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Obama also appointed the first openly LGBT judge of a federal court of appeals, Todd M. Hughes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. [146] [148] The first openly LGBT justice of a state supreme court was Rives Kistler, appointed to the Oregon Supreme Court in 2003, and retained by voters the following year. [149]
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 ...
As an openly lesbian woman, Baldwin is the first openly LGBTQ senator. [1] [5] [6] Kyrsten Sinema: Democratic (2019–2022) Arizona: January 3, 2019: January 3, 2025: 6 years, 0 days Sinema was the first openly bisexual senator. [1] [7] Independent (2022–2025) Laphonza Butler: Democratic: California: October 3, 2023: December 8, 2024: 1 year ...
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.
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 ...