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Five LGBTQ Stories You Should Know About 1. Pride and Primaries: 75% of Victory Fund Candidates Won in June!
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. 2. Out Candidate Justice Horn’s Campaign Banner Defaced with F-slur
Last weekend, Victory Fund-endorsed candidate Justice Horn discovered his campaign banner had been defaced with a homophobic slur. Instead of backing down, Horn took the opportunity to spread awareness about the recent uptick in LGBTQ hate and announced his plan to protect the LGBTQ community if elected. 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. 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, 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! Listen to the full podcast here! 4. Bernie Sanders 🤝 LGBTQ Voters
Click here to read a recent interview with Becca in The Hill. 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 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. One More Thing: Only 0.1% of School Board Members Nationwide Are LGBTQ
LGBTQ Victory Institute’s new report Few & Under Fire: LGBTQ School Board Members in the U.S. 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. 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.
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