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Contents:
- OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT
- OPENLY GAY VICE MAYOR TUNNEY WOULD TAKE OVER A HYPOTHETIL LIGHTFOOT RIGNATN
- A VICE MAYOR LLED GAY MEN FAIRI AND CLARED HIS ‘STRAIGHT PRI.’ NOW, HE’S OUT OF OFFICE
- CALIFORNIA CY VICE MAYOR CALLS FOR 'STRAIGHT PRI AMERIN MONTH,' COMPAR GAY MEN TO FAIRI
- CALIFORNIA CY VICE MAYOR FACG BACKLASH FOR COLUMN CELEBRATG STRAIGHT PRI, CALLG GAY MEN 'FARI'
- GAY MAYORS? WHO R?
OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT
The first openly gay mayor of a small town Oklahoma rigned on Monday, sayg a letter that he’s creasgly bee the target of threats recently. ”Graham was jt one of six out LGBTQ elected officials Oklahoma and the state’s only gay mayor, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute’s Out for Ameri NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram. “Our cy don’t have any time for homophobic, racist and misogynistic mors, today or any day, ” the mayor said om her Sganash home.
OPENLY GAY VICE MAYOR TUNNEY WOULD TAKE OVER A HYPOTHETIL LIGHTFOOT RIGNATN
The North Si bsman and owner of the Ann Sather cha of ders would bee the send openly gay person to take the office—after Lightfoot; he would be the first openly gay man to do so. 3) Long Beach boasts over 12 lol gay bars and nightclubs, and numero gay owned bs. A Northern California vice mayor who was heavily cricized earlier this year after wrg a newspaper lumn that many people viewed as homophobic lost his cy uncil seat by a landsli vote Tuday Hickman was feated for Dixon Cy Council District 2 by the cy’s planng missner, Jim Ernt, who picked up 72 percent of the vote wh all ballots unted.
Hickman faced wispread backlash startg late June after publitn of a ntroversial lumn he penned for Dixon’s Inpennt Voice the June 29 lumn, Hickman lled for July to be known as “Straight Pri Amerin Month, ” referred to gay men as “fari, ” (sic) and said gay people have an “ferr plex. ” Dixon Vice Mayor Ted Hickman has fend a portn of his lumn published Friday the Inpennt Voice, which celebrat July as “Straight Pri Amerin Month” and par gay men to fairi.
Vice Mayor Ted Hickman lled gay men "fari" (sic) and "tker bells" the lumn, which was published on Friday the Inpennt Voice and on his personal webse. Gay D.
A VICE MAYOR LLED GAY MEN FAIRI AND CLARED HIS ‘STRAIGHT PRI.’ NOW, HE’S OUT OF OFFICE
Dixon Vice Mayor Ted Hickman has fend a portn of his lumn published Friday the Inpennt Voice, which celebrat July as "Straight Pri Amerin Month" and par gay men to fairi.
A vice mayor who penned a ntroversial lumn which he lled gay men "fari" has faced latg outrage, a planned prott and lls for a rell or rignatn the week sce the lumn was published the hometown Vice Mayor Ted Hickman faced near-immediate backlash and outrage among the public and at least one of his fellow cy uncil members rponse to the latt edn of his lumn, "That's Life, " published Friday, June 29, Dixon's Inpennt Voice newspaper and also posted to his personal webse. A portn of the lumn ntaed ntroversial ments regardg the LGBTQ muny, cludg remarks that gay people have an "ferr plex. The succs of gay policians plet a rapid change social attus Apr 4th 2019 | SOUTH BEND, INDIANAIT MADE FOR an awkward first-date nversatn.
Leaflets also appeared outsi black church warng that Ms Lightfoot would oversee a gay bal cy hall. More appeared terted her posng as an outsir, promis to tackle rptn and her pledge to cut police mayor of Ameri’s third-largt cy she n help to shift perceptns of gay policians some more.
CALIFORNIA CY VICE MAYOR CALLS FOR 'STRAIGHT PRI AMERIN MONTH,' COMPAR GAY MEN TO FAIRI
She prais Ms Lightfoot’s discipled mpaign and expects the succs will further move “the natnal imagatn”, epeng acceptance of gay policians and givg the cy somethg to cheer. Colorado has a gay ernor, Jared Polis, and Oregon has a lbian one, Kate Brown.
CALIFORNIA CY VICE MAYOR FACG BACKLASH FOR COLUMN CELEBRATG STRAIGHT PRI, CALLG GAY MEN 'FARI'
Ms Parker timat there are roughly 700 openly gay public officials natnally, cludg two senators and eight members of Congrs (all of them Democrats).
Amerins have had 45 years to get ed to gay people public office. Kathy Kozachenko, a stunt Ann Arbor, Michigan, was the first succsful gay ndidate anywhere, wng a cy uncil seat April 1974. But opn has shifted quickly more recently, along wh popular acceptance of gay marriage.
It amounts to a quiet, wele and probably irreversible turn social Pew Rearch Centre found nearly half (46%) of Amerins were still put off by a ndidate known to be gay 2007, but that fell to jt 26% by 2016 and is probably lower now.
GAY MAYORS? WHO R?
The AIDS crisis the 1980s forced many gay men to e out. Once most people realised they personally knew someone who was gay, they grew ls likely to object to gay policians. Jonathan Rch of the Brookgs Instutn (and a former Enomist wrer) says gay activists started by mandg equal rights om the 1970s, and then om the 1990s also sought equal rponsibili, such as the chance to serve the armed forc, marry and bee parents.
That procs, he says, led to the triumph of an “assiatnist” mol, which gay people are accepted by others as ftg to an existg social orr, rather than seen as tryg to up-end Rch cheers policians who are open about their orientatn, but not fed by . But even he has not cricised openly gay policians. “In the world where I grew up was nceivable an openly gay and married person uld n for print, ” says Mr Rch of South Bend’s mayor.