Lori Lightfoot's historic term as the first openly gay mayor of Chigo may be remembered as one of the most ght s recent history.
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- GAY MAYOR OF HYATTSVILLE, MARYLAND, FOUND DEAD
- MARYLAND BLACK GAY MAYOR FOUND DEAD . . . POLICE SAY SUICIDE . . . BUT MAY BE MURDER!
- LORI LIGHTFOOT: CHIGO’S FIRST GAY, BLACK MAYOR LEAV PLITED LEGACY AFTER LOSG RE-ELECTN
- KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
- GAY MAYORS? WHO R?
- JT MONTHS TO FIRST TERM, BRIDGEPORT'S GAY, BLACK MAYOR FAC ATH THREATS AND RACIAL ATTACKS
- LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
GAY MAYOR OF HYATTSVILLE, MARYLAND, FOUND DEAD
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Ward, 44, was gay. The park is known as a gay cisg area, acrdg to MTO News.
Kev was openly gay – he was married to a man, and had two teenage sons. Fort Marcy Park is popular among gay men, who often go there to look for discreet sexual hookups, MTO News has learned.
MARYLAND BLACK GAY MAYOR FOUND DEAD . . . POLICE SAY SUICIDE . . . BUT MAY BE MURDER!
Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. * gay black mayor *
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Garcia is set to bee the first gay immigrant the U. Lori Lightfoot ma history when she beme the first Black, openly gay female mayor of Chigo, but her sgle term may be remembered as one of the most ght the cy’s recent history. “She re-lnched the Mayor’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Council, troduced a rolutn to drive more cy ntracts to LGBTQ+ owned bs and created one of the first hog programs for Black and Latx gay and bisexual men who are HIV-negative and e PrEP, ” Ingelhart said.
Lori Lightfoot won her 2019 Chigo mayoral bid by a landsli, makg her the first Black woman and first openly gay person to lead the cy.
LORI LIGHTFOOT: CHIGO’S FIRST GAY, BLACK MAYOR LEAV PLITED LEGACY AFTER LOSG RE-ELECTN
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Lightfoot faced homophobia durg her first electn race as anti-LGBTQ+ fliers were circulated around some neighbourhoods.
She told the uncil that, as a “Black, gay woman, proud on all onts”, she was “disturbed” by the “nature of the discsn”. Lori Lightfoot faced down homophobia durg her time office as Chigo’s mayor and spoke out for the LGBTQ+ muny multiple tim.
Black ially asked for the mayor’s immediate rignatn, sayg: “There is no place for homophobic bigotry cy ernment.
KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
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” He also said that he felt God would not approve of drag shows and homosexualy. Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach a US men’s profsnal sports league to e out as gay. Per Outsports, as of September 2022, there have only ever been 16 players NFL history to publicly e out as gay or bisexual.
GAY MAYORS? WHO R?
Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player league history to announce that he is gay 2021. Per Outsports, Maxen is the “first publicly out male ach a major Amerin men’s pro sports league, ” wh WNBA ach Curt Miller, who publicly me out to the media as gay 2015, also a publicly out male ach an Amerin profsnal sports league. 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. 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. 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.
JT MONTHS TO FIRST TERM, BRIDGEPORT'S GAY, BLACK MAYOR FAC ATH THREATS AND RACIAL ATTACKS
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.
LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
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. 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.