1st Openly Gay Speaker of a Statehouse elected; the 2nd to follow this March
Feb 12th, 2010 | By Kentucky Guardian Contributors & Staff | Category: Lead Story, National NewsGordon Dennis Fox has the distention of being the first openly gay speaker of a state lower house, although Assemblyman John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) was elected to the speakership of the California Assembly several weeks before Fox (Pérez, however, will not be sworn in as speaker until March 1).
Members of the State of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations House of Representatives elected Fox to succeed William J. Murphy in a day of pomp and speechifying, capping months of behind-the-scenes maneuvering.
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