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Contents:

• OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT
• GAY MAYORS? WHO R?
• NEVADA’S FIRST GAY MAYORS HAVE EP ROOTS SILVER STATE

OKLAHOMA TOWN'S FIRST OPENLY GAY MAYOR RIGNS, CG HARASSMENT

The first openly gay mayor of a small town Oklahoma rigned on Monday, sayg a letter that he’s creasgly bee the target of threats recently.

”Graham was jt one of six out LGBTQ elected officials Oklahoma and the state’s only gay mayor, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute’s Out for Ameri NBC Out on Twter, Facebook & Instagram. But as open as Koch uld be, my lleagu Matt Flegenheimer and Rosa Golnsohn wrote a new profile of him, he straed to nceal one aspect of his life: He was gay. It’s hard to ’s a meetg he had wh the Gay Men’s Health Crisis lears.

GAY MAYORS? WHO R?

But when they did, Leonard Bloom, who was on the board of Gay Men’s Health Crisis, told that Koch was credibly unfortable. Even though nobody the room asked, Koch felt pelled to say to his senr team, “I am not a homosexual.

NEVADA’S FIRST GAY MAYORS HAVE EP ROOTS SILVER STATE

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