Rainbow Wave: The LGBTQ Election Winners 🎉
Amazing news: A historic Number Of LGBTQ Candidates Won Primaries In 2018 Midterms! Over 100! We also won YES on 3 in Massachusetts, to protect transgender accommodations. Check out some of the LGBTQ winners below!
Tammy Baldwin
America’s first and only openly LGBTQ senator reelected
Teri Johnston
First-ever lesbian mayor of Key West
Brian Sims
Out Pennsylvania state legislator reelected
Jared Polis
First openly gay man elected to governor
Sharice Davids
First ever out lesbian Native America woman on Congress
Megan Hunt
First openly LGBTQ person, who is bisexual, to win State Legislature in Nebraska
Betsy Driver
The First Intersex Mayor of a U.S. City
Kate Brown
Openly LGBTQ person reelected to Governor of Oregon by just 7 votes
JD Ford
Indiana’s First Openly Gay State Lawmaker
Brandon Woodard
Openly gay candidate took a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives
Susan Ruiz
Openly gay candidate took a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives
Gavin Newsom
Next governor of California
Julie Johnson
Out lesbian Julie Johnson unseated the Republican rep. in Texas House of Representatives
And as a MAJOR bonus…
77-year-old Althea Garrison will become the first openly trans person to be seated on the Boston City Council
View all the winning LGBTQ candidates on NBCnews.com
This article was updated Nov 8, 2018 at 8:34 PM
Cover photo from: famousdc.com
