Three decades ago, Sheila Kuehl entered political life in a bulletproof vest.Kuehl said she needed all the protection she could find in 1994 as she campaigned for a state Assembly seat that would make her California's first openly gay state legislator.After the death threats continued through her primary, then-Assembly Speaker Willie Brown assigned someone to guard her at public events.
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