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• DAVE HUTCHSON POISED TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF IN MIDWT
• SHERIFF SHAR EXPERIENCE AS FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF HATON COUNTY
• MCGUFFEY BE HATON COUNTY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF
• KIM STEWART WILL BE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF STATE HISTORY, FIRST WOMAN SHERIFF UNTY
• SHE SAYS THE SHERIFF FIRED HER FOR BEG GAY. NOW, SHE'LL BE THE SHERIFF.
• OH WOMAN MAK HISTORY AS PARTMENT’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF
• AVENGER OF THE WEEK | KRIST GRAZIANO, FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY SOUTH CAROLA SHERIFF
• PL BAB, THE SUDNLY OPENLY GAY PAL COUNTY SHERIFF, VOWS TO CONTUE CONGRSNAL RUN, SERVE OUT REMAG TERM AS SHERIFF -- DPE MEXIN EX-LOVER'S INSISTENCE THAT SHERIFF'S CAMP THREATENED HIM WH DEPORTATN

DAVE HUTCHSON POISED TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF IN MIDWT

Dave “Hutch” Hutchson on Wednday appeared to have narrowly feated three-term cumbent Sheriff Rich Stanek Hennep County, Mnota, all but guaranteeg his tle as the first openly gay sheriff the an credibly tight race, the 39-year-old veteran police officer clared an unofficial victory over Stanek, a Print Donald Tmp supporter whose crics say he was too amenable to feral immigratn early Wednday morng, 100 percent of the unty’s preccts had reported their electn rults, suggtg Hutchson had won roughly 2, 300 more vot than Stanek, a former Mnota Hoe some lol media outlets have lled the race for Hutchson, an official wner likely won’t be certified by the Mnota secretary of state’s office until Nov. "She said feared that if anybody found out that she was gay, cludg a former boss who she claimed to be "very homophobic, " then she would be fired or "never achieve rank.

SHERIFF SHAR EXPERIENCE AS FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF HATON COUNTY

"In one alleged cint, McGuffey said that she went to e the rtroom the office and a -worker had vandalized the women's bathroom sign by g permanent marker to draw a circle around the female in and cross out, replacg wh a gay slur wrten across the she ma the admistratn aware of the cint, they lghed about , she said.

"McGuffey said that she was not "outed" until she was ced for a nontatn wh police outsi a gay bar Covgton, said that she and a group of iends had watched a llege basketball game, and that when they left around 11 p. Overg discrimatn: openly gay sheriff is pneer fight agast homophobiaAfter facg discrimatn and losg her job at the Haton County Sheriff's Office Oh, Charmae McGuffey be the unty's first woman and openly gay sheriff. Haton County Sheriff Charmae McGuffey joed Mike Kallmeyer to talk about her experienc as the first the openly gay sheriff Haton County.

McGuffey be Haton County's first openly gay sheriff | WKRCWKRC, FileLoadg... LAS CRUCES - Kim Stewart me out as gay 1989 and has been wh her partner, now her wife, for even longer, so she don’t thk often about her sexualy. ”But Stewart, 65, achieved two important historil ton her electn on Tuday as Doña Ana County’s next sheriff, so her genr and sexual orientatn are once aga the handily featg Todd Garrison for sheriff, Stewart will bee the first openly gay sheriff the history of New Mexi.

MCGUFFEY BE HATON COUNTY'S FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF

”“I’d rather be known as the good p than the gay p, ” she lawsuThe electn of Stewart and her feat of Garrison are remarkable other ways.

KIM STEWART WILL BE FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF STATE HISTORY, FIRST WOMAN SHERIFF UNTY

Charmae McGuffey ma history Monday when she took the oath of office as the first openly gay person and first woman to bee Haton County sheriff. She is one of at least five openly gay sheriffs the untry, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a polil actn mtee voted to electg openly gay ndidat.

McGuffey filed a feral lawsu agast the sheriff's office 2018 claimg she was fired part bee she was openly gay and part bee she blew the whistle on excsive e of force by sheriff's puti and rrectns officers. McGuffey, 63, ma headl the primary where she challenged the cumbent, Jim Neil, who fired her om the sheriff’s partment three years sists he termated McGuffey for creatg a hostile work a pendg lawsu agast the partment she will soon lead, McGuffey says she was the one subjected to a toxic matas was bee she spoke out agast excsive force — and bee she is an openly gay and raised Ccnati, McGuffey said she knew she wanted to be a police officer by the time she was 14.

SHE SAYS THE SHERIFF FIRED HER FOR BEG GAY. NOW, SHE'LL BE THE SHERIFF.

In April 2010, she was brought up on crimal charg stemmg om a nontatn wh police outsi a gay bar Covgton, Kentucky. But, acrdg to a partmental report obtaed by the Ccnati Enquirer, which NBC News has not seen, McGuffey then beme “loud and belligerent, ” cursg and shoutg that the male officers had “problems wh gay women. “I was always terrified that the sheriff would fd out and I would lose my job, ” she said, allegg that the cisn to disciple her was also fueled by homophobia.

OH WOMAN MAK HISTORY AS PARTMENT’S FIRST OPENLY GAY SHERIFF

HAMILTON COUNTY, Oh (WSVN) — An Oh woman has ma history as the first openly gay sheriff her partment’s history. McGuffey sued the sheriff’s office, sayg her male lleagu received preferential treatment and that she was fired bee of her cricism of the agency, beg openly gay and failg to nform to tradnal female lawsu remas pendg feral urt.

The Cy stalwart says progrs still needs to be ma Photo: Dave Bet/Getty ImagAs the Cy's first openly gay sheriff, Tim Hail knows a thg or two about what 's like to be out the Square the past three s workg for law firms and major fancial stutns, Hail has an almost unparalleled sight to how far the Cy has - or hasn't - e.

AVENGER OF THE WEEK | KRIST GRAZIANO, FIRST WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY SOUTH CAROLA SHERIFF

Sheriff Charmae McGuffey (CECH, Crimal Jtice ’88) never imaged she’d be where she is today — the first woman and first openly gay person to serve as Haton County sheriff. McGuffey did not e out as gay durg her llege years. She was outed 2010 after an cint that occurred when she and some iends were nonted by patrolmen while leavg a gay bar Northern Kentucky.

PL BAB, THE SUDNLY OPENLY GAY PAL COUNTY SHERIFF, VOWS TO CONTUE CONGRSNAL RUN, SERVE OUT REMAG TERM AS SHERIFF -- DPE MEXIN EX-LOVER'S INSISTENCE THAT SHERIFF'S CAMP THREATENED HIM WH DEPORTATN

“Well, that meant I had to report to my boss that I was a gay bar, and there I was, ” she said.

She claimed that she was fired bee she was openly gay and bee she exposed excsive e of force. When McGuffey took the oath of office on January 4, 2021, she beme one of five openly gay sheriffs the Uned Stat and one of only three women. Dave “Hutch” Hutchson on Wednday appeared to have narrowly feated three-term cumbent Sheriff Rich Stanek Hennep County, Mnota, all but guaranteeg his tle as the first openly gay sheriff the Midwt.