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ISSUE 314
| AUGUST, 2020
news The top national and world news since last issue you should know
LGBTQ people “continue to be severely underrepresented.” With 4.5 percent of the population, 0.17 percent of 510,000 elected positions in the U.S. are filled by LGBTQ people. There remains a partisan divide. In 2018, 438 LGBTQ elected officials affiliated with the Democratic Party and only 16 Republicans.
BY CRAIG OGAN
More and more LGBTQ candidates The number of openly LGBTQ elected officials, according to LGBTQ Victory Institute’s Out for America, is up to 843 local, state, and federal officials. That is up from 417 in 2016. There was no Institute guess of the number of “not-openly-LGBTQ” elected officials. The Institute says even with 850 LGBTQ people running for office this year,
Sullivan out at ‘New York Magazine’ Andrew Sullivan, a gay man who was once editor of The New Republic, is leaving his post at New York Magazine. His announcement was overshadowed by the departure of a high-ranking New York Times avowedly “fluid” editor, Bari Weiss, who decried discrimination based on her political
views and ethnicity. His reasons are similar, though he didn’t decry ethnic discrimination. In his last column, he said. “Staff and management at New York Magazine no longer want to associate with me. They seem to believe that any writer not actively committed to critical theory in questions of race, gender, sexual orientation, and gender identity is actively, physically harming co-workers merely by existing in the same virtual space.” Sullivan has taken a mostly “conservative” approach to issues. He did actively support marriage equality, opposed DOMA and DADT, and does not favor the current president’s reelection.
British TERF War Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling started a row years ago with comments questioning accommodations made to transgender women relating to domestic abuse shelters, women’s prisons, and sports. She was criticized as “transphobic” and called a “TERF,” Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, by some activists. It’s gotten so heady that some actors who became very wealthy appearing in her Harry Potter movies have distanced themselves from her. But her magic has cast a spell over Great Britain’s government ministers and its beloved National Health Service, which has funded gender affirmation procedures. The Minister for Women and
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