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Election NewsWith last night’s election, a ‘rainbow wave’ of 144 LGBTQ candidates have won office this year
“Anti-LGBTQ attacks on our candidates almost universally backfired… LGBTQ candidates are winning elections in numbers and in parts of the country thought unthinkable a decade or two ago.”
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Election NewsOver 1/3 of straight voters don’t want LGBTQ elected officials. But queer voters do.
LGBTQ people were also more likely to support black and Latinx candidates for high office.
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News (USA)Gay New York candidate targeted by ‘amateurish’ ad subtly accusing him of pedophilia
The flier showed an image of him shirtless and mentioned his working with kids at the YMCA. Can someone say dogwhistle?
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PoliticsPete Buttigieg just got a presidential endorsement from a major LGBTQ org
It might seem too early to start endorsing a specific candidate, but this group is all in. And then he responded with an amazing statement on Stonewall 50.
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News (USA)Elected officials across the nation are calling on congress to pass LGBTQ rights laws
The “rainbow wave” is flexing its muscles.
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Election NewsThis Florida town is now completely run by LGBTQ people
The last straight person lost their re-election campaign.
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Election NewsGreat day in Guam: First female governor & first gay lt. governor elected
Women will be 2/3 of the Guam legislature, too.
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Election NewsAngie Craig wins MN Congressional race, but three other out candidates lose
Craig beat anti-LGBTQ incubment Jason Lewis in a rematch, but candidates Gina Ortiz Jones, Tracey Mitrano and Rick Neal all lost their Congressional races.
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News (USA)There are no LGBTQ Republicans running for Congress & the religious right is celebrating
Color us surprised that with a record breaking amount of LGBTQ people seeking a congressional seat this year, none of them are Republicans.
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Election NewsThese female LGBTQ candidates are the real gamechangers in the midterm election
The road to equity and equality for LGBTQ women will run through these female candidates in 2018.
