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Nashville Mayor Joins Marriage Equality Coalition

Nashville Mayor Joins Marriage Equality Coalition

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The mayor of Music City becomes the first Tennessee member of Mayors for the Freedom to Marry.

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Mayor Karl Dean of Nashville has become the first Tennessee member of Mayors for the Freedom to Marry.

"It's just the right thing to do," Dean told The Tennessean Friday. "It's something that I've been thinking about for a while. ... I think it's really important that we treat people fairly, that we treat people with respect, and that Nashville be a city that embraces that. And I think people should be treated equally."

Dean, a Democrat who's been Nashville's mayor since 2007, is now part of a bipartisan coalition of nearly 500 members, according to a press release from Freedom to Marry, the organization behind the mayoral group. The coalition also now has members from every state in the South, a region where the fight for marriage equality has been particularly challenging.

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Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.