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Associated Press has not yet called the race, but McBride was leading James Whalen III, a former police officer, by a margin of 58% to 42% for Delaware’s sole congressional seat.A former White House intern during the Obama administration, employee of the Center of American Progress, and board member of Equality Delaware, McBride has been credited as one of several influential activists who successfully lobbied for the passage of Delaware’s comprehensive nondiscrimination law protecting the rights of LGBTQ individuals.She is also a passionate advocate for increased health care access and paid family and medical leave, positions informed by the loss of her late husband to cancer, as she told Metro Weekly in a 2019 interview.She previously made history when she became the first out transgender person to address a Democratic National Convention in 2016.She made history again when she ran for a state senate seat, becoming the first out transgender person to be elected to the upper chamber of a state legislature four years ago. (Virginia State Sen.

latest episode of her “Good For You” podcast, Cummings railed against the political left, saying that end of the political spectrum has become hypocritical and censorious in recent years.“I always thought of myself as a pretty liberal person,” Cummings said. “But I don’t think the Left is as liberal as it used to be.

same-sex marriage and protections for gay and lesbian individuals from discrimination. He is also pro-choice and recently praised the U.S.

Mondaire Jones won his Democratic primary, setting him up for a general election showdown against Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Lawler in a district covering New York City’s northern suburbs and exurbs in the Hudson Valley.Jones, who is gay, was first elected to Congress in 2020.

A new study shows that nearly 40% of Florida residents have considered leaving the state since the passage of the “Don’t Say Gay” law, with local Republicans encouraging the law’s detractors to follow through on such plans. According to a new survey by the Williams Institute, an LGBTQ policy think tank at UCLA’s School of Law, half of the 40% considering leaving Florida claimed they “very much so” wished to leave the state.Overall, 11% of survey respondents said they would likely move within the next two years.

Hagerstown Herald-Mail in 2005, claiming that it was time to take the threat of HIV seriously.He suggested that people infected with the virus receive tattoos that would be “in a spot covered by a bathing suit,” in order to warn potential sex partners of the risk they are undertaking when being intimate with an infected person.“An effective way to enforce the consistency of the tattoo would be to provide medicine to the infected individual only after they have received the HIV tattoo,” Parrott wrote, while also arguing that the better solution to combating HIV is to promote abstinence outside of marriage, with abstinence-only education being pushed in schools.Presumably, given Parrott’s vocal opposition to legalizing marriage equality in 2011 and 2012, this would also mean that only heterosexual married people should be encouraged to engage in sex.Trone’s ad capitalizes on that letter to the editor, seeking to portray his Republican opponent as extreme, radical, and out-of-touch.“If Neil Parrott had his way, every HIV-positive American would have to be tattooed, including all 3.7 million infants and children,” a narrator says as pictures of children flash across the screen. “Parrott wrote an op-ed actually proposing to force HIV-positive men, women, and children to be tattooed — or withhold their medication.

Smoking Gun reports.Guyette called police after spotting Detrick, a retired high school teacher, squatting near a hedge at 3:15 a.m.Detrick denied that his repeated fouling of Guyette’s lawn had anything to do with his sexuality, instead pointing the finger at the couple’s politics, saying they “are Democrats and support Joe Biden,” whereas he is a “Trump man.”However, writing on Facebook, Guyette claimed that Detrick had been fouling his lawn for ten years.Guyette wrote about police catching “the man who’s been sh*tting in our front yard for the past ten years.”He said that Detrick would often leave “3 or 4 crumpled up restaurant napkins he used to clean himself.”“That was my clue that I had had a ‘visitor,'” he wrote.

Mondaire Jones continues to make history, after one of the first Black gay men elected to Congress was chosen by his elected peers to become the freshman Democratic representative in the House.The New York Democrat was unanimously picked top be freshman leader, a role that requires him to act as spokesperson for the newest members of Congress and represent them in weekly meetings with House leadership.In a press release, Jones’ office called it the “most influential role available to a freshman member of Congress.”“I’m proud to be part of the boldest, most diverse Congress in American history, and we’re ready to get to work on behalf of the American people,” Jones said in a statement.