It's A Gay Mayor, Jim Gray, For Lexington
PUBLISHED: NOVEMBER 04, 2010
Voters in Lexington, Kentucky on Tuesday gave the OK for the city's
openly gay vice-mayor to become Lexington's first openly gay mayor,
the Washington Postreported.
Jim Gray, president and CEO of Gray Construction Company – a nationally
ranked engineering, design and construction company – defeated
incumbent Jim Newberry in a non-partisan contest.
The 57-year-old Gray enjoyed the endorsement of the Gay & Lesbian
Victory Fund, a nationwide group that supports openly gay elected officials.
According to his Victory Fund bio, Gray came out publicly in 2005, before
being elected vice-mayor the next year. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt
University. He's served as a trustee on the Board of Berea College and
the KET Fund for Excellence, and in 1997 he was appointed a Loeb
Fellow at Harvard University to study urban planning.
Gray told supporters that he'll fight for every citizen of Lexington:
“I am here for my mother's generation, I am here for my generation and
for your generation, and we are here for the next generation.”
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