LGBT supporter to retire from Congress

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LGBT supporter to retire from Congress

http://ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2595
by Bob Roehr
01/10/2008

A good friend of the LGBT community in Congress, Representative Tom Lantos (D-San Francisco), has announced that he will not run for re-election. Lantos, who will turn 80 next month, made the announcement January 2. The decision was prompted in part by learning that he has cancer of the esophagus.