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Pete Buttigieg, first major political party candidate for president; before that mayor of South Bend – publicly announced that he was gay in 2015, [119] while in his first term in office; first openly LGBT executive official in Indiana. [120] Veronica Pejril – Indiana's first transgender elected official, Greencastle city council, elected ...
City Council (Guanajuato, Guanajuato) – Rubí Suárez Araujo – 2016 [first transgender city councillor and first openly transgender woman in political office] [76] [77] [78] City Council (Durango City, Durango) – Ezequiel García Torres – 2017 [First openly gay male]
First openly bisexual person to be elected secretary of state in American history and Oregon's first out LGBT constitutional officer. Succeeded to the governor's office upon the resignation of John Kitzhaber (D); subsequently elected in her own right in 2016. Brown is thus the first openly LGBT person to be elected governor in the U.S. [14]
Pocan is openly gay and the first LGBTQ member of Congress to replace another LGBTQ member of Congress (Tammy Baldwin) and the first non-incumbent in a same-sex marriage elected to Congress. [1] [4] [6] [37] Kyrsten Sinema: Democratic: Arizona: January 3, 2013: January 3, 2019: 6 years, 0 days Sinema was the first openly bisexual member of ...
Politicians who were closeted while in office and never officially came out or were outed only after their deaths or retirement include: Frederick the Great , King of Prussia between 1740 and 1786, was officially married to Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern , but he is considered to have been homosexual by most historians.
Several politicians marked historic firsts in the 2024 election. Donald Trump is the first convicted felon to be elected president. Sarah McBride of Delaware was elected as the first transgender ...
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Swann was the first American on record who pursued legal and political action to defend the LGBTQ community's right to assemble. [49] During the 1880s and 1890s, Swann organized a series of drag balls in Washington, D.C. Swann was arrested in police raids numerous times, including in the first documented case of arrests for female impersonation ...