First openly gay attorney general hopeful for a future of greater equaly: "We will get there someday" - CBS News

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• FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFUL FOR A FUTURE OF GREATER EQUALY: "WE WILL GET THERE SOMEDAY"
• NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AG ULD BE AMERI’S FIRST OUT LBIAN ERNOR
• MEET THE COUNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL
• MURPHY APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY HISTORY
• MURPHY APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY HISTORY

FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL HOPEFUL FOR A FUTURE OF GREATER EQUALY: "WE WILL GET THERE SOMEDAY"

First openly gay state attorney general on Pri Month. First openly gay state attorney general on Pri Month and challeng facg LGBTQ muny. At the start of the 52nd memoratn of the Stonewall rts, the first openly gay state attorney general said there is plenty to celebrate this Pri Month, while also regnizg the work still left the fight to advance LGBTQ+ equaly.

Openly LGBTQ+ people workg the current admistratn clu Transportatn Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Assistant Secretary of Health Rachel Leve, and Whe Hoe prcipal puty prs secretary Kare Jean-Pierre — who last week beme the first openly gay person to hold a Whe Hoe prs briefg. Healey, who also serv as -chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Associatn, said she has seen firsthand the impact LGBTQ+ reprentatn ernment has on the gay muny.

Healey, who January announced her bid for ernor, is remarkable for a lot of reasons, among them beg she’s the first female attorney general the natn to intify as openly gay. Sce then, Healey has been joed by another openly gay lleague — Michigan Attorney General Dana Nsel.

NATN’S FIRST OPENLY GAY AG ULD BE AMERI’S FIRST OUT LBIAN ERNOR

Wrg for the majory, Jtice Samuel Alo emphasized that the lg would not affect other cisns on same-sex marriage, sex between gay upl or the right to ntraceptn. “I had the chance to brg the untry’s first succsful lawsu challengg the feral Defense of Marriage Act, which discrimated agast same-sex upl, ” Healey, who is the first openly gay Attorney General the untry, explas. Murphy also noted that Bck will be the first openly gay attorney general state history.

MEET THE COUNTRY’S FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL

Grewal’s last day wh the state is July also noted that Bck will be the first openly gay attorney general state history. BOSTON (AP) — Democratic Attorney General Mra Healey has been elected ernor of Massachetts, makg history as the natn’s first openly lbian, the state’s first woman and openly gay ndidate elected to the office, feated Republin Geoff Diehl, a former state reprentative who had the endorsement of former Print Donald Tmp. “I stand before you tonight proud to be the first woman and the first gay person ever elected ernor of Massachetts, ” she told supporters at a Boston hotel that he had lled Healey to ngratulate her on her w.

MURPHY APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY HISTORY

”Healey — elected eight years ago as the natn’s first openly gay attorney general — snapped what’s bee known Massachetts as the “curse of the attorney general. Supreme Court 2020 that, unr a provisn lled Tle VII, protects gay, lbian and transgenr people om discrimatn the workplace.

“Neher muny, really, has been sulated om those typ of thgs and that’s why I thk ’s more important now than ever that muni of lor and the LGBTQ muny rise up together, ” said Nsel, the state's first openly gay attorney general. "DePerno doubled down on those remarks at a mpaign stop Sunday Mab County wh GOP gubernatorial ndidate Tudor Dixon, argug Nsel was more foced "drag queens your schools" than stoppg vlent 's mpaign lled DePerno's statement a "dishont, spible attempt to weaponize homophobia orr to w an electn.

Attorney General William Barr orred an vtigatn to the Department of Jtice’s treatment of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr staff followg a plat om DOJ Pri, s LGBTQ employee rource an April 4 letter to DOJ Pri released Friday, Barr said he was “troubled” by the group’s ncerns, which were raised a March 27 open letter. “Issug the statement is not only required by law — as you noted your letter — is the right thg to do, ” Barr wrote his rponse to DOJ ’s letter marked a stark ntrast om Ssns, who on several ocsns took steps to roll back protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr a November 2018 survey of s members, DOJ Pri stated "morale is low among LGBTQ dividuals currently employed the Department" and the "Department is not recg and retag top LGBTQ talent.

MURPHY APPOTS FIRST OPENLY GAY ATTORNEY GENERAL NEW JERSEY HISTORY

There are many gay agents attendg that are dismissed bee they are not ‘bro-y’ or mascule enough. “It’s a sign of progrs here the state that [beg gay] wasn’t the first thg every time, bee there’s a whole lot of me, ” Healey said a recent terview, still sleep prived om her historic victory on electn night. I’m proud of the fact that for the first time our untry’s history we will have a gay attorney general.

”That, she said, was the harst day of the she rallied, and wh the help of women’s and gay rights groups, she beat Tolman handily the primary, wng 62 percent of the vote. “This is an office that not everybody unrstands how important [] is protectg the civil rights of all people, ” said KC Coredi, executive director of MassEqualy, a statewi gay rights advocy polil actn arm of MassEqualy was an early and arnt supporter of Healey’s mpaign for attorney general. She won a natnal settlement agast Apple to make vic more accsible for people wh disabili, and she led the fight to help victims of predatory lendg stay their Griff, print of the Human Rights Campaign, a gay rights advocy group, said a statement, “As the natn’s first openly gay attorney general, she is an spiratnal trailblazer and will fight to guarantee civil rights and legal equaly for all people Massachetts.

”In Massachetts, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and qutng youth — LGBTQ youth — are disproportnately reprented homels populatns, suici attempts, and datg vlence, acrdg to a recent report om the state.