::: Charlie Baker, a moderate Massachusetts Republican running for his party’s gubernatorial nomination, has chosen State Sen.
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Annise Parker, Houston mayoral candidate
“A cluster of socially conservative Houstonians is planning a campaign to discourage voters from choosing City Controller Annise Parker in the December mayoral runoff because she is a lesbian,” Houston Chronicle reports.
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Illinois has had its share of making history lately, but we have the opportunity to make history once again with an unprecedented number of openly gay candidates going into this Spring's primaries.
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Race, recession could play role in Houston, Atlanta mayoral runoffsLos Angeles TimesThe leading vote-getters in Tuesday's elections hope to become Houston's first openly gay mayor and Atlanta's first white mayor since 1973.
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ELECTION RESULTS Maine may not be ready to let gays get married, but Houston sure seems ready to have a gay mayor! On Tuesday night, Annise Parker finished ahead of a packed crowd of mayoral hopefuls.
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Will Houston Elect Its First Gay Mayor?ABC NewsWhich brings us to the nation's 4th biggest city of Houston where an openly gay woman is running for mayor.
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Maine voters may have chosen to take marriage rights away from their neighbors, but not all was gloomy for LGBTs: three wins around the country brought victory to gay and lesbian politicians and their constituents.
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Rob Holland, the openly gay candidate for Port of Seattle Comissioner Position #3 is winning that race 55% to 45%.
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Openly gay former news anchor Charles Pugh will lead Detroit City Council
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A gay candidate for city council in Annapolis, Maryland was depicted as a child molester in a flier aimed at African-American voters.
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A well-run campaign utilizing new media and promoting technology and development for downtown Raleigh wasn’t enough to secure victory for a young, openly gay candidate in Raleigh Tuesday.
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Palm Springs City Council candidate Doug Sweatte
An openly gay candidate running for a city council seat in gay-friendly Palm Springs, California had some explaining to do after the local newspaper, the Desert Sun, dug up a letter to the editor he’d written four years ago in which he called himself a “proudly anti-homosexual Republican”.
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He wants Ted Kennedy's Senate seat. Raise your hand if you are shocked that he is the anti-gay candidate.
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Anti-gay candidate Stephen Burgmeirer, who was backed by NOM to the tune of $86,000 in TV and radio ads, lost in yesterday's Iowa House special election.
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Lesbian Mary Cheney supports anti-gay congressmanExaminer.comThe Advocate, and other sources, recently reported that Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Dick Cheney, donated $1000 to the campaign of anti-gay Ohio .
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Mary Cheney Contributes to Anti-Gay CandidateEDGE BostonHowever, Cheney herself refuted claims that children without opposite-sex parents fail to develop as well as children with mtwo mixed-gender parents in the .
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RAW STORY EXCLUSIVE: MARY CHENEY DONATESTO ANTI GAY CANDIDATE IN U.S. SENATE RACE
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Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of former VP Dick Cheney, has thrown $1,000 behind Rob Portman, a Congressional candidate from Ohio who believes she should not be able to adopt children or marry her partner: Raw Story: "Cheney, 40, has.
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In this week's Reader I'm highlighting some of the guest posts we published recently. Father John McNeil reflected on 50 years in the priesthood, Stuart Milk shared his thoughts on his uncle, Harvey Milk, being honored in the California Hall of Fame and Harvey Milk Day, Adam Bink wondered whether we should support an openly gay candidate over a gay-friendly ally and Amy Andre brought us a conversation about bisexuality in recent movies.
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"I know there were people who didn't vote for me because I was gay ... but I think people looked at me to see who I was as a complete person and where I was on the issues and that's what made the difference.
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