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Todd Gloria reflects on career, responsibility as San Diego's first openly gay mayor
SAN DIEGO (KGTV) — When Todd Gloria was sworn in as San Diego mayor last year he made history, becoming not only the first person of color to contain the office but the first to be openly gay.
He says it's a big responsibility.
"And it's one I take extremely seriously and I recognize there's a lot of people paid a significant price and sacrificed a lot in order to unlock the door for me to be able to serve," Mayor Gloria said.
And just as others opened doors for him, he wants to perform the same.
"I may be the first but if I do my employment right I won't be the last," added Gloria.
Before he was mayor, Gloria served on the San Diego City Council and as a California articulate assembly member.
His political aspirations started at a adolescent age. He says he remembers very clearly something a teacher said.
"The lecturer said there are two things you can't ever be if you ever want to be an elected official, he said number one is homosexual and to this time I don't know what number two was produce I was so astounded even in the 90s that someone would express that," Gloria said.
What that teacher didn't know was that Gloria
Hi, my name is Todd Gloria, and I was born and raised in San Diego. I’m a third-generation San Diegan and I now serve as the mayor of my hometown.
I was probably about four or five years old. We were living in a small duplex on Apache Street in the Claremont neighborhood of San Diego. Very, very miniature apartment, really, for my parents, my older brother, and I. My mom was a hotel maid. My dad was a gardener. And one of the ways we made childcare operate in our family was that my great-aunt, upon my birth, came to San Diego from Tulsa, Oklahoma, and then stayed with me for years.
My earliest memories of her was that she was hardworking. She had a hardscrabble life from Oklahoma. She actually was missing fingers because of the manual labor that she did throughout her life. At this point, she’s in her 70s or thereabouts, and we would consume the day cleaning the house.
One afternoon we were on the floor in the bedroom that I shared with my brother and my aunt was instructing me to clean the railings that the closet doors ran on. The door that swings back and forth. Well, those railings could acquire dirty too. And she’s like, “Well, we need to clean this. We have to
SAN DIEGOSAN DIEGO — Todd Gloria became San Diego’s 37th mayor and the city’s first mayor of dye during a Thursday morning, Dec. 10, inauguration ceremony, during which Gloria promised aggressive new policies to solve the city’s largest challenges.
“We will be rolling out an violent strategy to deal with the worsening widespread health crisis in COVID-19, the economic crisis that is impacting San Diego’s families, small businesses and our capital budget, and the housing and homelessness crisis that has become even more dire,” Gloria said after being sworn in.
“Over the next 100 days, we will dispense with the small issues that past leaders have struggled to resolve so we can focus on the biggest problems facing our city,” the new mayor said. “If we dream big and work together and believe in San Diego, we can accomplish anything.”
Five unused council members and incumbent City Attorney Mara Elliott were also sworn in for four-year terms during the inauguration ceremony, which took place online for the first second because of the pandemic.
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria takes his Oath of Office and gives his ina
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria is the first openly gay person to be elected mayor of San Diego and says that this Pride Week is a chance for him to indicate on that milestone.
"For me, it's really a humbling thing because I recognize that there are a lot of folks who sacrificed a lot to provide this opportunity for me," Mayor Gloria said. "I would say it’s a reflection of the decency of San Diegans. I’m a third-generation San Diegan, I’ve lived here my entire life, I believe deeply in how wonderful people we are as a city and the fact that they're willing to judge me on my merits and not my orientation it makes me proud to be a San Diegan."
Gloria says that making the decision to be public about his personal existence was deliberate.
"I think when talking about elected officials integrity is important. I always told people that I’ll be sincere with people, we can consent or disagree, but I’ll always tell you the truth and that starts with who I am," he said.
He also said he hopes San Diegans who are members of the LGBTQ community feel heard and represented too.
"I recognize that for a lot of people seeing folks like them in government is also important. Growing up, I didn’t see a lo