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Out Congresswoman Sharice Davids wins reelection
Davids made history in 2018 as the first out LGBTQ person elected to Congress from Kansas, and as one of the first Native American women elected to Congress.
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Ritchie Torres will be the first out Afro-Latinx person elected to Congress
The New York City Councilmember may have engineered a landslide victory despite facing anti-LGBTQ opposition.
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Mondaire Jones makes history as one of first gay Black men elected to Congress
And he won explicitly running on a platform to help the poor, people of color and LGBTQ people.
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A gay Black socialist just shattered a rainbow ceiling in New York when he won his election
Democratic Socialist Jabari Brisport has been described as “the next Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.”
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Shevrin Jones & Michele Rayner win historic races as first out Black queer legislators in Florida
Jones won his race for the state senate and Rayner is headed to the state House of Representatives.
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Sarah McBride will be the nation’s highest ranking transgender politician after election victory
“People don’t care about my gender identity. They just care about whether I’m going to fight for them.”
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Taylor Small will be Vermont’s first out transgender legislator
Small will be the fifth transgender legislator in America.
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GOP lawmaker who blamed gays & ‘drag queen advocates’ for mass shooting gets stomped in election
The head of the Ohio GOP had publicly called on Keller to resign, but she said voters should decide if she should stay in office. They did.
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The sheriff fired her because she’s a lesbian so she ran for his office. She demolished him.
There will be a new sheriff in town soon.
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Danica Roem just became the first trans person reelected to a state legislature
Democrats sweeped the state. Roem said that’s a mandate to pass “a Virginia version of the Equality Act.”