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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 openly gay member of Colorado legislature after coming out in 2002 [143] Stephanie Vigil: Democratic Colorado: Colorado House of Representatives (2023–present) First openly Queer elected official from El Paso County, CO [144] Joe Vogel (born 1997) Democratic Maryland: Maryland House of Delegates (2023–present) [145] Keisha Waites ...
In 2000, he became the first openly gay person to address the Republican National Convention, although his speech did not address gay rights. [46] He was the second openly gay Republican to serve in Congress, the first being Steve Gunderson of Wisconsin. [47] In 2013, Kolbe married his partner, Hector Alfonso. [48]
The caucus serves as a resource for Members of Congress, their staffs, and the public on LGBTQ issues. [4] Unlike the Congressional Black Caucus , famous for admitting only black members, the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus admits any member who is willing to advance LGBTQ rights, regardless of their sexual identity or orientation; it has historically ...
U.S. representative (out when first elected), first to succeed another openly gay officeholder in office: Mark Pocan – elected 2012, succeeded Tammy Baldwin; U.S. representative (out when first elected), first non-white and first Asian openly gay member of Congress: Mark Takano (CA-41) – elected 2012
Mondaire Jones, one of the first Black and gay members of Congress, is only 36 years old, but he still looks back at his youth as a different era. “It was tough. It was a different world then ...
Colorado's Jared Polis, who became the first openly gay man in the United States to be elected governor in 2018, has married his longtime partner and first gentleman Marlon Reis, a writer and ...
This is a list of political offices which have been held by a lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender person, with details of the first such holder of each office. It should only list people who came out as LGBT before or during their terms in office; it should not list people who came out only after retiring from politics, or people who were outed by reference sources only after their death.