Randi Shade was elected Saturday to become Austin, Texas' first openly gay elected city council member.

Shade beat incumbent Jennifer Kim with 64 percent of the vote to win the Place 3 seat. She was endorsed by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund.

"I knew it would be an uphill battle to run against an incumbent," Shade, 41, told the American-Statesman newspaper Sunday. "But we built a broad coalition of support, and I think people are ready for a change."

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