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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 ...
Member of the Assembly of Madrid – Carla Antonelli – 2011 [207] [First transgender woman and LGBT rights activist who was instrumental in the approval of the Spanish Gender Identity Law.] Member of the Corts Valencianes – Fran Ferri (spokesman of Coalició Compromís ) – 2011 [ 208 ]
The Society for Human Rights, the first gay rights organization in the United States (West Third), was established. [12] The Society for Human Rights began publication of Friendship and Freedom, the first American gay publication. [13] The first issue of Die Freundin (The Girlfriend) was published; it was the first lesbian magazine worldwide. [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 ...
The 118th Congress set the record for having the most LGBTQ representation in U.S. history, with 13 legislators openly identifying as gay, lesbian or bisexual.
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]
This is a list of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans people who have been the head of state or government of a country or a subnational division such as a state, a province, or a territory. Openly LGBT people have served as national heads of state or government in Andorra , Belgium , France , Iceland , Ireland , Latvia , Luxembourg , San ...
Today, GLBT and LGBT are interchangeable, but LGBT is more frequently used in the advocacy space. Slowly but surely, prominent figures in political and pop culture moved the normalization of the ...