Bill Crews

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Bill Crews was the mayor of Melbourne, Iowa from 1984 through 1998. formerly an openly gay Republican, he claimed "I was a Republican from before the fascists took over. I believe in limited government, but I'm on one side of the Democratic party. I'm pro-choice; I've always been." His father, a United Methodist minister, was killed in a car accident in 1973. Bill Crews was also an active United Methodist after coming out until relocating with his partner to Washington, DC, in 1998.

Crews came out with his partner, Steve Kehoe, at a March on Washington in 1993. Crews ran for the State Senate "in the closet" in 1992 because Kehoe wasn't ready to come out yet. However, he faced discrimination from fellow politicians. For example, Crews reports, "Early in the campaign a conservative religious person asked me if I was gay, and I said it shouldn't make a difference, and he said nastily, 'Well, I'll just assume you are.'"

Crews currently is serving as an elected Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner (SMD 6C07) for the District of Columbia Government in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of DC. On October 3, 2005 he began serving as the Zoning Administrator for the District of Columbia.

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