Dallas Voice reports:
(Plano, Texas) Justin Nichols is charting new territory in more ways than one. Nichols, 23, is already the youngest candidate ever to run for Plano City Council. If Nichols wins his race for the Place 1 seat on May 10, he’ll also become the first openly gay member of the body. “I don’t know that one is harder than the other,” Nichols told Dallas Voice this week. “I think that each is solved by letting people get to know you.”
Nichols also faces a third challenge when it comes to gaining the support of Plano’s small but growing LGBT community: He’s a Republican. City council races are nonpartisan, but Nichols serves on the executive committee of the Collin County Republican Party, and he’s been a delegate to two GOP state conventions. “My response to that is, true conservatism means limited government, and that includes staying out of your wallet and staying out of your home,” said Nichols, who also noted that he’s not relying on the gay vote to get elected. “It often surprises me that so many in the GLBT community identify themselves as Democrats, when so often what they’re wanting is for the government to stay out of things.” Nichols, who came out when he was 16, captured about 40 percent of the vote when he ran for Plano’s school board in 2003 at age 18. MORE
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