Kerry taps advisers for gay outreach

Senator John F. Kerry yesterday tapped longtime Boston activist Mary Breslauer to serve on his campaign as a senior adviser for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender outreach, according to the Kerry campaign. Breslauer and Jeff Trammell, a board member at the Human Rights Campaign, will work with Mark Seifert, an aide to former Democratic presidential candidate Wesley K. Clark. Seifert was named Kerry's director of outreach to the gay and lesbian community. (Globe Staff)

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Write-in candidate could make history

NEWBURY PARK -- High school government teacher Ferial Amin Masry won the Democratic nomination for an Assembly seat last month in a last-minute write-in campaign. If Masry is elected in November, she would become the first Saudi-American to hold elective state or federal office in the United States, according to the Arab American Institute in Washington. (AP)