For every member of the LGBTQIA2S+ community and for those who support us: we’ve got this. We’ve got us. No matter who you are, where you live, or the outcome of yesterday’s election, today we are an LGBTQIA2S+ community united. Together, across races, places, genders, and abilities, we have secured victories for our community. We have shown up for each other by organizing, mobilizing, and casting our ballots for the freedom to be ourselves.
As an LGBTQIA2S+ community, we have a long history of showing up to fight for our rights. United in our strength, we have achieved significant progress over the past several decades, from the early days of the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis, to the Stonewall Uprising and HIV/AIDS activism, to achieving marriage equality and anti-discrimination protections in the workplace, to the fight for transgender rights, and beyond. Our community has risen again and again to meet moments that have challenged our rights, our humanity, and our freedom. Today is no different.
Election outcomes at national, state, and local levels will impact our health, our safety, and our rights as LGBTQIA2S+ people and families. Despite anti-LGBTQIA2S+ efforts to divide our communities, and particularly severe attacks against transgender people and LGBTQIA2S+ youth, we have succeeded in moving a few steps closer toward equity and justice for our community. In particular, we are thrilled to celebrate victories, like the election of the first openly transgender person to U.S. Congress, Rep. Sarah McBride (Del.), the first out LGBTQIA2S+ person from a southern state elected to Congress, Rep. Julie Johnson (D-TX-32), and cementing the freedom to marry for same-sex couples in California, Colorado and Hawaii. Together, we also elected LGBTQIA2S+ affirming leaders to state and local offices across the country.
We know that so much more work lies ahead of us, and there are still uncertainties in many of our elections. Yet as an LGBTQIA2S+ movement, we will continue working hard, just as we always have, to achieve what we deserve: a country where all LGBTQIA2S+ people are safe, seen and accepted for who we truly are, without exception. We are here together, and we are proudly moving forward. We’ve got this. We’ve got us.
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