Everything about Elaine Noble totally explained
Elaine Noble is an
American former
politician. She served in the
Massachusetts House of Representatives for two terms starting in January 1975. She was the first openly
lesbian or
gay candidate elected to a state legislature. She served two terms as representative for the
Fenway-Kenmore/
Back Bay neighborhoods of
Boston.
Education and career
Noble gained her
degree from Massachusetts and went on to study at
Boston University,
Emerson College and
Harvard University. Her election made her the first openly LGBT candidate elected to a state-level office in the United States; the second, after
Kathy Kozachenko, to be elected to office; and the third openly LGBT elected official overall (Kozachenko's predecessor,
Nancy Wechsler, having come out while in office but not publicly known to be lesbian at the time she was elected). After her two terms in the House of Representatives, Noble went to work for
Kevin White who was Boston mayor at the time. Whilst working for White's office, Noble became involved in an
FBI investigation in which she'd to testify in front of a
grand jury for nineteen hours. No charges were brought against Noble.
In 1980, she ran for
United States Senate, losing to
Paul Tsongas.
In the 1990s she unsuccessfully ran for
Cambridge, Massachusetts city council.
In 1986 Noble and
Ellen Ratner formed a gay and lesbian alcohol and drug treatment center in
Minneapolis called the
Pride Institute. More recently she's worked as a healthcare administrator and a
realtor.
Personal life
Noble had a relationship with writer
Rita Mae Brown in the 1970s and has since retained privacy regarding her personal life. She lives in
Florida.
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