Great news, y'all! Small gains, means a lot!
Here's the scoop:
Marcus Brandon has been elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives. He will represent the cities of Greensboro and High Point in the state legislature.
Brandon will be the only openly LGBT state legislator in North Carolina, and one of just five openly LGBT African-Americans serving in state legislatures across the country (including Maryland House of Delegates candidate Mary Washington, who will also win tonight).
This is good, because there are a lack of LGBT African-Americans in office. I hope this is a growing trend.
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I agree with you. The US Congress needs to start looking like Americans. I wish the Freshman Rep much luck and congratulations.
ReplyDeleteThis absolutely floored me when I heard about it. In North Carolina? Seriously? I wonder how much a role his sexuality played in the campaign? This just makes me very very happy.
ReplyDeleteThat is great news!
ReplyDeleteAnd he's very handsome to boot!
This was one of the delights of yesterdays turmoil. V, I agree with your assessment that the halls of power throughout the nation are still looking very WASPSM. They'd look much better with diversified representations of our people.
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