Tick Tock Tick Tock: Election 2020

Well as of right now we are still counting, counting, counting. ....

As we wait here are 25 victories we have already made: 

1. Nevada became the first state in the nation to protect same-sex marriage in its constitution
2. Charmaine McGuffey became Hamilton County, Ohio’s first female & LGBTQ+ sheriff
3. Michele Rayner-Goolsby became FL’s first Black queer woman in the state legislature
4. Stephanie Byers became the first transgender legislator in Kansas and the first out trans person of color ever elected to a state legislature!
5. Kim Jackson became the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to the GA senate
6. Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones became the first openly gay Black members of Congress
7. Susan Eggman became the first openly LGBTQ+ Latinx woman elected to the CA senate
8. Taylor Small was elected as VT’s first transgender state legislator
9. Torrey Harris and Eddie Mannis made history as TN’s first openly LGBTQ+ state legislators (Tennessee was one of just five states that had never elected an LGBTQ state legislator.) 
10. Mauree Turner became the first non-binary state lawmaker in the US
11. Shervin Jones became FL’s openly LGBTQ+ state senator
12. Sarah McBride became the first transgender state senator in US history
13. New Mexico elected its US House delegation made up entirely by women of color
14. Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have won their first reelection races
15. Cori Bush, a BLM activist and community leader, will be MO’s first Black woman in Congress
16. Jamaal Brown, beaten by the police when he was 11, started his own public school to serve his community, beat a 30-year incumbent to serve in Congress
17. MS voted to end a Jim Crow-era electoral college system aimed at diluting the Black vote
18. Jabari Brisport was elected in NY’s 25th district, making him the first LGBTQ person of color elected to the New York state legislature
19. Khaleel Anderson became the youngest Black person elected to public office in NY state history
20. Nikil Saval became the first Asian-American elected into the PA State Senate
21. Eric Fagan was elected as the first Black sheriff in Ft. Bend, TX since reconstruction
22. Dedrick Johnson was elected as Texas City, TX’s first Black mayor
23. We nearly doubled the number of trans state legislators who will serve next year: from four to seven!
24. Jess Benham became the first out LGBTQ woman elected to the Pennsylvania state legislature and became one of the few out autistic people ever elected to a state legislature in the U.S.
25. Todd Gloria makes history as the first openly LGBTQ person and first person of color elected mayor of San Diego.

Over all things are looking good but until every vote is counted I will hold my breath. So until then get outside and enjoy the nice weather.