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Five LGBTQ Stories You Should Know About
1. Pride and Primaries: 75% of Victory Fund Candidates Won in June!
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While Pride Month may be over, we are not done celebrating! Last month, a whopping 75% of Victory Fund-endorsed candidates won their primaries or runoffs!!! Check out our Pride & Primaries blog series to learn more. [[link removed]]
2. Out Candidate Justice Horn’s Campaign Banner Defaced with F-slur
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Last weekend, Victory Fund-endorsed candidate Justice Horn discovered his campaign banner had been defaced with a homophobic slur. [[link removed]] Instead of backing down, Horn took the opportunity to spread awareness about the recent uptick in LGBTQ hate [[link removed]] and announced his plan to protect the LGBTQ community if elected. [[link removed]] Horn is currently running for the Jackson County Legislature and would become the first out LGBTQ county official in Missouri.
Click here to read our statement condemning the attack. [[link removed]]
3. Liz Bennett Talks Abortion and the Importance of the 2022 Midterms for the LGBTQ Community
Victory Fund set up an interview with Spotlight candidate Liz Bennett , [[link removed]] who is running for the Iowa state Senate, on the Woke AF podcast this week. She talked about the recent Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and the impact on queer people, what it’s like running as an out LGBTQ person this cycle and the importance of voting in November. If elected, Liz will be the first out LGBTQ woman to serve in the Iowa Senate! [[link removed]]
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4. Bernie Sanders 🤝 LGBTQ Voters
Becca Balint for Vermont
[link removed] [[link removed]] Big news out of Vermont! Senator Bernie Sanders endorsed Game Changer candidate Becca Balint in her run for Vermont’s lone Congressional seat this week. Like Becca, we were jumping up and down with excitement when we heard the news. [[link removed]] Vermont is the only U.S. state to have never sent a woman to Congress. If elected, Becca would not only be the first woman to serve in Congress from Vermont [[link removed]] , she would also be the first out LGBTQ person!
Click here to read a recent interview with Becca in The Hill . [[link removed]]
5. ‘I'm a Pro-Choice Texan and After Supreme Court's Abortion Decision This is What We Must Do’
Out Texas state Representative Erin Zwiener , who is currently running for reelection, just penned an op-ed about protecting abortion access in Texas [[link removed]] and tactics to fight back against the plethora of attacks on bodily autonomy in Texas. While she acknowledges the situation is still developing and it is still unclear what freedoms will be attacked next, her ultimate call to action is to get out and vote for pro-choice candidates in November.
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One More Thing: Only 0.1% of School Board Members Nationwide Are LGBTQ
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LGBTQ Victory Institute’s new report Few & Under Fire: LGBTQ School Board Members in the U.S. [[link removed]] found that LGBTQ people are severely underrepresented on school boards in the U.S. Out of approximately 90,000 school board members, only 90 – or 0.1% – are known to be members of the LGBTQ community [[link removed]] . That means we need to train and elect over 6,000 LGBTQ candidates to school boards to reach equitable representation!
Click here to read the full report. [[link removed]]
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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. Senator 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 [[link removed]] )! 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 [[link removed]] !
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