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If confirmed, the hedge fund manager would be the highest-ranking openly gay official in US history. Ric Grenell, 58, presidential envoy for special missions. He was Trump’s director of national ...
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 ...
In September 2017, Trump nominated Grenell to become the United States ambassador to Germany. [33] After a significant delay, the United States Senate confirmed Grenell 56 – 42 on April 26, 2018. [4] [34] Grenell was sworn in by Vice President Mike Pence on May 3, 2018, [35] making him the highest-ranking openly gay U.S. ambassador. [36]
U.S. representative (out when first elected), first Native American openly gay member of Congress: Sharice Davids (KS-3) – elected 2018 U.S. representative (out when first elected), first Black openly gay members of Congress: Mondaire Jones (NY-17) and Ritchie Torres (NY-15) – elected 2020
Democrat Julie Johnson was elected to represent Texas’s 32nd District in US Congress
Mr Grenell, the first openly gay member of a presidential cabinet, posted pictures of the event to his Instagram account, describing Ms Trump as “an American treasure” and “electric”.
First openly gay member of the United States Cabinet, albeit in an acting capacity [11] Aditi Hardikar: 2024 2025 Acting Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Management (2024–2025) James Hormel (1933-2021) Democratic: 1999 2001 Ambassador to Luxembourg (1999-2001) First openly LGBT ambassador for the United States [12] Alex Wagner: 2022 2025
‘Growing up, I had never imagined someone like me could run for political office, let alone get elected to Congress,’ Jones tells Gustaf Kilander