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 ma history four years ago as the first Black woman and first openly gay person to serve as Chigo mayor. * lori lightfoot gay *

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.

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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. * lori lightfoot gay *

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.

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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. * lori lightfoot gay *

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 . 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.

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How, for example, are black churchgoers’ votg habs any different than those of whe evangelils who support Tmp and oppose gay rights?

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

He says ’s simplistic to say most black church are homophobic and anti-women. “Do I wish we would actually challenge homophobia, sexism?

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

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.

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

Is She Gay?

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

She is openly gay and relish a married relatnship wh Amy Eshleman, who also happens to be the first-lady wh siar terts.

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Meet Lori Lightfoot's wife, Amy Eshleman—Chigo's first openly gay first lady | Cra's Chigo Bs .

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