Are there any gay us senators

Short Reads. In the House, all but one of the 11 openly gay or lesbian representatives are Democrats. Data on the share of Americans who are gay, lesbian or bisexual comes from Gallup. The previous Congress included a total of 11 lesbian, gay and bisexual lawmakers.

The exception is Republican George Santos of New York, who in the midterm cycle became the first openly gay, non-incumbent Republican to win a congressional election. While small, the number of lesbian, gay and bisexual lawmakers in Congress has steadily increased over the last decade.

Across both chambers, six members are gay men. Emily Randall, who identifies as queer, became the first Hispanic or Latina LGBTQ member of Congress and the first openly LGBTQ member to represent Washington. Katherine Schaeffer is a former research analyst at Pew Research Center.

There have not been any openly transgender members of Congress to date. Our analysis reflects the voting members of Congress as of Jan. Donald McEachin. January 11, By Katherine Schaeffer. The record congressional diversity in sexual orientation comes alongside several other milestones in LGBTQ political leadership in the United States.

List of LGBTQ politicians in the United States This is an alphabetical list of openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender politicians who have held office in the United States. The record number of openly gay, lesbian or bisexual Congress members represents 2% of all of Congress.

Meanwhile about % of the adult population identifies as gay, lesbian or bisexual. Seven of the 11 openly gay or lesbian representatives in the House are returning members of Congress. Despite the steady increase in lesbian, gay and bisexual representation on Capitol Hill, this group remains underrepresented compared with the U.

Lesbian, gay and bisexual Americans make up 6. Capitol in Washington on Dec. InSarah McBride was elected as the nation's first openly transgender member of Congress. The previous Congress included a total of 11 lesbian, gay and bisexual lawmakers. One is a senator and the rest are House representatives.

Freshman lawmakers include all members of Congress who were elected for the first time in a regular election in the midterm cycle. In the current Senate, Democrat Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin became the first openly lesbian, gay or bisexual person to serve in the chamber when she was elected inand Kyrsten Sinema, an independent from Arizonais the first openly bisexual person to serve in either chamber.

The number of lesbian, gay and bisexual members of Congress has more than tripled in recent years. Eight of the 11 House members who identify as gay or lesbian are gay men and three are lesbians. There are 13 openly LGBTQ members of the current (th) Congress, all of whom are Democrats.

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As of the th Congress, this includes lesbian, gay and bisexual members. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis. Historical figures are included only if there is documented evidence of an open queer identity. In the th Congress ofjust four members — all representatives — identified as gay or lesbian and none as bisexualaccording to data from the Victory Funda political action committee that works to elect LGBTQ politicians.

The number of lesbian, gay and bisexual members of Congress has more than tripled in recent years. There have not been any openly transgender members of Congress to date. Thirteen voting members of the th Congress openly identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual — the highest number in history.

Julie Johnson became the first openly gay member of Congress to represent Texas – or any Southern state. And several state legislatures now include transgender or nonbinary lawmakers for the first timeincluding New Hampshire, which became the first state in the country to elect a transgender man to its state legislature.