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“We’re in the fight of our lives,” Craig said in an interview with The Advocate. “But I’m holding up pretty well, and I’m up for the fight.”
Craig, a representative from Minnesota, was elected by House Democrats on Tuesday.
The Minnesota Democrat is the first LGBTQ+ person to represent the state in Congress.
She has successfully flipped a Republican district blue.
Democrats voted to make the California congressman the ranking member on the Republican-led investigative committee.
Trump's war on social programs hits the most vulnerable the hardest.
From Sarah McBride to Tammy Baldwin, here are the queer lawmakers in the 119th Congress.
Sam Clovis has withdrawn from consideration for the position because of connections to the alleged Trump-Russia collusion, but he'll still have a senior position at the Department of Agriculture.
They are attaching anti-LGBTQ+ amendments to every appropriations bill that's pending.
Arlando Teller will be deputy assistant secretary for tribal affairs in the department led by Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg.
Cox, an LGBTQ ally who had the endorsement of Equality California, bested incumbent David Valadao, who had a poor record on queer issues.
The out lesbian is one of the vulnerable Democrats hoping to beat anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans in this year's election.
Karen Mackey, a Native American lesbian who lives in the congressman's district, finds his racist, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric "horrifying."
Supporters of the Iowa Governor’s Conference on LGBTQ Youth say right-wing forces are on a 'witch hunt' against it.
The Trump Administration is suing Maine for allowing trans girls to participate in girls sports, but Gov. Mills says this "has never been about the protection of women and girls."
He claimed, falsely, that children of opposite-sex couples fare best in life.
She said she would see him in court. She did. She won.
The trusted former television meteorologist explained his approach to representing his constituents in an interview with The Advocate.
Even in superconservative states and the most hostile legislatures, out politicians are making a difference every day
The LGBTQ+ community had much to celebrate in Tuesday's election, but there were some disappointments.
Former senator Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists, and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. ''It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men,'' said former North Carolina GOP representative Bill Cobey.
