In the crowded Detroit City Council race, former Fox 2 reporter and openly gay man Charles Pugh was the top finisher with 9%, or 59,560 votes. Council President Ken Cockrel Jr. took second place, followed by former Detroit Deputy Police Chief Gary Brown.
Pugh was one of 18 candidates to advance to the Nov. 3 primary for the nine-member council. Already a national gay notable, his early success, puts Detroit into the national spotlight in a very different way than the parade of scandals have over the last four years. In what could be a may to other LGBT candidates Pugh's success may in part be credited to the fact that he got the backing of both the AME Ministerial Alliance and the Council of Baptist Pastors despite being open and honest about being gay.
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