Gavin Christopher Newsom is an American politician. He is the 49th and current lieutenant governor of California, after being elected in 2010. In 2003, he was elected the 42nd Mayor of San Francisco, the city’s youngest in a hundred years. Newsom was re-elected in 2007 wit...
GLAAD Media Golden Gate Award, GLAAD Media Award for Special Recognition
TV Shows
The Gavin Newsom Show
Star Sign
Libra
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I want President Obama to succeed. But, I am very upset by what he's not done in terms of rights of gays and lesbians. I understand it tactically in a campaign, but at this point, I don't know.
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There is some belief that Obama actually doesn't believe in same-sex marriage. But it's fundamentally inexcusable for a member of the Democratic Party to stand on the principle that separate is now equal, but only on the basis of sexual orientation. We've always fought for the rights of minorities and against the whims of majorities.
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Fact
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Said in a 2014 interview with the San Francisco Examiner that the impetus to marry same-sex couples in San Francisco was the 2004 State of the Union address (to which he was invited) in which President Bush advocated a ban to such marriages through a constitutional amendment.
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Father with Jennifer Siebel Newsom of a 2nd daughter, Brooklynn Siebel Newsom, born on July 3, 2013.
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Father, with Jennifer Siebel Newsom, of daughter Montana Tessa Siebel Newsom, born on September 18, 2009.
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Father, with Jennifer Siebel Newsom, of son Hunter Siebel Newson, born on June 12, 2011.
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