JULY ENDORSEMENT ANNOUNCEMENT

Victory Fund released our July endorsement slate today! Learn more about our latest group of 2021 candidates and their historic campaigns here.

Watch as Guillermo Creamer Jr details his campaign for the Worcester (MA) City Council, the need for new leadership in the city, and why he's the right candidate for the job here.

One of our latest endorsees, Graysen Martinez Ocasio, qualified for the ballot this week and is hard at work preparing for his September primary in the race for the Salem (MA) City Council. When he wins, Greysen will be the first Latinx & Indigenous out trans person elected in the United States.

Janani Ramachandran, our candidate for the California state Assembly, District 18, is neck-and-neck in her race. Read up on her campaign and opponent here!

OUT FOR AMERICA

LGBTQ Victory Institute, our sister organization, released its 2021 Out for America report, an annual look at the number and demographics of out LGBTQ elected officials in the United States. The number of out elected officials increased by 17% and a record-breaking 986 are currently serving in elected office in the United States! You can read an exclusive story about it in The New York Times, published yesterday morning. Or if you want to get into the details, you can browse the full report and all the key findings here.

You can also read more in CNN, The Hill, NBC OUT, Business Insider, Playbook PM, The Advocate, The American Independent, Capital Times, or listen to Victory Institute President & CEO Mayor Annise Parker’s interview with Sirius XM here.

2021: HISTORY IN THE MAKING

Both the Firefighters Association of New Jersey and the New Jersey State Building & Construction Trades Council have endorsed Vincent Solomeno. If elected, Vincent will flip his seat and make history as the first out person elected to the New Jersey state Senate!

Mariah Moore, our candidate for the New Orleans City Council, spoke with Big Easy Magazine about the growing need for infrastructure reform and her commitment to creating more affordable housing options in New Orleans. She also spoke with LGBTQ Nation about how her career as a trans activist prepared her for life as an out candidate on the campaign trail.

Spend a day on the campaign trail with Liliana Bakhtiari's campaign for the Atlanta City Council! INTO joined Liliana on the trail to get the inside story on her historic race. Read more here!

POWERING THE 2022 RAINBOW WAVE

Happy birthday, Malcolm Kenyatta! Malcolm is currently running to be the first out gay man elected to the U.S. Senate, and the first Black LGBTQ Senator in U.S. history.

Watch: Heather Mizeur dropped another campaign ad in her race for Maryland's first Congressional District. Heather is fighting to flip this seat, which is currently held by a Trump-supporting, 2020-election-denying bigot.

U.S. Congresswoman Angie Craig, who is one of the top 2022 targets for the National Republican Congressional Committee, reported another strong fundraising quarter, bringing in $610,000 over the past three months.

CANDIDATE SPOTLIGHT

UPCOMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES

Nashville, we’re back on the road and ready to celebrate LGBTQ political power in Music City! Join us to honor the historic advances made in 2020, Nashville’s first LGBTQ Caucus on the Davidson County Metropolitan Council and give a toast to ensuring more out leaders are elected in 2021 and beyond! Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 7, 2021, 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm CT and register here.

LGBTQ Victory Fund is coming BACK to San Diego! Join us for our San Diego Brunch, Sunday, October 17, 2021, 11:00 am PT. More information to come!

For the last 30 years, Victory Fund has powered rainbow wave after rainbow wave, electing LGBTQ candidates up and down the ballot who have gone on to make huge changes in their community. Come celebrate LGBTQ political power and raise a glass to progress at Victory Fund’s 30th Anniversary Gala, Saturday, December 4, 2021 from 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm ET!

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LGBTQ Victory Fund is the political arm of the LGBTQ community. Since our founding in 1991, we’ve supported and elected LGBTQ candidates like U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin, Governors Jared Polis and Kate Brown and all nine LGBTQ members of U.S. Congress. We've boosted out candidates running for state and local government, including California Senate Pro Tem Toni Atkins, Florida Senator Shevrin Jones, Virginia Delegate Danica Roem, Colorado state Representative Leslie Herod, Pennsylvania state Representative Brian Sims, Hawaii state Representative Adrian Tam, Oklahoma Representative Mauree Turner, and so many more (meet all of our current candidates here)! We’ve shattered rainbow ceilings in all 50 states and broken election year records. You can power our work and the next Rainbow Wave with a donation today!

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