Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat, on Sunday cried Saturday's “horrific” adly shootg at a Colorado Sprgs LGBTQ nightclub.
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- CALIFORNIA ERNOR NOMAT 1ST GAY TO STATE SUPREME COURT
- COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
- CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
- 40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
- JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
- MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY
CALIFORNIA ERNOR NOMAT 1ST GAY TO STATE SUPREME COURT
Gov. Gav Newsom is takg on nservative Temecula Valley Unified school officials over textbooks that discs sla gay activist Harvey Milk. * gay governor california *
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.
COLORADO'S JARED POLIS, THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAN ELECTED ERNOR, ADDRS 'HORRIFIC' SHOOTG AT AN LGBTQ CLUB
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gav Newsom nomated the first openly gay Black man to the state Supreme Court on Monday, potentially replacg one of the urt's more nservative members wh a former feral civil rights attorney who prosecuted cross-burngs and police misnduct s unr Print Ronald Reagan. Mart Jenks, 66, would be the urt's first gay member and the third Black person to serve on , acrdg to the ernor's office. In a news nference announcg the nomatn, Jenks said his inty as a gay man has been “perhaps the greatt challenge my life.” “I want the young people to know that livg a life of thenticy is the greatt gift you n give yourself. And if you do that, you will fd yourself a posn where people see you,” Jenks said. “Thank you, Governor Newsom, for seeg me.” Jenks, a lifelong registered Democrat, mt first be nfirmed by the Commissn on Judicial Appotments after a public hearg for the job that wh a $261,949 annual salary. The missn nsists of Chief Jtice Tani Cantil-Cakye, Attorney General Xavier Becerra and the most senr pridg judge of the Court of Appeal. Newsom said Jenks uld be on the urt next month. “He knows that spe what the claratn says, life, liberty and the pursu of happs are not simply alienable. They mt be relentlsly protected and fend,” Newsom said. Jenks would replace Jtice Mg W. Ch, the urt's first Che Amerin jtice who was appoted by Republin Gov. Pete Wilson 1996. The urt has two other Asian Amerin jtic, cludg the chief jtice. Jenks grew up San Francis, the son of a stay-at-home mom and a dad who was a clerk and janor at the cy's inic Co Tower. He lived a two-bedroom, one-bathroom hoe and attend Catholic school. He said he wasn't poor but told The Associated Prs an terview that his fay did not have a lot of disposable e. “There is a portn of folks who live like that this untry, maybe more now that live below the poverty le than the ‘50s and ‘60s when I was g up," Jenks said. He played football at Santa Clara Universy, where he was a team pta and dreamed of playg the NFL. But his ach, Gee Patrick Malley, noticed his good gras and suggted he go to law school. Malley troduced Jenks to his iend, Eugene Lynch, who was a judge and beme Jenk's mentor. When Lynch retired as a feral judge nearly 20 years later, Jenks replaced him. “It was solely the head football ach who saw somethg me that I didn't,” Jenks said. After graduatg om the Universy of San Francis School of Law 1980, Jenks worked as a prosecutor for the Alameda County district attorney's office before jog the U.S. Department of Jtice as a civil rights attorney. Sce then, he's been appoted to four different judghips by Republins and Democrats. A pair of Republin ernors appoted him to state judghips before Democratic Print Bill Clton ma him a feral judge 1998. He left that job 2008 when Republin Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appoted him to the state Court of Appeal. Jenks retired last year to bee judicial appotment secretary for Newsom, helpg him vet judicial appotments. Jenks would not scribe himself as nservative or liberal, sayg “I don't land on labels.” He noted one of the state Supreme Court's key rol is to ci ath penalty s. But when asked to discs his views on the ath penalty, a spokman for the ernor's office tervened and said Jenks would not answer that qutn. Newsom imposed a moratorium on the ath penalty last year. “I try to approach the law openly,” Jenks said. “I basilly have a great fily to the law and rpect for and try to rolve ways that are reflective of what mak so much sense and don't make sense a way people live their liv,” he said. He poted to two s that he says bt reflects the way he analyz and terprets the law. He led that current and past female employe had the right to sue Walmart what would have been the largt genr bias class-actn lawsu U.S. history. And he led AT&T uld not stop women om g their time off durg pregnancy lculatg their pensn benefs. The U.S. Supreme Court overturned Jenks both s. “I wasn't happy wh the oute, but I thk they reflect the way which I try to look at law and analyze legal issu,” he said. * gay governor california *
A school district southern California will be fed more than $1m after rejectg a curriculum that clud Harvey Milk, the pneerg gay rights lear who the the school board’s print has lled a “pedophile” Newsom, the California ernor, announced on Wednday that his office will send textbooks to the Temecula school district that clu Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office the state, as well as fe the district $1.
”The ment repeats a nspiracy theory that falsely acc gay people of moltg children at higher rat than heterosexual people. ”This week the board saw a marathon ne-hour meetg which some parents voiced support for the nservative officials, scribg Newsom as a tyrant and a teacher was removed after llg a nservative board member a “homophobe”.
CALIFORNIA’S NEW ERNOR MA NAME WH GAY MARRIAGE FIGHT
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. * gay governor california *
At the meetg, Danny Gonzalez, a nservative board member, said he did not support teachg stunts about the gay liberatn movement and that the curriculum would promote pedophilia, the Los Angel Tim reported. Gav Newsom nomated the first openly gay Black man to the state Supreme Court on Monday, potentially replacg one of the urt’s more nservative members wh a former feral civil rights attorney who prosecuted cross-burngs and police misnduct s unr Print Ronald Jenks, 66, would be the urt’s first gay member and the third Black person to serve on , acrdg to the ernor’s office. In a news nference announcg the nomatn, Jenks said his inty as a gay man has been “perhaps the greatt challenge my life.
40 YEARS AFTER ASSASSATN OF FIRST OPENLY GAY ELECTED OFFICIAL IN CALIFORNIA
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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.
JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS ASSISTANT STRENGTH ACH KEV MAXEN OUT PUBLICLY AS GAY
This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne. * gay governor california *
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. 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. Freas, who has shied away om Bolsonaro's favore hot-button issu such as gun rights and gay marriage, joed the Republins last year ahead of his n for ernor stead of the former print's more right-wg Liberal Bolsonaro mired crimal vtigatns and barred by the urts om nng for office due to his attacks on the electoral system, Brazil's nservative kgmakers are placg their bets on Freas. Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected ernor the Uned Stat, on Sunday cried Saturday's “horrific” adly shootg at a Colorado Sprgs LGBTQ nightclub.
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MEET CALIFORNIA'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR — FOR A FEW HOURS, ANYWAY
In addn to beg Colorado's first openly gay ernor, he is also the state's first Jewish ernor. Some parents exprsed ncerns over the textbook reference to Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist.
At one pot, a public menter was rted out by sheriff's puti after llg one of the school board members a "homophobe". Newsom was San Francis’s youngt mayor a century when jt three months to his term he jumped to the gay marriage bate. He was creded wh advancg the civil rights of gays and lbians more than a before the U.
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. 40 Years After Assassatn Of First Openly Gay Elected Official In California This week marks the 40th anniversary of the assassatn of gay rights lear and San Francis Supervisor Harvey Milk and San Francis Mayor Gee Mosne.