Massachusetts: Governor's Daughter Announces She Is a Lesbian.

The youngest daughter of Gov. Deval Patrick said in an interview that she was gay, and that she came out to her parents after lawmakers voted to kill a proposal that could have outlawed gay marriage in the state. The daughter, Katherine Patrick, 18, said her father responded to her announcement by giving her a bear hug and saying, ''Well, we love you no matter what.'' Ms. Patrick made her revelation public in an interview with her family in Bay Windows, a weekly Boston newspaper. The governor told the paper his family agreed to the interview to make the news public on their own terms. Ms. Patrick said she told her father and her mother, Diane Patrick, of her sexual orientation on July 3, 2007, about three weeks after the legislature rejected an amendment opposing same-sex marriage to the State Constitution. Mr. Patrick supports same-sex marriage. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]