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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 ...
First Black LGBT member of Columbus City Council and first openly LGBT Council President [190] Sherry Harris: Washington: Seattle City Council (1992-1995) First openly gay Black woman elected to public office in the U.S. Mary Jo Hudson: Democratic: Ohio: Columbus City Council (2004-2007)
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 .
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.
Member of Congress – Sandra Morán – 2016 [66] [First lesbian female congressperson] Member of Congress – Aldo Dávila – 2020 [67] [68] [First gay male congressperson] Member of Central American Parliament – José Carlos Hernández Ruano − 2020 [69] [70] [First Guatemalan gay male parliamentarian]
Democrat Emily Randall was projected to win her bid for Washington’s 6th Congressional District Tuesday, making history as the first woman and openly LGBTQ person elected to represent the ...
This is a list of the first openly LGBTQ people to have held political office in the United States. No openly LGBT person has served as president or vice president of the United States or as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. However, all 50 states have elected openly LGBT people to political office in some capacity and 48 ...
New Hampshire House of Representatives, Rockingham 18th District 2018–2022 [24] Sarah McBride: Democratic Delaware: Delaware Senate: 2021–2025 First transgender member of a state Senate, elected in November 2020. [27] [28] Stephanie Byers: Democratic Kansas: Kansas House of Representatives, 86th district 2021–2023