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The results are in. Chicago mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot kisses her wife in celebration.
As a gay kid (I am now 70) I never dreamed that it would be possible for gay person to become the mayor of Chicago. If someone told me that she would turn up at the post-election celebration with her wife I would have questioned that person's sanity or drug consumption. Lori Lightfoot has done just that by becoming the next mayor of the Windy City.
The results are in. Chicago mayor-elect Lori Lightfoot kisses her wife in celebration.
Even better is the fact that the press is uniformly reporting as its headline that the city has elected its first African-American woman mayor. Lightfoot's sexual orientation was minimized by the New York Times and others.
The last time I wrote about Ms. Lighfoot it was “business as usual” for me. Someone was distributing homophobic fliers around African-American churches. Chicago resoundingly rejected the appeal to bigotry as Lori Lighfoot has apparently won all of the city's 50 wards.
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