Column One: First gay mayor U.S. didn't expect to be LGBTQ rights in - Los Angel Tim

Contents:

• PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR
• OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT
• MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
• PORTLAND: LARGT U.S. CY WH OPENLY GAY MAYOR
• JACKIE BISKUPSKI BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF SALT LAKE CY
• FIRST GAY MAYOR U.S. DIDN’T EXPECT TO BE LGBTQ RIGHTS IN
• PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

PETE BUTTIGIEG: HOW A YOUNG, GAY MAYOR BEME A DEMOCRATIC STAR

In jt a matter of a month, this 37-year-old - who would be the youngt and the first openly gay US print - has transformed himself om long-shot to legimate ntenr for the Whe Hoe.

Surname pronounced "BOOT-edge-EDGE" Speaks French, Spanish, Italian, Malte, Arabic, Norwegian and DariSon of two universy amics, father an immigrant om MaltaMayor of South Bend, Indiana, sce 2012A former US Navy telligence officer and veteran of Afghan warCame out as gay aged 33 and married June 2018Perhaps most importantly, this surge of tert Buttigieg's ndidacy has translated to mpaign dollars, as he recently announced he has raised more than $7m (£5. In 2015, shortly the midst of his mayoral re-electn mpaign, Buttigieg announced a lumn the lol newspaper that he is gay. ""Beg gay has had no bearg on my job performance bs, the ary, or my current role as mayor, " he ntued.

"I admire the fact that he's openly gay, " says Celia Botto of Manchter, who me to the Buttigieg event wh her hband, Brandon. "I n't believe 's taken this long for an openly gay man to n for print. He's for the Green New Deal, but as a "ncept" and a "amework" that emphasis the emergency the world ptn, 'Voters will re about my ias, not that I'm gay'Buttigieg's stump speech is heavier on visn than the kds of policy tails, however, which mostly e out terviews and media qutng.

OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT

"Even Buttigieg's gay inty is beg qutned om some rners of the left. "Has Buttigieg faced setbacks or barriers to succs bee he's gay?

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.

MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT

Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, beme the first openly gay ndidate the 2020 printial race Wednday, jog an already crowd field of Democratic hopefuls. “I’m om the Midwt, so the issu of makg sure that we have a posive way forward for workers and fai the dtrial Midwt — this is not theoretil for me, ’s my home, ” Buttigieg Buttigieg were to overe the long odds and bee the Democratic nomee for print, he would be the first openly gay nomee and the first veteran of the Afghanistan War, where he served a tour as a Naval Rerve officer. “I was well to adulthood before I was prepared to acknowledge the simple fact that I am gay, ” Buttigieg wrote at the time.

I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011.

PORTLAND: LARGT U.S. CY WH OPENLY GAY MAYOR

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.

It ma Portland, populatn timated at 575, 000, the largt cy the natn to elect an openly gay mayor. PORTLAND — Two months ago, Sam Adams, a Portland cy missner and the mayor-elect, rallied a crowd of gay-rights activists as part of a natnal seri of protts agast California’s new ban on same-sex marriage.

He didn’t mpaign on gay rights or social issu. “I’m nng not to be a gay mayor, but a great mayor, ” he said.

JACKIE BISKUPSKI BE FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR OF SALT LAKE CY

Gay, lbian ndidat.

Adams was one of more than 100 gay, lbian and bisexual ndidat nng for feral, state and lol offic endorsed earlier this year by the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund, a Washgton, D. C., group whose aim is to crease the number of openly gay elected officials. Denis Dison, the anizatn’s spokman, said 80 of the ndidat won, cludg 33-year-old entreprenr Jared Polis, of Boulr, Colo., who November beme the first openly gay man to w a seat Congrs as a noncumbent ndidate.

FIRST GAY MAYOR U.S. DIDN’T EXPECT TO BE LGBTQ RIGHTS IN

“To have an entire muny elect a gay man and have people say, ‘You’re gog to reprent me, ’ is a pretty huge thg.

Jt as beg a gay man driv much of his polil activism, he said, his workg-class background fluenc his ambns as mayor. “Beg gay is part of me, so is beg Irish Amerin, so is beg om a small Oregon town. SALT LAKE CITY — Former Utah lawmaker Jackie Biskupski on Tuday beme the first openly gay mayor of Salt Lake Cy, the pal of the nservative state where the Mormon church and a small town judge livered setbacks last week to the LGBT victory by Biskupski marked another tone for LGBT people Utah who have ma major stris recent Utah lawmaker Jackie Biskupski pos for photograph after beg mayor of Salt Lake Bowmer / AP"Today is not jt about makg history, " Biskupski said.

"Servg as mayor of Salt Lake Cy has been the richt workg experience of my life, " Becker told Lake Cy voters also elected Derek Kchen, who beme the send gay member of the Cy and his hband, Moudi Sbey, were one of three upl who sued to overturn the state's same-sex marriage ban. Biskupski tak over after progrs on gay rights was temporarily marred recent weeks when a judge orred a foster child to be removed om a lbian uple and placed wh a heterosexual uple.

PETE BUTTIGIEG MAK HISTORY AS 1ST OPENLY GAY CABET MEMBER NFIRMED BY SENATE

The judge quickly reversed his cisn and took himself off the earlier, the Salt Lake Cy-based Mormon church issued new l targetg gay members and their children, promptg wispread backlash.

The new policy bans baptisms for children of gay parents until the kids turn 18 and disavow same-sex relatnships. Jim Dabakis after she was elected Salt Lake Cy's first openly gay Bowmer / APBiskupski cled to discs the church policy further Tuday, sayg she wanted to meet wh Mormon officials first. Earlier this year, the church endorsed a statewi anti-discrimatn law that protected gay and transgenr people om discrimatn hog and the 's a ntrast om 1998, when Biskupski beme Utah's first openly gay lawmaker and some of her lleagu the heavily Mormon and nservative Legislature wouldn't shake her about her w light of the recent ntroversi, Biskupski said, "It's 2015, and we've e a long way om, gosh, when I first got elected.