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Massachusetts State Senator Comes Out As Bisexual

June 13, 2023

A Massachusetts state legislator came out as bisexual this week.

Massachusetts Senate President Pro Tempore Will Brownsberger (D-Belmont), a 66-year-old man who has been married to a woman for the past 38 years, revealed this personal matter in a Commonwealth Magazine op-ed this week. 

“FOR ME, the Pride parades and festivals are special this year because I am coming out as bisexual,” Brownsberger wrote. “I’ve been married to my wife for almost thirty-eight years. I love, cherish, and enjoy her and I’m not about to change my lifestyle.

“Pride means self-knowledge and self-acceptance,” he added. “When my parents passed away a couple of years ago, I finally did the personal work to understand, accept, embrace, and name the breadth of love and desire that is part of who I am.”

Brownsberger’s article first appeared on his web site, on Sunday, June 11.

In it, he touted the value of annual Pride parades during the month of June.

“The vibrant open celebration of diversity in a Pride parade helps everyone accept themselves.  Through the years, society has been so cruel to queer people that it’s necessary to take openness to the level of boisterous celebration to create a broader social space in which everyone can find themselves and thrive,” he wrote.

While this year’s Pride parades have a special personal meaning for him, Brownsberger said “the resurgence of archaic hatreds” also make them especially important this year.

“It would be wrong to say that Pride matters now more than ever. The early Pride celebrations took real physical bravery and shattered long-standing barriers to queerness in many parts of the world. But with the resurgence of archaic hatreds, legitimized by all too many political leaders, Pride matters a lot in 2023,” Brownsberger wrote.

Brownsberger has been a member of the Massachusetts Senate since 2012. Before that, he served as a state representative from 2007 to 2012.

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