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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 ...
Evelyn Mantilla came out as America's first openly bisexual state official in 1997 in Connecticut. [198] [199] Patria Jiménez became the first openly gay person to win a position in the Mexican Congress, doing so for the Party of the Democratic Revolution. [200] Jay Fisette became the first openly gay person elected to public office in ...
He became the first openly LGBTQ person to win election to Congress with his reelection in 1984. [4] Robert Bauman: Republican: Maryland: August 21, 1973: January 3, 1981: 7 years, 135 days Bauman was outed as gay in October 1980 while in office, making him the first openly LGBTQ member of Congress. [19] [20] [4] Jon Hinson: Republican ...
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.
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 ...
Democrat Julie Johnson was elected to represent Texas’s 32nd District in US Congress
“In San Francisco, (LGBTQ people) were already a political force and also out, so she understood we are just people much earlier.” Some of Harris’ earliest political advisers were gay, including Jim Rivaldo, who had worked with Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official in California as a San Francisco supervisor. During a recent ...
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]