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Sober and HIV Positive, New Council Speaker Has Weathered Adversity

Corey Johnson, a New York City Council member who represents the West Side of Manhattan, as he is voted in as Council Speaker at City Hall in New York, Jan. 3, 2018. Johnson, the city’s first openly gay male speaker, succeeded in the rough -and -tumble world of New York City politics despite completing less than a month of college and arriving in the city at the age of 19 without pedigree or money. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)