Kecia Cunningham Featured in Southern Voice

Decatur Metro | October 15, 2008

In honor of Gay History Month, Southern Voice is highlighting local and national figures “that [have] helped shape Atlanta’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.”

Among those is our own city commissioner Kecia Cunningham, who’s 1999 election win made her “the second openly gay elected official in Georgia, and the state’s first and only African-American openly gay elected official.”  In fact, another blurb in Georgia Trend calls her “the first openly gay African American elected official in the Southeast.”

Geez…I didn’t realize it was a “first in all the South” type moment!  Pretty historic stuff.

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  1. Rick says:
    October 16, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    This is pretty cool. I always admire people that have had to overcome serious hurdles in thier lives to get to where they are. They tend to be stronger and wiser individuals. Most people probably cannot fathom what it took a black and gay woman to get to this point. ‘Black’ – ‘Gay’ – ‘Woman’. Sometimes that can be 3 dings against you in this society in which we live. (not always, but sometimes) I’m sure Kecia is probably one of the sanest and most well adjusted people out there.

    Speaking of well adjusted…I have to slip this in here. :-) I’m not sure if you knew of the author David Foster Wallace. He was relatively famous in the literary world and best known for his work “Infintite Jest.” He committed suicide last month at 46 (his wife found him…poor thing). Probably one of those brilliant artist who’s overactive mind makes him crazy stories. Anyway, he was the commencement speaker at Kenyon College up in Ohio a few years ago. His speech talks about being well adjusted. Its truly a fascinating read! A woman I know saw it re-published in the NYT’s last month and told me about it. Enjoy!

    http://www.marginalia.org/dfw_kenyon_commencement.html