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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 ...
Amir Ohana was elected Speaker of the Knesset on 29 December, becoming the first openly LGBT person in that position in Israeli history. [486] Davante Lewis became the first openly LGBTQ person elected to state office in Louisiana. [487] [488] Corey Jackson became the first openly gay black person elected to California's state legislature. [489 ...
Sinema was the first openly bisexual member of Congress. [4] [6] [38] Mark Takano: Democratic: California: January 3, 2013: Incumbent 12 years, 44 days Takano is openly gay and the first openly LGBTQ person of color (specifically Asian American) elected to Congress. [1] [6] Angie Craig: Democratic: Minnesota: January 3, 2019: Incumbent 6 years ...
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 ...
At 21, University of Michigan student Kathy Kozachenko made history by becoming the first openly gay elected official in the nation. Now, she fears for the future of LGBTQ rights.
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]
Three LGBTQ women made history Friday when they were sworn in to the 119th Congress. Rep. Sarah McBride, D-Del., became the first openly transgender person elected to Congress; Rep. Emily Randall ...
First openly LGBT Latino person elected to the Florida Legislature. [137] Allan Spear (1937–2008) Democratic (DFL) Minnesota: Minnesota Senate (1973–2001) President of the Minnesota Senate (1993–2001) First openly LGBT person to serve on a state legislature (came out in 1974) and first out presiding officer for a state legislature Pat ...