In Polics, The Advote prents the latt news about the polil world. From Supreme Court lgs to state and feral laws, The Advote reports on how polics shap the day-to-day reali faced by members of the gay muny. Read about LGBT lears like Barney Frank and Tammy Baldw and their work to advance the of the LGBT rights movement the Uned Stat and around the world. Fd out about legislatn related to same-sex marriage, adoptn, and other issu gay polics that will impact the liv of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Amerins.
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At least 843 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people currently serve elected offic across the U.S., acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute. * lgbt politics *
At least 843 LGBTQ people currently serve elected offic across the Uned Stat, nstutg a 21 percent crease sce June 2019, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute’s “Out for Ameri 2020” cens of lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer elected officials. “In a world where our civil rights are unr attack, and many are qutng their place the world, the affirmg power of such reprentatn nnot be overstated, ” said Mondaire Jon, who recently won the Democratic nomatn New York’s 17th Congrsnal District and, if elected November, uld be the first openly gay Black man elected to of this crease was driven by what Victory lled a “rabow wave” — a surge LGBTQ ws the 2018 and 2019 electns. The Victory Instute says that orr for LGBTQ people to achieve “equable reprentatn, ” there would need to be 22, 544 more lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people elected LGBTQ polil gas are not evenly distributed.
Senate, three more LGBTQ elected officials would achieve equy (5 senators total) legislatur, on the other hand, lag behd: One-hundred-and-seventy-three LGBTQ people would need to be elected orr to achieve equy, acrdg to Victory’s majory of the 843 LGBTQ officials — 54 percent — are gay men, followed by 30 percent lbians, 6 percent bisexuals and 5 percent queer vast majory of all LGBTQ officials are cisgenr — 94 percent.
Ameri’s LGBTQ elected officials are mostly whe — 77 percent — followed by 10 percent Hispanic, 6 percent Black, 2 percent multiracial, 2 percent Asian or Pacific Islanr and ls than 1 percent each for digeno and Middle breakdown may soon change, as two Black gay men nng for Congrs move closer to victory, cludg Jon.
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“One of the most energizg featur of this mpaign is the sheer volume of msag I have received om members of the LGBTQ muny, young and old, sayg that my ndidacy as an openly gay, Black person has spired them to accept their own inti and live thentic liv, ” Jon said a text msage to NBC News. “I’m so humbled to be a posn to provi reprentatn that I never had growg up, ” Jon other openly gay Black man nng for Congrs is Rchie Torr, currently the youngt member of the New York Cy Council, who has a strong lead vote returns for the Democratic nomatn New York’s 15th Congrsnal District, which is also overwhelmgly Democratic.
)While both Jon and Torr would be the Hoe's first openly gay Black members, they apparently would not be the body’s first gay Black honor is thought to belong to Barbara Jordan of Texas, who 1972 beme the first Black woman to reprent the South Congrs, and 1976 beme the first Black woman to be a keynote speaker at a Democratic Natnal Conventn. Important this area are works foced on theorizg sexualy (Fouult 1978), homosexualy, sexual inty, sexual sire and inty, and genr as dividually and socially nstcted for polil purpos (Blasi 1994, Farman 1991, Kzger 1987, Phelan 1989, Phelan 1994, Wilchs 1997).
1017/S1537592715000043Engel the exampl of gays and lbians servg the ary and LGBT marriage and fay issu to illtrate how Amerin Polil Development (APD) ncepts n be applied to unrstandg LGBT cizenship stat. The “Don’t Say Gay” bill Florida, for example, or the thgs that are gog on Texas — ’s not like all of a sudn this year or last year all the nservative folks ci, “Oh, trans and queer people are terrible, and we mt protect x, y, and z thgs.