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Contents:

• IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN
• FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE
• THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS
• RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS
• 17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS
• FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT
• MONDAIRE JON JOS RCHIE TORR AS FIRST GAY BLACK MEN ELECTED TO CONGRS
• GAY REPUBLIN OFFICIALS MAKE HISTORY NEW YORK. THEY DON’T RE ABOUT “INTY POLICS.”

IN A POLIL FIRST, TWO GAY NDIDAT FACE OFF NGRSNAL ELECTN

At least 1, 095 lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer people have n or are still nng for office at all levels this year, up om 1, 006 2020, acrdg to data om the LGBTQ Victory Fund. In New York, two gay ndidat — Democrat Robert Zimmerman and Republin Gee Santos — are nng to fill the seat vated by Democrat Tom Suozzi New York’s 3rd Congrsnal District. Hoe, acrdg to the LGBTQ Victory this race guaranteed to rult a w for a gay ndidate, the oute of the electn will help terme whether Democrats hang on to their slim majory the Hoe.

FIRST OPENLY GAY REPUBLIN ELECTED TO HOE WON LI SEAT WH ‘MON SENSE’ MSAGE

'It was gog to happen sooner of later'The odds of a faceoff between two gay ndidat have gone up recent years, bee there’s been an crease LGBTQ ndidat at all levels of ernment.

“It was gog to happen sooner or later, ” said Donald Hair-Markel, a polil science profsor at the Universy of Kansas and the thor of “Out and Runng: Gay and Lbian Candidat, Electns and Policy Reprentatn. Patrick McMullan via Getty Imag fileZimmerman slammed Santos for his support of former Print Donald Tmp, who he said advoted a “homophobic, bigoted, ” agenda. “I’ve been approached by so many parents of gay kids, ” Zimmerman said.

“The ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bills have a chillg effect well beyond the borrs of Florida, ” he add, referrg to Florida’s Parental Rights Edutn law, which lims classroom stctn on sexual orientatn and genr inty. “I am an openly gay ndidate. “I am not for the state oversteppg the church, ” he Republins voted for the Rpect for Marriage Act the Hoe, and Santos said “that shows that the Republin party is far om homophobic.

THE MOST FAMO GAY POLICIANS

“The issue is not that both of are gay, ” Zimmerman said. Most are Democrats, and anti-Tmp fervor spurred many to Kirkpatrick for The New York TimThe number of gay, lbian, bisexual and transgenr elected officials has ntued to surge, growg by about 17 percent the last year to nearly 1, 000 natnwi — more than double the number jt four years ago, acrdg to a new annual ranks now clu two ernors, two Uned Stat senators, ne members of Congrs, 189 state legislators and 56 mayors, acrdg to the report om the L.

Parker was one of the first openly gay mayors of a major Amerin is the fifth year that the stute has surveyed the natn, and total L. The first openly gay Republin elected to Congrs said he won a Long Island Hoe seat by nng a “mon sense” platform.

RCHIE TORR BE FIRST GAY AO LATO ELECTED TO CONGRS

Santos will bee the first openly gay Republin elected to the Hoe — a handful of other ndidat me out after they were elected. His Democratic opponent, Robert Zimmerman, also is gay. But one LGBT activist argued was a “disgrace” for an out gay person to align himself wh the Republin Party that has fought agast gay rights.

17 GAY SEX SNDALS THAT ROCKED AMERIN POLICS

I., and the first openly gay mayor of a state pal -- has reprented Rho Island's First Congrsnal District sce 2011.

She mak history as Kansas's first LGBTQ member of Congrs and the first gay Native Amerin woman elected to Congrs. Gay ngrsman Sean Patrick Maloney won reelectn 2018 to ntue reprentg New York's 18th District. Mark Pon is a gay polician and former small-bs owner who first took office the U.

Published on April 14, 2015 at 11:54 am by Lists Homosexualy has been a source of discrimatn for s, but the most famo gay policians have proven that your sexual orientatn don’t have to stand the way of your profsnal succs. Although the social stigma regard homosexuals is still very much at large nservative stat of the U. Some of the wealthit photographers the world, which we featured a prev article, are openly gay and even foc their work on addrsg the issue of social discrimatn.

FIRST NGRSNAL RACE BETWEEN TWO GAY NOME MARKS PROGRS FOR LGBTQ NDIDAT

), where genr and sexualy are mostly explored wh an open md, policians n be very scpulo, g homosexualy as a weapon to stroy someone’s public image. So, let’s take a look at the most famo gay policians and how they’ve managed to uphold their reer by stayg te to themselv.

She was already open about her sexual orientatn at that time and went on to bee the first gay person to be elected the Hoe of Reprentativ.

MONDAIRE JON JOS RCHIE TORR AS FIRST GAY BLACK MEN ELECTED TO CONGRS

Barney Frank As the first member of Congrs to publicly announce his homosexualy 1987, the U. Reprentative of Rho Island’s 1st ngrsnal district sce 2010 is a firm believer openg up the bate on gay rights the untry.

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GAY REPUBLIN OFFICIALS MAKE HISTORY NEW YORK. THEY DON’T RE ABOUT “INTY POLICS.”

State pal durg his time as the Mayor of Province, Rho Island, was highly enuragg for homosexual policians.