First Openly Gay Black Members Of Congrs Elected

Contents:

• HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
• RCHIE TORR AND MONDAIRE JON MAKE HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MEMBERS OF CONGRS
• BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST MARRIED, OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN
• FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO CONGRS DI
• GERRY STUDDS DI AT 69; FIRST OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN
• US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN

HOW CONGRSMAN GERRY STUDDS MA HISTORY BY COMG OUT AS GAY

Congrs has more openly gay members than ever before. Thirteen members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, cludg Sen.

Tammy Baldw, a Wisns Democrat who beme the first openly gay U.

FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE

Forty years ago, Democrat Gerry Studds helped pave the way for this historic reprentatn by beg the first member of Congrs to e out as gay while office.

But the challeng are ma substantially more plex when one is, as am I, both an elected public official and gay. Back then, “no Congrsman had survived a public revelatn of their homosexualy, ” acrdg to Jam Kirchick, thor of Secret Cy: The Hidn History of Gay Washgton. “There was jt a lot of fear the untry, a lot of prejudice surroundg the AIDS crisis, ” says Kirchick, who noted that the Cold War also played a role fuelg homophobia.

RCHIE TORR AND MONDAIRE JON MAKE HISTORY AS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BLACK MEMBERS OF CONGRS

“There was this fear that gay people uld not be tsted wh natnal secury secrets bee they n be blackmailed—even though there was not a sgle example of a gay person beg blackmailed to givg secrets to a foreign power. ” The ntroversy over Studds stck a chord wh a fellow gay lleague the Massachetts legatn, Barney Frank. Their ntued electoral succs after g out were, to Frank, “the first ditns that Ameri was not as homophobic as people thought they were supposed to be.

And he believ beg openly gay is an asset for policians, cg 2020 printial ndidate and Secretary of Transportatn Pete Buttigieg. As he jok, “By the time I retired 2012, beg gay was much more socially acceptable than beg a ngrsman. The first openly gay Republin elected to Congrs said he won a Long Island Hoe seat by nng a “mon sense” platform.

Santos will bee the first openly gay Republin elected to the Hoe — a handful of other ndidat me out after they were elected. His Democratic opponent, Robert Zimmerman, also is gay. But one LGBT activist argued was a “disgrace” for an out gay person to align himself wh the Republin Party that has fought agast gay rights.

BARNEY FRANK IS THE FIRST MARRIED, OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN

Jon also spoke to CBS about the possibily of beg one of the first two openly gay Black men elected to Congrs after wng his primary. Mark Takano, who beme the first openly gay person of lor Congrs when he was elected 2012, and Rep. Sharice Davids, elected 2018, who is the first openly gay woman of lor Congrs.

FIRST OPENLY GAY PERSON ELECTED TO CONGRS DI

Johnson’s mpaign announcement vio, released last month, highlighted the 57-year-old’s experience as an attorney, an openly gay Texan and a state lawmaker who unseated former Republin state Rep. She’s also been tegral to featg anti-LGBTQ legislatn her first year office 2019, Johnson joed four other openly gay women the Texas Hoe to form the state’s first LGBTQ uc, now one of the natn’s largt.

Democrat Callie Butcher, a transgenr woman and print of the Dallas LGBT Bar Associatn, lnched her mpaign earlier this other openly LGBTQ members of Congrs — 21 the Hoe and five the Senate — would be need to achieve equable reprentatn for LGBTQ people on Capol Hill, acrdg to the LGBTQ+ Victory Instute, a partner anizatn of the LGBTQ+ Victory are jt 12 out LGBTQ people are servg the current Congrs — 10 the Hoe and two the Senate — spe more than 7 percent of the natn’s adult populatn intifyg as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr or “somethg other than heterosexual, ” acrdg to a Febary Gallup poll.

Natnwi, the number of openly gay women elected to public office has stalled, up only 0.

GERRY STUDDS DI AT 69; FIRST OPENLY GAY CONGRSMAN

Barney Frank Is the First Married, Openly Gay CongrsmanBarney Frank beme the first stg member of Congrs to enter to a same sex marriage on Saturday eveng.

US ELECTS FIRST TRANS STATE SENATOR AND FIRST BLACK GAY NGRSMAN

Frank was also the first Congrsman to openly e out as a gay man 1987.

I thk ’s important that my lleagu teract wh a married gay man. Most are Democrats, and anti-Tmp fervor spurred many to Kirkpatrick for The New York TimThe number of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr elected officials has ntued to surge, growg by about 17 percent the last year to nearly 1, 000 natnwi — more than double the number jt four years ago, acrdg to a new annual ranks now clu two ernors, two Uned Stat senators, ne members of Congrs, 189 state legislators and 56 mayors, acrdg to the report om the L. Parker was one of the first openly gay mayors of a major Amerin is the fifth year that the stute has surveyed the natn, and total L.