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- FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
- PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
- PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
"The gays, they're tryg to n my senate office, " the meme reads, along wh an image of actor Jennifer Coolidge, who starred the namake h HBO seri and whose character famoly said, "The gays, they're tryg to murr me! I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011. She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs.
Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U. The first openly gay Republin elected to Congrs said he won a Long Island Hoe seat by nng a “mon sense” platform.
PROMENT GAY REPUBLINS HELPED SMOOTH THE WAY FOR MARRIAGE BILL
Santos will bee the first openly gay Republin elected to the Hoe — a handful of other ndidat me out after they were elected. His Democratic opponent, Robert Zimmerman, also is gay.
PETE BUTTIGIEG BE FIRST OPENLY GAY DEMOCRAT TO N FOR PRINT
But one LGBT activist argued was a “disgrace” for an out gay person to align himself wh the Republin Party that has fought agast gay rights.
Gee Santos, the gay Republin who won a ngrsnal seat last month, may have falsified claims about his employment history and more durg the mpaign, acrdg to a New York Tim Tim looked to Santos's rume and found that several aspects of uld not be verified. In November, Santos feated another gay man, Democrat Robert Zimmerman, the race for an open seat New York's Third Congrsnal District, which vers much of the north shore of Long Island.
Santos is the first gay Republin to be elected to Congrs while beg out om the get-go; precsors Steve Gunrson and Jim Kolbe me out while already "built his ndidacy on the notn that he was the 'full embodiment of the Amerin dream'" as someone who had risen om a humble background as the son of Brazilian immigrants to achieve great fancial succs, the Tim claimed to have worked at two major Wall Street firms, Cigroup and Goldman Sachs, but they had no rerd of his employment there, they told the Tim. AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBehd the succs of the Rpect for Marriage Act was a group of proment Republins, some of them gay, who worked to persua G. 11, 2022WASHINGTON — When the Senate passed landmark legislatn last month to mandate feral regnn for same-sex marriag, the vote was ld as a rare moment of bipartisanship at a time of ep polil polarizatn the the narrow aln of 12 Republins that joed every Democrat support of the measure — which cleared Congrs on Thursday wh fal passage the Hoe, sendg to Print Bin — did not sprg up spontaneoly a groundswell of cross-party the scen, a group of fluential Republin donors and operativ, cludg some of the party’s most proment gay lears wh long experience proddg their party to embrace L.