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A Jersey City mayoral aide has resigned from the city’s LGBTQ+ task force after it was revealed he has donated to his sister’s unapologetic, hateful anti-gay election campaign in Missouri. Jonathan Gomez Noriega, a member of Mayor Steve Fulop’s staff for nearly three years and a member of the Jersey City LGBTQ+ Task Force’s outreach and public relations committee, said he doesn’t agree with everything his sister says, “but I love her.” His sister, Valentina Gomez, is running in the Republican primary Tuesday for Secretary of State in Missouri. In multiple homophobic rants posted on X, formerly…