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LATEST ENDORSEMENTS
We rolled out a very exciting endorsement announcement this week: we’ve broken all previous endorsement records! We’ve now endorsed 282 LGBTQ candidates, the most in our 29-year history.
Katie Dixon , running for the Kansas House of Representatives, also announced two more exciting endorsements from Kansas Young Democrats [[link removed]] and EMILY’s List [[link removed]] !
Another new endorsee Barb Wood , who’s running for the Maine state House, celebrated her victory in the Maine primaries. Take a look [[link removed]] !
Want to learn more about all our new candidates? Meet the latest slate of candidates here! [[link removed]]
QUEERING CONGRESS
Learn more about Game Changer Candidate Beth Doglio , who's running to be the first openly LGBTQ leader to represent Washington state in Congress! She caught up with Senior Political Director Sean Meloy [[link removed]] – and announced an exciting endorsement from U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren [[link removed]] !
Alex Morse is fighting to restore LGBTQ representation to the Bay State – and for the families in Massachusetts's 1st Congressional District. Learn more about his campaign here. [[link removed]]
A big endorsement for Georgette Gómez : Latino Victory is standing with her campaign for California’s 53rd Congressional District [[link removed]] .
VICTORY IN NEW YORK
After almost a month, election results are somewhat finalized in New York! And it looks like Spotlight candidate Jabari Brisport has WON his race for the New York state Senate! Jabari will make history as the first openly LGBTQ person of color elected to the state legislature [[link removed]] .
Mondaire Jones , the winner of New York’s 17th Congressional district, congratulated Ritchie Torres on his victory in New York’s 15th Congressional District. [[link removed]] They will both make history as the first two Black openly LGBTQ members of Congress.
Ritchie will also make history as the first openly LGBTQ Afro-Latinx member of Congress but cannot join both the Black and Hispanic Caucuses. As Ritchie says in this op-ed for The Washington Post , that must change [[link removed]] .
So what’s next in New York? A lot! In 2021, a new wave of LGBTQ candidates are running for city council. Read about their campaigns here [[link removed]] .
CANDIDATE SPOTLIGHT
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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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