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Madam Mayors

his spring, several out lesbian mayoral candidates made history in sizable U.S. cities. The big prize was Chicago, the nation’s third-largest city, which is now the most populous American municipality ever to have an out LGBTQ mayor after Lori Lightfoot’s groundbreaking victory. Beyond being the Windy

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