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CELEBRATING JUNETEENTH
Happy Juneteenth! Texas was the last state to announce the Emancipation Proclamation - and on June 19, 1865, the still enslaved African-Americans in Texas finally heard the news that they were free. Learn more about the history of Juneteenth here [[link removed]] .
Pennsylvania state Representative Malcolm Kenyatta is celebrating with a renewed call for big changes to structural inequities [[link removed]] .
If you’re in the Fort Lauderdale area, state Representative Shevrin Jones , running for the state Senate, invites you to join a Black Workers Matter Rally [[link removed]] .
Colorado state Representative Leslie Herod celebrated the passage of Senate Bill 217, also called the The Law Enforcement Integrity Act [[link removed]] !
PRIDE PRIMARIES: NEXT UP
T-minus four days until Primary Day in New York! Everything is on the line for our LGBTQ candidates.
Good news for Mondaire Jones in his primary for New York’s 17th Congressional District: the latest poll has him in first place [[link removed]] !
Ritchie Torres is only two points behind a Trump Democrat [[link removed]] in the race for New York’s 15th Congressional District. He launched his second TV ad to help close the gap [[link removed]] !
Spotlight candidate Kristen Browde, fighting to be the first openly trans person elected in New York, made her final case for why she’s the right candidate to join the state Assembly [[link removed]] .
“Queer rights are a multiethnic, multiracial battle.” Read more about Jabari Brisport’s race to be the first openly LGBTQ person in the New York state Senate. [[link removed]]
CANDIDATE SPOTLIGHT
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LAST WEEK’S VIEWS
Of the 500,000 elected positions nationwide, only 39 are held by transgender, gender-non-conforming and Two-spirit people. Virginia Delegate Danica Roem moderates a conversation with trans trailblazers Stephanie Byers, Sarah McBride and Tyler Titus about advancing trans power and representation in their communities. Watch their conversation here! [[link removed]]
Want to learn more? Teen Vogue [[link removed]] profiled some of our amazing trans electeds in their latest issue [[link removed]] .
Running as both a queer person and a young person brings added challenges and opportunities. Join Run for Something and LGBTQ Victory Fund for a conversation with five young LGBTQ candidates running for office this cycle: Alex Lee, Andrés Cano, Jessica Benham, Malcolm Kenyatta and Sarah McBride [[link removed]] !
In a 6-3 opinion in Bostock v. Clayton County, the U.S. Supreme Court definitively settled an open question about whether Title VII of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 outlaws employment discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, siding with LGBTQ plaintiffs in a resounding Pride Month victory for our community. Hear from Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Sims, a civil rights attorney and expert in anti-discrimination law, and LGBTQ Victory Institute VP Ruben Gonzales about what’s ahead in the fight to protect LGBTQ Americans. [[link removed]]
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LGBTQ Victory Fund has helped thousands of openly LGBTQ candidates win elections up and down the ballot, from sea to shining sea since our founding in 1991. We believe representation is power so we elected U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin and Kyrsten Sinema, Governors Jared Polis and Kate Brown, all seven LGBTQ members of U.S. Congress and countless candidates for state and local government, including Virginia Delegate Danica Roem, Colorado state Representative Leslie Herod and Pennsylvania Assemblymember Brian Sims. And with an unprecedented number of LGBTQ people running for office in this year, we’ll need your support to make 2020 the next Rainbow Wave.
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