Salon.com > brian sims http://www.salon.com Sun, 26 May 2013 01:38:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Pennsylvania welcomes first openly gay legislators http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/pennsylvania_welcomes_first_openly_gay_legislators/ http://www.salon.com/2012/12/02/pennsylvania_welcomes_first_openly_gay_legislators/#comments Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:30:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13112724 Rep. Brian Sims (D-Philadelphia), a lawyer and LGBT activist from Philadelphia, will be the state's first openly gay elected legislator when he takes office in the State House next month. Sims beat long-time Democratic incumbent Rep. Babette Josephs in the primary, and then ran uncontested in Tuesday's general election. CBS Philly reports that although Sims "says he’s proud to be the first LGBT legislator to be elected in Pennsylvania," the "distinction will not define him once he is sworn in at the beginning of January."

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