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PageOneQ Simmons, now leading Cambridge, Massachusetts after serving on the City Council since 2001, follows in the footsteps of former mayor Ken Reeves. Reeves made history on a local and national level, becoming Cambridge's first African-American mayor and the nation's first mayor to be African-American and openly gay. "We are enormously proud of Mayor Simmons," says Chuck Wolfe, Victory Fund President and CEO. "Like Mayor Ken Reeves before her, she is among our community's trailblazers. Today is a day to celebrate another broken glass ceiling."
Victory Fund-endorsed Denise Simmons has become the first African-American, open lesbian to take the helm as mayor of an American city, report the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and the Cambridge Chronicle.
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Originally published on Wednesday January 16, 2008.