Tag Archives: gay politicians

NYT: How LGBTQ Voters Could Help Flip CA House Seat

The New York Times reports: Tucked away in the California desert, where windmills line the sprawling hills and rainbows adorn the crosswalks, a sizable progressive L.G.B.T.Q. community has turned a once reliably Republican stronghold into a battleground in the fight for control of Congress, giving Democrats hope for picking up a House seat that has long been beyond their reach. …

Read More »

Openly Gay Becca Balint Wins Vermont House Primary

NBC News reports: Becca Balint, Vermont’s state Senate president, has won the Democratic nomination for the state’s at-large congressional seat, NBC News projects. The victory makes her likely to become the first woman to represent the heavily Democratic state in Congress. Vermont is the only state that has never had a female member of its congressional delegation. Balint, a state …

Read More »

57 LGBTQ Candidates Are Running For Congress

Axios reports: A record number of LGBTQ candidates are running for all levels of office this year, motivated in part by red states passing scores of laws targeting LGBTQ people. LGBTQ voters are among the fastest-growing parts of the electorate, and also have higher turnout than other voters. Yet there are only 11 out LGBTQ lawmakers serving in Congress. At …

Read More »

VIRAL VIDEO: Gay MO Rep Rages At GOP Author Of Anti-Trans Bill: “I Grew Up Afraid Of People Like You”

The Springfield News-Leader reports: Local school districts in Missouri would be able to call elections on whether to ban transgender athletes from youth sports under a bill given initial approval by the House on Wednesday evening. A bill originally designed to audit the state’s voter rolls and tweak elections laws was amended by Rep. Chuck Basye, a Rocheport Republican, to …

Read More »

Lesbian VT State Senator Launches Bid For US House

VT Digger reports: Becca Balint, the president pro tempore of the Vermont Senate, is running for the state’s lone seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, she announced Monday morning. Balint joins Lt. Gov. Molly Gray in the Democratic primary to succeed U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., who is vacating his House seat to run for the U.S. Senate. No …

Read More »

Incoming Salt Lake City Council To Be Majority LGBTQ

The Salt Lake Tribune reports: The incoming Salt Lake City Council is historic — in multiple ways. For the first time, most of the members — four of the seven — are racial and ethnic minorities. And for the first time, a majority — again four — are openly LGBTQ. “It is different to have a government that makes decisions …

Read More »

Brazilian Presidential Candidate Comes Out As Gay

The Guardian reports: One of Brazil’s leading politicians, the presidential hopeful Eduardo Leite, has announced he is gay – a rare move celebrated by many as a triumph over prejudice in a country whose president has declared himself a proud homophobe. Leite, the 36-year-old governor of the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, made the announcement on Thursday night …

Read More »

Gay Florida State Rep Launches Bid For US House

Tampa’s Fox News affiliate reports: Another Democrat is tossing their hat in the ring for the District 13 seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Civil rights attorney and state lawmaker Michele Rayner announced her candidacy Monday morning in Largo with little fanfare, surrounded by a small group of family and supporters at her family’s church. Rayner was elected to …

Read More »

Amazon Studios Picks Up “Mayor Pete” Documentary

Variety reports: If there were any doubt that Hollywood is still enamored with former presidential candidate and current U.S. Secretary of Transportation, Pete Buttigieg, look no further than the heavyweight filmmakers and top distributor who will mount the story of his historic presidential campaign. “Mayor Pete,” directed by Jesse Moss, the co-director of last year’s “Boys State” and director of …

Read More »

PA State Rep. Brian Sims Launches Bid For Lt Governor

New Now Next reports: Pennsylvania lawmaker Brian Sims made headlines back in 2012 when he became the first openly gay man elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature. Now he’s looking to make history again by announcing his run for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania. “I have a lot of hope when I look at the people across the country that decided …

Read More »

Greece Appoints Its First Openly Gay Cabinet Minister

The Independent reports: Greece has appointed its first openly gay minister as part of a cabinet reshuffle. Nicholas Yatromanolakis made history after he was named the new deputy minister of culture on Monday. The 44-year-old was promoted from his role as general secretary of contemporary culture at the same department. The appointment which made him the first openly gay minister …

Read More »

Biden To Name Buttigieg As Transportation Secretary

The Washington Post reports: President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Pete Buttigieg to be his secretary of transportation, elevating the onetime rival to a key role in the incoming administration’s push to rebuild American infrastructure and the economy, according to three people familiar with the decision. The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed …

Read More »

Black Gay Progressive Mondaire Jones Wins House Bid

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: It’s official: Voters in New York have gave final approval Tuesday night to U.S. House candidates Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres, making them the first openly gay Black candidates elected to Congress. Jones was elected in New York’s 15th congressional district in the Bronx and Torres prevailed in New York’s 17th congressional district …

Read More »

Ritchie Torres Becomes First Black Gay US House Rep

Buzzfeed News reports: Democratic Rep.-elect Ritchie Torres made history Tuesday night, becoming the first openly gay Black person elected to Congress. In June, Torres won the primary to replace retiring Rep. José Serrano in New York’s 15th District. Decision Desk HQ called the race in the heavily Democratic district soon after the polls closed in the general election. Mondaire Jones, …

Read More »

NYC Council Speaker Drops Bid To Succeed De Blasio

The New York Times reports: Corey Johnson, the New York City Council speaker and a presumed front-runner in the 2021 contest to replace Mayor Bill de Blasio, withdrew from the race on Thursday. Mr. Johnson, who was expected to announce his decision on Thursday afternoon, had been grappling for weeks about whether to continue his candidacy. “I have made the …

Read More »

Buttigieg To Launch Podcast: “The Deciding Decade”

South Bend’s ABC News affiliate reports: Former South Bend Mayor and presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg is launching a podcast, he announced on Wednesday. The new podcast will be called “The Deciding Decade” and will be released by iHeartMedia. “We know that this, the first year of the 2020s, has been one of chaos and anguish,” Buttigieg said in the announcement …

Read More »

UNSCHOCKING: Homocon Aaron Schock Comes Out

Posted today to Schock’s Instagram page: I am gay. For those who know me and for many who only know of me, this will come as no surprise. For the past year, I have been working through a list of people who I felt should finally hear the news directly from me before I made a public statement. The fact …

Read More »

IRELAND: Gay PM Resigns After Election Stalemate

The Guardian reports: Leo Varadkar has resigned as taoiseach after Ireland’s hung parliament entered deadlock over the choice of a new premier. Varadkar submitted his resignation to Michael D Higgins, the president of Ireland, on Thursday night after a tempestuous but inconclusive sitting of Dáil Éireann, which met for the first time since the 8 February election. It adjourned until …

Read More »

POLAND: Leftists Tap Gay Man To Run For President

Agence France-Press reports: Poland’s left-wing parties on Tuesday approved Robert Biedron, an openly gay politician, as their candidate in the May presidential election. The move in the conservative, predominantly Catholic country where same-sex unions are not recognised, was aimed at preserving democracy, they said. Leaders in the Lewica (Left) alliance said they chose Biedron because of his clear backing for …

Read More »

POLL: 50% Say They’re “Ready” For A Gay President

Politico reports: As the Democratic Party fields its first serious presidential contender who is openly gay, half of American voters say that they personally are ready for a gay or lesbian president, but are split about whether the country as a whole is ready. According to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll of registered voters, 50 percent of respondents said they were …

Read More »