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With Thomas Duane, one of the two first openly gay members of the New York City Council [206] Annise Parker (born 1956) Democratic: Texas: Houston City Council, at-large member (1998-2004) First openly LGBT council member for a major city in Texas, alongside John Loza (Dallas) [207] Pedro Peters Maldonado: Popular Democratic: Puerto Rico
There are 14 openly LGBTQ members of the current (119th) Congress, all of whom are Democrats. One is a senator and the rest are House representatives. This equals the record highest number of LGBTQ congresspeople serving at the same time in U.S. history, [a] [1] [2] and the 13 openly LGBTQ representatives form the highest number of ...
Pages in category "LGBTQ members of the United States Congress" The following 38 pages are in this category, out of 38 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
For the first time in U.S. history, openly LGBTQ candidates for public office this election cycle ran in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., the LGBTQ Victory Fund announced Wednesday. A record ...
The LGBTQ Victory Institute's Out For America report, released Thursday, tallies 843 openly LGBTQ elected officials across all levels of government at present, up from 417 in June 2016.
U.S. representative (out when first elected), first Native American openly gay member of Congress: Sharice Davids (KS-3) – elected 2018; U.S. representative (out when first elected), first Black openly gay members of Congress: Mondaire Jones (NY-17) and Ritchie Torres (NY-15) – elected 2020
Less than three weeks before Election Day, Odessa Kelly, the Democratic candidate for Congress in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, took time from the campaign trail to attend a counter ...
City Council (member at-large, 2017–2020; 5th district, 2020–present) 2017–present Also served as mayor of Palm Springs in 2021. Althea Garrison: Independent: Boston, Massachusetts Boston City Council, member at-large [d] 2019–2020 Appointed as the at-large representative when Ayanna Pressley was elected to the U.S. House of ...