Lisa Middleton and Christy Holstege will join two openly gay council members and the city's openly gay mayor.
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Membership requirements were changed to allow openly gay scouts in 2013, and then openly gay leaders in 2015.
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Polis is the first openly gay man to be sworn in as governor, but is not the first openly gay governor.
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She was also the country's first openly gay U.S. attorney and will be the first openly gay mayor of the city.
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A vocal supporter of gay rights and an openly gay man, Grenell will also be the first openly gay Cabinet member.
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Buttigieg is also the only openly gay candidate and is the first openly gay hopeful to make a serious bid for U.S. presidency.
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With Discovery offering television's first openly gay Trek character in Lt. Paul Stamets, the show's producers were determined to cast an openly gay actor.
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The org finally began allowing openly gay children to join its ranks in 2013 and lifted its ban on openly gay scout leaders in 2015.
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According to the Herald Sun, Sulu will be openly gay in the movie — making him the first openly gay major character in the franchise's history.
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Jared Polis' bid for governor will be successful, CNN projected, meaning the openly gay member of Congress will become the first openly gay man elected governor.
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Pete Buttigieg is the first openly gay candidate to gain national recognition and support; he is not the first openly gay man to run for president.
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More than a decade after relaunching in a modern format with its first openly gay showrunner, Doctor Who is finally giving us its first openly gay companion.
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Because for every meeting Francis has with an openly gay person and his husband, there's a signed document that bars openly gay men from entering the priesthood.
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Black, an openly gay man, took home the Best Original Screenplay prize in 2009 for Milk, which is a movie about an openly gay man winning something.
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Mr. Buttigieg is the first openly gay presidential candidate to gain national recognition and support; he is not the first openly gay man to run for president.
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He is the first openly gay candidate to run for the Democratic presidential nomination, and he would become the first openly gay president of the United States.
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When Love & Hip-Hop: Miami premiered this year, openly gay aspiring rapper Bobby Lytes had relationship drama and a notorious beef with another openly gay cast member, Alvin.
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When Terry Sweeney was hired in 1985, he became both the show's first openly gay cast member and the first openly gay regular cast member on TV ever.
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Ireland will soon be led by its first openly gay prime minister Ireland will soon be led by its first openly gay prime minister UPDATED: 1:403 p.m.
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In 2013, the Boy Scouts of America ended its ban on allowing openly gay youths to participate in activities, and two years later, its ban on openly gay adult leaders.
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Harvey Milk: The pioneer politician Harvey Milk was one of the first openly gay politicians elected to office in the United States, and the first openly gay official elected in California.
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He said he'd received death threats for campaigning as an openly gay man, but he'd focused on giving his community hope that someone could run for office while being openly gay.
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"The real news is not that openly gay candidates are successful, but that being openly gay has become irrelevant," said Richard Socarides, a former Clinton White House adviser on gay issues.
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The openly gay mayor is also getting some financial support from the LGBT community ... openly gay comedian Guy Branum cut a $500 check and Chaz Bono made 3 donations totaling $650.
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A fierce advocate for LGBT rights Milk was one of the first openly gay politicians elected to office in the United States, and the first openly gay official elected in California.
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In 2007, he became the first openly gay member of the state's general assembly, and if he's elected come November, he'd be Maryland's first openly gay governor, according to the Hill.
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Ten years after he became the first openly gay man to win a congressional seat, the five-term Colorado congressman is now the country's first openly gay man to be elected governor.
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If Davids, who's endorsed by EMILY's List, wins the general election, she'd become one of the few openly gay lawmakers in Congress (and the first openly gay member of Kansas' congressional delegation).
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In Colorado, Jared Polis became the first openly gay governor.
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Smollett is openly gay, as is his character on Empire.
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Gilbert was an openly gay man and civil rights activist.
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Openly gay later in life, Bostian dated women in college.
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Mayne was one of the first openly gay Mormon leaders.
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If elected, he would become America's first openly gay president.
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He is a former big league outfielder and openly gay.
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Bostic will also be the Fed's first openly gay policymaker.
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She was the department's first female and openly gay chief.
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Openly gay men have won in other categories, including Smith's.
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He's one of several openly gay winners throughout the years.
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Professional baseball had never had an active, openly gay player.
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On Thursday, an openly gay entrepreneur, Peter Thiel, was cheered.
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"First openly gay person of color" is a long moniker.
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If elected, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay president.
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Lightfoot will also be the city's first openly gay mayor.
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An openly gay city council candidate in Cape Coral, Fla.
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Zachary DeWolf became Seattle's first openly gay school board member.
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Baer would be the first openly gay senator if elected.
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Jared Polis is the first openly gay male elected governor.
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She is the first openly gay owner in professional sports.
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He knew few openly gay people, and no transgender people.
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Brad Hoylman (D), who is openly gay, told the Times.
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Jason Paul Collins was the NBA's first openly gay player.
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Sheryl Swoopes was an openly gay woman in the WNBA.
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If elected, he would become the first openly gay president.
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The new Knesset has five openly gay members, a record.
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She will also be the city's first openly gay mayor.
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Eychaner was an openly gay candidate for Congress — back in 1984.
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She was also the first openly gay referee in the NBA.
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In April, Jane Castor was elected Tampa's first openly gay mayor.
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For years, Hollywood has had a problem with openly gay characters.
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Thiel – Thiel is an openly gay member of the LGBTQ community.
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If elected, Madaleno will be the state's first openly gay governor.
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We have an openly gay man who is running for president.
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Adong: There are a number of Ugandans who are openly gay.
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She's openly gay and worked as a former White House fellow.
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Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man elected governor.
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Being openly gay could have threatened your social life or career.
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That Barber was openly gay lent further resonance to the moment.
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Buttigieg is the only openly gay candidate currently running for president.
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France is an openly gay English fashion designer of Pakistani descent.
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It's also a tale about being openly gay in that environment.
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He was the first openly gay elite athlete Goodman had met.
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And Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Ind.
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The candidacy of an openly gay man has genuine symbolic importance.
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"I am openly gay," Baatour told the UK's Independent last month.
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Pete Buttigieg would be the first openly gay president if elected.
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We have never had an openly gay major-party presidential nominee.
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And, obviously then, we have never had an openly gay president.
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If confirmed, Fanning would be the first openly gay service secretary.
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Anxiety-ridden Harit is living contentedly as an openly gay man.
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Supporters cheer his history-making potential as an openly gay contender.
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Tony Navarrete (D), who is openly gay, told the Capitol Times.
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Being an openly gay conductor, he added, was still woefully rare.
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The openly gay candidate is polling in first place in Iowa.
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The Windy City could also have its first openly gay mayor.
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Meanwhile, Orlando Cruz became the first openly gay man in boxing.
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Johnny Weir is an Olympic figure skater, and he's openly gay.
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Grenell would become the first openly gay member of Trump's cabinet.
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At the time, being openly gay in the service was forbidden.
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He also becomes the first openly gay major Democratic presidential candidate.
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But at least the crowd didn't boo an openly gay man.
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Ireland just elected its youngest and first openly gay prime minister.
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While he is the first openly gay candidate to reach the top-tier of candidates in a major party's nominating process, he is not the first openly gay candidate to run for a major party's presidential nomination.
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Six new gay legislators joined the U.S. House of Representatives taking the total to seven; Jared Polis became the nation's first openly gay governor in Colorado, and Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay senator, was re-elected.
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This reboot will also see its first openly gay character, Lt. Staments.
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"Hardly anyone seemed to be openly gay in the newsroom," he said.
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And some worry America isn't ready to elect an openly gay president.
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And some worry America isnt ready to elect an openly gay president.
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Haring, who was openly gay, died at age 31 from AIDS complications.
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Openly gay performers, including singer George Michael, have played concerts in Qatar.
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There are no openly gay male players in professional football in England.
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LeFou the first openly gay Disney character, ever — that's history being made.
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Greg Razer (D), an openly gay member of the Missouri General Assembly.
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Colorado Democrat Jared Polis will be the nation's first openly gay governor.
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The openly gay Christian had just been invited to speak at CPAC.
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Jared Polis hopes to become the first openly gay governor in Colorado.
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She prevailed and became the nation's first openly gay state attorney general.
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Openly gay, lesbian and transgender people face persecution across the Arab world.
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Across the Arab world, openly gay, lesbian and transgender people face persecution.
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I never knew people of that generation who were so openly gay.
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He is the first major candidate for president who is openly gay.
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And he would make history as the nation's first openly gay president.
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Parker was one of the first openly gay mayors in the country.
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And yet among the frontrunners is an openly gay man, Pete Buttigieg.
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Grenell would be the first openly gay member of the Trump Cabinet.
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Pete Buttigieg made history as South Bend Indiana's first openly gay mayor.
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MORE and was the first openly gay secretary of a military service.
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In the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, six openly gay Olympians competed.
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David Denson was the first active baseball player to be openly gay.
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He became the first openly gay American to go to the Games.
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If Carlile prevails, she would be the award's first openly gay winner.
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The ambassador would become the first openly gay member of Trump's cabinet.
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I am the first openly gay president of the Metropolitan Republican Club.
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That makes him the first openly gay character in Star Trek's history.
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McKellen had been referring only to openly gay actors not winning awards.
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Mr. Moore, a former scout, said Southern Baptist churches and others had been dismayed by Boy Scout policies for several years, as the Scouts moved first to allow openly gay youth members, and then openly gay adult leaders.
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Jared Polis, who is openly gay, has been fighting to overturn this policy.
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Another contender, Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, is openly gay.
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Imam Daiyiee Abdullah, 65, is one of the few openly gay Muslim clerics.
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Lightfoot, the city's first openly gay mayor, is one of seven grand marshals.
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Colorado Democrat Jared Polis became the first openly gay governor in the country.
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She will be the only openly gay female to lead a regional bank.
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Malik and Jeffrey White, who joined him on LHHM, were also openly gay.
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You were also a forerunner in terms of being an openly gay athlete.
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McIntosh would have been the first openly gay woman to hold the position.
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He would also be the first openly gay nominee of a major party.
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New Hampshire will send its first openly gay member of Congress, Chris Pappas.
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Buttigieg would be the first openly gay U.S. president if elected in 2020.
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Buttigieg, also known as "Mayor Pete," could be the first openly gay president.
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He also would be the first openly gay president in the nation's history.
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But Polis is the first openly gay candidate to be elected for governor.
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He'd be the first openly gay president, in the Scandal-verse and otherwise.
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For Lito, freedom means accepting his role as an openly gay movie star.
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First we learned that the film would feature Disney's first openly gay character.
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Lightfoot would also be the first openly gay mayor to lead the city.
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If confirmed, Green would succeed Eric Fanning, the first openly gay service secretary.
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If confirmed, Mr. Fanning will be the highest-ranking openly gay Pentagon official.
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Thiel is the first openly gay speaker since 85033 at the GOP's convention.
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Lupe Valdez in Texas is vying to become first openly gay Latina governor.
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"There was no openly gay life on the Isle of Man," he said.
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This made him the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
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Polis in November became the first openly gay person elected to a governorship.
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I'm more than disappointed as an openly gay, brown journalist at The Times.
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That made Cook the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 company.
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Pappas will become the first openly gay member of Congress from New Hampshire.
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Buttigieg is also the only openly gay candidate to date in the running.
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She is the first openly gay and Latina nominee for governor in Texas.
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There are so many more Black comics, so many more openly gay comics.
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Ireland this month formally elected its first openly gay prime minister, Leo Varadkar.
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I have openly gay friends, and so does almost every other young American.
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It wasn't so long ago that being openly gay would get you fired.
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The weeklong camp is led by the openly gay professional surfer, Serena Brooke.
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He is young, eloquent and ambitious, and an openly gay resident of Berlin.
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He is the first top-tier candidate for president who is openly gay.
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Buttigieg would also be the first openly gay nominee of a major party.
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Openly gay performers, including singer George Michael, have played concerts in the UAE.
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Openly gay performers, including singer George Michael, have played concerts in the UAE.
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One cast member, Pedro Zamora, who was openly gay, made a strong impression.
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Pete Buttigieg opens up about being the first major openly gay presidential candidate.
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There weren't many major male pop stars who were openly gay back then.
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Two years later, the organization ended its ban on openly gay adult leaders.
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Porter is the first openly gay black man to win in this category.
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Megan Rapinoe is the US women's soccer team captain and is openly gay.
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Robbie Rogers was the first openly gay soccer player in a professional league.
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He is also an openly gay former Naval officer who served in Afghanistan.
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He noted that there had still not been an openly gay major leaguer.
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Enter Ms. Lightfoot, who could also become the city's first openly gay mayor.
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The country has had an openly gay prime minister, Leo Varadkar, since 2017.
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Buttigieg, who is 34 and openly gay, is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar.
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But even he decided against introducing any openly gay characters among the show's regulars.
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During his appearance, Acord-Whiting, who is openly gay, exchanged heated words with Olsen.
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Oh, and beyond being the first openly gay American Winter Olympian, he's a witch.
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A doctor refusing to treat someone who is openly gay is not an opinion.
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The Empire actor, who is openly gay, told police he was attacked on Jan.
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According to his campaign website, Gray is the first openly gay mayor of Lexington.
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If elected, Gray would be the first openly gay man in the U.S. Senate.
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One once-disqualifying reason that no longer seems to apply: Thiel is openly gay.
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Kiyoko herself is openly gay and has been vocal about queer representation in music.
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If successful, he would be the first openly gay nominee of a major party.
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The acclaimed show became the network's first series to feature an openly gay character.
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Fewer were concerned about nominating an openly gay candidate (38%) or a woman (23%).
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Waithe, who is openly gay, based the episode on her own coming out story.
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"We oppose gay adoptions," Dolce, who is openly gay, told Panorama magazine in 2015.
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Why it matters: Buttigieg would be the first openly gay U.S. president if elected.
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Chris Pappas, a young, openly gay candidate emerged from a field of eleven Democrats.
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Openly gay, he is an forceful advocate for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights.
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Le Fou's unabashed pursuit of Gaston makes him Disney's first official openly gay character.
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And, since Lea is openly gay ... the issue of violent homophobia seemed deeply personal.
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Ana Brnabič is Serbia's first female and first openly gay politician to hold office.
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This past season, for instance, Pearl Mackie played Bill Potts, an openly gay character.
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It is, of course, named for the first openly gay man elected in California.
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The election then went to Bobby Brooks, a 21-year-old openly gay junior.
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Jason Steidl, an openly gay doctoral student of theology at Fordham University, feels similarly.
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In 2014, Michael Sam became the first openly gay player drafted into the NFL.
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Robert Biedron, an openly gay politician from the progressive Wiosna party, denounced the sermon.
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Versace was an openly gay immigrant, succeeding at the highest levels of American business.
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Editorial Last week an openly gay man, Eric Fanning, became secretary of the Army.
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Last month, he was called out by the first two openly gay U.S. Olympians.
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Johnson was as openly gay as one could be in the mid-20th century.
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When she mentioned that she was their first openly gay member, barely anyone applauded.
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Buttigieg, 37, is both the youngest candidate running and the only openly gay candidate.
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THE TOPLINE: The Senate on Tuesday afternoon confirmed the first openly gay Army Secretary.
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Buttigieg, an openly gay military veteran, had a meteoric rise in the 2020 race.
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"We oppose gay adoptions," Domenico Dolce, who is openly gay, told Panoramamagazine in 2015.
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Grenell's confirmation made him the highest-ranking openly gay official in the Trump administration.
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Solomon Ray, another openly gay reggaeton artist, started out as an English-language rapper.
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The only openly gay man in the race dropped out a few days earlier.
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Bookmakers' odds favor Leo Varadkar, above, who would be the first openly gay taoiseach.
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Buttigieg is not the first openly gay person elected as mayor in this country.
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Ray Chan, an openly gay Hong Kong lawmaker, criticized the Friday ruling on Twitter.
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Either man would be the county's first Latino and first openly gay district attorney.
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Two of its most iconic past champions, Martina Navratilova and King, are openly gay.
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He's the highest-ranking openly gay official ever to serve in a Republican administration.
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I'm an openly gay woman; I have a wife & twin 6 yr old boys.
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And he continued broadcasting as an openly gay man despite the network's conservative lean.
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Since then, subsequent presidents have been female, Hispanic, Asian-American, openly gay and black.
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Grabbing media headlines have been big "firsts," such as America's first openly gay Gov.
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Thiel, who is openly gay, has publicly supported gay marriage and medical marijuana use.
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Michael Sam was the first openly gay man to be drafted into the NFL.
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He became the first person to be openly gay while playing in the league.
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In 2013, the Boy Scouts of America ended its ban on openly gay youths.
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"We're not talking about those that are openly gay," Samonte told a news conference.
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Mr. Ohana, the first openly gay lawmaker on the right, is in uncharted territory.
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When she takes office in May, she'll also be Chicago's first openly gay mayor.
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When openly gay or lesbian Ugandans organize public events, arrests are a regular occurrence.
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Smollett, who is openly gay, also plays a queer character on Empire, Jamal Lyon.
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Wednesday marks National Coming Out Day, and actor and LGBTQ activist Wilson Cruz — who was the first openly gay teen to star as an openly gay teen in the cult show, My So Called Life — is opening up about his own experience.
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During those game nights we planned out the future of gay theater, the best approach to the AIDS crisis, the outing of politicians, and the improbability of moving an openly gay play starring an openly gay cast to a legit theater on Broadway.
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The headline is: Doug Jones' Openly Gay Zookeeper Son Is More Than Your Thirst Trap.
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And he is the first openly gay executive to serve in Indiana, a red state.
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Jack Whitehall is reportedly playing Disney's first openly gay character, and some people are pissed.
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It marked the first time an openly gay superhero would lead their own television series.
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He would become the first openly gay presidential nominee and first gay president if elected.
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And as an openly gay woman, she was a trailblazer in more ways than one.
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Colorado elected Jared Polis last night as the first openly gay governor in the country.
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The moms are voiced by Wanda Sykes and Portia de Rossi, both openly gay women.
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Advocates say Castor is the first openly gay woman to lead a major southeastern city.
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Because he's openly gay, Groff confessed to Out that he was worried about being typecast.
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Sam Smith claimed to be the first openly gay man ever to win an Oscar.
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If she wins, Nixon will be the first openly gay woman to hold the position.
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And an openly gay man has never come close to winning a U.S. presidential election.
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They've been touting their first openly gay character and applauding Belle as a feminist character.
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Congratulations Army Secretary Eric Fanning, the first openly gay leader of a US military service.
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Thiel is the first openly gay speaker at a Republican convention who addressed LGBT issues.
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Fresnillo, a town in Zacatecas, elected Mexico's first openly gay mayor, Benjamín Medrano, in 2013.
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Brooks is the first openly gay man to serve as the school's student body president.
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Only five years ago, openly gay people were barred from serving in its armed forces.
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In Colorado, Jared Polis was inaugurated in January as the nation's first openly gay governor.
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A progressive party set up by Poland's first openly gay lawmaker, Robert Biedron, garnered 6.0%.
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Rachel Hoff became the first openly gay person to serve on the party's platform committee.
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If confirmed, he would be the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch.
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Adam Rippon has become the first openly gay American to qualify for the Winter Olympics.
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We don't think our employees or our customers want to interact with openly gay people.
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Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay person elected to the Senate in 2012.
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Appointed by then-President Barack Obama, she was the nation's first openly gay US Attorney.
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Clay Cope is looking to become the first openly gay Republican elected to the House.
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Beauty and the Beast's sidekick character LeFou, played by Josh Gad, will be openly gay.
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Jared Polis would become the nation's first openly gay man to be elected as governor.
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It would be the first openly gay and lesbian Irish-American group allowed to march.
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For one, he is a supporter of same-sex marriage and is openly gay himself.
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Yes, I was openly gay in school, and none of my friends discriminated against me.
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The 24-year-old was the first openly gay artist in the Latin trap genre.
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In recent years, the United States has posted several openly gay people to important ambassadorships.
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You've mentioned Brian Anderson, one of the first openly gay professional skateboarders, as an influence.
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In 2009, Raymond Buckley was the only openly gay state chairman in the Democratic Party.
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"We're involved throughout the year," said Braverman, one of baseball's highest-ranking openly gay executives.
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Buttigieg, the first openly gay major presidential contender, scored a narrow delegate edge over Sen.
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High School Musical: The Musical: The Series stars two openly gay characters, Carlos and Seb.
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The 33-year-old just happens also to be the NFL's first openly gay coach.
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And why does the organization still allow individual troops to discriminate against openly gay leaders?
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In 2013, the group ended its ban on openly gay youths participating in its activities.
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Many fans wanted Captain Marvel (played by Brie Larson) to be an openly gay character.
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Currently, rumors swirl that Marvel's new film The Eternals could have an openly gay lead.
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But reading the details revealed that, sure, Endgame featured the MCU's first openly gay character.
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The election of an openly gay student body president was initially hailed as another milestone.
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Just last year, the country swore in Varadkar as its first openly gay prime minister.
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Moon, a 68-year-old former Navy officer, is the city's third openly gay mayor.
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Grenell's appointment to the new position will make him the first openly gay cabinet member.
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"Giant Little Ones" features strong performances, particularly from Kyle MacLachlan as Franky's openly gay father.
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Jared Polis (D) could become America's first openly gay governor if he wins his race.
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"People were mad that a specific passage was being mentioned," says Toure, who is openly gay.
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The country's only openly gay mayor, Robert Biedroń, is gathering support for a 2020 presidential run.
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Its current star, Javier Munoz, is openly gay, HIV-positive and an advocate for both communities.
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Instead, it was about electability and whether the country was ready for an openly gay president.
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Souza became the first openly gay mayoral candidate in Brazil during his first campaign, in 2012.
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But this is the first...like being seen as the first one that is openly gay.
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As Murphy pointed out today, this was an effect of Cunanan's victims being openly gay men.
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If confirmed, he would be the second openly gay federal appeals court judge in the country.
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For a show about an openly gay woman, Batwoman is otherwise surprisingly conservative in its politics.
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Taiwan and Hong Kong have frequent street protests, independent judges, openly gay celebrities and democratic constitutions.
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The openly gay Florian Philippot was the vice-president of France's National Front until last year.
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To this day, he is the only openly gay state or territory leader in Australia's history.
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"Any openly gay world leader is good news in terms of raising LGBT visibility," he added.
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He would be the first openly gay person to fill a Cabinet-level foreign policy post.
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If he wins, he would make history as the youngest and first-ever openly gay president.
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In June 1999, James C. Hormel was sworn in as the first openly gay U.S. Ambassador.
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The organization decided to admit openly gay scouts in 2014, and last year welcomed transgender members.
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I had a job where I probably would have been fired if I was openly gay.
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Justin Fashanu, England's first - and only - openly gay player, went public about his sexuality in 1990.
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Buttigieg, who is openly gay, is a Harvard graduate and a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve.
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Erin O'Flaherty is an openly gay woman – and now, Miss Missouri 2016, a history-making combination.
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Jones' son, who is openly gay, glances at Pence like the discriminatory trash that he is.
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She will be the first openly gay person and first black woman to lead the city.
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"No openly gay man has ever won the Oscar," said McKellen to The Guardian in January.
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But when I recollect, I can't actually pinpoint out any openly gay characters created by Disney.
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There is yet to be an openly gay superhero or action star leading a film franchise.
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Within the Hollywood industry, you still have a lot of [Black] people who aren't openly gay.
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"Ellen" was one of the first majorly popular sitcoms to feature an openly gay main character.
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The same convention was the first to be addressed by an openly gay man, Jim Foster.
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Jamal proclaims, "I work damn hard to walk in my truth" as an openly gay man.
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He is the first openly gay inductee to the Jazz Masters program, which started in 1982.
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There has yet to be an openly gay superhero or action star leading a film franchise.
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In turn, the openly gay politicians who have emerged since then have helped champion L.G.B.T. rights.
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"The men get really serious, particularly if they're playing us, because we're openly gay," he said.
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Pete Buttigieg, the 37-year-old, openly gay Rhodes scholar and mayor of South Bend, Indiana.
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Colorado elected an openly gay governor, and a number of other states experienced similar historic firsts.
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It is believed Grenell would be the first openly gay appointee of Trump's administration if confirmed.
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This is what one openly gay athlete, Amini Fonua from Tonga, had to say about it:
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His show-stealing best friend, Eric, is one of the few openly gay kids at school.
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He is, in fact, one of the few openly gay actors to frequently play straight romance.
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He was the first openly gay man to run for public office, even before Harvey Milk.
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After all, this is a country where plenty of musicians and public figures are openly gay.
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If confirmed as Army secretary, Green would succeed Eric Fanning, the first openly gay service secretary.
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V. Gene Robinson, who became the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in 2003.
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If elected attorney general, Mr. Maloney, the representative, would be the first openly gay statewide official.
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No man, working in any capacity, is known to be openly gay at hockey's highest level.
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"The world has moved on - we have presidents, sportspersons, soldiers who are openly gay," said Vidler.
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Recently, she became the first openly gay athlete to appear in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue.
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When she takes office in May, she will also be the city's first openly gay mayor.
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She's 38, openly gay and will be one of the first Native American women in Congress.
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But both had garnered news media attention as openly gay, outspoken members of the American team.
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It was hard for me to imagine living my political life as an openly gay man.
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Andrew M. Cuomo nominated the first openly gay judge to the New York Court of Appeals.
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The next to get lampooned was Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Ind.
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The last Army secretary, Eric Fanning, was the first openly gay leader of a military branch.
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Andrea Barone, who is originally from Montreal, is someone rare in hockey: an openly gay man.
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The last Army secretary, Eric Fanning, was the first openly gay man to hold that post.
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" Ro asked the first openly gay presidential candidate, adding, "I want to be brave like you.
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Liberals, including Barney Frank, an openly gay House member from Massachusetts, saw it as a compromise.
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He will be replaced by Claudia López, the first openly gay woman to lead the city.
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But the triumphalism around the "first openly gay character" headlines irked me and plenty of others.
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But he's also a committed activist for the LGBTQ community, having been openly gay since 1988.
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He was also the first club owner on the island to admit an openly gay couple.
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He is defiantly, semi-openly gay in a place where it is criminal to be so.
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They are reportedly the first openly gay American men to compete in the Winter Olympic Games.
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And though other openly gay actors have won in the supporting categories before, this felt different.
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Adam Rippon, a figure skater, was the first openly gay American to qualify for the Olympics.
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As Thomas indicates, her highly respected, openly gay clerk, Stuart Delery, had helped open her eyes.
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He's made headlines for reportedly being the highest-ranking openly gay official in the Trump administration.
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Widely considered to be one of the best biopics of the past twenty years (admittedly, not a category rife with competition), Milk tells the story of Harvey Milk, the City of San Francisco's first openly gay mayor and the first openly gay official in the country.
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Lori Lightfoot has officially been inaugurated, becoming the first black female and openly gay mayor of Chicago.
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Rippon will be the first openly gay male athlete to represent the U.S. at the Winter Olympics.
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But on SNL, it's openly gay Megan and Dre (Bryant and Kate McKinnon) who aren't getting it.
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He and his partner have two kids, also making Polis the first openly gay parent in Congress.
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Yet Mr Biedron, who is openly gay (still a rarity in Polish politics), cannot marry his partner.
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Gay Americans may marry and join the army; an openly gay person sits in Helms's beloved Senate.
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I think it's great when you can have a person who's openly gay play a gay character.
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It's a little muddy, where this thing, that it was the first openly gay character came from.
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Both openly gay, the conversation turned to whether they'd ever considered not being out in their careers.
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And as the first openly gay woman coaches in the game, others feature a message of equality.
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The favorite among gay men, Buttigieg is the only openly gay LGBTQ candidate seeking the party's nomination.
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Rippon made history in 2018 as the first openly gay figure skater to compete at the Olympics.
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Gay bars, nightclubs and saunas dot the city, which elected its first openly gay mayor in 2001.
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If she wins, she'll be the state's first female sheriff — and the first openly gay one too.
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And PayPal founder Peter Thiel became the first openly gay person to speak at a Republican convention.
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Leo Varadkar is set to become Ireland's youngest ever leader and the first who is openly gay.
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Jared Polis became America's first openly gay governor, comfortably defeating Republican Walker Stapleton in Colorado's gubernatorial race.
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Now as vice mayor of the city of Wilton Manors I can be an openly gay American.
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Characters are openly gay without their homosexuality—or insecurity around it—taking over as the dominant narrative.
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"There've been insinuations about other characters' sexuality, but this is the first openly gay character," Joe said.
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" The openly gay Rose celebrated the news on Instagram, gushing that she is "beyond thrilled and honored.
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With extremely few exceptions, openly gay men simply aren't cast as our action heroes or romantic leads.
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Currently, its star is Javier Munoz, an openly gay, HIV-positive actor who advocates for both communities.
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Murray, a Democrat and the city's first openly gay mayor, said he was resigning effective 5 p.m.
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Murray, the city's first openly gay mayor, says he's stepping down for the good of the city.
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That's because Smith erroneously suggested that he was the first openly gay man to win an Oscar.
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Iraschko-Stolkz, who won silver, became the second openly gay athlete to medal at the Sochi Olympics.
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The openly gay figure skater was recently embroiled in a reported dispute with Vice President Mike Pence.
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San Francisco 85033ers assistant coach Katie Sowers, the NFL's first openly gay coach, will march with OutSports.com.
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Brandi Carlile is an openly gay country singer, something that is still relatively taboo in the genre.
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At 38 he is Ireland's youngest prime minister, and also its first openly gay head of government.
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Now Jonathan Galassi is the head of the premiere publishing house in America, and he's openly gay.
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Lillian Bonsingnore is the Fire Department of New York's very first woman and openly gay EMS Chief.
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If Pappas wins in November, he'd be the first openly gay member of Congress from New Hampshire.
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In addition, Rudolph appears to have a close relationship with Erick the manager, who is openly gay.
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Tammy Baldwin broke barriers when she became the first openly gay person elected into Senate in 2012.
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The group, which has also performed in the United States and Europe, has an openly gay vocalist.
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Jared Polis, the Democratic candidate in Colorado, is vying to become the nation's first openly gay governor.
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His confirmation made him one of the highest-ranking openly gay officials in any Republican presidential administration.
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The openly gay actor was sharply criticized as the Hollywood Report story went viral on social media.
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She is now the first openly gay woman to be elected to that office throughout Latin America.
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Should Mr. Pappas win in November, he would be the state's first openly gay representative in Congress.
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That same month Jared Polis in Colorado became the first openly gay person to win a governorship.
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In Uganda specifically, King Mwanga II, who ruled the kingdom of Bugnada until 1903, was openly gay.
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When she takes office in May, Ms. Lightfoot also will be the city's first openly gay mayor.
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The Boy Scouts won, although the organization would lift its ban on openly gay leaders in 2015.
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Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat, also will be the first openly gay leader of the Senate.
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This was the dominant narrative in the 1990s, when only a few male dancers were openly gay.
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The fourth Democratic candidate, Representative Sean Patrick Maloney, is the first openly gay congressman from New York.
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Ana Brnabic, above, is set to become the first female, and the first openly gay, prime minister.
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If elected, the 21625-year-old Buttigieg would be the youngest and first openly gay U.S. president.
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Jared Polis, who is favored to become the first openly gay man elected governor in US history.
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For the first time, an openly gay candidate had made a serious run for the White House.
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Pete was the first openly gay major presidential candidate to make a run at the White House.
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He is also one of the few openly gay cast members to take the 30 Rock stage.
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And yet among the frontrunners is an openly gay man, former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg.
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Chief Harteau was the first woman to serve as Minneapolis police chief and is also openly gay.
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Conflicts: Trump's opposition to same-sex marriage will put him at odds with the openly-gay CEO.
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With Ford's promotion, she became the first openly gay female CEO to lead a Fortune 500 company.
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In fact, he was one of the first openly gay politicians to ever be elected in California.
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And as of last week, Lori Lightfoot is the first African American, openly gay mayor of Chicago!
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V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay priest to be consecrated a bishop in the Episcopal Church.
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If Ms. Lightfoot were to win, she also would be the first openly gay mayor of Chicago.
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" In an article published in April, Paper Magazine called Mr. Fret "Latin trap's first openly gay pioneer.
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Another marker on this one: Atkins will also become the state's first openly gay president pro tem.
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Valdez, the state's first openly gay and first Latina sheriff, is trying to turn out Latino voters.
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Sam Smith is openly gay, and while chart-toppers of the past have either (poorly) attempted to hide their homosexuality (Ricky Martin, George Michael), or been openly gay and therefore been prefixed as "gay artists" (Elton John, Boy George), Smith enjoys success as a Love God regardless of sexuality.
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It got so bad that openly gay Cubs co-owner Laura Ricketts—the first openly gay owner in MLB—addressed the issue shortly after Murphy was traded to Chicago last Wednesday: The debate still rages on, however, and the Braves organist got in on the action last night.
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Lawyers Arundhati Katju and Menaka Guruswamy made Time's list for their work in overturning India's anti-LGBT+ laws, while Fortune cited Leo Varadkar, Ireland's first openly gay prime minister and Beth Ford, chief executive of Land O'Lakes and the first openly gay woman to run a Fortune 500 company.
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Correction (July 18th, 2017): This piece originally said that Jim Gray is Kentucky's first openly gay elected official.
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She's also married to a woman, while just three of the state Legislature's current members are openly gay.
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But his mother and father came to accept him, and Elias has been openly gay for six years.
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He would be the only openly gay male athlete currently playing in a major professional U.S. sports league.
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Many of the demonstrations and marches of the 1940s-70s were orchestrated by openly gay, pacifist Bayard Rustin.
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He appointed record numbers of women and minorities to the bench, as well as several openly gay jurists.
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John, who is openly gay, has utilized his platform to fight for LGBTQ+ rights, including same-sex marriage.
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Jared Polis of Colorado is the first openly gay man to be elected governor of a US state.
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Katie Sowers made history earlier this month when she became the first openly gay NFL coach in history.
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No one seemed to take any issue with openly gay and transgender teens socializing outside a neighborhood temple.
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If elected, he would become the youngest president in American history, and the first to be openly gay.
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Buttigieg has noted the historic nature of his campaign as the first openly gay major Democratic presidential candidate.
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If he wins the nomination, he would also become the first openly gay nominee of a major party.
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As a gay man I celebrate the historic significance of the first openly gay candidate running for president.
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The athlete, who came out in 2015, is one of the first openly gay skaters in the sport.
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Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, is still the only openly gay CEO to grace the Fortune 500 list.
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He did, however, think he was the first openly gay winner in Oscar history, which isn't actually true.
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But being openly gay remains largely taboo and opponents say such unions could destroy society and family institutions.
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McKinnon is SNL's first openly gay cast member and she's previously spoken out about being an LGBTQ comedian.
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This Sunday, Erin O'Flaherty will become the first openly gay woman to compete in the Miss America pageant.
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His odds remain long, but they are better than for any other openly gay politician in American history.
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Songs by Mashrou' Leila, a Lebanese rock band with an openly gay singer, are interspersed throughout the shows.
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Except Sims, Pennsylvania's first openly gay state representative, also monitors and reports bigoted postings on his Facebook page.
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This year, Katie Sowers became the NFL's first openly gay and second full-time female coach, reports ESPN.
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After Kate's brief affair with Emily ended, she years later ended up living in Europe as openly gay.
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Rosselló and aides used profane language to describe female politicians and openly-gay Puerto Ricans like Ricky Martin.
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The landslide victory makes Lightfoot the city's first black woman and the first openly gay person elected mayor.
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President Obama withdrew himself and his family from the U.S. Olympic delegation and sent openly gay athletes instead.
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Serbia's president made history on Thursday by nominating the highly conservative country's first female, openly gay prime minister.
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Walking during the opening ceremony, he shared a photo with freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, another openly gay athlete.
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While their numbers are rising, openly gay politicians still face discrimination and even death threats in some countries.
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There is broad agreement that prohibiting openly gay people from serving was a cruel policy that abetted bigotry.
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Kenworthy was a silver medalist in the 2014 Winter Olympics but was not openly gay at the time.
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Collins is the twin brother of Jason Collins, who was the first openly gay player in the NBA.
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Cook, now 58, came out in 2014, becoming the first openly gay CEO of a Fortune 500 firm.
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The chatty and openly gay Sam (Anthony Quintal) is eager to explore internet hookups when away from home.
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This may seem like no big deal — after all, Buttigieg is the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate.
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Two years later, he met with an openly gay former student, Yayo Grassi, and his partner in Washington.
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Talk You are the first openly gay person of color in Congress; that seems especially relevant right now.
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Buttigieg, who married his husband, Chasten Buttigieg, last year, would be the first openly gay president if elected.
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Tim Cook, its openly gay C.E.O. who went to business school at Duke University vehemently opposes the law.
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She was adopted by two gay men in 1987, the first openly gay adoption in New York City.
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Openly gay, Buttigieg, 37, has been an effective fundraiser in part because of backing from the LGBTQ community.
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Even Vice President Mike Pence had a low-key Twitter meltdown about openly gay ice skater Adam Rippon.
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If Lightfoot is elected, Chicago would also become the largest US city to elect an openly gay mayor.
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At the time, there were no openly gay elite male runners he could look to as role models.
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Spain's first openly gay referee has quit football, after suffering abuse at a regional league match this weekend.
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Democratic nominee Jared Polis, a five-term congressman from Boulder, would be the first openly gay Colorado governor.
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Asked if he thought an openly gay or lesbian person could be elected president, Mr. Spearman said yes.
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In Western Europe, prominent activists and leaders of the far right can be openly gay without raising eyebrows.
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At the time, the Boy Scouts membership standard disallowed the participation of openly gay adults like my parents.
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In 1961 he was the first openly gay person to run for public office in the United States.
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Polis defeated incumbent Republican Walker Stapleton to become the first openly gay man elected governor in the country.
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Ms. Nixon, a longtime activist for L.G.B.T.Q. rights, would be the state's first female and openly gay governor.
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What's an ambitious New York politician — the first openly gay male, H.I.V.-positive City Council speaker — to do?
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Additionally, the 49ers bring with them the first openly gay and first female coach to the Super Bowl.
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Shevrin Jones (D), the state's first openly gay African American legislator, immediately spoke out against the proposed legislation.
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An openly gay star South Korea's record labels are happy to let fans fantasize about idols being gay.
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In this, cricket also resembles every other sport: It claims a statistically risible number of openly gay players.
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He is also is the first government minister of Indian descent, and the first to be openly gay.
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There aren't many openly gay guys in America who have had the success that I've had in comedy.
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In addition, Chael said that as an openly gay man, he is also an underrepresented demographic in STEM.
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It also has a notable number of openly gay players and coaches, including many of its biggest stars.
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He is now the highest-ranking openly gay federal judge and highest-ranking federal judge of Filipino descent.
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In 2013, the Boy Scouts of America ended its ban on openly gay youths participating in its activities.
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Last year, Disney introduced a very minor openly gay character for their live action Beauty and the Beast.
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And at the 20183 Summer Olympics in Beijing, there were 11 openly gay athletes, according to Smithsonian Magazine.
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The ceremony will take place just months after an openly gay Episcopalian man announces his run for president.
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""I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport.
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Kenworthy previously participated in the 2014 Winter Olympics, placing silver, but was not openly gay at the time.
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When the State Senate confirmed Justice Feinman's nomination that month, he became the court's first openly gay judge.
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Mr. Maloney, New York's first openly gay congressman, called Ms. James' remarks "weird" and "disqualifying" in an interview.
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Both Daly and Bostic are also the first two openly gay regional bank presidents in the Fed's history.
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Mr. Smollett, 36, who is black and openly gay, had told the police that at roughly 2 a.m.
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Onscreen text describes the record, still a cult favorite, as one of the first openly gay country albums.
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He remains the only openly gay male athlete who is actually playing in a professional sports league stateside.
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Brazil's only openly gay Congress member announced in January he was leaving the country after receiving death threats.
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Many of these athletes, like openly gay athlete Amini Fonua, come from countries like Tonga, where homosexuality remains criminalized.
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Bales told local media outlets he isn't sure if his being openly gay played a role in their decision.
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Tammy Baldwin became the first Wisconsin woman and first openly gay politician ever elected to the United States Senate.
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If Polis wins, he would become the first openly gay person to be elected governor in the United States.
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The young, openly gay woman with a killer flow has come to represent one of rap's most interesting prospects.
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He wanted his employer and the public to notice and appreciate him as a successful black, openly gay actor.
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"She definitely looks at the world differently than most members," said Drenner, who is also an openly gay lawmaker.
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David Cicilline, who has openly gay, unveiled a bill recently to add this new restriction, and Pennsylvania Democratic Sen.
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Polls suggest Tammy Baldwin, a progressive, openly gay senator who was once a Republican target, will be re-elected.
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On Riverdale, openly gay Kevin's (Casey Cott) dad, Sheriff Keller (Martin Cummins), is very accepting of his son's sexuality.
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The first openly gay candidate to do so was Fred Karger, a Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential primary.
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Reminder that the current star of Hamilton is the incomparable Javier Muñoz, an openly gay, openly HIV-positive actor.
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"No openly gay man has ever won the Oscar; I wonder if that is prejudice or chance," he said.
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He may be running to be the first (openly) gay president, but most voters simply shrug at the fact.
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Lori Lightfoot, a former federal prosecutor, was elected Tuesday night as Chicago's first openly gay and black woman mayor.
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Leading it was the U.S. ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, who is the administration's highest-profile openly gay member.
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Some wonder whether Mr Polis may also have higher aspirations, perhaps to be the country's first openly gay president.
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First lesbian contestant Erin O'Flaherty, representing Missouri, made history this year by competing as the first openly gay contestant.
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The most famous is the X-Men franchise's Northstar, who is considered the first openly gay comic book superhero.
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Robert McIntosh, the son of a prominent Republican fundraiser, earned 750 more votes than Brooks, an openly gay student.
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In my residential college of over three hundred people, I can only name one person who is openly gay.
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Shanghai is a big city: There are 23 million people, and apparently, there are very few openly gay guys.
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Namely, the achievement of marriage equality and openly gay people in the military, which no one believed could happen.
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Mountbatten is the first member of the royal family to be openly gay and marry a same-sex partner.
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Eric Fanning, 47, made history Tuesday night as the first openly gay civilian leader of any U.S. military service.
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When Brian Anderson came out in a 2016 VICE Sports documentary, he became the first openly gay professional skateboarder.
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If he wins the Democratic nomination, he will be the first openly gay presidential nominee by a major party.
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Yost himself is openly gay and, as The Hollywood Reporter points out, left the original show due to harassment.
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Thiel will be the first gay man to speak at the RNC since 2000, when the openly gay Rep.
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While his commentary gained him fans among conservative circles, the fact he's openly gay made some social conservatives uneasy.
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Brian Sims, an openly gay lawmaker, posted on Facebook Wednesday with a screenshot of his interaction with the troll.
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As under-secretary of state for constitutional reforms, Scalfarotto is the first openly gay member of an Italian cabinet.
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This will be Radford's second Olympics but his first as an openly gay man competing in pair figure skating.
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A friend encouraged him to write stand-up to reclaim his narrative as an openly gay Asian-American man.
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Two of their favorite teachers are openly gay, they said, and the students misunderstand where they are coming from.
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In 2013, Marco McMillian became the first openly gay man of color to run for political office in Mississippi.
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Ellen DeGeneres' groundbreaking decision to star as the first openly gay character on primetime television wasn't easy to make.
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Democrats count seven LGBT lawmakers among their ranks, but there is not a single openly gay Republican in Congress.
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Today, there are some openly gay people, but I am the only remaining trans woman in San Luis Talpa.
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Varadkar is one of the few openly gay world leaders, and Pence is notorious for his anti-LGBTQ views.
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CLEVELAND — Rachel Hoff on Monday became the first openly gay person to sit on the Republican Party's Platform Committee.
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The openly gay skier also took to Twitter to share that he's prepared for the role throughout his life.
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Stranger still, it does not seem to bother him as an openly gay man just beginning his adult life.
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The appointee, Randy Boissonnault, last year became the first openly gay member of Parliament to be elected in Alberta.
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The practice, which was put in place in 1993, barred openly gay, lesbian or bisexual people from military service.
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Kerri Evelyn Harris, an openly gay and black Air Force veteran and community activist, is angling to unseat Sen.
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One was an openly gay priest while the other was a co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis.
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On September 22, Mashrou' Leila, a Lebanese band with an openly gay lead singer, played a concert in Cairo.
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You mentioned in the Japan episode that the previous times you had been there, you were not openly gay.
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Lunkenheimer is openly gay, while Sheehan, refreshingly, isn't afraid to say things like imperialism and deficit hawkery are bad.
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Cedric McMinn could become the state's first openly gay African-American lawmaker if he wins his state legislature race.
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In 2009, she became the nation's first openly gay US Attorney after being appointed by then-President Barack Obama.
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Mr. Buttigieg, the first openly gay major presidential candidate, drew support from different ideological wings of the Democratic Party.
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Democratic candidates for state attorney general include three women — two of whom are black — and one openly gay man.
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Mr. Hache is an openly gay musician of African descent who grew up in a housing project outside Paris.
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Mr. Buttigieg, who is openly gay and married, is the first to admit his candidacy is a long shot.
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In 2003 she supported the election of Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the church.
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Sharice Davids is an openly gay woman, and the first Native American woman ever to be elected to congress.
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The former prosecutor is the first African-American woman and the first openly gay person elected as Chicago's mayor.
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In a statement on Twitter, Baatour said he is the first openly gay presidential candidate in the Muslim world.
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V. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, who has become a confidant to Buttigieg.
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The character was at once menacing and jocular, openly gay and privately tortured, a lawless vigilante and regular churchgoer.
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Among these new additions are the Eternals, one of whom will be the MCU's very first openly gay superhero.
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Grenell, who is openly gay, is coordinating with US embassies in the region to press countries to decriminalize homosexuality.
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Archie Comics should be applauded for how this openly gay character has been depicted since his debut in 2010.
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It has already made history with Miss Myanmar, Swe Zin Htet, who says she's the first openly gay contestant.
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He was openly gay, and he attended gay clubs in Manchester and used gay hookup apps, Mr. Sinaga testified.
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He also noted Trump's recent nomination of Richard Grenell, an openly gay man, to serve as ambassador to Germany.
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Living as an openly gay man in Congo's homophobic culture, he said, keeps him alert to present-day problems.
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Openly gay, Cook has also been personally outspoken on civil rights issues, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender causes.
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A military veteran more commonly known as "Mayor Pete," Buttigieg would be the first openly gay president if elected.
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The team also includes the first openly gay American to qualify for the Winter Olympics, figure skater Adam Rippon.
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The first openly gay candidate to do so was Fred Karger, a Republican candidate in the 2012 presidential primary.
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Tim Wilson, an openly gay member of Parliament, during a speech on the floor, thanked his partner, Ryan Bolger.
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She'd also be one of the country's few openly gay lawmakers (and Kansas' first-ever gay member of Congress).
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For four years, Mr. Smollett has played Jamal Lyon, the openly gay middle child of a hip-hop dynasty.
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Ashley Romaniello, Marine Corps, 2013-Present I was originally kicked out of the Marine Corps for being openly gay.
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And, famously, in 1977, an openly gay man, Harvey Milk, was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
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The openly gay artist -- who is CRUSHING 2016 with her hit "Ooouuu" -- seemed happy she's inspiring the next generation.
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To succeed himself as prime minister Mr Vucic nominated Ana Brnabic, an openly gay woman, earning plaudits from foreign liberals.
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And the upcoming television show is giving fans a first look at the franchise's first openly gay character: Lt. Stamets.
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He has taken on substantial risk—there are no openly gay pro athletes, elected officials, singers, or actors in Ecuador.
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Whether Marvel finds their openly gay actor or not, their first leading gay hero is bound to shake things up.
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The San Francisco 49ers Katie Sowers, the league&aposs first openly gay coach, will march in the parade with OutSports.
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Since 2012, they've elected the first openly-gay U.S. senator, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, and governor, Jared Polis of Colorado.
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If he wins in November, he'll become the first openly gay man to be elected governor in the United States.
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CNN's Don Lemon, an openly gay black man, last week called upon Hart to become an ally to the community.
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Seton Hall also gets contributions from Derrick Gordon, a transfer from UMass and Division I basketball's first openly gay player.
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This time he was one of two openly gay athletes competing for Team USA, along with figure skater Adam Rippon.
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But I think that what's important here is that it's the first Disney movie to have an openly gay character.
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He has employed an openly gay bartender, Paul (Chris Coy), and they had an interesting exchange on Sunday night's episode.
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Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood introduced the first openly gay couple in the franchise, Milan and Miles, in the second season.
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"My teachers in college … were quite paternalistic, saying, 'You can't be openly gay and be a journalist,'" Baim told me.
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Jared Polis has won the Colorado governor's race, becoming the first openly gay person to be elected governor in America.
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Meanwhile, openly gay actor Guillermo Díaz, who plays Pope's hacker Huck, also weighed in on how the show approaches sexuality.
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It's 2018 and being an openly gay man and an athlete, that is part of the face of America now.
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As time went on, American Episcopalianism became a cultural battlefield, especially after an openly gay bishop was consecrated in 2003.
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PETE BUTTIGIEG - The mayor of South Bend, Indiana, launched a campaign to become the first openly gay president on Jan.
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This summer, "Star Trek: Beyond" revealed John Cho's Sulu to be the first openly gay character in the franchise's history.
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The Real World (1994)Pedro Zamora was the first HIV-positive openly gay man to appear on The Real World.
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Like Rippon, Weir is openly gay, although he didn't come out until after he competed at the Olympics, in 2011.
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Neil is openly gay, and had a brief but captivating relationship with Olly Alexander (lead singer of Years and Years).
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Golden State Warriors president Rick Welts -- who is openly gay -- also rode on the float with his partner, Todd Gage.
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" It's not so, as openly gay screenwriter Dustin Lance Black won best original screenplay in 2009 for the movie "Milk.
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Harteau, a 30-year veteran of the department, was the first woman to lead it and is also openly gay.
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The 24-year-old reminisced about her experience of hanging around her mother's openly gay friends when she was young.
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That's Gauthier Destenay, the First Gentleman of Luxembourg and the husband of the world's only acting openly gay prime minister.
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"Second openly gay man to win an oscar or third or fourth or 100th, it wasn't my point," Smith tweeted.
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The U.S. Senate confirmed Grenell on April 26, making him the highest-ranking openly gay official in the Trump administration.
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"Refinery29 told Smith he wasn't actually the first openly gay Oscar winner in the press room following his win. "Shit.
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It started in 2007, when McCoy was a rising Democrat in state politics, and the state's first openly gay lawmaker.
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Still, Davids, who's openly gay, remains a fairly progressive candidate and the latest high-profile female candidate running this year.
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It's an important night for me — I'll be announcing that I am an openly gay player in Major League Soccer.
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But his supporters say his vision, and his identity as an openly gay candidate, make him an inherently transformative figure.
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Former umpire Dale Scott and league executive and former player Billy Bean, who are both openly gay, will also participate.
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According to the Log Cabin Republicans, they would become the "first openly gay non-incumbent Republicans" elected to the House.
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Chris Sgro is executive director of Equality North Carolina and the only openly gay member of the N.C. General Assembly.
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Hollywood is supposedly so gay friendly, but where are all those openly gay and trans leading characters in mainstream movies?
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Price, who was openly gay, never married or had a long-term partner, it is clear from all of the
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Ireland has gone from having few openly gay public figures to legalising gay marriage and having a gay prime minister.
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Buttigieg is the only openly gay presidential candidate running for the 2020 election and married his husband, Chasten, in 2018.
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In 1995, Maddow moved to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar — she was the first openly gay women to do so.
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But Italy, ever a marinara of contradictions, has long embraced and revered openly gay artists, designers and even political leaders.
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Last month, the Senate approved an openly gay man as secretary of the Army, the first confirmation of its kind.
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But when Kobe Saito, an openly gay student, is brutally attacked, both Adrian and Graphite are reluctantly called to action.
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Varadkar, Ireland's first openly gay minister, has long been seen as the strongest contender to take over as prime minister.
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And Democrat Lauren Baer, who's openly gay and had the backing of national Democrats, easily prevailed in her Florida primary.
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Wyllys was the first openly gay member in the Brazilian National Congress and became a major target for conservative groups.
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Now Mr. Feili, who is 30 and openly gay, is living in Tel Aviv as he seeks asylum in Israel.
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He was the highest-ranking openly gay person in the German government, having risen to the position of vice chancellor.
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But progress is happening here, too: South Korea's first openly gay idol just appeared on the scene in early 2018.
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Our church is located in a very conservative, family-oriented enclave of Southern California, with very few openly gay people.
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He thinks Japanese workplaces are hostile to openly gay people, so he celebrates the same-sex marriage movement in Japan.
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Six months later, Grenell — the first openly gay spokesman for a Republican presidential candidate — is still waiting to be confirmed.
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Green's nomination is also notable because of the official he would succeed: Eric Fanning, the first openly gay service secretary.
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The 24-year-old Puerto Rican was renowned as the first openly gay artist in the Latin trap genre. Novicentro.
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In 2013, the group lifted a ban on openly gay members, and in 2015, it stopped barring gay Scout leaders.
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If Polis prevails in November, he will make history as the first openly gay elected governor in the United States.
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" Bad Gays' first episode concerns a less well-known figure: Nazi leader Ernst Röhm, "the world's first openly gay politician.
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Jared Polis, a wealthy Democratic congressman in Colorado, became the first openly gay man elected as governor in any state.
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With a win in Colorado, he will now become the country's first openly gay man to win a gubernatorial election.
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Don't you think it's ironic that the only openly gay post-WWII Soviet Russian writer is also openly anti-Semitic?
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Outside of his small university circle, Mr. Hoshi said, it was the first time he had met openly gay Japanese.
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This is not the first time Pence will be dining with Varadkar, one of the few openly gay world leaders.
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During the panel, Mr. Davis admitted that throughout school he had bullied the only openly gay boy in the school.
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Leo Varadkar will be the first openly gay taoiseach, as the prime minister is called, and at 38, the youngest.
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Mr. Buttigieg is himself a historic candidate, as the first openly gay man to mount a major campaign for president.
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Phastos, an Eternal gifted with superior intellect and cosmic inventing abilities, is also the universe's very first openly gay superhero.
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In it, Fleischmann considers the work of artist Félix González-Torres, who was an openly gay Cuban American visual artist.
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Voters in the state's 1st Congressional District will either elect the state's first openly gay or first African-American congressman.
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The lead singer of the Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila is one of the region's most famous openly gay entertainers.
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In 2013, the group lifted a ban on openly gay members, and in 2015, it stopped barring gay scout leaders.
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David Miranda, an openly gay federal lawmaker in Brazil, told the Times that the ruling represented an attack on democracy.
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Grenell is also openly gay and has also used his ambassador role to push for gay rights across the globe.
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He's running on a progressive platform in an effort to become the first-ever openly gay black member of Congress.
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If confirmed, Fanning would be the first openly gay secretary of a U.S. military branch Despite the committee's approval, Sen.
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In a historic decision in 2013, the Boy Scouts of America voted to end its ban on openly gay youth.
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"It wasn't an issue unless their opponents made it an issue," said Meloy, whose nonpartisan group supports openly gay candidates.
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Rippon, 28, and U.S. skier Gus Kenworthy, 26, are the first two openly gay Winter Olympic athletes representing Team USA.
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Cohen likened Trump's decision to previous policies barring African-Americans and openly gay Americans from serving in the armed forces.
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" Smollett is openly gay and since 2015 has played the gay character of Jamal on the Fox TV drama "Empire.
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If elected, Buttigieg would be the nation's first openly gay president and the youngest person ever to hold the office.
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" — TREVOR NOAH "Pete Buttigieg ended his historic campaign as the first openly gay candidate and then endorsed Joe Biden. Yeah.
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"I was then in the ordination process but barred from serving as an openly gay man," Mr. Graves-Fitzsimmons said.
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He also said that an openly gay culture in some Catholic seminaries meant they had failed to train priests properly.
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Figure skater Adam Rippon will be the first openly gay man to compete for the United States in the Winter Olympics.
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In the 63 Democratic primary for NYC mayor, Nixon backed Bill de Blasio rather than the openly gay Quinn, also 26.
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It's a small, subtle moment that, incredibly, marks the first introduction of an openly gay character in a Disney/Marvel movie.
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Sims, 39, who is Pennsylvania&aposs first openly gay state legislator, apparently saw an opportunity to please his base of supporters.
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In addition to being the first black woman to serve as mayor, Lightfoot will also be Chicago's first openly gay mayor.
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Some people weren't thrilled that Whitehall, a straight man, will be playing the first openly gay character in a Disney film.
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Although Gulyás was already openly gay and prepared for something like this to happen, he said, his mother was in tears.
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Perhaps it's scarier to tweet our lust for openly gay women because doing so would ground our desires closer to reality.
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Through the course of his testimony, Cochrane became the first cop in New York City to come out as openly gay.
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When the caucuses were over, the former mayor became the first openly gay candidate to win delegates for a major party.
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Murray, a Democrat and the city's first openly gay mayor, had planned to serve out his current term, which ends Dec.
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The field includes the first openly gay candidate, six women, a Hispanic man and a Samoan-American congresswoman, among other minorities.
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Progressives backed McIntosh, an openly gay white woman, while the Legislative Black Caucus and Republicans backed Davis, a black centrist man.
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Cyrus Habib; Pete Buttigieg, the openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana; and Ravi Bhalla, the mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Watch "Clashes in the West Bank: Intifada 3.0 (Dispatch 1)" Read "This Openly Gay Iranian Author Is Seeking Asylum in Israel"
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In some parts of the United States, including Baltimore and New York, openly gay clergy serve with few if any restrictions.
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Of the top earning companies, only 24 CEOs are women and only three other CEOs are openly gay, according to Fortune.
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" Then came Pete Buttigieg, the young, openly gay mayor of South Bend, Indiana, "representing," Porter announced, "the House of Booty-gig!
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DeGeneres, an openly gay woman, announced via Twitter on Tuesday that Burrell will no longer be performing on her daytime program.
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Seattle Mayor Ed Murray, the first openly gay person to hold that job, joined the parade with his husband, Michael Shiosaki.
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Robert Biedron, Poland's first openly gay mayor, founded a new pro-EU party to contest the European Parliament elections in May.
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Yet as an openly gay man, he faces an additional challenge his rivals Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer and Friedrich Merz do not.
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In a society where homophobia is still rife and has sanction from many politicians, being openly gay is a political act.
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And if he wins the Democratic nomination, Buttigieg would be the first openly gay presidential candidate nominated by a major party.
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As the first openly gay man ever to compete for Team USA at the Olympics, he was an inspiration to many.
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In a historic vote, the U.S. Senate has confirmed an openly gay man to be the next Secretary of the Army.
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In the coming-out episode, Dern's character Susan, who was an openly gay woman, enlightens Ellen to her own sexual identity.
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Buttigieg would be the first openly gay presidential nominee or president, a sign of progress unthinkable even a few years ago.
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So now that the 28-year-old Rough Night star is living an openly gay life, he's not holding anything back!
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If successful in both the primary and general elections, Nixon would become New York's first female and first openly gay governor.
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It's pretty bad when the NFL has more openly gay male athletes than skateboarding does, but that's where we're at now.
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Smith also addressed complaints accusing him of wrongly taking credit for being the first openly gay person to win an Oscar.
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Disney Channel's Joshua Rush is breaking barriers by playing the network's first openly gay character in the hit show Andi Mack.
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The island nation boasts the world's first democracy, first female president, and the world's first openly gay female president, after all.
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This week Ireland formally elected Leo Varadkar, an openly gay man and son of an Indian immigrant, as its prime minister.
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"The vice president is entitled to his religious beliefs," Buttigieg, who is openly gay, said last week during a CNN interview.
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Vice President Pence hosted the openly gay prime minister of Ireland and his partner for breakfast at the Naval Observatory Thursday.
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Maloney, one of six openly gay lawmakers serving in the House, has nonetheless continued offering his amendment to subsequent spending bills.
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" Amini Fonua, a swimmer from Tonga who is competing in Rio and who is openly gay, said the article was "deplorable.
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"As the first openly gay Liberal to serve in federal Parliament, speculation about my motivation is to be expected," he said.
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NOTE: This post has been updated from the original to correct that Buttigieg is the second openly-gay candidate for president.
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"I am sorry if we offended anyone," the actor, who is openly gay in real life, tweeted, according to Entertainment Weekly.
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The bronze-medalist Olympian, who is also openly gay, similarly talked about how this is a major moment for queer people.
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A group of the state's first openly gay state lawmakers have said they will introduce that bill, according to the Eagle.
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"He is the first openly gay candidate for president of the United States and he did extraordinarily well," Mr. Sanders said.
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When he won the bronze medal, he became the first openly gay athlete to win a medal in Winter Olympics history.
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Twenty-five years ago the idea that an openly gay and very butch woman could become a pop idol was seismic.
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Being openly gay was something for niche transgressive pop stars; for the average gray-suited "salaryman," it was all but unthinkable.
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The Hockney painting is a different kind of trophy, by an openly gay artist about the emotional life of gay men.
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North Carolina currently has no openly transgender state lawmakers and only four openly gay or lesbian members of the General Assembly.
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GLENN THRUSH: And I knew two or three openly gay aides who worked in the state legislature and they were closeted.
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Under pressure from the Mormon Church, the Boy Scouts of America stopped short of prohibiting discrimination against openly gay scout leaders.
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Memorable moments: The first openly gay champion in UFC history, Amanda Nunes, knocked out previous champion Ronda Rousey in one round.
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Warren and Baldwin, the Senate's first openly gay lawmaker, are the latest high-profile Democrats calling for action after Orlando. Rep.
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Buttigieg is the first openly gay candidate for president of the United States with a chance of becoming his party's nominee.
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An earlier version of this story said Buttigieg was the first openly gay candidate to run a major presidential campaign. Rep.
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A music festival in Lebanon cancelled an appearance by Mashrou' Leila, a popular rock band whose lead singer is openly gay.
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NOW: Bass, 40, is openly gay, and frequently appears as himself in various tongue-in-cheek roles in TV and movies.
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President Obama set records for the most people of color, women, and openly gay and lesbian judges appointed by a president.
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The unusually crowded and diverse field includes five women serving in the U.S. Senate and the party's first openly gay candidate.
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Maloney, New York's first openly gay congressman, pledged during a debate last week to keep focused on the task at hand.
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McDonald, 51, was Connecticut's first openly gay Supreme Court justice when he joined the court in 2013, according to the Mirror.
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The hopefuls include six women as well as black, Hispanic and openly gay candidates who would make history as the nominee.
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"Biden needs better coaching on this — he's gone off the rails," tweeted civil rights activist DeRay Mckesson, who is openly gay.
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He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams, becoming the first openly gay man to ever be drafted into the NFL.
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Just this month openly gay Connecticut state comptroller Kevin Lembo targeted a Christian group because of its position on LGBT rights.
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A veteran of the war in Afghanistan, Mr. Buttigieg is the first openly gay candidate to join the 2020 presidential race.
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Buttigieg is the United States' first openly gay presidential candidate and has been married to his husband, Chase, for two years.
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But Fortuyn wasn't a businessman; he was an openly gay former sociology professor, a former Marxist who moved rightward with age.
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A 275 Amnesty International report found that openly gay Ugandans have faced arbitrary arrest and sexual harassment, including when reporting crimes.
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A 2014 Amnesty International report found that openly gay Ugandans have faced arbitrary arrest and sexual harassment, including when reporting crimes.
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Called the "Tom of Finland of Japan," Tagame has been working as a full-time, openly gay erotica artist since 1994.
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Jared Polis, the first openly gay man to be elected to the House, was also recently elected as governor of Colorado.
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In some ways, Buttigieg, a first-time national candidate who is trying to become the first openly gay president, fits that mold.
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Democrat Jared Polis just won the Colorado gubernatorial race, beating out Republican Walker Stapleton and becoming the country's first openly gay governor.
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There's a reason these books remind us so much of ourselves, even though there aren't any overtly openly gay characters in them.
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By comparison, only 38% held similar concerns about nominating an openly gay candidate, such as former South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg.
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In 2015 the ban on gay adults as Scout leaders was lifted; three years ago openly gay youths were allowed to join.
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Though homosexuality had been decriminalized in Britain in 1967, being openly gay was still essentially unthinkable, especially for a prominent public figure.
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In 2013, veteran NBA center Jason Collins became the first openly gay athlete in any of the four major American pro sports.
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Bad enough for Disney's first supposed openly gay character to be swishy, obsessive, and annoying without him also being an irredeemable villain.
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As an openly gay man adopting two children, Miranda worried that Bolsonaro could revoke many of Brazil's LGBT+ rights, including gay adoption.
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"Distraction" is a catchall term that includes criticizing the quarterback, being arrested for domestic violence, protesting police brutality, and being openly gay.
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For the first time, the group was joined by a man - husband of Luxembourg's first openly gay Prime Minister Bettel, Gautheir Destenay.
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According to Schmid, who is openly gay, media industry professionals had advised him for years to keep his HIV status a secret.
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One of the first openly gay lawmakers in Brazil says he is quitting over threats of violence to him and his family.
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However, Smith mistook that to mean that no openly gay man had ever won an Oscar, which isn't the case at all.
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He was criticized (and later apologized) for saying he was the first openly gay man to win an Oscar when he wasn't.
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The historically diverse 2020 Democratic field includes black, Hispanic and openly gay candidates, as well as a record six women so far.
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The openly gay blogger later started receiving comments online calling him a "slut" and a "disgrace to the gay community," he added.
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Mayne, the openly gay Mormon leader, said the church has "completely missed the boat" in terms of providing resources for LGBT members.
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However, Mr Biedron is, unusually for conservative Poland, an openly gay politician, the first ever elected to the Sejm, parliament's lower house.
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Ms Breed would be the first black woman, Ms Kim the first Asian woman and Mr Leno the first openly gay man.
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Polanco plays detective Lori Wieder, who was one of the two openly gay members of the Miami Beach police at the time.
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Alan Joyce, the openly gay head of Qantas, Australia's biggest airline, donated A$1m of his own money to the Yes camp.
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Joshua Rush made history during his time on Andi Mack, breaking ground by playing Cyrus, the Disney Channel's first openly gay character.
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If you were Steve Strange and openly gay, that was accepted, as long as you held your space and shocked and delivered.
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Correction (May 8th 2019): An earlier version of this article described Mr Buttigieg as the first openly gay presidential candidate, without qualification.
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The Lebanese group has an openly gay vocalist and its songs have stirred controversy with lyrics tackling oppression, classism, sectarianism and homophobia.
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Thiel also called for an end to the culture wars and became the first openly gay person to address a Republican convention.
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Bean, who played with the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, and San Diego Padres, was one of MLB's first openly gay players.
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It will also be the first season for a new companion — the first openly gay companion in the series' history, in fact!
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But then I took it a step further and sat down with Hussein Ayoub, an openly gay ... wait for it... devout Muslim.
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In the United States, just three of the chief executives in the Fortune 500 of leading companies are openly gay or lesbian.
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The effort will be led by U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, the highest-ranking openly gay official in the Trump administration.
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"These killings in Orlando were motivated by the most sordid homophobia," said Jean Wyllys, an openly gay congressman from Rio de Janeiro.
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On Wednesday, the rapper became the first openly gay performer to win at the Country Music Association Awards, according to Out magazine.
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The band, which has an openly gay vocalist, has performed around the world with its lyrics tackling sectarianism, gender equality and homophobia.
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I was openly gay, fun, flamboyant, and that salon was a safe space for me, because everyone else was like that, too.
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U.S. Ambassador to Germany Richard Grenell, who is the highest-profile openly gay person in the Trump administration, is leading the effort.
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Beyond a show of principle, the cancellation is personal for Mr. Burton, one of the most prominent openly gay musicians in jazz.
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But being openly gay or transgender remains largely taboo, which means that reliable data is hard to come by, gender experts said.
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The university's newspaper, The Stanford Daily, published a story about it and described her as was one of two openly gay freshmen.
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At the time, she was deployed to the Iraq war zone and military rules still made being openly gay grounds for discharge.
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Buttigieg is the only openly gay candidate in the 2020 Democratic primary, and the only currently-serving mayor among the prominent contenders.
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This week, Eric K. Fanning formally took over as Army secretary, becoming the first openly gay leader of a military service branch.
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San Francisco International Airport debuted a new terminal Tuesday named after Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California's history.
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"That's nice," Buttigieg, who is openly gay, said of Trump's comment while speaking with the NPR Politics Podcast and Iowa Public Radio.
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Elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors as the first openly gay California politician, he was killed in office in 1978.
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Pence also criticized efforts to repeal "Don't Ask Don't Tell," the federal policy banning openly gay Americans from serving in the military.
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The openly gay graphic designer said he has collected some $2,300 over the last two weekends while staging his one-man protest.
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Adam Rippon Rippon, a figure skater, is the first openly gay U.S. male athlete to win a medal in the Winter Olympics.
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Polis was also the first openly gay man to be elected to the House in 2008, before gay marriage was legalized nationwide.
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Nagbe added in his interview with Dagens Nyheter, "I want to play football and live as an openly gay man in Sweden."
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"It would mean that LGBT (people) would actually have real protection," said David Miranda, one of the country's only openly gay congressmen.
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He received an encouraging email from Matt Llano, still the only openly gay professional runner, and heard from other gay collegiate athletes.
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In Texas, Gina Ortiz Jones, a Filipina Air Force veteran, could become the state's first openly gay woman elected to any office.
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In November 2009, Annise D. Parker won the Houston mayor's race, becoming the first openly gay mayor of a major American city.
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Foreign ___ Twenty-five years ago the idea that an openly gay and very butch woman could become a pop idol was seismic.
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As an openly gay and married man he has blazed a political trail many would have considered impossible a few years ago.
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