Lori Lightfoot Ws as Chigo's First Gay Black Female Mayor

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• FORMER PROSECUTOR LORI LIGHTFOOT BE FIRST BLACK FEMALE, OPENLY GAY CHIGO MAYOR
• LORI LIGHTFOOT PARTNER, DGHTER ADOPTED, GAY
• MEET CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST LADY
• LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS FIRST OPENLY GAY, BLACK FEMALE MAYOR OF CHIGO: 'REFORM IS HERE'
• LIGHTFOOT INGURATN: CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, AIN AMERIN WOMAN OFFICIALLY SWORN AS MAYOR
• OPENLY GAY BLACK WOMAN OVERWHELMGLY WS CHIGO MAYORAL RACE: 'A MOVEMENT FOR CHANGE'
• CHIGO ELECTS LORI LIGHTFOOT AS FIRST GAY AND FIRST BLACK FEMALE MAYOR CY’S HISTORY
• LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

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. 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. 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.

LORI LIGHTFOOT PARTNER, DGHTER ADOPTED, GAY

” 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 . 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.

MEET CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY FIRST LADY

“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? “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.

Is She Gay? She is openly gay and relish a married relatnship wh Amy Eshleman, who also happens to be the first-lady wh siar terts. The openly gay duo was loved for their thenticy by the LGBTQ muny durg their uple tied the knot the same day when gay marriage was announced legal Illois after their 16 years long relatnship.

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

You Don't Want To Miss: Danielle Cohn Age, Height, Boyiend, Datg, Affair Net WorthLori Lightfoot feated ndidate Toni Preckwkle, and beme the first black woman and first openly gay polician to hold a posn as the Mayor of Chigo.

CHICAGO (AP) — Lori Lightfoot ma history as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve as Chigo mayor, sailg to victory four years ago as an outsir who vowed to rid Cy Hall of rptn and liver a safer, more equable cy.

LIGHTFOOT INGURATN: CHIGO'S FIRST OPENLY GAY, AIN AMERIN WOMAN OFFICIALLY SWORN AS MAYOR

Chigo's first openly gay, female, Ain-Amerin mayor arriv office wh another first: an openly gay first lady. Their openns as a married gay uple had three effects on the mpaign, says Brian Johnson, CEO of Equaly Illois, a Chigo-based nonprof dited to LGBTQ rights.

In late March, anti-gay flyers appeared on rs the parkg lots of Bronzeville church. " Lightfoot shot back, llg the ment a "dog whistle" to anti-gay voters. Lori Lightfoot has officially been gurated, beg the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chigo.

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

CHICAGO (WLS) -- In a historic moment, Lori Lightfoot was sworn Monday as Chigo's 56th mayor, the cy's first Ain Amerin woman and the cy's first openly gay person to hold the office.

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. Cy to pick an openly gay mayor.

) Lightfoot is one of several openly gay ndidat nng for mayor medium and large U. She be the cy’s first openly gay woman mayor.

CHIGO ELECTS LORI LIGHTFOOT AS FIRST GAY AND FIRST BLACK FEMALE MAYOR CY’S HISTORY

Wh her victory Tuday’s noff electn, Lori Lightfoot will bee Chigo’s first openly gay mayor.

Thirty years ago, Johnson said, people Chigo were discrimated agast for beg openly gay, whether they faced firg om their job, or nial of service at rtrants or of hog opportuni. Now, a gay woman is set to bee the cy’s top polil executive.

“Now to have someone who is openly gay as the mayor of our cy, that is jt such an spiratn to our muny and to all of .

LORI LIGHTFOOT MAK HISTORY AS CHIGO'S FIRST BLACK WOMAN AND FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR

”Johnson hop Lightfoot is able to help LGBTQ people receive more rpect wh the crimal jtice system and assist gay youth havg their inti rpected at school and wh teachg curricula. “This is a more unexpected event, unanticipated, than gay marriage. ”LQBTQ muny members and lears of civic groups utned agast fg Lightfoot only by her genr, race or sexual inty and said that havg a gay mayor do not tomatilly mean she will unrstand or even sympathize wh all of the issu important to var segments of the gay muny.

Still, the fact that Lightfoot is an unrreprented member of an unrreprented muny (a gay woman who is black) is signifint.