Santa Fe Elects Gay Mayor

Santa Fe has elected its first openly gay mayor.

With his two young daughters and other family members by his side, Javier Gonzales, 47, was greeted by a mob of cheering supporters when he walked into a packed ballroom at the Hotel Santa Fe, many of whom he hugged and kissed as he made his way to the stage. “This campaign was never about me. It was about us,” he told a jubilant crowd. Gonzales made history as the city’s first openly gay mayor and will preside over a City Council on which two of the eight members are openly gay women — mayoral opponent Patti Bushee and newly elected Signe Lindell. He said the race was won by a grass-roots campaign that brought together a cross section of Santa Fe.

(Via Think Progress)

CORRECTION: In my first draft of this post, I moved Santa Fe to Arizona. My excuse is shut up.