“ people of color and trans people who are making the biggest strides.”
“We are achieving higher-level offices, building representation in state legislatures and winning in pockets of the country where we never have before,” the group’s president, former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, wrote in the report. Five decades later, LGBTQ people hold 698 elected offices in 2019, according to a report released this month by the LGBTQ Victory Institute, which supports LGBTQ candidates. The modern LGBTQ movement began in 1969 with a violent uprising against a police raid of the popular New York City gay bar Stonewall Inn. The 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots arrives this Friday, and the LGBTQ community has something to celebrate: More openly LGBTQ people in elected office than at any time in U.S. 10 congressmembers, two governors, 147 state legislators, 34 mayors and 394 other local officials are openly LGBTQ.
