Takg on Historic Homophobia Jtice System, California Governor Newsom Lnch Procs for Pardong People Prosecuted for Beg Gay | California Governor

Contents:

• MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY
• CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
• GAV NEWSOM WAS A PNEER ON GAY MARRIAGE. NOW HE’S TRYG TO MAKE LGBT HISTORY AS ERNOR
• GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE AN OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR — FOR ABOUT EIGHT HOURS
• TAKG ON HISTORIC HOMOPHOBIA JTICE SYSTEM, CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM LNCH PROCS FOR PARDONG PEOPLE PROSECUTED FOR BEG GAY
• COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB

MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY

Gav Newsom and sla gay rights lear Harvey the ne-hour Temecula Valley Unified meetg, which ran past midnight, some parents spoke support of the nservative majory on the school board and s buckg of state standards for clive and diverse pated Newsom — who plans to send textbooks that reference Milk to Temecula stunts fiance of the board — as a “tyrant” who “forc his le” upon a district he knows nothg about. ”The bate arose after the board rejected proposed stctnal material that mentned Milk, a member of the San Francis Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office California, who was assassated 1978.

” Conservative school board Print Joseph Komrosky, who lled Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly fdg wh Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff puti on Tuday to remove a teacher om the meetg after she lled nservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.

” Whout evince, Gonzalez said that proposed stctn would promote pedophilia and said he opposed teachg about the gay liberatn movement that began the 1960s bee ’s “not appropriate to discs sexualy.

CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT

Toni Atks beme California's first openly gay ernor on Wednday -- for a perd of roughly ne hours. Assembly Speaker]Toni Atks, D-San Diego, (R) walks hand hand wh her spoe, Jennifer LeSar, to the rostm of the Assembly where she took the oath of office as the 69th Assembly Speaker at the Capol Sacramento, Calif., on May 12, 30, 2014, 9:49 PM UTC / Updated July 30, 2014, 10:16 PM UTCCalifornia Assembly Speaker Toni Atks beme the Goln State's first openly gay ernor on Wednday -- for a perd of roughly ne to the travel schl of Democratic Gov.

”Atks is only the send openly gay ernor the U.

He rigned shortly openly gay person has ever been elected ernor. 5 ln fe agast the Temecula Valley Unified School District ls than a day after nservative board members voted to reject a state-endorsed curriculum that clus a short bgraphy of gay rights lear Harvey Milk. Komrosky, the board print, has lled Milk a "pedophile, " while dozens of atten, many om outsi the school district, livered impassned speech agast teachg anythg that refers to sex or homosexualy to elementary school-age stunts.

GAV NEWSOM WAS A PNEER ON GAY MARRIAGE. NOW HE’S TRYG TO MAKE LGBT HISTORY AS ERNOR

This month – and every month – California stands wh the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) muny as they take pri who they are and whom they love.

After a Southern California school district rejected a state-endorsed social studi curriculum that clus material on gay rights, top state officials are vowg to buy a textbook qutn and distribute to stunts before the new school year. The announcement is the latt dispute between state and lol officials after the Temecula Valley Unified School District’s board voted 3-2 on May 16 to reject the curriculum, wh some board members claimg there was not enough parental volvement the curriculum creatn procs as well as makg ments attackg gay rights activist and polician Harvey Milk. The curriculum – for gras one through five – ntas supplemental rource material for teachers that clus a short bgraphy of Milk, who is believed to be the first openly gay polician elected to public office California 1977.

The materials scribe his liftyle and his work for gay rights California until his assassatn 1978.

GAV NEWSOM: ‘UNBELIEVABLE’ GAY MARRIAGE CISN, 11 YEARS AFTER HIS MOVE

Komrosky said June that his statements about Milk “were not based upon him beg a homosexual, but rather based upon him beg an adult havg a sexual relatnship wh a mor. Newsom was San Francis’s youngt mayor a century when jt three months to his term he jumped to the gay marriage was creded wh advancg the civil rights of gays and lbians more than a before the U. A California school board rejected a history curriculum Tuday that clud a bgraphy on Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office California, for the send time, spe warngs om Democratic Gov.

” Milk, who served as a San Francis supervisor, was the state’s first openly gay elected official. He’s touted his selectn of the hight-rankg openly transgenr appotee state office was so eager to make more history that announced had flown the gay pri flag for the “first time ever” at the Capol earlier this week. Newsom walked back the claim after some observers poted out that lawmakers had raised the flag over the Capol for a few hours nearly 30 years was another signal that Newsom, who beme a natnal figure 2004 when he issued marriage licens to same-sex upl as San Francis mayor, wants to make state ernment even more clive of gay people than his Democratic ernor has appoted many LGBT people to boards, missns and admistratn posns as part of a larger effort to hire people who reflect the mographics of the state.

Zgale hasn’t personally been a victim of police btaly, but as a gay man he said he’s faiar wh feelg that your muny is beg targeted by law enforcement. “Beg a member of the gay muny helped me see some of what was beg lled out on that issue of excsive force.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

“That is somethg a whe gay man n’t do for me as a Lato man. Jerry Brown appoted the first openly gay UC regent. Brown also appoted the first openly gay judge to the California Court of Appeal, Jim Hum, who had served his also illumated the Capol dome rabow lights and draped the flag over a balny 1999, then-Gov.

Zgale, who served Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admistratn, said he sometim disagreed wh the Republin ernor’s posns on LGBT issu, but has sce e to nsir him an ally who even offered to officiate Zgale’s and Newsom are “the two most mted ernors to LGBTQ equaly, ” said Rick Zbur, executive director of LGBT-advocy anizatn Equaly Zbur said Equaly California se an even greater opportuny to expand gay rights and reprentatn unr Newsom. Zbur poted to his anizatn’s efforts to require schools to tra teachers to be supportive and sensive of gay and transgenr stunts as an example. In 2020, the Governor appoted Jtice Mart Jenks to serve as the first openly gay man on the California Supreme Court, and this year appoted Sacramento County Superr Court Judge Andi Mudryk, the first openly transgenr person to serve on the state’s judicial bench.

CALIFORNIA WILL HAVE AN OPENLY GAY GOVERNOR — FOR ABOUT EIGHT HOURS

Shortly after takg office, the Governor lnched a new iative to pardon people who were prosecuted California for beg gay. Related: CA ernor signs law to equalize punishments for gay & straight sex offenrs.

Gav Newsom was jumpg to the r, head to a breakfast speech on job creatn, when a monplace day turned extraordary: The Supreme Court of the Uned Stat had affirmed the right of gays to rights have been fought for over s. But among the polil class, Newsom was the protagonist who almost sglehandly wrenched gay marriage onto California’s radar.

As San Francis mayor 2004 he phed the cy to issue marriage licens to gay upl, openg a turbulent 11-year siege of unns celebrated and blocked, anti-marriage mpaigns and urt battl, and public opposn that slowly then swiftly turned to public Friday, a majory of the urt’s jtic announced that they, too, saw gay marriage as a basic right too long nied. Not after the ballot measur all over the untry subsequent years that sought to forbid gay marriage.

TAKG ON HISTORIC HOMOPHOBIA JTICE SYSTEM, CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR NEWSOM LNCH PROCS FOR PARDONG PEOPLE PROSECUTED FOR BEG GAY

12, 2004, ma the first municipaly the natn to issue marriage licens to gay upl. It was a rebell gture: Gay marriage was illegal almost everywhere, cludg the state of California.

Senators, om the Bay area — were opposed to gay marriage. A Los Angel Tim poll taken two months after Newsom’s actn showed that only 31% of Californians supported gay marriage, while 40% nsired morally ’s actn was ultimately quashed by the urts but he remaed an tegral player, the worst way. In May of 2008, when the state Supreme Court legalized gay marriage, he growled out a fger-potg, tntg msage to gay marriage opponents.

COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB

In the narrowg marg was a harbger of astonishg change to the last several years, approval of gay marriage has surged at warp speed. A USC Dornsife/Los Angel Tim poll May of 2013 found that 58% of Californians approved of gay marriage, almost double the percentage om ne years earlier. In that poll, more than a quarter of nservativ and 35% of Republins supported gay marriage.

And is voters who have led the policians: Not until late sprg of 2012, after he was publicly prodd by Vice Print Joe Bin, did Print Obama pronounce his support for gay marriage, a move that Newsom lled “a profound moment” bee of the petive reelectn race the print faced. Dianne Feste did say 2004 that gay marriage surfaced “too much, too fast, too soon. ’”More needs to be done on the gay rights ont, he said, as dited by recent battl Indiana and elsewhere over whether bs owners n refe to serve gays.