Lori Lightfoot be first black female, openly gay Chigo mayor

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Lori Lightfoot is the Mayor of Chigo. Wng 73 percent of the vote, she's the first black, female, and openly gay mayor of the cy. But who is Lori Lightfoot's wife? Amy Eshleman has been supportg her wife om the begng, but has had a reer of her own.

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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. 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.

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. 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.

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Lori Lightfoot be first black female, openly gay Chigo mayor.

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