Jane Castor could make history as Tampa's first openly gay mayor
TAMPA — Jane Castor would be the first out mayor in the city’s history and the first gay woman to lead a major Florida city if she’s elected April 23.
Those facts were celebrated Thursday — two days before the Tampa Pride parade — by a coalition of state and federal LGBTQ advocacy groups who endorsed her candidacy at a Ybor City news conference.
The 59-year-old is already the first woman and first gay woman to have served as Tampa’s police chief. Castor is poised to achieve another first as the only lesbian to become mayor of a major city in the Southeast, advocates say, highlighting the historic implications of her campaign.
That significance was one reason a national equality organization, the Human Rights Campaign, decided to endorse a local candidate — something it normally doesn’t do, said national field director Marty Rouse. The group says it has 3 million members nationwide and 16,000 in Tampa.
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