I was a local party boss in the 1970s and this was what I did all day

I was elected a District Leader in New York’s 69th Assembly District in 1977, my first electoral victory, and a rare tenured faculty member in office. I also was New York’s first openly gay elected official. This is what I did as a local party boss to make life a little easier for our constituents. The 69th was a rambling district, running from West 97th Street down to 78th. The district had about 40,000 people, and was incredibly diverse: about 40% of the district was Jewish and about 40% was Black and Latinx. Many students, artists, writers, performing artists and other intellectuals lived in the rent-regulated housing and a very large number of them were gay. <a href="https://medium.com/3streams/i-was-a-local-party-boss-in-the-1970s-and-this-was-what-i-did-all-day-3a34cfcd9364">Visit Now</a>