Thirteen votg members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight number of openly LGB members history.
Contents:
- 118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
- RERD 13 CONGRS MEMBERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
- HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
118TH CONGRS BREAKS RERD FOR LBIAN, GAY AND BISEXUAL REPRENTATN
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– who 2013 beme the first openly gay U.
RERD 13 CONGRS MEMBERS INTIFY AS GAY, LBIAN OR BISEXUAL
The 118th U.S. Congrs set a historil mark wh a rerd 13 members who intify as gay, lbian or bisexual. * gay representation in congress *
Thirteen votg members of the 118th Congrs intify as lbian, gay or bisexual – the hight number of openly LGB members history. Two senators and 11 members of the Hoe of Reprentativ intify as lbian, gay or bisexual, acrdg to a Pew Rearch Center analysis of lawmakers’ official bgraphi, mpaign webs and news reports. In the 112th Congrs of 2011-13, jt four members – all reprentativ – intified as gay or lbian (and none as bisexual), acrdg to data om the Victory Fund, a polil actn mtee that works to elect LGBTQ policians.
Data on the share of Amerins who are gay, lbian or bisexual om Gallup. As of the 118th Congrs, this clus lbian, gay and bisexual members.
HOE PASS SWEEPG GAY AND TRANSGENR EQUALY LEGISLATN
The openly gay, lbian, bisexual, or transgenr Congrspeople have served both parti om multiple stat. * gay representation in congress *
In the Hoe, all but one of the 11 openly gay or lbian reprentativ are Democrats.
The exceptn is Republin Gee Santos of New York, who the 2022 midterm cycle beme the first openly gay, non-cumbent Republin to w a ngrsnal electn.
Seven of the 11 openly gay or lbian reprentativ the Hoe are returng members of Congrs. The four newly elected members clu Santos; Robert Garcia, D-Calif., the first openly gay immigrant elected to Congrs; Democrat Eric Sorensen, the first out gay ngrsperson to reprent Illois; and Democrat Bec Balt, the first woman and first openly LGB person to reprent Vermont. Eight of the 11 Hoe members who intify as gay or lbian are gay men and three are lbians.
At least 843 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people currently serve elected offic across the U.S., acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute. * gay representation in congress *
The exact begng of Feral anti-gay legislatn is difficult to terme. Many early laws and rolutns banned sodomy and “obsceni, ” tegori which clud gay relatnships whout explicly referencg homosexualy. The first appearanc of the words “homosexual” and “lbian” the Congrsnal Rerd occurred 1927.
John Kdred of New York ed “homosexual” durg his quiry to new sexual rejuvenatn medil procr. Five years later, 1950, Congrs put forth a report entled “Employment of Homosexuals and Other Sex Perverts Government, ” which marks the first time that Congrs explicly discrimated based on sexual orientatn.
The report also signated homosexualy a psychologil illns which ma workers “generally unsuable” for employment and ernment “secury risks.