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{{As of|2023|11|post=,}} 32 members of the [[LGBT community]] are known to have held office in the [[United States Congress]]. In the House, 30 LGBT people held office; in the Senate, 4 held office. Two people, [[Tammy Baldwin]], and [[Kyrsten Sinema]], served in the House and were later elected into the Senate. The earliest known LGBT congressperson was [[Ed Koch]], who began his term in the House in 1969. The earliest known LGBT senator is [[Harris Wofford]], who began his term in 1991. Both men were not [[Coming out|out]] during their tenure: Koch's sexuality was confirmed after his death and Wofford announced his plans to marry a man over 20 years after serving in the Senate. There are no known transgender congresspeople. |
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{{As of|alt=There are|2023|12|07}} 12 openly LGBT members of the [[118th United States Congress|current (118th) Congress]], all of whom are Democrats. Three are senators and the rest are House representatives. This constitutes the |
{{As of|alt=There are|2023|12|07}} 12 openly LGBT members of the [[118th United States Congress|current (118th) Congress]], all of whom are Democrats or aligned with Democrats. Three are senators and the rest are House representatives. This constitutes the second highest number of LGBT congresspeople serving at the same time in U.S. history.{{efn|From the start of the 118th Congress until the resignation of Rep. [[David Cicilline]] (D–CT) on Jun. 1, 2023, and again from the appointment of Sen. [[Laphonza Butler]] (D–CA) on Oct. 4, 2023, until the expulsion of Rep. [[George Santos]] (R–NY) on Dec. 1, 2023, there were 13 total LGBT members of Congress.}}<ref name="117th Congress">{{cite news |last1=Flores |first1=Andrew |last2=Gossett |first2=Charles |last3=Magni |first3=Gabriele |last4=Reynolds |first4=Andrew |title=11 openly LGBTQ lawmakers will take their seats in the next Congress. That's a record in both numbers and diversity |date=2020-11-30 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/11/30/11-lgbtq-legislators-will-take-their-seats-next-congress-largest-most-diverse-group-ever/ |access-date=2021-03-06 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=LeBlanc |first=Paul |title=Rep. Katie Hill announces resignation amid allegations of improper relationships with staffers |publisher=CNN |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/27/politics/katie-hill-announces-resignation/index.html |access-date=2019-10-27}}</ref> |
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| Homosexual relationship made public in 1981.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Nn-ySVOZaSQC Duberman, Martin Bauml. "'Writhing Bedfellows': 1826." ''Journal of Homosexuality'' 6, no. 1 (1981): 85-101.] Reprinted in ''The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays''. Eds. Salvatore J. Licata, and Robert P. Petersen. New York: Haworth Press, 1981. {{ISBN|0-917724-27-5}}.</ref> |
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| width=300| Announced his marriage to a man in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wofford |first=Harris |title=Finding love again, this time with a man |date=2016-04-23 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/findinglove-again-this-time-with-a-man.html |access-date=2016-05-07 |url-access=subscription |quote=Too often, our society seeks to label people by pinning them on the wall – straight, gay or in between. I don't categorize myself based on the gender of those I love. I had a half-century of marriage with a wonderful woman, and now am lucky for a second time to have found happiness.}}</ref><ref name=WorldAtlas>{{cite web |last=Illsley |first=C. L. |title=Openly LGBT Members Of Congress |date=2019-05-31 |website=WorldAtlas |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/openly-lgbt-members-of-u-s-congress-past-and-present.html |access-date=2021-03-06}}</ref> |
| width=300| Announced his marriage to a man in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wofford |first=Harris |title=Finding love again, this time with a man |date=2016-04-23 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/opinion/sunday/findinglove-again-this-time-with-a-man.html |access-date=2016-05-07 |url-access=subscription |quote=Too often, our society seeks to label people by pinning them on the wall – straight, gay or in between. I don't categorize myself based on the gender of those I love. I had a half-century of marriage with a wonderful woman, and now am lucky for a second time to have found happiness.}}</ref><ref name=WorldAtlas>{{cite web |last=Illsley |first=C. L. |title=Openly LGBT Members Of Congress |date=2019-05-31 |website=WorldAtlas |url=https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/openly-lgbt-members-of-u-s-congress-past-and-present.html |access-date=2021-03-06}}</ref> |
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| rowspan=2|Sinema is the first openly bisexual senator.<ref name="117th Congress"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Vagianos |first=Alanna |title=Kyrsten Sinema Makes History As First Openly Bisexual Person Sworn In To Senate |date=2019-01-03 |work=[[Huffington Post]] |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kyrsten-sinema-first-openly-bisexual-person-senate_us_5c2e5094e4b08aaf7a97504f |access-date=2019-01-03}}</ref> |
| rowspan=2|Sinema is the first openly bisexual senator.<ref name="117th Congress"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Vagianos |first=Alanna |title=Kyrsten Sinema Makes History As First Openly Bisexual Person Sworn In To Senate |date=2019-01-03 |work=[[Huffington Post]] |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/kyrsten-sinema-first-openly-bisexual-person-senate_us_5c2e5094e4b08aaf7a97504f |access-date=2019-01-03}}</ref> |
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| data-sort-value="Butler, Laphonza" | [[File:Laphonza Butler (cropped). |
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| Butler is the first openly [[African-American LGBT community|LGBT African-American]] senator.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Reston |first1=Maeve |last2=Pager |first2=Tyler |date=October 1, 2023 |title=Newsom taps Emily's List leader to fill Feinstein's Senate seat |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/01/dianne-feinstein-replacement-senate/ |access-date=October 2, 2023 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hubler |first=Shawn |title=Newsom Names Emily's List President as Feinstein Successor |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2023-10-01 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/newsom-senate-feinstein-laphonza-butler.html |access-date=2023-10-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> |
| Butler is openly lesbian and is the first openly [[African-American LGBT community|LGBT African-American]] senator.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Reston |first1=Maeve |last2=Pager |first2=Tyler |date=October 1, 2023 |title=Newsom taps Emily's List leader to fill Feinstein's Senate seat |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/01/dianne-feinstein-replacement-senate/ |access-date=October 2, 2023 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hubler |first=Shawn |title=Newsom Names Emily's List President as Feinstein Successor |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=2023-10-01 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/01/us/newsom-senate-feinstein-laphonza-butler.html |access-date=2023-10-02 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> |
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| Homosexual relationship made public in 1981.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Nn-ySVOZaSQC Duberman, Martin Bauml. "'Writhing Bedfellows': 1826." ''Journal of Homosexuality'' 6, no. 1 (1981): 85-101.] Reprinted in ''The Gay Past: A Collection of Historical Essays''. Eds. Salvatore J. Licata, and Robert P. Petersen. New York: Haworth Press, 1981. {{ISBN|0-917724-27-5}}.</ref> |
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| data-sort-value="Koch, Ed" | [[File:Ed Koch 95th congress.jpg|100px]] |
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| After dying in office of [[AIDS]], McKinney was outed as bisexual in his obituary.<ref name=WorldAtlas/><ref>{{cite news |title=AIDS Makes Another Chilling Advance, Claiming the Life of a Congressman |date=1987-05-25 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20096357,00.html |access-date=2014-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Houston |first=Paul |title=Connecticut's McKinney, GOP Liberal, Dies of AIDS |date=1987-05-08 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url= |
| After dying in office of [[AIDS]], McKinney was outed as bisexual in his obituary.<ref name=WorldAtlas/><ref>{{cite news |title=AIDS Makes Another Chilling Advance, Claiming the Life of a Congressman |date=1987-05-25 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20096357,00.html |access-date=2014-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Houston |first=Paul |title=Connecticut's McKinney, GOP Liberal, Dies of AIDS |date=1987-05-08 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-05-08-mn-2826-story.html |access-date=2014-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kimmey |first=Samantha |title=Rep. Barney Frank Comments on Scalia, Prostitution, Marijuana and More |date=2012-12-20 |work=[[The Raw Story]] |url=http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/20/rep-barney-frank-comments-on-scalia-prostitution-marijuana-and-more/ |access-date=2014-08-31 |archive-date=September 3, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140903130916/http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/12/20/rep-barney-frank-comments-on-scalia-prostitution-marijuana-and-more/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Congressman Killed by AIDS Led Secret Life, Gay Man Claims |date=1989-08-23 |work=[[Bangor Daily News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2457&dat=19890823&id=U69JAAAAIBAJ&pg=1266,2387375 |access-date=2014-08-31}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=May |first=Clifford D. |title=Friends Say McKinney Had Homosexual Sex |date=1987-05-09 |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/09/nyregion/friends-say-mckinney-had-homosexual-sex.html |access-date=2014-08-31 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> |
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| Kolbe came out as gay while in office after voting for the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] in 1996. He was the first openly gay person to address the [[Republican National Convention]].<ref name="dunlap">{{cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |title=A Republican Congressman Discloses He Is a Homosexual |date=1996-08-03 |work=[[New York Times]] |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E3DD103FF930A3575BC0A960958260 |access-date=2007-11-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Campbell |first=Julia |title=Openly Gay Congressman Addresses Convention |date=2000-08-01 |publisher=[[ABC News]] |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121719}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Eaklor |first=Vicki Lynn |title=Queer America: a GLBT history of the 20th century |year=2008 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=978-0-313-33749-9 |page=213}}</ref><ref name=WorldAtlas/> |
| Kolbe came out as gay while in office after voting for the [[Defense of Marriage Act]] in 1996. He was the first openly gay person to address the [[Republican National Convention]].<ref name="dunlap">{{cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |title=A Republican Congressman Discloses He Is a Homosexual |date=1996-08-03 |work=[[New York Times]] |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E05E3DD103FF930A3575BC0A960958260 |access-date=2007-11-25}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Campbell |first=Julia |title=Openly Gay Congressman Addresses Convention |date=2000-08-01 |publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=121719}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Eaklor |first=Vicki Lynn |title=Queer America: a GLBT history of the 20th century |year=2008 |publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] |isbn=978-0-313-33749-9 |page=213}}</ref><ref name=WorldAtlas/> |
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| Huffington came out as bisexual in 1998<ref name=WorldAtlas/><ref>{{cite news|last=King|first=Ryan James|date=May 22, 2006|title=Michael Huffington: The long-awaited Advocate interview|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/commentary/2006/05/22/michael-huffington-long-awaited-advocate-interview|access-date=January 11, 2013}}</ref> |
| Huffington came out as bisexual in 1998<ref name=WorldAtlas/><ref>{{cite news|last=King|first=Ryan James|date=May 22, 2006|title=Michael Huffington: The long-awaited Advocate interview|work=[[The Advocate (LGBT magazine)|The Advocate]]|url=http://www.advocate.com/politics/commentary/2006/05/22/michael-huffington-long-awaited-advocate-interview|access-date=January 11, 2013}}</ref> |
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| Foley came out as gay after being implicated in a [[Mark Foley congressional page incident|2006 congressional page scandal]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Foley lawyer makes statement |date=2006-10-02 |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/03/foley.scandal/index.html |access-date=2006-10-04}}</ref> |
| Foley came out as gay after being implicated in a [[Mark Foley congressional page incident|2006 congressional page scandal]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Foley lawyer makes statement |date=2006-10-02 |publisher=[[CNN]] |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/03/foley.scandal/index.html |access-date=2006-10-04}}</ref> |
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| In 2011, Polis became the first same-sex parent in Congress.<ref name=WorldAtlas/><ref name="ABC News">{{cite news |last=Parkinson |first=John |title=House Democrat Jared Polis Becomes First Openly Gay Parent in Congress |date=2011-09-30 |publisher=[[ABC News]] |url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/house-democrat-jared-polis-becomes-first-openly-gay-parent-in-congress/ |access-date=2011-09-30}}</ref><ref name="DCInno"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=James |last2=Slevin |first2=Colleen |title=Colorado's Jared Polis Makes History as Gay Governor |website=[[Associated Press]] |date=2019-01-09 |url=https://apnews.com/0ecc5e72becf41ddbf0a69bbbf2c0ecf |access-date=2020-09-16}}</ref> |
| In 2011, Polis became the first same-sex parent in Congress.<ref name=WorldAtlas/><ref name="ABC News">{{cite news |last=Parkinson |first=John |title=House Democrat Jared Polis Becomes First Openly Gay Parent in Congress |date=2011-09-30 |publisher=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/house-democrat-jared-polis-becomes-first-openly-gay-parent-in-congress/ |access-date=2011-09-30}}</ref><ref name="DCInno"/><ref>{{cite web |last1=Anderson |first1=James |last2=Slevin |first2=Colleen |title=Colorado's Jared Polis Makes History as Gay Governor |website=[[Associated Press]] |date=2019-01-09 |url=https://apnews.com/0ecc5e72becf41ddbf0a69bbbf2c0ecf |access-date=2020-09-16}}</ref> |
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| Sojourner came out as lesbian in 1976.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hamilton |first1=Martha |title=Washingtonpost.com: Retirement |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/business/longterm/retirement/oct99/story3.htm |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=10 May 2020 |url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref name="Yeager">{{cite book |last1=Yeager |first1=Kenneth S. |title=Trailblazers : profiles of America's gay and lesbian elected officials |date=2019 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781317712305 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zwekDwAAQBAJ |access-date=10 May 2020}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 18:05, 30 August 2024
As of November 2023,[update] 32 members of the LGBT community are known to have held office in the United States Congress. In the House, 30 LGBT people held office; in the Senate, 4 held office. Two people, Tammy Baldwin, and Kyrsten Sinema, served in the House and were later elected into the Senate. The earliest known LGBT congressperson was Ed Koch, who began his term in the House in 1969. The earliest known LGBT senator is Harris Wofford, who began his term in 1991. Both men were not out during their tenure: Koch's sexuality was confirmed after his death and Wofford announced his plans to marry a man over 20 years after serving in the Senate. There are no known transgender congresspeople.
There are[update] 12 openly LGBT members of the current (118th) Congress, all of whom are Democrats or aligned with Democrats. Three are senators and the rest are House representatives. This constitutes the second highest number of LGBT congresspeople serving at the same time in U.S. history.[a][1][2]
Senate
† Came out after serving
| Senator | Party | State | Term | Notes | ||||
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| Start | End | Length of service | ||||||
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Harris Wofford† | Democratic | Pennsylvania | May 8, 1991 | Jan 3, 1995 | 3 years, 240 days | Announced his marriage to a man in 2016.[3][4] | |
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Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | Wisconsin | Jan 3, 2013 | Incumbent | 11 years, 305 days | As an openly lesbian woman, Baldwin is the first openly LGBT senator.[1][5][6] | |
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Kyrsten Sinema | Democratic (2019–2022) |
Arizona | Jan 3, 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 305 days | Sinema is the first openly bisexual senator.[1][7] | |
| Independent (2022–present) | ||||||||
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Laphonza Butler | Democratic | California | Oct 3, 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 31 days | Butler is openly lesbian and is the first openly LGBT African-American senator.[8][9] | |
House of Representatives
† Came out after serving ‡ Posthumously identified as LGBT
| Representative | Party | State | Term | Notes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Start | End | Length of service | ||||||
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Ed Koch‡ | Democratic | New York | Jan 3, 1969 | Dec 31, 1977 | 8 years, 362 days | Koch denied he was gay throughout his life, but a 2022 article in The New York Times identified him as such.[10] | |
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Stewart McKinney‡ | Republican | Connecticut | Jan 3, 1971 | May 7, 1987 | 16 years, 124 days | After dying in office of AIDS, McKinney was outed as bisexual in his obituary.[4][11][12][13][14][15] | |
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Barbara Jordan‡ | Democratic | Texas | Jan 3, 1973 | Jan 3, 1979 | 6 years, 0 days | Jordan's domestic partnership with Nancy Earl was revealed in her obituary in 1996, making her the first LGBT woman in Congress (per the U.S. National Archives).[16][17] | |
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Gerry Studds | Democratic | Massachusetts | Jan 3, 1973 | Jan 3, 1997 | 24 years, 0 days | Studds came out as gay as a result of his implication in the 1983 congressional page sex scandal.[18] He became the first openly LGBT person to win election to Congress with his reelection in 1984.[4] | |
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Robert Bauman | Republican | Maryland | Aug 21, 1973 | Jan 3, 1981 | 7 years, 135 days | Bauman was outed as gay in October 1980 while in office, making him the first openly LGBT member of Congress.[19][20][4] | |
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Jon Hinson | Republican | Mississippi | Jan 3, 1979 | Apr 13, 1981 | 2 years, 100 days | Hinson was outed as gay after being arrested on a charge of oral sodomy on February 4, 1981.[21][4] | |
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Barney Frank | Democratic | Massachusetts | Jan 3, 1981 | Jan 3, 2013 | 32 years, 0 days | Frank came out as gay in 1987 and in 2012 became the first member of Congress in a same-sex marriage.[4][22][23] | |
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Steve Gunderson | Republican | Wisconsin | Jan 3, 1981 | Jan 3, 1997 | 16 years, 0 days | Gunderson was outed as gay on the floor of the House in 1994, Gunderson was the first openly gay Republican to be reelected after being outed.[24][25][4] | |
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Jim Kolbe | Republican | Arizona | Jan 3, 1985 | Jan 3, 2007 | 22 years, 0 days | Kolbe came out as gay while in office after voting for the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. He was the first openly gay person to address the Republican National Convention.[26][27][28][4] | |
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Michael Huffington† | Republican | California | Jan 3, 1993 | Jan 3, 1995 | 2 years, 0 days. | Huffington came out as bisexual in 1998[4][29] | |
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Mark Foley† | Republican | Florida | Jan 3, 1995 | Sep 29, 2006 | 11 years, 269 days | Foley came out as gay after being implicated in a 2006 congressional page scandal.[30] | |
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Tammy Baldwin | Democratic | Wisconsin | Jan 3, 1999 | Jan 3, 2013 | 14 years, 0 days | Baldwin is openly lesbian, and was the first openly LGBT non-incumbent elected to Congress.[5][4] | |
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Mike Michaud | Democratic | Maine | Jan 3, 2003 | Jan 3, 2015 | 12 years, 0 days | Michaud came out as gay in 2013.[31][32][4] | |
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Jared Polis | Democratic | Colorado | Jan 3, 2009 | Jan 3, 2019 | 10 years, 0 days | In 2011, Polis became the first same-sex parent in Congress.[4][33][6][34] | |
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Aaron Schock† | Republican | Illinois | Jan 3, 2009 | Mar 31, 2015 | 6 years, 87 days | Schock came out as gay in 2020.[35] | |
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David Cicilline | Democratic | Rhode Island | Jan 3, 2011 | May 31, 2023 | 12 years, 148 days | Cicilline is openly gay.[1][4][6] | |
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Sean Patrick Maloney | Democratic | New York | Jan 3, 2013 | Jan 3, 2023 | 10 years, 0 days | Maloney is openly gay.[1][4][6] In 2014, he married his longtime partner.[36] | |
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Mark Pocan | Democratic | Wisconsin | Jan 3, 2013 | Incumbent | 11 years, 305 days | Pocan is openly gay and the first LGBT member of Congress to replace another LGBT member of Congress (Tammy Baldwin) and the first non-incumbent in a same-sex marriage elected to Congress.[1][4][6][37] | |
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Kyrsten Sinema | Democratic | Arizona | Jan 3, 2013 | Jan 3, 2019 | 6 years, 0 days | Sinema was the first openly bisexual member of Congress.[4][6][38] | |
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Mark Takano | Democratic | California | Jan 3, 2013 | Incumbent | 11 years, 305 days | Takano is openly gay and the first openly LGBT person of color (specifically Asian American) elected to Congress.[1][6] | |
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Angie Craig | Democratic | Minnesota | Jan 3, 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 305 days | Craig is openly lesbian and the first non-incumbent LGBT parent elected to Congress.[1][39] | |
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Sharice Davids | Democratic | Kansas | Jan 3, 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 305 days | Davids is openly lesbian and the first openly LGBT woman of color (specifically Native American) elected to Congress.[1][40] | |
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Katie Hill | Democratic | California | Jan 3, 2019 | Nov 1, 2019 | 302 days | Hill is openly bisexual.[41] | |
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Chris Pappas | Democratic | New Hampshire | Jan 3, 2019 | Incumbent | 5 years, 305 days | Pappas is openly gay.[1][42] | |
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Mondaire Jones | Democratic | New York | Jan 3, 2021 | Jan 3, 2023 | 2 years, 0 days | Along with Ritchie Torres, Jones was the first openly gay African American elected to Congress.[1][43] | |
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Ritchie Torres | Democratic | New York | Jan 3, 2021 | Incumbent | 3 years, 305 days | Along with Mondaire Jones, Torres was the first openly gay African American elected to Congress,[43] and the first openly gay Hispanic member of Congress.[1] | |
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Becca Balint | Democratic | Vermont | Jan 3, 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 305 days | Balint is openly lesbian.[44] | |
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Robert Garcia | Democratic | California | Jan 3, 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 305 days | Garcia is openly gay.[45] | |
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George Santos | Republican | New York | Jan 3, 2023 | Dec 1, 2023 | 332 days | Santos is openly gay[46] and the first openly LGBT non-incumbent Republican elected to Congress[b] | |
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Eric Sorensen | Democratic | Illinois | Jan 3, 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 305 days | Sorensen is openly gay.[48] | |
Shadow representatives
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Sabrina Sojourner | Democratic | District of Columbia | Jan 3, 1997 | Jan 3, 1999 | 2 years, 0 days | Sojourner came out as lesbian in 1976.[49][50] | |
Histograph of openly-serving LGBT members of Congress
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| March 4, 1789 | 0 |  United States Congress established
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| October 3, 1980 | 1 |  Robert Bauman outed
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| January 3, 1981 | 0 |  Robert Bauman lost reelection
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| February 4, 1981 | 1 | Jon Hinson outed
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| April 13, 1981 | 0 | Jon Hinson resigned
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| July 14, 1983 | 1 | Gerry Studds comes out
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| May 29, 1987 | 2 | Barney Frank comes out
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| March 24, 1994 | 3 | Steve Gunderson outed
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| August 1, 1996 | 4 | Jim Kolbe comes out
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| January 3, 1997 | 2 | Gerry Studds and Steve Gunderson retired
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| January 3, 1999 | 3 | Tammy Baldwin elected to the House
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| January 3, 2007 | 2 | Jim Kolbe retired
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| January 3, 2009 | 3 | Jared Polis elected
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| January 3, 2011 | 4 | David Cicilline elected
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| January 3, 2011 | 7 | Tammy Baldwin moved from House to Senate; Sean Patrick Maloney, Mark Pocan, Kyrsten Sinema, and Mark Takano elected; Barney Frank retired
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| November 4, 2013 | 8 | Mike Michaud comes out
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| January 3, 2015 | 7 | Mike Michaud retired
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| January 3, 2019 | 10 | Kyrsten Sinema moved from House to Senate; Angie Craig, Sharice Davids, Katie Hill, and Chris Pappas elected; Jared Polis retired
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| November 1, 2019 | 9 | Katie Hill resigned
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| January 3, 2021 | 11 | Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres elected
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| January 3, 2023 | 13 | Becca Balint, Robert Garcia, George Santos, and Eric Sorensen elected; Mondaire Jones lost renomination; Sean Patrick Maloney lost reelection
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| June 1, 2023 | 12 | David Cicilline resigned
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| October 4, 2023 | 13 | Laphonza Butler appointed
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| December 1, 2023 | 12 | George Santos expelled
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See also
- Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus
- List of LGBT politicians in the United States
- List of the first LGBT holders of political offices in the United States
Notes
- ^ From the start of the 118th Congress until the resignation of Rep. David Cicilline (D–CT) on Jun. 1, 2023, and again from the appointment of Sen. Laphonza Butler (D–CA) on Oct. 4, 2023, until the expulsion of Rep. George Santos (R–NY) on Dec. 1, 2023, there were 13 total LGBT members of Congress.
- ^ Incidentally, this also marked the first election in which both major party candidates (Santos and Democrat Rob Zimmerman) were openly LGBT[47]
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