Idaho's Gay State Reprentative Stands His Ground

Contents:

• STATMAN DETAILS MORE GAY ENUNTERS FOR LARRY CRAIG
• IDAHO SENATOR LARRY CRAIG BTED A GAY SEX STG. TWO REPORTERS HAVE DETAILS…
• GAY IDAHO SENATOR MAK RUN FOR CONGRS
• IDAHO SENATOR TO PH GAY RIGHTS BILL FROM THE OUTSI
• CRAIG: I'M NOT GAY, DID NOTHG WRONG

STATMAN DETAILS MORE GAY ENUNTERS FOR LARRY CRAIG

WorldIdaho Senator Larry Craig will rign om the Senate amid a furor over his arrt followg an alleged gay sex proposn an airport bathroom, Republin officials said Senator Larry Craig will rign om the Senate amid a furor overhis arrt followg an allegedgay sex proposn an airport bathroom, Republin officials said Senator Larry Craig is expected to announce his rignatn Saturday, when he mak a statement about his polil future. A Democrat who was first elected to the Idaho Hoe of Reprentativ 2014, Crostie is the first out gay man and send LGBTQ person to serve the state's legislature -- followg lbian Nile LeFavour, who served the Hoe om 2004 to 2008 and the Senate om 2008 to 2012.

""When I cid to n for office, I knew that I would be breakg new ground as an openly gay man of lor, " McCrostie tells The Advote. But as the first openly gay man the Idaho legislature, that signifince has never been lost on me. ""It was difficult for me to grow up gay Idaho and not know who to talk to about [beg gay], " he says.

" That support, he says, was sential to him remag "te to who I know I am" and beg "a proud gay man. The Idaho Statman reported a host of new allegatns volvg gay enunters by Sen.

IDAHO SENATOR LARRY CRAIG BTED A GAY SEX STG. TWO REPORTERS HAVE DETAILS…

Followg the tial report, The Statman quickly revealed that had done a months-long vtigatn to long-standg mors about gay enunters by Craig, only to hold onto the story followg an terview wh Craig and his wife. Today, The Statman reporterd that four more men have stepped forward to publicly clare they had gay enunters, although some of the enuters allegedly took place more than 20 years of the men, Mike Jon, claims that Craig paid him for sex late 2004 or early 2005, acrdg to The Statman.

I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011. She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs. Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District.

GAY IDAHO SENATOR MAK RUN FOR CONGRS

Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U.

I am not gay. I never have been gay. (END VIDEO CLIP)MALKIN: This after years of allegatns that the married senator is hidg his homosexualy.

A polil note — Senator Craig threw his support behd an amendment to his state's nstutn banng gay marriage and civil unns. And his rerd clus a number of other vot agast gay rights.

IDAHO SENATOR TO PH GAY RIGHTS BILL FROM THE OUTSI

And we cid we weren't ready to n a story after we terviewed the senator May and he nied all homosexual nduct ever. But we found our reportg that 1967, as far back as 1967, he was alleged to have ma a homosexual advance to a potential aterny pledge at the Universy of Idaho, where he was stunt body print and print of the Delta Chi hoe. I n hontly say that Nile is one of the bravt, dited and passnate people I know – quali she brgs to her new goal of beg the first openly gay member of the U.

In nng for Congrs as an openly gay ndidate om Idaho, Nile said she is ntug to provi a regnizable voice speakg out on important issu such as endg discrimatn.

“A gay person nng for office has both advantag and disadvantag. “There is somethg unique about the level of attentn a gay ndidate brgs to a race.

CRAIG: I'M NOT GAY, DID NOTHG WRONG

Here, they will not allow a bill to be formally filed that would protect gay people om basic forms of discrimatn areas like tn, employment, public servic and real tate door, the lawmaker who leads the Senate’s most powerful mtee, Ways and Means, is the same one who led the gay marriage bill to passage.

The lawmaker, Senator Ed Murray of Seattle, is gay. In the fal floor bate, he ved all of his lleagu to his, the lawmaker who has spent eight years workg for what might seem far ls ntroversial goals is the only openly gay member of the Idaho Legislature.