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发帖数: 19713 | 1 The Top 10 LGBT Victories From Last Night's Election
By: Daniel Villarreal
11.7.2012
Last night's election results resulted in an awe-inspiring and monumentous
night for LGBT rights and candidates. Here's a rundown of all of them in a
handy top 10 list.
1) Despite all the "this is gonna be a close race" hype, Obama was elected
by a large margin consisting primarily of young people, Hispanics, blacks
and women "micro-targeted" by his effective get out the vote effort in
battleground states such as Ohio. He also mentioned during his amazing
acceptance speech (below) that the United States wants the gays.
2) Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin became the first openly LGBT senator ever in
the U.S. Senate. Openly gay candidate Patrick Maloney also won his seat on
the New York state legislature.
3) Openly gay California Congressional candidate Mark Takano became the
first openly gay person of color in Congress and bisexual Arizona
congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema (what a great name) also won her race too,
making her the first openly bisexual member of Congress — werque!
4) It seems we won all four marriage equality ballot initiatives in
Minnesota, Washington, Maine and Maryland, marking the first time voters
have approved an initiative supporting gay marriage. However, the official
ballot count in Washington is still underway (so keep your fingers crossed).
5) The anti-gay and deceptively-named National Organization for Marriage (
NOM) failed to unseat Mark Grisanti, a Republican legislator who helped pass
marriage equality in New York. Another such New York Republican legislator
Steve Saland got defeated by pro-gay Democrat Terry Gipson... so boo on NOM.
6) After successfully ousting the three other Iowa Supreme Court justices
who helped legalized same-sex marriage in the state, NOM failed to unseat
the fourth and last one, Iowa Supreme Court judge David Wiggins.
7) Rabid homophobe and all-around jerk, Tea Party Republican Allen West, got
beaten by his Democratic opponent, as did Troy, Michigan's moronic anti-gay
mayor Janice Daniels who infamous decided to throw away her "I Love NY" bag
after the state allowed "queers to get married there."
8) Indiana's Republican senatorial candidate Richard "God intends rape"
Mourdock and Missouri's Republican senatorial candidate Todd "legitimate
rape" Akin.
9) Sadly, bat-shit crazy homophobe and U.S. Congressional representative
Michelle Bachmann barely survived her fourth election with a tiny margin of
50.6 percent to 49.4 percent. This doesn't really count as a victory, but it
gives us hope that the wicked witch of the Midwest might get some water
thrown on her in her next election.
10) Young gay statistical wizard Nate Silver correctly predicted last night'
s editorial map, confounding and upsetting pundits who had called him
ideological and too effeminate to accurately forecast the results. He is our
new dork crush. |
