Christopher Seelbach (born 1979) is an American politician. He made history in 2011 when he became the first openly-gay politician elected to the Cincinnati City Council.[1]
Seelbach was born in Louisville, Kentucky. He moved to Cincinnati in 1998. After founding the first gay-straight alliance at Xavier University,[2] he graduated from the university with a degree in business administration and attended law school at the University of Dayton. While in law school, he worked on the council staff of Vice-Mayor David Crowley, with whom he became friends, and was employed by Crowley's 2005 re-election campaign.[3] Seelbach also became involved in the campaign to repeal Article 12, a law which forbade the city council from passing any protections for gay men and lesbians, which was repealed in 2004.
His campaign for the city council was backed financially by the Victory Fund.
Seelbach is also Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of a small marketing/consulting business, the Seidewitz Group.