Tag Archives: gay politicians

The nation’s first lesbian-run Super-PAC has launched a fundraiser for Rep. Tammy Baldwin, who would become the first-ever openly gay member of the U.S. Senate should she be elected. —Tammy is under attack from anti-women, anti-choice, and anti-equality forces.—Secret groups funded by the Koch brothers, the US Chamber of Commerce, and Karl Rove have already spent millions of dollars attacking …

Former HRC staffer Trevor Thomas lost his U.S. House bid in Michigan’s Democratic primary on Tuesday. Paul Schindler reports at Gay City News: Thomas, who is 28, had hoped to face off in November against Justin Amash, a 32-year-old freshman Republican congressman who won election in 2010 as a Tea Party darling, but was defeated by a margin of 56-44 …

Manhattan Community Board 4 (Chelsea) chair Corey Johnson has published a 500-name list of backers in his campaign for City Council. Politicker reports: West side City Council candidate Corey Johnson can safely be claimed the early front-runner in the race to replace Christine Quinn, having already maxed out in fundraising and now rolling a rather impressive list of over 500 …

On Monday I reported about the U.S. House candidacy of openly gay former Massachusetts state Sen. Richard Tisei, who is working to unseat scandal-plagued eight-term Democrat John Tierney. Today Tisei’s camp issued an ecstatic press release noting that Roll Call has now moved the MA-6 district into the toss-up category. A bigger version of the above map is here. Two …

Former Massachusetts state Sen. Richard Tisei wants to be the first (*non-incumbent) openly gay Republican elected to Congress. Tisei, whose campaign issues page makes no mention of LGBT causes [Updated correction below], has been endorsed by the Victory Fund. But this is Massachusetts, where Democrats outnumber Republicans 3 to 1. Few places in the state are as Democratic as Lynn, …

Openly gay NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn is bucking the lead of her boss Mayor Bloomberg, who yesterday said that he would not stand in the way of Chick-Fil-A opening new franchises in the five boroughs. Via press release from the City Council: City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn responded today to Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy’s recent anti-gay remarks, stating …

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San Diego activists have launched a Facebook group calling on locals to “turn your back” on homocon mayoral candidate Carl DeMaio during this weekend’s gay pride parade. Carl DeMaio has turned his back on the LGBT community, accepting plenty of Yes on 8 money and making promises to “…not push the gay agenda issues…” in exchange for campaign aid from …

Denis Dison has the details at the Victory Fund’s Gay Politics blog: Dan Savage and the producing team behind the “It Gets Better” documentary specials for MTV and Logo have announced a new project that will examine openly LGBT political candidates and how they prepare to run for office. Filmmakers have been granted unprecedented access to the LGBT Candidate and …

“After 2 ½ years of campaigning as a candidate for President of the United States I am officially ending my historic campaign today June 29, 2012. It’s been one hell of a ride, and I want to thank the thousands of people across this country who volunteered, contributed, opened their homes, came to our events and cheered me on. Special …

Openly gay candidate Sean Patrick Maloney won yesterday’s Democratic primary for the U.S. House. With most of the votes counted at 11:30 p.m., Maloney had won 48.3 percent of the votes cast in the four counties that will make up New York’s newly redrawn 18th Congressional District starting next year. Westchester County cardiologist Richard Becker came in second with 32.5 …

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The Maryland State’s Attorneys’ Association has named openly gay Rep. Luke Clippinger as its legislator of the year. You may recall that Clippinger fed us constant emailed updates directly from the House floor as Maryland battled for marriage equality. Hurrah!

On Tuesday Carl DeMaio won the mayoral primary, becomes San Diego’s first-ever openly gay finalist for the office. But his candidacy has divided the city’s LGBT population. Despite his sexual orientation, DeMaio has not won the full support of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community, in part because he never took a stance on Proposition 8, the ballot measure …

New York Sen. Tom Duane, the nation’s only openly gay and openly HIV-positive state legislator has announced his retirement. On Monday, Mr. Duane, a Democrat, will announce his decision to call it quits, opening up the seat in a district that stretches from the Upper West Side to Greenwich Village, and across to the East Village. No, it is not …

New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will publish her memoir early next year when she (presumably) will be in full mayoral campaign mode. Bloomberg did the same thing just before he was elected. But while Mr. Bloomberg’s book was largely for a business audience, Ms. Quinn’s is intended to be more personal, describing, among other things, her upbringing in …

Twenty-four hour local news channel NY1 filed a Freedom Of Information request to obtain the 2011 schedule of NYC Council Speaker Christine Quinn, the presumptive leader in the 2013 mayoral election. What they got back was a list that included over 600 hours of blackened appointments. They could be instances when she goes to spinning class in TriBeCa. They could …