“The days of radical activist politicians sexualizing our kids are over,” the “humorless” Tudor Dixon said about a lesbian politician joking about drag queens.

Kari Lake allegedly hired a drag queen to perform at her baby shower. Now she says drag is “sexualizing young children.”

Meanwhile, several notoriously anti-LGBTQ candidates fared well in Arizona and Kansas.

Rep. Sharice Davids said felt like a “gut punch” when the Supreme Court overturned Roe. Now people in Kansas are fighting back at the ballot box.

“If a poster boy for everything [right-wing groups] hate about teaching and teachers and marginalized communities can win by 12 points… then I got to think that other folks can tap into that same energy.”

Far-right candidate Kary Lake thought she had the upper hand when her campaign tried to troll Dee Snider. But the rock-and-roll frontman wasn’t going to take it.

Republican Senate candidates have made clear they support an erosion of equality protections, making their extremist views on marriage equality, abortion access, and other freedoms central to their campaigns.

While nearly all the Republican candidates are in thrall to the MAGA wing of the GOP, Mayes isn’t running to play games with democracy.

Brushing off the inevitable lawsuits as the “natural consequences” of his position, Jake Oaks says that the Constitution requires county clerks to ignore the constitutional rights of LGBTQ people.

“They predict a red wave, but here, because of the awful candidates that have made their way to the nominations, and the baggage they carry, we’ll end up with a pink tidal pool.”

Arizona’s Congressional Primary is Tuesday, August 2. State lawmaker Daniel Hernandez is poised to advance on to November’s general election as his sisters get ready to serve in the state legislature together.

The first word in the Constitution is a pronoun.

The GOP Senate candidate said that people “shift spouses like they change their underwear” and should stay in abusive relationships. But not gay ones, of course.

Alisabeth Janai Lancaster is campaigning for a school board position on “Judeo-Christian values and beliefs,” which for her includes killing doctors.

Rep. Ken Calvert – who has voted against LGBTQ rights for decades and outed one of his opponents – is now running against a gay man in one of the gayest cities in America.

A mailer for Rep. David Schweikert showed his opponent with an out gay friend. Now the friend is showing the congressman’s campaign some court papers.

Can an out, married, former policy director for John Kerry triumph in ruby red America?

Arizona gubernatorial candidate says that drag queens “sexualize” children. Her old drag queen pal says she brought her kid to his show, and he refuses to shut up about it.

Blake Masters said his boss and mentor Peter Thiel’s marriage has no purpose because the point of marriage is “procreation and creating children.”

A record-breaking 104 LGBTQ candidates have mounted campaigns for House or Senate seats this year. These nine are the cream of the crop.