Chigo Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her re-electn bid Tuday, endg her historic n as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve the job.
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- FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
- FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
- LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
- OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'
- CHIGO ULD SOON BEE THE LARGT U.S. CY TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'I FEEL THE EARTH MOVG UNR MY FEET'
- MAKG HISTORY: HOW CHIGO’S FIRST BLACK WOMAN, OPENLY GAY MAYOR PLANS TO SHAKE UP THE POLIL MACHE
FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
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Chigo will swear s first black female and first openly gay mayor Monday, ncludg Lori Lightfoot's astonishg, yearlong rise om near anonymy to lear of the natn's third-largt cy. Lori Lightfoot has officially been gurated, beg the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chigo.
FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
Lori Lightfoot is the Mayor of Chigo. Wng 73 percent of the vote, she's the first black, female, and openly gay mayor of the cy. But who is Lori Lightfoot's wife? Amy Eshleman has been supportg her wife om the begng, but has had a reer of her own. * gay mayor of chicago *
Lightfoot, a 56-year-old first-time ndidate for office, will be Chigo’s first black female mayor and s first openly gay mayor as well as s first mayor nearly 100 years who wasn’t born Chigo. CHICAGO — Chigo Mayor Lori Lightfoot lost her bid for re-electn Tuday, endg her historic n as the cy’s first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve the posn. The imag of that moment looked like a sneak preview of a New Ameri breakg through – a black, gay woman kissg her whe wife before a mi-rabow aln of onlookers.
LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
Many of the same black voters who asked her to lead their cy wouldn’t dare ask her to lead their own church bee she is a gay woman. And while largely whe nomatns like the Uned Church of Christ, the Epispal Church and the Prbyterian Church (USA) affirm gays and lbians, most black church Ameri still have a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy that forc s LGBTQ members to live the closet or be nsumed by self-loathg. She won the key endorsement of a black Gospel rerdg mogul reared a church that nsirs homosexualy a s.
” Both church groups ce a battery of scriptur to fend their treatment of women and their stance that homosexualy is a s. I once attend a black Baptist church where the senr pastor wouldn’t allow women to preach and tght that homosexualy was a s. There was one tch – his right-hand man was gay, and virtually everybody the church seemed to know .
OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'
Wilson is also the “vout product” of a socially nservative black church that teach that homosexualy is a s, acrdg to a Chigo Sun-Tim story.
How, for example, are black churchgoers’ votg habs any different than those of whe evangelils who support Tmp and oppose gay rights?
CHIGO ULD SOON BEE THE LARGT U.S. CY TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'I FEEL THE EARTH MOVG UNR MY FEET'
He says ’s simplistic to say most black church are homophobic and anti-women. “Do I wish we would actually challenge homophobia, sexism?
MAKG HISTORY: HOW CHIGO’S FIRST BLACK WOMAN, OPENLY GAY MAYOR PLANS TO SHAKE UP THE POLIL MACHE
But do I thk black church are jt bastns of homophobia and sexism?