The blog could not make me any happier. Many glass ceilings are continuing to break, or at least someone is doing a great job of making it appear that way. Honestly, this should not even be that much of a shock, but with unfortunate and chauvinistic societal standards of what a women "should" be, it is. What's next... President of the United States? Maybe that is not a glass ceiling that can be broken anytime soon. But, you never know.
Exciting news for a variety of historically marginalized groups: Denise Simmons, the country's first black, lesbian mayor, was elected this week to serve Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Simmons, a member of the council since 2001, is the second consecutive mayor who is black and openly gay. She is the first woman to serve as the city’s mayor since Sheila Russell held the office from 1996-1997.
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“It feels really great,” Simmons said. “When I first came to the School Committee, one of the things I always said was that I wanted to be mayor.”
“Today is a day to celebrate another broken glass ceiling,” said Chuck Wolfe, president and CEO of the Victory Fund, a national organization that supports openly GLBT candidates seeking national and local office. The Victory Fund’s blog, incidentally, has one of the best URLs I’ve come across recently: www.gaypolitics.com.
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