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Navy, was elected to the Board of Supervisors.
Other winning trans candidates included Holly
Ryan, who won a City Council race in Newton,
Massachusetts, and Councilmember Aime
Wichtendahl of Hiawatha, Iowa, who was reelected
after becoming the fi rst out trans elected
offi cial in her state in 2015. School Committee
member Lizbeth Deselm of Melrose, Massachusetts,
and school board member Gerri Cannon
of Somersworth, New Hampshire — also a state
lawmaker — won their elections.
The presence of out school board members is
especially noteworthy in light of the longstanding
and persistent anti-LGBTQ sentiments
in school districts, as evidenced in the case
of Gavin Grimm, a trans student in Virginia
whose Gloucester County School Board refused
to update his school transcript to conform to
his birth certifi cate and would not allow him
to use the boys’ bathroom. ( Grimm later won a
ruling in his lawsuit against the district.)
Most recently, Attorney General William Barr
has targeted out teachers and LGBTQ education
in schools.
A slate of LGBTQ mayors were re-elected and
out gay candidate Eddie Sundquist won his race
to become mayor of Jamestown, New York. Out
LGBTQ mayors Patrick Wojahn of College Park,
Maryland, and Lydia Lavelle of Carrboro, North
Carolina, were re-elected, and out candidate
Joseph Geierman won a spot in the Doraville,
Georgia, mayoral runoff.
“Americans are understandably focused on
the 2020 presidential and congressional elections,
but the LGBTQ candidates who won tonight
will arguably have a greater impact on the
everyday lives of their constituents,” LGBTQ
Victory Fund President Annise Parker, the former
mayor of Houston, said in a written statement.
“We are building a pipeline of out LGBTQ
leaders at every level of government so we can
advance equality today, and so we are positioned
to run for higher-level offi ces in greater
numbers tomorrow.”
The election night yielded gains for Democrats
in unlikely places. Kentucky’s Attorney
General, Andy Beshear, toppled incumbent
Republican Governor Matt Bevin by less than
one percentage point, according to unoffi cial
election results, signaling warning signs for
President Donald Trump in a state he won by a
whopping 30 percentage points in 2016.
The night was not a complete loss for Republicans,
however, as Mississippi Lieutenant
Governor Tate Reeves beat conservative State
Attorney General Jim Hood, a Democrat, in an
open race for governor.
Republicans picked up two seats in the New
Jersey State Assembly and one seat in the State
Senate.
The only Republican endorsed by the LGBTQ
Victory Fund, Jeffrey Litke of Connecticut, won
re-election to the Naugatuck Board of Education.
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