Out & elected in New York.1977: Hunter College Hunter College: see New York, City University of. political science professor Ken Sherrill is New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Cites first openly gay elected official, becoming a Democratic Party district leader. 1990: Deborah Glick's election to the New York state assembly The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of New York. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal amount of districts, with each district having an average population of 127,000. makes her its first out member, representing lower Manhattan Lower Manhattan is the southernmost part of the island of Manhattan, the main island and center of business and government of the City of New York. Lower Manhattan is generally defined as the area delineated on the north by Chambers Street, on the west by the Hudson River (North . 1991: Thomas K. Duane and Antonio Pagan are elected as New York's first openly gay city council members. Duane, who campaigned as an HIV-positive person, is the nation's first such elected official as well. 1997: After decades of gay and AIDS rights advocacy, Philip Reed For Phil Reed, the New York City Council Member from 1998 to 2005, please see Phil Reed. Philip Reed (1760 – November 2, 1829) was an American politician. is elected as the first openly gay black city council member. 1997: Public-housing advocate Margarita Lopez, in winning a city council seat, becomes the first openly lesbian Puerto Rican elected U.S. official. 1998: Duane wins election as the first out state senator. 1999: Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Project former executive director Christine Quinn, who was Duane's chief of staff for five years when he was on the city council, is elected to succeed Duane on the council. 2006: Elected to lead the council, Quinn takes the helm as its first out speaker [see page 4]. The post is considered second only to the mayor's in power. |
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