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LGBTQ Candidates Made Strides in 2020 Elections By Joanne Georges , PC Board Member
Despite the stress and nearly week-long wait for final ballot counts, this year’s election cycle yielded huge wins and historical gains for LGBTQ candidates. Over 220 openly LGBTQ candidates won congressional, federal, and local elections. Thanks to the tireless efforts of grassroots campaigning and organizations like the LGBTQ Victory Fund, these candidates are paving the way for LGBTQ visibility and rights. The 2020 election year carried at least 1006 LGBTQ candidates running for office, according to The Conversation. Just 0.17 percent of roughly half-million officials are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. These recent wins show the needle is moving slowly but surely toward “equitable representation,” as summarized by the LGBTQ Victory Institute. Here are just 10 of the newly elected rainbow officials: “Rainbow and American Flags” by Tony Webster is licensed under CC BY 2.0
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Sarah McBride won a seat in the Delaware state senate. She made history as the highest-ranking transgender elected official and the first openly transgender person to serve in a state Senate.
Kim Jackson won a seat in the Georgia State Senate as the first lesbian and openly LGBTQ state senator in Georgia. Jackson is now the third openly LGBTQ Black female state Senator in the US.
Shevrin Jones now represents the 35th District to the Florida State Senate and as the state’s first out LGBTQ+ state Senator. He is among the only out Black men serving in the US State Senate, a distinction shared with Jabari Brisport in New York. CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 commUNITY FALL 2020
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