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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 ...
The 2019 American Values Atlas by the Public Religion Research Institute found that of all Americans that identify as LGBT, 51% were White Americans while 21% were Hispanic Americans and 13% were African Americans. The same study found that 23% of LGBT Americans identify as Protestant while 13% identify as Catholic. [62]
First openly LGBT mayor of a top 10 American city (by population) [169] Ty Penserga: Democratic: Florida: Mayor of Boynton Beach, Florida (2022–present) [170] Kenneth Reeves (born 1951) Democratic: Massachusetts: Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts (1992–1995; 2006–2007) First openly gay Black person to serve as Mayor in the United States [171]
A March Gallup poll found that 7.6% of the U.S. population is LGBTQ, and there are 519,682 elected positions, the Victory Institute report found, meaning the country would need to elect 38,193 ...
The LGBTQ Victory Institute's Out For America report, released Thursday, tallies 843 openly LGBTQ elected officials across all levels of government at present, up from 417 in June 2016.
The number of LGBTQ elected officials grew by nearly 6% last year, according to the LGBTQ Victory Institute, which trains and advocates for queer political. ... 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us.
LGBT acceptance had shown slow improvement in the 19th century and first half of the 20th century. The first documented gay rights organization in American, the Society for Human Rights, was founded in Chicago in 1924 by Henry Gerber, a German-American activist inspired by the progress made by Magnus Hirschfeld in Berlin. [8]
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.