LGBTQ+ Candidate Research

Twitter account for MacKenzie Gascon's AP Research project on the experiences of LGBTQ+ Candidates in America.

[Woman’s Place UK @Womans_Place_UK]

Jane Addams 1860-1935. American lesbian, feminist, suffragist, and pioneer of social work. Founded Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. President of Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. 1st American woman to win Nobel Peace Prize. #LesbianDayofVisibility

[The Advocate @TheAdvocateMag]

BREAKING: #JaneCastor is elected the first lesbian mayor of #Tampa! #RainbowWave https://t.co/rfb99kfPSe

[NPR @NPR]

JUST IN: Lori Lightfoot has won Chicago's mayoral runoff, the AP projects.

Lightfoot will become the first black woman — and the first openly gay person — to serve as mayor of Chicago.

[Don Haider-Markel🏍🤦‍♂️👀 @dhmarkel]

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[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

#government the country can achieve the #equalrights that the community deserves because they are human, they are not just an identity to scowl at, but real people. (3/3)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

The permanent assurance of equal rights for the #LGBTQ+ community is the end goal in all things here; when the community is allowed to go about their day without worrying about being fired for their identity, targeted or attacked for their identity, and everyone can openly (1/3)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

love who they want - only then are equal rights truly achieved. While we set the stepping stones to this now, we do not have the full picture. #Gaymarriage is just one piece of the puzzle, and proper representation is another piece. And with proper representation in the (2/3)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

A lot of the #LGBTQ+ opposition’s rhetoric against the furthering of LGTBQ+ rights/representation is that we have already done enough, and gay marriage has been achieved, what more is there? Well, for one: better representation in the government.

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

...homophobic or #conservative district. (2/2)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

The political climate of where a person lives is, of course, a huge factor of the type of people who run for public office. A black man is not going to run well (if at all) in an anti-black district, just as an #LGBTQ+ candidate will not run or do well in a very...(1/2)

[Rachel Maddow @maddow]

"The Trump administration wants to zero out funding for Department of Health and Human Services programs relating to autism."

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[Muslim Girl @muslimgirl]

The man who abducted and murdered Nabra Hassanen while she was on her way to her mosque in 2017 has been sentenced to life w/o parole. Today we remember Nabra, who was 17-years-old, we pray this brings even the tiniest bit of #JusticeForNabra. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un.

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

appearance has on the time they #comeout, or on the perception of the #candidate by voters. (3/3)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

The #LGBTQ+ identity is one that can very well be concealed. Many people go their whole lives in the “closet.” A person cannot hide their race or gender, but a closeted #LGBTQ+ candidate could delay their identity from coming out. Ewa Golebiowska’s “When to Tell?:..."(1/3)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

"...Disclosure of Concealable Group Membership” and other authors have sought to compare the effects of #lesbian and #gay candidates coming out at different times in their #campaigns on voters. Golebiowska’s research also tried to see what effects - if any - stereotypical...(2/3)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

threat of violence, or the execution of it.
(Hashtags are not part of the quotes from Alesha Doan or my literature review, but edited for Twitter) (5/5)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

Alesha Doan from University of Kansas Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Communication and Copyright said that “One issue that has been concretely established in this research is that #gay and #lesbian #candidates are systematically evaluated less favorably than heterosexual..."(1/5)

[LGBTQ+ Candidate Research @LGBTQCandidates]

Dan White; a former fellow Supervisor (Epstein 1984). He is just one of many who were killed for trying to change things for the community. Many #candidates do not even make it to #election when they make their voices heard - they are silenced by the opposition by the...(4/5)