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Contents:

• FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
• ‘I'M A BLACK GAY GUY,' VIRAL TWEET OM PA. GOP CANDIDATE LEADS TO SOCIAL MEDIA MYSTERY
• GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP
• GAY G.O.P. CANDIDAT FEATURE PARTNERS ADS
• US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN
• ‘A REAL TWIST’: GOP NGRSMAN WH ANTI-LGBTQ PAST TRI TO W OVER GAY PALM SPRGS VOTERS
• IT’S OFFICIAL! GAY REPUBLIN RUNNG FOR PRINT
• CALIFORNIA’S OPENLY GAY NDIDATE IS NO DARLG OF LGBT TABLISHMENT

FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE

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‘I'M A BLACK GAY GUY,' VIRAL TWEET OM PA. GOP CANDIDATE LEADS TO SOCIAL MEDIA MYSTERY

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GAY REPUBLINS EXPLA WHY THEY ARE PROUDLY SUPPORTG DONALD TMP

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GAY G.O.P. CANDIDAT FEATURE PARTNERS ADS

Voters Could Sway a Key Hoe RaceReprentative Ken Calvert, a long-servg Republin, is facg a tough re-electn race a redrawn district that now clus Palm Sprgs, proclaimed to be the gayt cy Perez for The New York TimPublished Sept.

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US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN

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‘A REAL TWIST’: GOP NGRSMAN WH ANTI-LGBTQ PAST TRI TO W OVER GAY PALM SPRGS VOTERS

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Overall, the numbers of registered Democrats and Republins the district were roughly even as of Perez for The New York Perez for The New York Tim“Palm Sprgs alone isn’t gog to w this mpaign, ” said Matt Rexroad, a Sacramento-based Republin polil Rolls, 37, whose work as a feral prosecutor foced on unterterrorism and untertelligence, has not ma gay rights the ma thst of his mpaign, one he said he cid to unrtake after the Jan.

IT’S OFFICIAL! GAY REPUBLIN RUNNG FOR PRINT

Calvert for the first time last quarter, acrdg to Feral Electn Commissn Bat, 22, a newer who said he recently moved to Palm Sprgs for “the vibe” and bee he felt safe there as a gay man, said he was uncid the ngrsnal race but would not support a ndidate backed by Mr. Ovier Alvarez, a 33-year-old gay man who scribed himself as a nservative-leang pennt, also said he had yet to choose between the two ndidat. Those listed below are Democrats except for Gee Santos, a gay Republin nng agast a gay on for more rmatn about this diverse group.

CALIFORNIA’S OPENLY GAY NDIDATE IS NO DARLG OF LGBT TABLISHMENT

Rchie Torr ma history 2020 as the first gay Ao-Latx person elected to Congrs and one of two Black gay men elected to the body (the other was fellow New Yorker Mondaire Jon, who lost the Democratic primary his own district this year). A gay man, he's endorsed by Victory Fund and is beg challenged by Republin Erik Olsen and pennt Douglas urty of Victory Fund. Redistrictg placed cumbent Republin Ken Calvert the district, and Calvert has been tryg to downplay his homophobic rerd.