Sheila Kuehl, California's first openly gay state legislator, seeks a eback wh L.A. County Board of Supervisors bid.
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DURAN SAYS SOME GAY MUNY UNHAPPY HE’S BACKG SHRIVER
Ho / Los Angel Tim) Wt Hollywood Cy Council member John Duran, who fished third the June primary for Los Angel County Supervisor, formally endorsed send-place fisher Bobby Shriver on a Shriver news nference, Duran said some the gay and lbian muny had exprsed disappotment that he -- an openly gay man and civil rights lawyer -- did not back first-place fisher Sheila Kuehl, an LGBT pneer California’s rpond that Shriver’s views were closer to his more nservative bs philosophy and that he didn’t want to give his endorsement based on race, genr or sexual inty. She beme the first openly gay person elected to the California legislature 1994 when she was elected to the California State Assembly—but not before practicg law here Los Angel, where she tght at USC and Loyola Law School and formed the state’s Women’s Law Center wh two other qualifi her for the job?
”Kuehl, meanwhile, not that she and Duran, who are both gay, have long advoted for social jtice the LGBT muny. “I’m gettg lls om both LBGT activists who want me to endorse Sheila bee she’s gay and om the bs muny who say I should support Bobby bee he’s more pro-bs, ’’ he said.