According to Human Rights Campaign, an American association for the defense of the rights of lesbian, gay, bi, transgender or queer people, this is a “historic” electoral victory. Maura Healey became the first openly lesbian governor elected in the United States on Tuesday in the state of Massachusetts.
The 51-year-old Democrat easily beat Republican Geoff Diehl, nicknamed by Donald Trump, according to Fox News and NBC channels in this northeastern state of the country that had been led for eight years by a Republican, Charlie Baker, who didn’t. to represent.
LGBT candidates to look for among the Democrats
For the first time in US history, LGBTQ people ran for midterm elections Tuesday in each of the 50 US states, a record that could have a major influence on the country’s political landscape.
Approximately 678 LGBTQ people thus showed up in polls in which Americans voted to renew all seats in the House of Representatives and a third in the Senate. A range of government and local elected positions are also at stake, a nearly 20% increase from the last election, according to analysis by the LGBTQ Victory Fund, which helps fund such campaigns. About 90% of these candidates are Democrats.
Maura Healey’s victory was very predictable, she has always led the polls and is appreciated as a human rights defender and, since 2014, attorney general of the state, the equivalent of the local justice minister.
