TALLAHASSEE — Just after 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Michele Rayner stepped into an elegant room lined with the portraits of Florida’s former House Speakers, a parade of white men looking out from golden frames.
Rayner, 39, was about to be sworn in, becoming the first openly LGBTQ woman of color in the Florida Legislature, and, according to Equality Florida, the first openly queer Black woman to hold any elective office in the state.
Her new desk occupied the chamber’s back row, next to state…
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