At least 843 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people currently serve elected offic across the U.S., acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Instute.
Contents:
- 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
- DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
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. * gay politics *
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.
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. Brianna Tone, the first trans legislator Colorado, who signed onto a letter urgg her state’s redistrictg missn to keep gay neighborhoods uned. The Victory Fund’s mpaign, “We Belong Together, ” is rollg out this week wh a two-pronged strategy: get allied anizatns to lobby mapmakers to keep gay areas tact, a procs that has already begun some stat, and start assemblg data showg exactly where LGBTQ muni are loted to speed the procs along.
C., which has the hight LGBTQ populatn percentage the untry, currently has no openly gay members on s uncil. Philalphia is one of the largt ci to have never elected an openly LGBTQ person to s uncil, spe a vibrant muny the Gayborhood sectn of s Center Cy. In Florida’s state legislative map, the town of Wilton Manors, which 2018 elected an all-gay cy missn, is separated om most of Fort Lrdale, which has also has a burgeong gay populatn.
DIPLOMATIC TENSN REPORTEDLY RISG BETWEEN UNED STAT AND JAMAI OVER GAY AMERIN DIPLOMAT
The LGBTQ Victory Fund is urgg polil map-drawers to create districts that help large gay populatns ga reprentatn. * gay politics *
Greenwich Village, home to the Stonewall Inn, an inic New York landmark of the gay rights movement, is nsistently reprented by a LGBTQ cy uncilperson. Other potential LGBTQ hotspots: Detur, northeast of Atlanta, has a high proportn of same-sex upl, and downtown Boise, Idaho, has a sizable gay muny. California, an early adopter of this kd of LGBTQ-nsc redistrictg, has monstrated the value of creatg a pipele for gay officeholrs at the lol level.
A prime example is San Diego, where alli and activists helped craft a new uncil district that clud the heart of the cy’s gay muny before the 1993 electns there. Christe Kehoe beme San Diego’s first openly gay elected official that year, before later movg on to serve the state legislature. The newspaper did not support me, and they highlighted my gay activism and jt my gay crentials.
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To fill the gaps, the Victory Fund has been urgg groups to adopt a piecemeal approach, bg the lotn of gay bs, donor and membership rolls of allied polil anizatns, populatn rerds and even trackg the number and lotn of hate crim. 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.