New Jersey Governor Rigns After Admtg Gay Affair | PBS NewsHour

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• NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
• WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
• AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
• NEW JERSEY BANS GAY NVERSN THERAPY

NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR

Dpe two marriag and two children, the 47-year-old Democrat said the end he realized he was homosexual. “My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, ” he said. But he said he had allowed himself to bee volved an adultero homosexual affair, an act that vlated his marriage vows and prompted his rignatn.

McGreevey said he felt the affair and his homosexualy would leave the ernor’s office vulnerable to “mors” and stead he felt he should openly adm both. McGreevey: "I am a gay Amerin. Would you vote for a gay polician?

WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER

Jam McGreevey announced his rignatn Thursday after revealg that he is gay and that he had an adultero affair wh a his wife standg by his si, McGreevey -- a father of two -- spoke lm ton as he scribed his stggle wh his sexualy, "a certa sense that separated me om others.

"And so, my tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " the Democrat said. " Garn State Equaly, a gay rights group, lled McGreevey's g-out speech "poignant" and said s members' thoughts were wh the ernor and his fay. "We all know how difficult is to e out as openly gay, whether to fay or other loved on, " Garn State Equaly chairman Steven Goldste said.

TRENTON – Ten years after he announced that he was a "gay Amerin" and would rign om office after a sndal-plagued stt as New Jersey ernor, Jim McGreevey is back ernment, this time mostly as an evangelist for prison reform. 12, 2004, is " the rearview mirror, " he said, and he do not see himself as a gay rights trailblazer, though he remas the only person to have served as a ernor while openly gay. "When McGreevey officially left office three months after beg the natn's first — and so far only — openly gay ernor, Massachetts had jt bee the first state to regnize same-sex marriage.

AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG

Now, 19 stat, cludg New Jersey, McGreevey announced he was gay, there were jt a handful of openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr elected officials the unty. Now there are about 500 by the unt of the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund. In Mae, openly gay U.

Mike Michd is the nomated Democrat for McGreevey's rignatn speech is remembered mostly for his g out — livered wh his wife at his si and cludg the le, "My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " wh unrton of fiance and patrtism — the suatn was more plited than was upset over McGreevey's attempt to appot Golan Cipel — wh whom McGreevey would later say he had an affair — to be his top homeland secury adviser spe havg few qualifitns and beg unable to get feral secury clearanc. “And so my tth is that I am a gay Amerin and I am blsed to live the greatt natn wh the greatt tradn of civil liberti the world. In 2013, he got a standg ovatn om the Democratic legislature at his state of the state addrs, had Lap-Band surgery to try to lose weight, earned a spot on TIME’s list of the 100 most fluential people the world, signed legislatn supportg fancial aid and -state llege tun for undocumented immigrants, signed legislatn banng licensed therapists om tryg to turn gay teens straight and earned a send term a landsli.

Gay marriage dified. Gay marriage arrived New Jersey when a 2015 Supreme Court se legalized same-sex unns the stat (cludg NJ) whout gay marriage.

NEW JERSEY BANS GAY NVERSN THERAPY

But wh a radilly nservative US Supreme Court poised to rensir that 2015 cisn, NJ state lawmakers were keen to dify gay marriage to state law.