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Obama also appointed the first openly LGBT judge of a federal court of appeals, Todd M. Hughes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. [146] [148] The first openly LGBT justice of a state supreme court was Rives Kistler, appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court in 2003, and retained by voters the following year. [149]
National Assembly – Sandra Alvarez – 2009, first openly LGBT substitute lawmaker. Minister of Health: Carina Vance Mafla – 2012 [61] National Assembly – Diane Marie Rodríguez Zambrano – 2017 [62] [63] [First transgender woman substitute lawmaker] Mayor of Pujilí – José Arroyo Cabrera – 2023, first openly LGBT mayor in Ecuador. [64]
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]
Laura Clellan was appointed as the first openly LGBT Adjutant General of the Colorado National Guard. [348] Benson from Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts became the first character to have an explicit coming out as gay in an all-ages animation series. [349] Stormie Forte became the first openly LGBT woman to serve on the Raleigh City Council.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Harvard University announced Thursday that the 52-year-old dean of the school’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences will become its next president, first Black leader and the second woman ever to hold ...