Tammy Baldwin, Country's First Out Senator, Announces Run for Re-Election
The Wisconsin lawmaker, the first LGBTQ+ senator, will be seeking a third term.
April 12, 2023
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Pete Buttigieg Energizes Wisconsin Democrats
The Transportation secretary has been a hot commodity on the campaign trail.
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Bernie Sanders Takes Wisconsin Democratic Contest
Sanders bests Hillary Clinton in Wisconsin and gives a shout-out to the gay rights movement.
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April 5, 2016
Wisconsin Democrats Seek to Write Marriage Equality Into Law
The state still has constitutional and statutory bans on same-sex marriage, even though they're unenforceable.
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Wisconsin Democrat Wins and Flips State Senate Seat
Democrat Patty Schachtner won a state Senate seat in a heavily Republican Wisconsin district Tuesday night.
January 17, 2018
Wisconsin's Democratic Governor Vetoes Ban on Gender-Affirming Care
Gov. Tony Evers had promised to veto the bill, and he keeps his promises, he said Wednesday.
December 6, 2023
Wisconsin’s Democratic governor vetoes Republican transgender sports ban bill
The Democrat stood in the way of a law that Republicans wanted to have enacted targeting the trans community.
April 2, 2024
Tammy Baldwin Needs Your Help on Gun Control
The out U.S. senator from Wisconsin joined fellow Democrats in filibustering on the issue today.
June 15, 2016
U.S. senator Feingold comes out for marriage equality
A leading Democratic contender for president in 2008, U.S. senator Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, has revealed that he supports giving gay and lesbian couples the right to marry.
April 4, 2006
Sens. Baldwin, Collins Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Provide Fairness to Domestic Partners
The Democratic senator from Wisconsin and the Maine Republican are among the bipartisan sponsors in both chambers of Congress who've signed on to support the Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act of 2013.
September 19, 2013
Senate seeks formal apology for decades of LGBTQ+ discrimination in the federal government
For many years, members of the LGBTQ+ community who worked for the federal government faced persecution for their sexual orientation.
June 20, 2024
Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling reinstates conversion therapy ban
LGBTQ+ youth in the state will be protected from this damaging and discredited intervention.
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July 8, 2025
Republican opponent attacks out Sen. Tammy Baldwin by lying about her support of gender-affirming care
Eric Hovde falsely claimed Baldwin supports "sex change surgeries" on minors.
October 9, 2024
Sarah McBride explains how Democrats’ ‘big tent is bisexual’
The Democratic congresswoman from Delaware told an audience at Crooked Con, "You can’t build a diverse working class coalition if people don’t feel like you like them."
November 11, 2025
Gay members of Congress worried about mpox outbreak ask for data in letter to Joe Biden (exclusive)
Reps. Ritchie Torres and Mark Pocan sent a letter to the president and Health and Human Services Secretary to learn what the administration is doing to prepare against a potentially worse mpox outbreak.
June 27, 2024
Lawmakers call out Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ‘unconscionable’ apathy on eve of LGBTQ+ 988 Lifeline shutdown
“It’s heartbreaking, scary, and deeply harmful,” Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids, who said the Department of Health and Human Services should keep the successful suicide prevention program intact, told The Advocate.
July 16, 2025
Tammy Baldwin Has Won Big in a Divided Wisconsin. Can She Do It Again in 2024?
Sen. Tammy Baldwin has already started preparing for her third Senate race.
October 31, 2023
Out Sen. Tammy Baldwin Endorses Biden: He'll 'Fight for the People'
Baldwin is the latest of many prominent LGBTQ pols to endorse Biden, and she's one from a key swing state, Wisconsin.
April 15, 2020
GOP Sen. Ron Johnson Flips on Marriage Equality Bill
The Wisconsin Republican is in a tough reelection fight.
August 23, 2022
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers Vows to Veto Anti-Trans Legislation
Lawmakers are considering bills to ban gender-affirming care for youth and bar trans girls and women from female school sports teams.
October 7, 2023