National Politics

In celebration of LGBTQ Pride Month and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, DNC Chair Tom Perez, DNC LGBTQ Caucus Chair Earl Fowlkes, Treasurer William Derrough, and Secretary Jason Rae released the following statement: “As we begin LGBTQ Pride...

Fresh off helping elect the largest number of LGBTQ members Congress has ever seen, the Democratic National Committee will host its 20th Annual LGBTQ Gala in New York City on June 17. Attending the event will be DNC Chair Tom...

Jane Castor easily beat her opponent in the Tampa mayoral runoff Tuesday night and became the first openly LGBTQ person elected mayor of a top 100 city in the Southeastern United States. Castor, a former Tampa police chief, is the...

Mayor Pete Buttigieg Is First Openly LGBTQ Democratic Presidential Candidate in U.S. History WASHINGTON, D.C. – Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially launched his presidential candidacy before a crowd of thousands in his hometown city of South Bend, Indiana on Sunday. The...

Lori Lightfoot won in Chicago, Satya Rhodes-Conway won in Madison, and Jolie Justus placed in her primary and will advance to the general Lesbian mayoral candidates won big victories, on Tuesday, in Chicago, Kansas City and Madison – raising the...

Lori Lightfoot of Chicago would become the highest-ranking LGBTQ mayor in US history Washington, DC – Four lesbian mayoral candidates in top 100 cities are well-positioned to win their races and make LGBTQ history this year – all of them...

South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg announced, on Wednesday, his decision to form an exploratory committee for a 2020 presidential run. If Buttigieg officially declares, he will immediately become a stand-out in the crowded field of candidates as the first...

Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, a Democrat from Hawaii, announced over the weekend that she's running for president in 2020. Rep. Gabbard, who was first elected to Congress in 2012, was a major in the Army National Guard, Iraq veteran, and served...

WASHINGTON, DC – The LGBTQ Victory Fund has released a demographic and informational breakdown of the 432 openly LGBTQ candidates on the Nov. 6th ballot – looking at sexual orientation, gender identity, race/ethnicity, office level, party affiliation, and the equality...

It's taken six days of counting but Rep. Kyrsten Sinema has prevailed in her bid to become Arizona’s next U.S. Senator. Sinema is the first openly bisexual person elected to the U.S. Senate and will be the first woman and...

Eight openly LGBTQ candidates have won their races for the U.S. House and one will head to a recount – ensuring a historic number of openly LGBTQ candidates in the U.S. Congress next year. Three of the LGBTQ candidates...

Oregon Governor Kate Brown won an historic re-election late Tuesday night. The Democrat, who is bisexual, is one of two openly LGBTQ persons to be elected governor in U.S. history. Under Brown’s leadership as governor, Oregon has protected LGBTQ youth...

Openly LGBTQ candidate Angie Craig defeated incumbent U.S. Representative Jason Lewis tonight – one of the most sexist and anti-LGBTQ members of the U.S. Congress and a key pickup seat for Democrats. Craig also made history, becoming the first openly...

Massachusetts voters tonight supported a “Yes” vote on Question 3, upholding the state’s transgender nondiscrimination law and becoming the first state in United States history to successfully defend basic protections for their transgender neighbors at the ballot box. “Massachusetts made...

Tonight Sharice Davids became the first Native woman elected to U.S. Congress and the first openly LGBTQ U.S. Congress member from Kansas. Davids ran on a platform to ensure every student has access to public education, every American has access...

Tonight Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis became the next governor of Colorado and the nation’s first openly gay man elected governor. For the past decade, Polis has earned a perfect score on every Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Congressional Scorecard —...

Tonight Democratic U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin won her re-election bid in Wisconsin over Republican challenger Leah Vukmir. Baldwin is the first openly gay U.S. senator and the first woman elected to the chamber from Wisconsin. Throughout her public...

In a new video titled “Because It Matters,” some of the world's most recognizable women urge people to make a plan to vote in the upcoming midterm elections on November 6. The ad features many stage, screen, television, and social...

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGTBQ) media advocacy organization, has released the findings of its first-ever ‘Electing Acceptance’ candidate survey. The survey is the only national candidate survey dedicated to LGBTQ acceptance and includes responses...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This weekend, with less than 25 days until Election Day, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, is launching a National Weekend of Action to...