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Episode: Glen Maxey: first openly gay Texas legislator
Description: Send us Fan Mail Former Texas House Representative Glen Maxey was born near a refinery in Baytown, Texas, in 1952. His first job was working in a traveling rodeo and his first serious foray into politics was as a student at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, where he led the charge to allow alcohol to be sold in that formerly dry county. Although he was already a known quantity in the Texas Democratic Party by his early 20s, it wasn’t till he was almost 30 and left teaching 5th grade in rural Texas that he got...