Last year’s midterm electns were a “rabow wave,” wh more openly lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people elected to public office than at any other time Amerin history. Acrdg to the Victory Fund, a PAC that supports LGBT ndidat, a rerd 627 openly LGBT ndidat ran for public office 2018, wh 399 appearg on the
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Deckman is a profsor of polil science at Washgton College. Kromer is director of the Sarah T. Hugh Field Polics Center at Goucher College. Last year's midterm electns were a "rabow wave," wh more openly lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people elected to public office th... * are lgbt people more poltically engaged *
Last year’s midterm electns were a “rabow wave, ” wh more openly lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people elected to public office than at any other time Amerin history. The rt intified wh another sexual orientatn (homosexual, gay, lbian, bisexual or somethg else) or genr inty (transgenr, genr queer, genr nonnformg or somethg else). For example, Tmp’s support of the right of bs owners to refe service to gay Amerins bee of relig differenc has outraged the LGBT muny.
* are lgbt people more poltically engaged *
Children raised by same-sex upl may be polilly socialized distct ways pared to children of different-sex upl bee lbians, gay men, and bisexuals tend to hold distct and progrsive polil viewpots on a wi variety of issu.
It would only later e out how much the children mattered to him: “ jt seemed to me…wrong unr the nstutn to say that over 100, 000 adopted children of gay parents uldn’t have their parents married” [1] 200, 000 children are beg raised SS uple hoeholds, and three ln lbian, gay, bisexual, and/or transgenr (LGBT) adults the US have had a child [2]. Such polil distctivens may pass to children of SS upl, pecially bee rearch shows that SS parents spend on average more time wh their children than DS parents [20] and lbian parents also engage nversatns wh their children about homophobia and legal equi [21–25].
The crease the number of visible gay and trans people is sometim treated as a cursy or a e for ncern by crics, but ’s not a surprise. It’s normal. * are lgbt people more poltically engaged *
One qualative study Florida fds that gay and lbian parents who have the nversatns do so to prepare their children for anti-gay stigma and discrimatn, to foster pri, and to enurage polil activism [25]. The nversatns better enable children to pe wh adversy to homophobia [23] and stigma as relat to their fay stcture [21]. Gay and lbian parents tend to have the nversatns when they believe their children are at an appropriate age when seems necsary that they may beg to bee aware of social stigmas around homosexualy [25].
Ined, was after Florida changed s adoptn law 2010 that gay and lbian parents took the opportuny to discs legal equi wh their children [25].
At least 843 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people currently serve elected offic across the U.S., acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute. * are lgbt people more poltically engaged *
Th, SS male hoeholds may be different om SS female hoeholds how they discs homophobia and discrimatn [41]. Last year’s midterm electns were a rabow wave, ” wh more openly lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people elected to public office than at any other time Amerin history. Hugh Field Polics Center at Goucher year's midterm electns were a "rabow wave, " wh more openly lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people elected to public office than at any other time Amerin history.
For example, Tmp's support of the right of bs owners to refe service to gay Amerins bee of relig differenc has.