Lori Lightfoot be first black female, openly gay Chigo mayor

Contents:

• 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

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. 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. 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.

FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR

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.

LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'

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 .

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? He says ’s simplistic to say most black church are homophobic and anti-women.

“Do I wish we would actually challenge homophobia, sexism? But do I thk black church are jt bastns of homophobia and sexism? What about the members of the LGBTQ muny who nnot be regnized for their full humany – like the ai to the pastor who was gay?

OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'

“It’s betiful bee that brother who everybody knew who was gay probably found life that muny and had thory that space he probably wouldn’t have anywhere else.

Not only is she the first black female mayor, but she’s also the first openly gay mayor the cy’s history. New Details On Kansas' First Gay Rep And First Native Amerin Woman In CongrsBut throughout her mpaign, there was one person who stood by her: her are six thgs to know about Amy Eshleman, who beme Chigo’s first lady when Lightfoot was sworn Eshleman is om Illois. A century ago, and long before Lori Lightfoot was elected the first openly gay mayor of Chigo, the cy was home to LGBTQ rights fluencers such as Henry Gerber and Pearl Hart.

CHIGO ULD SOON BEE THE LARGT U.S. CY TO ELECT AN OPENLY GAY MAYOR: 'I FEEL THE EARTH MOVG UNR MY FEET'

Known as the “Guardian Angel of Chigo’s Gay Communy, ” Hart is one of the first female attorneys to practice crimal law Chigo and equently fends untls gay men arrted bars and tea rooms. Pneer gay and civil rights activist Henry Gerber. (Handout)1924: The first Amerin gay rights anizatn, The Society for Human Rights, is created by German immigrant and Chigo rint Henry Gerber.

”1950: Jazz tmpeter Ernte “Ty” Davis opens the club Ty & Ruby’s Gay Spot wh her partner Ruby Lus the 2700 block of South Wentworth Avenue Chigo. 30, 1956, psychologist Evelyn Hooker livers her paper “The Adjtment of the Male Overt Homosexual, ” which was published a year later, at the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn Conventn Chigo.

Her study challenged beliefs about gay men and found that they were not herently abnormal. In 1973 the APA removed homosexualy om s list of psychiatric disorrs.

MAKG HISTORY: HOW CHIGO’S FIRST BLACK WOMAN, OPENLY GAY MAYOR PLANS TO SHAKE UP THE POLIL MACHE

(Chigo Tribune)1965: Lbian pulp novelist Valerie Taylor and lawyer Pearl Hart, among others, tablish Mattache Midwt, the cy’s first succsful gay rights anizatn.

The se mak to the Supreme Court and Klepak is Liberatn Front members march through Bughoe Square (now Washgton Square Park) on their way to a rally at the Civic Center (now Daley Plaza) on June 27, 1970, as part of Chigo's first Gay Pri Week. (Anthony Robert La Penna/Chigo Tribune)1974: The Chigo Gay Medil Stunts Associatn creat Howard Brown Memorial Clic, a place where gays and lbians n receive unselg and sexually transmted fectns ttg and treatment. 1977: On June 14, 1977, thoands gather outsi the Medah Temple to prott Florida orange juice spokwoman Ana Bryant, who opposed gay Harold Washgton attends a gay rights rally Lln Park on July 1, 1984.