![]() “I sat there thinking, ‘Well, we have come a long way, haven’t we?’ ” “We’d worked so hard just to get to that point-to be treated as part of the process,” Ramirez-Murray recalled. ![]() But in the midst of his mayoral race against Maureen O’Connor, Cleator was openly courting the gay vote. So, it was with a sense of pride, mingled with slight amazement, that Ramirez-Murray found himself and fellow gay political activist Susan Jester sitting in the living room of City Councilman Bill Cleator’s Point Loma home earlier this year.Ī staunch conservative, Cleator, by his own admission, had had virtually no contact with the gay community during the prior 6 1/2 years at City Hall and was widely seen as a symbol of mainstream Republicanism for whom gay support was political anathema. Nicole Ramirez-Murray, a longtime gay activist who jokingly describes himself as “a living dinosaur,” well remembers when, only a few years ago, most San Diego politicians “didn’t want to meet with gays, didn’t want support from gays and weren’t thrilled about even being in the same party as gays.”
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