LGBTQ+ Stories You Should Know About

300 LGBTQ+ Candidates: Meet Our Latest Endorsement Slate!

Yesterday, we released our final endorsements for the 2023 campaign cycle! We’ve endorsed 260 candidates running in the 2023 cycle and 43 candidates running in the 2024 cycle, over 300 LGBTQ+ candidates total! Meet our latest endorsements here.

11 Days Until Election Day in Virginia!

We are only 11 days from Election Day in Virginia (and across the United States, of course). Spotlight candidates Danica Roem and Joshua Cole, who are both running in competitive seats, are hard at work on the campaign trail.

Danica, who’s now running for a state Senate seat, highlighted her record of passing 41 bipartisan bills and clearly outlined her policy positions: boost affordable housing and making school meals free.

Meanwhile, Joshua Cole is out meeting with voters and hearing from them (including stops at local barbershops!). He also hit the doors with fellow Spotlight candidate Adele McClure!

These elections will be essential for both LGBTQ+ rights and for reproductive access across the South, so it’s imperative these pro-equality candidates win!

Meet the New House Speaker: He’s a Bigot!

On Thursday, the U.S. House elected a new Speaker. And his background is, to say the least, alarming. Mike Johnson has made a career out of anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice stances. He once called marriage equality a “harbinger of chaos” and referred to homosexuality as an “abnormal lifestyle”. He also introduced a national “Don’t Say Gay” law!

LGBTQ+ House candidates were quick to call out Johnson’s extremism. In one of our favorite moments, incumbent Rep. Angie Craig used her vote to wish her wife a happy anniversary.

Quick Hits: Get the Headlines Fast

Right now, there are more LGBTQ+ Latinx elected officials serving in public office than ever before. Meet five of the LGBTQ+ Latinx candidates to watch this November!

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin spoke to The 19th about her reelection campaign, her work to reach across the aisle and more. Read the full interview here!

Sarah McBride might be the first out trans person elected to the U.S. Congress, but she doesn’t want to be the last. As she recently told The Hill, “My hope is that we get to a world where it’s no longer newsworthy that people like me are in politics or get elected to public office.”

Alarming news from The Advocate: about 100,000 trans youth live in states that compromised their rights in 2023. Read the full study here (and learn about our state legislative candidates here)