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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. * how many gay mayors in us *
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.