“Symbolically, it’s great to have a mayor who’s openly lesbian. But what we need is a mayor who knows how to mitigate violence, who knows how to respect people, respect unions, to make sure that our city is safe & to bring economic development here. . .'
The department still does not exist, though Lightfoot’s spokesperson said she still wants to reestablish it. The spokesperson said a proposal is under review to support expanded veterans’ programming with several city departments and partnerships with state and county veterans’ agencies.
At the reporters’ roundtable in June, Lightfoot said the most top-of-mind thing to her with regards to the LGBTQ+ community are the implications of the Supreme Court’s leaked decision in, which would overturn the national right to have an abortion. Sidetrack owner Art Johnston similarly sang Lightfoot’s praises: “It will never stop amazing me and moving me to see Mayor Lightfoot to stand loud and authentic as our city’s out proud gay mayor.”
Ziolko is trans. She said there have been positive “waves” in the city recently, noting the CPD policy for officers to address people with their names and pronouns appropriate to their gender identity—including they/ them—though she did not know if she could ascribe that to the mayor. Allen is a Latinx man. He already had COVID-19, and, in a new city, he said he was desperately trying to make friends in a pandemic as safely as possible.
“Gays have been persecuted a long time for doing something wrong. Especially when it comes to health and disease, I think there’s a lot of stigma associated with the gay community over the years,” he said. Power noted that Lightfoot campaigned as a police reformer, adding that Pride originated out of protests against “police terrorizing and brutalizing the LGBT community,” and said that Lightfoot covered up the improper police raid on Anjanette Young’s home.
Nicole Johnson, who ran for alderperson of the Woodlawn-based 20th Ward in 2019 and is now engaged to another woman, noted during her campaign that Lightfoot was coming to small community events and could build support among people “who the traditional machine didn’t pay attention to,” but she said the mayor has left engagement behind.
The Lightfoot administration’s response to the raid on Young’s house—no money offered at first, an attempt to block the airing of the police officers’ body camera footage, a slow-walking of the eventual settlement until last December—showed Johnson “what was about, because when she got word of it a year before the video went public, she could have gotten in front of it, and when it went public, she lied. And then she said, ‘OK, I can’t get out of this.
“When you add Blackness to that, you’re adding a whole other level of challenges to that,” she said. “It’s just really strange that she’s so stuck in such a racial-heteronormative way of thinking.”
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