LGBTQ+ ally Dianne Feinstein has passed away at age 90

Sen. Dianne Feinstein in 2018
Photo: White House photo

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) has passed away at age 90. Her long career in politics showed her allyship to LGBTQ+ people, even at a time when such support was more politically dangerous.

The senator has held her seat since 1992. Before then, she famously served as president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors during the 1978 assassinations of gay board member and civil rights activist Harvey Milk and then-Mayor George Moscone. She became Moscone’s successor as mayor and, in 1990, ran an unsuccessful campaign to become California’s governor before being elected to the U.S. Senate two years later.

Feinstein’s record on LGBTQ+ rights was at times mixed. As mayor, she vetoed city employee benefits for domestic partners.

In 2004, she criticized then-mayor and now Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for…

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