LGBTQ Candidates Record Midterm Wins In Rainbow Wave
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Source: Huff Post
By Dominique Mosbergen, 3 hrs. ago.
The 2018 midterm elections gave momentous victories to America's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer community.
A record number of LGBTQ candidates ran for office this year, and more than 240 ― an unprecedented number ― won their primaries. On Election Day, several of them made history, including the first openly gay man to be elected governor; New Hampshire's first gay congressman; and a Native American lesbian who won a House seat in Kansas, becoming the first queer person to represent the state in Congress.
Here are some of the biggest LGBTQ wins from election night: Jared Polis from Colorado becomes the first gay man to be elected governor in the U.S. The five-term Democratic congressman and father of two defeated Republican state Treasurer Walker Stapleton, a second cousin of former President George W. Bush. Polis, whose first child was born in 2011, was the first openly gay parent in the Congress.
"Tonight, Colorado rejected the Trump-Pence administration's politics of bigotry and fear by choosing bold pro-equality champion Jared Polis, the nation's first openly gay man elected governor," Chad Griffin, Human Rights Campaign president, said in a statement. "For nearly a decade in Congress, Polis fought to advance fairness and equality in Colorado and across America.
Sharice Davids becomes first LGBTQ person and Native American to represent Kansas in Congress. -More...
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Jared Polis, the first openly gay man elected governor (COLO).
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