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- IS MAYOR BLOOMBERG GAY?
- MIKE BLOOMBERG BAFFL WH MPAIGN AD SHOWG HIM EATG 'BIG GAY ICE CREAM'
- MIKE BLOOMBERG CONF AMERI WH SURREAL ‘BIG GAY ICE CREAM’ AD
IS MAYOR BLOOMBERG GAY?
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Yet others said the Bloomberg admistratn's msagg on HIV wasn't effective wh the people most at risk, young gay and bisexual men of lor.
"Bloomberg has employed several high-profile gay staffers as mayor and his philanthropic efforts. Mark Glaze, a gay man, served as director of Mayors Agast Illegal Guns, a mpaign chaired by Bloomberg and Tom Meno, then mayor of Boston. Another gay man, Jonathan Capehart, now a Washgton Post lumnist, was a speechwrer for Bloomberg durg the 2001 a Post lumn published Monday, Capehart said Bloomberg has "all the quali that Print Tmp lacks: a moral re, eply held nvictns, a belief the power of ernment to addrs if not fix problems, rpect for the le of law and reverence for our mocratic stutns and the Constutn.
MIKE BLOOMBERG BAFFL WH MPAIGN AD SHOWG HIM EATG 'BIG GAY ICE CREAM'
Hodg cisn that swept away remag gay marriage bans.
MIKE BLOOMBERG CONF AMERI WH SURREAL ‘BIG GAY ICE CREAM’ AD
Bloomberg noted his early 2005 endorsement of same-sex marriage, sayg he later “worked to nvce Republins” to vote for the marriage equaly bill passed by the New York State Assembly addn to unveilg the LGBTQ platform, his mpaign also announced endorsements om two proment gay fashn lears, former “Project Runway” judge Tim Gunn and signer and performer Isaac Mizrahi, who both joed Bloomberg’s Natnal LGBTQ+ Learship several of Bloomberg's LGBTQ policy pots are borrowed om the much more specific bs and enomic policy sectns of his platform — like a vow to vt “billns muni across the natn to help create jobs and grow ” — many ways, the LGBTQ platform mirrors those of other Democratic printial hopefuls, highlightg how the party has alced around a general platform on lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer stance, former Vice Print Joe Bin, former Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, Sen. “That’s the kds of qutns we at Next magaze found ourselv askg our Gay Pri Issue 2011. “What keeps the gay dream alive New York when thgs like AIDS, 9/11, marriage equaly and, y, mayors who mpaign agast our nightlife, our dancg, our sex liv and our eedoms, nstantly seem to knock down.
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