San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has a special place in LGBT history when he allowed same-sex couples to get married in his city until the courts stopped him. For the first time in my life, I saw all these images of what could be and those are images that can never be erased no matter what opponents of our equal rights say and do.
Honestly, I don't know what kind of job he's done as mayor of that fabulous city. I know he admitted to a drinking problem and had an affair with the wife of his campaign manager. Not good. But he was easily re-elected to office on Tuesday and I felt happy for him.
"To my critics, this is an opportunity, and in some ways a reconciliation," he said in a victory speech. "I commit to working with you for the next four years, and I commit to resolving those areas where you still believe we can do better."
A few summers ago, I interviewed Newsom at an Outfest screening of a documentary on that period of same-sex marriages and, once you get past him being one of the best looking men on the planet, you could see that his heart was in the right place on the issue.
I'll always be grateful for the courage he had - something none of our leading candidates for president have.