh the mental health support they need as tth alive them, as well as makg sure there are supportive servic, particularly around hog, that will lim the vulnerabily that they’re oftentim exposed to.”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 5184w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 507w, 1013w, 2025w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-627877" alt="" src=" height="683" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Jake Wtich/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Brandon Johnson shared some of his LGBTQ platform durg a fundraiser at Sitrack on Saturday, March 25, 2023.</figptn></figure><p>Johnson also promised to vt more Chigo’s LGBTQ muny, pecially people-of-lor-led LGBTQ anizatns on the South and Wt sis that don’t always receive the same amount of fundg as North Si unterparts.</p><p>“The fundg that we do release as a cy, oftentim gets ncentrated outsi of the very muny which we are most vulnerable and the impact is the greatt,” Johnson said. </p><p>Johnson would create an LGBTQ muny office that would work to crease fundg for rourc and distribute equably throughout the muny.</p><p>“And as we work to crease that fundg, we are directg those dollars toward the muni that have been harmed the most, and, certaly, our Black and Brown muni are top of md,” Johnson said.</p><p>Johnson’s plan also promis to addrs genr-based discrimatn and pay dispari that affect girls, women, transgenr and genr non-nformg people.</p><p>Johnson also propos workg wh state officials to expand health re accs for LGBTQ people, vtg the muny and endg misgenrg official rerds or intifitn.</p><p>Johnson also promis reprentatn of LGBTQ people his admistratn, pecially among trans and genr-nonnformg people. His platform highlights the Chigo Therapy Collective’s <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Hire Trans Now iative</a>, which advot for hirg diverse and talented trans and genr-nonnformg people.</p><p>“I’m very much mted to the type of diverse perspective that we have to brg to ernment,” Johnson said. “Bee we all know I’m not perfect. I have bld spots like everybody else, and I want to make sure that there are people around who love the cy of Chigo enough to challenge .”</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 1650w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 508w, 1014w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-610882" alt="" src=" height="681" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Col Boyle/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Mayoral ndidate Pl Vallas lghs as Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) endors him Wrigleyville on Feb. 1, 2023.</figptn></figure><h2>Pl Vallas’ LGBTQ Platform</h2><ul><li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Campaign webse</a> </li><li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">LGBTQ Platform</a> </li><li>Feb. 13 terview wh Block Club: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Read</a>/<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Watch</a>/<a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Listen</a> </li><li>March 27 terview wh Block Club: <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Comg soon</a> </li><li><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Read all stori</a></li></ul><p><a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Vallas’ LGBTQ platform</a> strongly emphasiz public safety, promisg to create police trag that prepar officers for lls wh the muny, ensurg safety along the Northalsted strip and holdg people acuntable for hate crim.</p><p>Other pots clu promotg cln tn CPS, ensurg pliance wh cy equaly laws, guaranteeg equal accs to servic and bs and cludg LGBTQ-owned bs cy ntract hirg.</p><p>Vallas also proposed creatg a Northalsted Neighborhood Revalizatn Zone, a partnership between muni and ernment that would tablish a mtee of key stakeholrs to help al wh neighborhood issu and give a direct le of munitn wh the Mayor’s Office.</p><p>That uld help the LGBTQ-iendly entertament district hire a public safety tail and improve the streetspe, which was done 1998, Tunney prevly told Block Club.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 1620w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 507w, 1013w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-610803" alt="" src=" height="683" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Col Boyle/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Ald. Tom Tunney (44th) endors mayoral ndidate Pl Vallas Wrigleyville on Feb. 1, 2023.</figptn></figure><p>Tunney reviewed Vallas’ LGBTQ plan and thks has an “overemphasis on North Halsted Street and the North Si that is not reflective” of Vallas’ full platform, Tunney said.</p><p>“I thk he knows that every muny — all parts of the cy — we have a lbian and gay muny that needs to be rourced,” Tunney said. “I know that’s how he feels.”</p><p>Durg Vallas’ terview wh Washgton, he said he’s been talkg wh Tunney about how the cy n better protect LGBTQ people. </p><p>Vallas also said he’d open muny centers on the South and Wt sis for transgenr people. He did not speak on any of the trans-affirmg anizatns that already exist those muni.</p><p>“Bee on the Wt Si and the South Si of Chigo, there are issu of discrimatn there, too,” Vallas said. </p><h2>Where Is LGBTQ Support Gog?</h2><p>Other LGBTQ-intifyg elected officials who have joed Tunney backg Vallas clu <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Alrman-elect Bent Lawson</a>, who is Tunney’s chief of staff and will succeed him May, and Ald. Raymond Lopez (15th), Cy Council’s first openly gay Lato alrperson.</p><p>Tunney has said Vallas was the bt optn of the ndidat to improve the cy’s public safety, tn and fanc. He also said Vallas will be an ally to Chigo’s small bs muny — somethg Tunney, a small bs owner, plans on advotg for after his retirement om alrman.</p><p>“Pl is probably the bt for our bs,” Tunney said. “They need to be heard bee they are the employers, enomic enge and tax base of our cy.”</p><p>Tunny and Lawson were at a Wednday event supportg Vallas at Barca Lakeview. At least 150 people attend, cludg bs lears om the Illois LGBT Chamber of Commerce, which has endorsed Vallas.</p><figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provir-twter wp-block-embed-twter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"><blockquote data-dnt="te" data-width="550" class="twter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en">We had an credible showg om our LGBTQ muny supporters at our event North Halsted. Wh attacks agast the muny at a rerd high, I will make sure Chigo is always a safe haven for our LGBTQ iends and neighbors. <a href="></a></p>— Pl Vallas (@PlVallas) <a href=">March 26, 2023</a></blockquote></div></figure><p>Lawson, who endorsed Vallas on March 15, told Block Club he thks Vallas’ public safety plan is the bt, and his admistratn would be a partner to LGBTQ people and bs.</p><p>“Pl is a budget guy, and g the budget as a set of prri, we n put money to fosterg and buildg LGBT anizatns cywi and improvg anti-vlence iativ that will obvly help LGBT folks,” Lawson said.</p><p>Lawson also praised Vallas’ support for gay marriage and allowg same-sex domtic partners to accs cy benefs.</p><p>“That was very much ahead of s time,” Lawson said. “I have the nfince he’s gog to be a great ally.” </p><p>Openly gay Ald. Timmy Knudsen, who is <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">fightg to keep his seat the 43rd Ward noff</a>, has supported Vallas’ public safety plan but has not endorsed eher ndidate, he said <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">durg a bate Thursday</a>.</p><p>Vallas’ safety plan “looks a lot like me,” Knudsen said. “But that’s a substantive endorsement, not a human-based endorsement.”</p><p>Dill Ravenscraft, executive director of the LGBT Chamber, said Vallas’ mpaign ved him to a meetg where they discsed “everythg om employe at bs and bars who feel unsafe leavg at 2 a.m. or the dark all the way to gettg the LGBT segment accepted by the cy.”</p><p>The chamber, which promot enomic opportuni for LGBTQ-owned bs and their alli, receiv no fundg or support om the cy, Ravenscraft said. He thks Vallas would help the bs chamber secure public fundg and give LGBT-owned bs a cy certifitn to be clud as vendors.</p><p>“We do need small bs, and Pl Vallas regniz the vibrancy and muny that an LGBTQ bs brgs to a neighborhood,” Ravenscraft said. </p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 5184w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 72w, 564w, 615w, 114w, 254w, 507w, 1013w, 2025w, 600w, 1200w, 1366w" class="wp-image-627882" alt="" src=" height="683" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Jake Wtich/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">A few dozen people attend a fundraiser for mayoral ndidate Brandon Johnson at Sitrack on Saturday, March 25, 2023.</figptn></figure><p>More than 35 LGBTQ policians and muny lears have endorsed Johnson as of last week, cludg Ramirez-Rosa; alds. Rossana Rodríguez-Sanchez (33rd) and Maria Hadn (49th); former Hoe Majory Lear Greg Harris; Sen. Mike Simmons and Rep. Kelly Cassidy. <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">A full list was published by the Wdy Cy Tim</a>.</p><p>Many of the supporters appeared at a Saturday fundraiser for Johnson at Sitrack, owned by LGBTQ civil rights pneers Art Johnston and José Pepe Peña. Johnston -found Equaly Illois, which endorsed Johnson this month.</p><p>Mary Morten, print of the Morten Group and a lifelong activist the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Chigo LGBT Hall of Fame</a>, told the crowd she was charge of rollg out the gay inty documentary to tors while Vallas was schools chief.</p><p>Morten was director of the Chigo Commissn on Human Relatns Daley’s admistratn and fought for two years to troduce the film to CPS. The film was meant to be a profsnal velopment vio for faculty, admistrators and uncilors, but “ was an uphill battle,” Morten said. </p><p>It wasn’t until three people killed Matthew Shepard 1998 that CPS officials gave the green light to distribute the film, Morten said.</p><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img siz="(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" srcSet=" 4032w, 300w, 768w, 1024w, 1536w, 2048w, 1080w, 64w, 564w, 615w, 101w, 225w, 451w, 900w, 1800w, 600w, 1200w, 267w, 533w, 1067w, 1366w" class="wp-image-627878" alt="" src=" height="768" width="1024" loadg="lazy" dg="async"/><span class="image-cred"><strong>Cred: </strong> Jake Wtich/Block Club Chigo</span><figptn class="wp-element-ptn">Mary Morten, print of the Morten Group and former Mayor Richard M. Daley appotee, shared her experience wh Vallas when she tried troducg a gay inty documentary to school faculty the ’90s.</figptn></figure><p>Prec Brady-Davis, the first Black trans woman on the ballot Cook County when she <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">ran for Metropolan Water Reclamatn District missner</a>, said Johnson sat down wh her before he clared his ndidacy.</p><p>“I was taken aback by his ndor, his passn, and I tst wh his learship at the helm of our cy, a tale of two ci will certaly end,” Brady Davis said.</p><p>Cook County Commissner Kev Morrison, the first openly gay person elected to the Cook County Board of Commissners, has also endorsed Johnson. He said March that Johnson proved his LGBTQ allyship by supportg <a rel="noreferrer noopener" target="_blank" href=">Morrison’s efforts to elimate transphobic language om the Cook County </a>.</p><p>At Sitrack, Johnson told the crowd LGBTQ people are “part of the astcture of the cy of Chigo and the untry.”</p><p>“If you want to prevent a crisis, you’ve got to make sure you’re affirmg the very liv who have been ostracized, ridiculed, judged or ma to feel shameful,” Johnson said. “In a Brandon Johnson admistratn, you are loved, supported and your learship matters.”</p><p><em><a target="_blank" href=" rel="noreferrer noopener">Subscribe to Block Club Chigo</a>, an pennt, 501(c)(3), journalist-n newsroom. 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