Droppg a polil bombshell, New Jersey Gov. Jam McGreevey announced his rignatn Thursday after revealg that he is gay and that he had an adultero affair wh a man.
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- NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
- WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
- GAY FORMER N.J. ERNOR REVIS DIVORCE SU
- THE MAKG OF A GAY AMERIN
- AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR RIGNS AFTER ADMTG GAY AFFAIR
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Dpe two marriag and two children, the 47-year-old Democrat said the end he realized he was homosexual.
“My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, ” he said. But he said he had allowed himself to bee volved an adultero homosexual affair, an act that vlated his marriage vows and prompted his rignatn. McGreevey said he felt the affair and his homosexualy would leave the ernor’s office vulnerable to “mors” and stead he felt he should openly adm both.
TRENTON – Ten years after he announced that he was a "gay Amerin" and would rign om office after a sndal-plagued stt as New Jersey ernor, Jim McGreevey is back ernment, this time mostly as an evangelist for prison reform. 12, 2004, is " the rearview mirror, " he said, and he do not see himself as a gay rights trailblazer, though he remas the only person to have served as a ernor while openly gay.
WHERE 'GAY AMERIN' JIM MCGREEVEY IS, 10 YEARS LATER
Two years after ex-New Jersey ernor Jim McGreevey stunned the untry by announcg he was gay, he talks to Jeanne Marie Laskas about livg the lie * governor of new jersey gay *
"When McGreevey officially left office three months after beg the natn's first — and so far only — openly gay ernor, Massachetts had jt bee the first state to regnize same-sex marriage. Now, 19 stat, cludg New Jersey, McGreevey announced he was gay, there were jt a handful of openly lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr elected officials the unty. Now there are about 500 by the unt of the Gay and Lbian Victory Fund.
In Mae, openly gay U. Mike Michd is the nomated Democrat for McGreevey's rignatn speech is remembered mostly for his g out — livered wh his wife at his si and cludg the le, "My tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " wh unrton of fiance and patrtism — the suatn was more plited than was upset over McGreevey's attempt to appot Golan Cipel — wh whom McGreevey would later say he had an affair — to be his top homeland secury adviser spe havg few qualifitns and beg unable to get feral secury clearanc. “And so my tth is that I am a gay Amerin and I am blsed to live the greatt natn wh the greatt tradn of civil liberti the world.
GAY FORMER N.J. ERNOR REVIS DIVORCE SU
McGreevey: "I am a gay Amerin.
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Jam McGreevey announced his rignatn Thursday after revealg that he is gay and that he had an adultero affair wh a his wife standg by his si, McGreevey -- a father of two -- spoke lm ton as he scribed his stggle wh his sexualy, "a certa sense that separated me om others.
THE MAKG OF A GAY AMERIN
"And so, my tth is that I am a gay Amerin, " the Democrat said. " Garn State Equaly, a gay rights group, lled McGreevey's g-out speech "poignant" and said s members' thoughts were wh the ernor and his fay.
"We all know how difficult is to e out as openly gay, whether to fay or other loved on, " Garn State Equaly chairman Steven Goldste said. ”The new law mandat the state’s boards of tn to “provi stctn on the polil, enomic, and social ntributns of persons wh disabili and lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people an appropriate place the curriculum of middle school and high school stunts. TRENTON – Today, Governor Phil Murphy signed legislatn (S2545) to tablish specific rights and protectns for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, unsignated/non-bary, qutng, queer, and tersex (LGBTQI+) olr adults and people livg wh HIV long-term re facili.
I was bullied miserably at Wayne Valley High School for beg gay, and I know that had this law been place, my experience and that of so many other LGBTQ New Jerseyans would not have been so trmatizg. The boy before he cid, at age 11, to publicly ny his homosexual self. And short orr, everythg spiraled down and down to hell self, endg wh Jim McGreevey, at age 47, on natnal TV talkg about lookg "eply to the mirror of one's soul" and clarg his "tth":"I am a gay Amerin.
AMERI'S FIRST OPENLY GAY ERNOR FDS A NEW LLG
"You should eat, " I thg Jim McGreevey wants the world to know:Leadg a double life as a gay man tryg to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. "He trac the divid self back to eighth gra, when, as an unwavergly good Catholic altar boy, a Boy Sut, the son of a nurse and a Mare drill stctor, he need to unrstand his thrillg journey to "the last gate on the fartht pasture of gay sexual exploratn" wh a skny seventh grar he knew om school. He didn't know anyone who was gay; back then there was no one even on TV except maybe Liberace and probably Uncle Arthur on Bewched.
So he went to the Woodbridge Public Library, only to nd that "homosexualy" wasn't even the rd talog.
To this day, he sists that she never knew he was gay.