Gay office holders aren't so strange

Election results of interest:

I had reported I spent an afternoon campaigning in Royal Oak for their ordinance to include gays and transgenders in public accommodation without discrimination. It passed, 54-46 percent with about 12,000 votes cast. Royal Oak is now the 30th community in Michigan to enact such an ordinance (East Lansing was the first in, I think, 1972). And Royal Oak did it with voter approval. Perhaps the legislature will get the hint that it is time for a state-wide law. Alas, both chambers are GOP controlled and they like to pick on us.

Ken Cuccinelli, raging homophobe and Tea Party darling, won't be the next Virginia governor. Alas, as my friend and debate partner said, his loss wasn't overwhelming.

The city council in Holland, Michigan voted against a non-discrimination ordinance a couple years ago. At this election, two city council members who voted against us were targeted for replacement. They were, alas, reelected.

Don Guardian, who is gay, beat the incumbent to become mayor of Atlantic City, NJ. Lesbian Annise Parker captured her third term as mayor of Houston. Gay candidates and office holders aren't so strange anymore.