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Feb. 20th, 2008 08:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Jason Bartlett, a Connecticut state representative, announced he is gay and becomes the first openly gay black state legislator in the nation. The 41-year-old Democrat says he has been "open about his sexuality with his family" and decided "now was the right time" to make it public. "For me, the decision came down to, Why not now?" the legislator said in the interview with the Danbury News-Times. (Plus video interview) "To me, this is about having a conversation with my larger family—the people of greater Danbury who voted for me."
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Jason Bartlett, a Connecticut state representative, announced he is gay and becomes the first openly gay black state legislator in the nation. The 41-year-old Democrat says he has been "open about his sexuality with his family" and decided "now was the right time" to make it public. "For me, the decision came down to, Why not now?" the legislator said in the interview with the Danbury News-Times. (Plus video interview) "To me, this is about having a conversation with my larger family—the people of greater Danbury who voted for me."
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