Lori Lightfoot sworn as Chigo's first black woman and first openly gay mayor: 'Get ready bee reform is here.'

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• FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
• LORI LIGHTFOOT PARTNER, DGHTER ADOPTED, GAY
• LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
• OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'
• LORI LIGHTFOOT IS CHIGO’S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AIN-AMERIN WOMAN MAYOR
• LORI LIGHTFOOT, CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR
• CHIGO ULD SOON BEE THE LARGT U.S. CY TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'I FEEL THE EARTH MOVG UNR MY FEET'
• LORI LIGHTFOOT SWORN AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'GET READY BEE REFORM IS HERE.'
• CHIGO'S 1ST OPENLY GAY, BLACK WOMAN MAYOR LOS RE-ELECTN

FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR

Chigo will swear s first black female and first openly gay mayor Monday, ncludg Lori Lightfoot's astonishg, yearlong rise om near anonymy to lear of the natn's third-largt cy. Is She Gay? She is openly gay and relish a married relatnship wh Amy Eshleman, who also happens to be the first-lady wh siar terts.

The openly gay duo was loved for their thenticy by the LGBTQ muny durg their uple tied the knot the same day when gay marriage was announced legal Illois after their 16 years long relatnship. You Don't Want To Miss: Danielle Cohn Age, Height, Boyiend, Datg, Affair Net WorthLori Lightfoot feated ndidate Toni Preckwkle, and beme the first black woman and first openly gay polician to hold a posn as the Mayor of Chigo.

The imag of that moment looked like a sneak preview of a New Ameri breakg through – a black, gay woman kissg her whe wife before a mi-rabow aln of onlookers.

LORI LIGHTFOOT PARTNER, DGHTER ADOPTED, GAY

Many of the same black voters who asked her to lead their cy wouldn’t dare ask her to lead their own church bee she is a gay woman.

LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'

And while largely whe nomatns like the Uned Church of Christ, the Epispal Church and the Prbyterian Church (USA) affirm gays and lbians, most black church Ameri still have a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that forc s LGBTQ members to live the closet or be nsumed by self-loathg.

She won the key endorsement of a black Gospel rerdg mogul reared a church that nsirs homosexualy a s. ” Both church groups ce a battery of scriptur to fend their treatment of women and their stance that homosexualy is a s. I once attend a black Baptist church where the senr pastor wouldn’t allow women to preach and tght that homosexualy was a s.

There was one tch – his right-hand man was gay, and virtually everybody the church seemed to know .

OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'

Wilson is also the “vout product” of a socially nservative black church that teach that homosexualy is a s, acrdg to a Chigo Sun-Tim story. How, for example, are black churchgoers’ votg habs any different than those of whe evangelils who support Tmp and oppose gay rights? He says ’s simplistic to say most black church are homophobic and anti-women.

“Do I wish we would actually challenge homophobia, sexism?

LORI LIGHTFOOT IS CHIGO’S FIRST OPENLY-GAY AIN-AMERIN WOMAN MAYOR

But do I thk black church are jt bastns of homophobia and sexism? What about the members of the LGBTQ muny who nnot be regnized for their full humany – like the ai to the pastor who was gay? “It’s betiful bee that brother who everybody knew who was gay probably found life that muny and had thory that space he probably wouldn’t have anywhere else.

Lori Lightfoot has officially been gurated, beg the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chigo. Lightfoot won a faced down homophobia durg the race, as anti-LGBTQ fliers were circulated some neighborhoods.

Lightfoot told the uncil that "as a Black gay woman proud on all onts, " she was "disturbed" by the nature of the discsn. "I am eply honored and proud to not only be Chigo's first Ain-Amerin female mayor, but the first openly gay mayor of Chigo, " she says now.

LORI LIGHTFOOT, CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR

Wh her victory Tuday’s noff electn, Lori Lightfoot will bee Chigo’s first openly gay mayor. Thirty years ago, Johnson said, people Chigo were discrimated agast for beg openly gay, whether they faced firg om their job, or nial of service at rtrants or of hog opportuni.

Now, a gay woman is set to bee the cy’s top polil executive. “Now to have someone who is openly gay as the mayor of our cy, that is jt such an spiratn to our muny and to all of .

”Johnson hop Lightfoot is able to help LGBTQ people receive more rpect wh the crimal jtice system and assist gay youth havg their inti rpected at school and wh teachg curricula. “This is a more unexpected event, unanticipated, than gay marriage. ”LQBTQ muny members and lears of civic groups utned agast fg Lightfoot only by her genr, race or sexual inty and said that havg a gay mayor do not tomatilly mean she will unrstand or even sympathize wh all of the issu important to var segments of the gay muny.

CHIGO ULD SOON BEE THE LARGT U.S. CY TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'I FEEL THE EARTH MOVG UNR MY FEET'

Still, the fact that Lightfoot is an unrreprented member of an unrreprented muny (a gay woman who is black) is signifint.

LORI LIGHTFOOT SWORN AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'GET READY BEE REFORM IS HERE.'

Emerson said she don’t expect Lightfoot to know all of the issu that may be important to her or other members of the gay muny, but at the same time many of Lightfoot’s policy proposals overlap wh the prri of the LGBTQ muny.

CHIGO'S 1ST OPENLY GAY, BLACK WOMAN MAYOR LOS RE-ELECTN

“I don’t pretend to assume that she knows everythg about all of the issu jt bee she is a gay black woman, ” Emerson said. Lightfoot, a 56-year-old first-time ndidate for office, will be Chigo’s first black female mayor and s first openly gay mayor as well as s first mayor nearly 100 years who wasn’t born Chigo.