Candidates for mayoral office, state legislative seats, and even one spot on the court bench won elections Tuesday night. Pictured, from left: Eddie Sundquist, Eliz Markowitz, and Danica Roem.
A rainbow wave on Tuesday night carried at least 100 openly LGBTQ candidates to victory in political races across the United States.
Eighty-three of the winners declared so far were endorsed by the LGBTQ Victory Fund, with victories in 73 local elections, five state legislative races, four mayoral elections, and one judicial race, making November 5, 2019 a historic occasion. Wins by other out candidates (not all out candidates meet Victory Fund’s standards for endorsement, which include viability) brought Tuesday’s total to 100 (out of 200 openly LGBTQ candidates who ran). Several other races are undecided or will go to runoffs, so the numbers may go higher.
With Tuesday’s results added to those of elections earlier in the year, at least 145 out candidates have won office this year, the most ever in an odd-numbered election year, Victory Fund reports. A total of 382 out candidates have run for office this year, and of those, 176 were endorsed by Victory Fund. Most out candidates have run as Democrats.
Among the out candidates ore men ran than women in the year to date, but women had a higher rate of success, with 46.2 percent of women winning and 36.9 percent of men. The winners have included a diverse mix of gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, pansexuals, transgender people, and those identifying as queer.
Victories included reelecting all five sitting LGBTQ state lawmakers in Virginia, most notably Danica Roem.
Pennsylvania voters elected Tiffany Palmer, a queer attorney in Philadelphia, to the Common Pleas Court, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Eddie Sundquist, a gay man, was elected mayor of Jamestown, N.Y., according to The Post-Journal. Doraville, Ga., Mayor Joseph Geierman, College Park, Md., Mayor Patrick Wojahn, and Carrboro, N.C., Mayor Lydia Lavelle, all LGBTQ officeholders, won reelection.
Lesbian Eliz Markowitz, a Democrat, ended up as the top vote-getter in a special election for an open Texas House of Representatives seat, according to The Texas Tribune. She’s not done running just yet; she will face Republican Gary Gates in a runoff, as no candidate received a majority of the vote. She finished with 39 percent of the vote to Gates’s 28 percent, though Markowitz was the only Democrat running in the Tuesday election while Gates was one of three Republicans. The runoff will probably be held in December or January.
Progress is finally being made, but so much more is still needed! Out LGBTQ representatives in all levels of government need to number proportionately to the share of LGBTQ amongst the general population. I praise our Lord for finally blessing ALL of us with recognition of spiritus diversity. God made LGBTQ people too!
Damn 11:39, I can’t even type my response. ??
HE may have made them but doesn’t approve of what they are
LOL 2:53. That sure seems dumb. God made them, but doesn’t approve them? How do you stand up when your head is spinning so much?
I ….. yes I….. the Mayor King of Slumsbury made it to Annapolis being a GAY MAN.
He made them but he doesn’t approve of what they are doing and their lifestyle. They are disgustingly sickening. Love the sinner……………hate the sin.
yes God made them, man and woman! by rejecting God and our Lord’s teachings they show what they truly are demonic! I dont understand why people vote for someone who clearly suffers from mental illness!
you get what you deserve!
Lick them the Hell out of our country !!!! Sick – O’s !!!!!
Kick them the Hell out of our country !!!! Sick – O’s !!!!!
It’s okay………to not be gay!