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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 the Puerto Rico House of Representatives [46] Kyle Bailey: Democratic Maine: Maine House of Representatives (2020–2021) Tammy Baldwin (born 1962) Democratic Wisconsin: Wisconsin State Assembly (1993-1999) First openly lesbian woman elected to Wisconsin Legislature. Becca Balint (born 1968) Democratic Vermont ...
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
Democrat Julie Johnson was elected to represent Texas’s 32nd District in US Congress
In 1999, Baldwin became the first openly lesbian woman elected to Congress when she joined the House of Representatives. She made history again as the first openly LGBTQ+ senator when she embraced ...
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.
Julie Johnson was projected to win her election Tuesday for Texas’s 32nd Congressional District, making history as the first openly LGBTQ person to represent Texas in Congress and the first ...
[1] [2] The caucus is chaired by the most senior member and is co-chaired by nine of the United States House of Representatives' ten current openly LGBT members; during the 118th Congress, the caucus is chaired by Representative Mark Pocan and is co-chaired by representatives Becca Balint, Angie Craig, Sharice Davids, Robert Garcia, Chris ...