Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana — the first ndidate who is a lennial, openly gay and an Afghan War veteran, jos the 2020 printial race, sayg, "our untry needs a h start."
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- MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
- IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
MEET PETE BUTTIGIEG: A GAY MAYOR, AFGHAN WAR VET AND LENNIAL WHO'S NNG FOR PRINT
In fact, he said, he feels great after easily wng electn last week to bee Florida's first LGBTQ state said the electn of so many lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people across the untry this electn cycle “is a direct phback on the hatred and bigotry over the last four years, ” cg the Tmp admistratn’s rhetoric agast immigrants, people of lor and the LGBTQ muny.
Even wh one gay cumbent’s Hoe race yet to be lled, LGBTQ reprentatn Congrs will h an all-time high next noncumbent LGBTQ victors, both progrsive Democrats, easily won their rac. Mondaire Jon, an attorney, and New York Cy Council member Rchie Torr handily won their rac for New York’s 17th and 15th Congrsnal Districts, rpectively, beg the first openly gay Black ndidat elected to Congrs. Bisexual Democrat Torrey Harris and gay Republin Eddie Mannis both won seats the state said Mannis’ victory is relatively unual, as the “Republin Party has still not been that welg to LGBT folks.
IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
‘A seat at the table’While last week’s victori for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer ndidat have creased reprentatn across the U. Populatn, the Victory Fund timat we would need to elect 22, 000 more lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer elected officials to achieve “equable reprentatn. That number surpass 2020’s rerd of 336 and 2018’s rerd of least 1, 065 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people ran for office this year, wh 678 of them makg to the general electn, the LGBTQ Victory Instute, the rearch arm of the Victory Fund, reported.
This reflects LGBTQ voters more broadly: 84% supported Democrats, while 15% supported Republins, acrdg to an NBC News Ex Poll released Tuday Parker, print and CEO of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, said a statement that the “rabow wave” is a “clear rebe to the creased homophobia and transphobia sweepg our muni. Bec Balt, the wner of an at-large Hoe seat Vermont, is the first woman and the first gay person elected to Congrs om her state, and Eric Sorensen, the wner of Illois’ 17th Congrsnal District, is the first gay person elected to Congrs om his state, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory Garcia, the wner of California’s 42nd Congrsnal District race, will be the first gay immigrant Congrs, while Gee Santos, the wner of New York’s 3rd Congrsnal District race, who went head to head wh another gay ndidate for the seat, is the first non-cumbent gay Republin elected to Congrs and will be the only LGBTQ Republin eher chamber next term.