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As of January 2025, 37 members of the LGBTQ community are known to have held office in the United States Congress. In the House, 33 LGBTQ people held office; in the Senate, 4 held office. Two people, Tammy Baldwin and Kyrsten Sinema, served in the House and were later elected into the
United States Ambassador to Nepal (2018–2022) United States Ambassador to Namibia (2023–2024) First United States Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTI Persons. [7] [8] Scott Bessent (born 1962) Republican: 2025 present Secretary of the Treasury (2025–present) Highest ranking LGBTQ government official to date. Pete Buttigieg (born ...
On January 20, 2025, an executive order was passed by president Donald Trump the United States government removing all federal protections for transgender individuals, or recognition of transgender people, with transgender people being completely written out of the law. The order defines said genders as male and female and states that official ...
List of LGBT heads of government; List of LGBT holders of political offices in the Netherlands; List of LGBT members of the United States Congress; List of LGBT politicians in Canada; List of LGBT politicians in France; List of LGBT politicians in Germany; List of LGBT politicians in Spain; List of LGBT politicians in the United Kingdom
LGBTQ rights are mentioned only a few times in the GOP’s 2024 platform, which the Republican National Convention will vote on this week. The platform says Republicans want to “keep men out of ...
This is a list of the first openly LGBTQ people to have held political office in the United States. No openly LGBT person has served as president or vice president of the United States or as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. However, all 50 states have elected openly LGBT people to political office in some capacity and 48 ...
While the Biden administration advanced or protected LGBTQ rights at the federal level, several Republican-run states have curtailed access to gender-affirming care. Many transgender people say ...
In the longer term, advocates and supporters of the LGBTQ community are backing the proposed Fair and Equal Housing Act, which would amend current civil rights law to ban discrimination on the ...