Edison Research—which conducts national election exit polling for CNN, ABC, CBS and NBC—found that 86% of respondents who identified as “gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender” voted for Kamala Harris, while 13% voted for Donald Trump, according to LGBTQ Nation. It should be noted that the poll—which had more than 22,000 respondents—was only conducted in 10 “key” states and two randomly selected days before the election to catch early in-person voters. The same poll in 2020 found that only 64% of LGBT people voted for Joe Biden, while 27% voted for Trump.

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A Texas politician became the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to U.S. Congress from a Southern state, The Houston Chronicle noted. Julie Johnson took over Colin Allred’s North Texas seat for House District 32 after the Nov. 5 election, beating Republican Darrell Day 60%-37% to represent a district that serves Collin, Denton and Dallas counties. Queer representation in politics isn’t a new focus for Johnson. The representative was a founding member of the LGBT Caucus in the Texas House of Representatives, where she has served since 2019 for District 115. Johnson also married her wife, Susan Moster, in 2019—making Moster the first same-sex spouse of a Texas legislator.

Republicans in the Ohio Senate passed a bill to make changes to the state’s College Credit Plus program—and it has an added requirement that transgender students use bathrooms that match the gender on their birth certificates, Statehouse News Bureau reported. Senate Bill 104 is headed to Gov. Mike DeWine after this vote, which happened in the first legislative session following the election; he’s likely to sign it. Eleven states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Utah—have some form of a bathroom ban. All of those states, along with Ohio, went red in the recent presidential election.

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The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents directed the president of its flagship school to end 52 low-enrollment programs, including a nascent LGBTQ+ studies minor that conservative state legislators have cast as “liberal indoctrination,” according to Inside Higher Ed. Faculty members have opposed the move, voting earlier this month to reject the proposed program cuts. University president Mark Welsh objected as well, asking that the “review process be halted and restarted to obtain input from the Faculty Senate,” according to board documents.

In a victory for abortion-rights advocates, New Yorkers voted to enshrine extensive anti-discrimination protections into their state constitution—permanently insulating the rights of pregnant people, abortion seekers, and the queer community, among others, Mother Jones noted. Opponents had mounted an openly transphobic campaign to block it, spreading misleading claims about Prop 1’s effects on a range of issues, including trans youth health care, women’s sports and noncitizen voting; in addition, conservative billionaire Richard Uihlein dropped $6.5 million in an effort to defeat the measure. Going into Election Day, supporters of abortion rights had won every single ballot initiative to go before voters since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022.

Centralia, Washington restaurant JJ’s To Go turned away a same-sex couple because of the owners’ religious beliefs, sparking anger and a potential legal battle, The Advocate noted. JJ’s initially agreed to cater the January wedding of Seattle-area couple Ryah Calkins and Lillian Glover, who had spent weeks finalizing the catering details with the restaurant’s owner, Jessica Britton; however, the business canceled the event after learning Calkins and Glover are a same-sex couple. The Washington Law Against Discrimination mandates that businesses offering services to the public must not deny those services based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

SheNYC—a nonprofit organization that fosters women and trans creators through its off-Broadway season and summer festivals—has become involved in a controversy with the Archdiocese of New York, its landlord, per New Ways Ministry. The archdiocese has now required that the theater company cease productions that church officials claim contradict Catholic teaching, particularly concerning abortion and gender identity. The theater is part of the Cornelia Connelly Center, a full-scholarship Catholic girls school “admitting students who would most benefit from additional academic and social-emotional support” in grades four through eight—and the school has currently ceased all activity at its theater. As a result, the theater company is facing its 2025 season—also its 10th anniversary—without a home.

In a related matter, a top aide to Democratic U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (Massachusetts) resigned after comments Moulton made about transgender athletes were criticized by state Democrats and LGBTQ groups, Politico noted, citing The Boston Globe. Matt Chilliak—Moulton’s campaign manager and director of his “Serve America” political committee—departed Moulton’s office on Nov. 7. In a New York Times story about Democratic finger-pointing, Moulton was quoted as saying his party leaned too heavily into identity politics, allowing Trump and Republicans to score a decisive victory, and he added, “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete but, as a Democrat, I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.” A second House Democrat, Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-N.Y.), told the Times that trans girls, who he called “biological boys,” should not be able to participate in female sports.

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In Iowa, first-year Grinnell College student Kenya Taylor is seeking felony charges against a Durant, Iowa man accused of assaulting him at an on-campus party and calling him an anti-gay slur on Nov. 2, per The Scarlet & Black. Taylor, a gay Black man, said he was kicked in the back, chased into a corner and punched in the mouth by alleged perpetrator, Noah Grage, 19, who does not attend the school. (Grace said he was invited to campus by a college student he met online.) Taylor said Grage called him a “fairy f****t” hours before the incident. Grage said it was “fully reasonable” that Taylor is seeking criminal charges against him. “I mean, I hit the guy, I guess,” Grage told The S&B. “I can’t say that I would do the same, but it makes sense.”

In D.C., public-health and LGBTQ+-rights advocate Antonio Cornelius Baker died unexpectedly at his home of natural causes on Nov. 9, The Washington Blade reported. Among the numerous organizations to which he provided support and guidance was the Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation. That organization said in a statement that “A. Cornelius Baker stood with our founder, Elizabeth Taylor, at the beginning of the HIV/AIDS movement and throughout her legacy … We find comfort in knowing that his spirit, along with Elizabeth’s, will continue to guide and inspire us and the entire HIV/AIDS movement in our ongoing work.” Baker’s career in public health included being special adviser to the Office of AIDS Research at the National Institutes of Health, and being executive director of D.C.’s Whitman-Walker Health and the National Association of People With AIDS. National Black Justice Collective CEO and Executive Director Dr. David Johns said separately, “We were honored to include A. Cornelius Baker in our inaugural class of James Baldwin Legacy Award honorees in 2021. We will continue to honor his legacy with our actions to eradicate the HIV/AIDS epidemic in America and across the global community.”

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Alabama Shipyard LLC has been chosen to perform maintenance on the U.S. Navy’s new replenishment oiler, the USNS Harvey Milk, AL.com reported. The company was awarded a $24.5-million firm-fixed-price contract to perform the post-shakedown availability (PSA) on the oiler, which will provide fuel to the Navy’s surface combatant ships at sea. The ship—the Navy’s first named for an openly gay person—honors Navy veteran and LGBTQ+-rights activist Harvey Milk, one of the first openly gay candidates elected to public office as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978. (Ex-co-supervisor Dan White assassinated Milk and Mayor George Moscone in 1978.) At the ship’s christening in 2021, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Torro noted that Milk resigned his commission and was discharged from the military branch for being gay.

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Republican Eric Hovde has refused to concede defeat to LGBTQ+ incumbent Tammy Baldwin in the Wisconsin Senate race, casting doubt on the results despite a lack of evidence of any wrongdoing in last week’s election, NBC News noted. In a video on X, Hovde said he was considering whether to seek a recount in the battleground state contest. Baldwin had led by fewer than 30,000 votes, 49.4% to 48.5%, with 99% of the vote counted.

D.C. police confirmed that a gay man who worked as a hairstylist and a DJ and who was found unconscious on Oct. 27 near the LGBTQ+ bar Uproar has died, according to The Washington Blade. Friends who knew the victim, Bryan Smith, stated in a GoFundMe message seeking support for his medical expenses that he was hospitalized for a severe head injury. His family members told Fox 5 News that he was in a coma. Authorities also released a video showing two suspects and a vehicle they believe the suspects used in committing the robbery of Smith.

Also in the Lone Star State, Gilberto Hinojosa—the chair of the Texas Democrats since 2012—will resign after the party’s bruising election losses and some controversial comments he made, Texas Public Radio noted. The resignation announcement came the day after Hinojosa apologized for telling The Texas Newsroom that immigration and transgender issues hurt Democrats at the polls. LGBTQ+-rights groups and trans-rights advocates criticized Hinojosa’s remarks, saying he was blaming Democrats’ most vulnerable supporters for his and the party’s shortcomings.

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It’s been more than a year since the Oakland (Calif.) City Council approved the establishment of the Lakeshore LGBTQ Cultural District, and leaders were slated to officially raise a Pride flag on Nov. 13 in front of the Oakland LGBTQ Community Center, per The Bay Area Reporter. The community center anchors the district, which encompasses parts of the Lakeshore and Grand neighborhoods. The City Council approved the resolution Nov. 7, 2023. Next up for the cultural district’s branding project is the installation of a high-end LGBTQ+ rainbow crosswalk.

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Curtis Bashaw, the openly gay Republican candidate for New Jersey’s U.S. Senate seat, sparked backlash within the LGBTQ+ community after signing the Moms for Liberty Parent Pledge—aligning himself with a group designated an “extremist” organization by the Southern Poverty Law Center, per The Advocate. Garden State Equality, New Jersey’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group, criticized Bashaw for aligning with an organization that has actively promoted policies undermining LGBTQ+ visibility in schools. Bashaw’s stance also sharply contrasted with that of his opponent, Democratic U.S. Rep. Andy Kim, who eventually won the contest, according to Politico.

On Nov. 23, the PTA (Patience, Tolerance, Acceptance) Dinner Club—a Wisconsin gay men’s organization always consisting of 12 members—will hold its last soiree, according to On Milwaukee. Started in 1949, the name came about, in part, because most people would just assume that “PTA” stood for Parent-Teacher Association. Over the past 75 years and 898 meetings, the club (which has battled lack of recognition/interest in its latter years) has only had 71 total members. The final dinner will take place at the Milwaukee Public Museum, before the group disbands forever and donates its archives to the Wisconsin LGBTQ History Project.

Axios ran a piece on The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, which President-elect Donald Trump’s allies have touted as the incoming administration’s agenda—and it outlines vast plans for rolling back rights and protections for LGBTQ+ people. For example, Project 2025 attempts to virtually erase LGBTQ+ people from federal protections altogether, suggesting the deletions of “sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI); diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI); gender; gender equality; gender equity; and related terms. Among other things, the project also calls for transgender people to be banned from serving in the military; an end to federal funding of DEI programs; and calls for cutting federal funding for gender-affirming care and cracking down on “abortion training” at medical schools.

On Nov. 5, San Francisco voters approved Measure B—an infrastructure bond that includes $25 million for a monument to Harvey Milk, according to Bloomberg. The Memorial at Harvey Milk Plaza will transform the existing Muni Metro station entrance at Castro and Market Streets. Instead of a statue or plaque, this memorial will elevate residents of the Castro, the neighborhood that Milk served. The design by SWA Group turns the block along Market Street into a commemorative plaza. This design follows years of failed efforts to build. The Castro Area Planning + Action group first assembled in 1997 and identified a memorial as part of a long-term plan, but two separate design competitions (in 2000 and 2016) failed.

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Voters in three states—California, Colorado and Hawaii—passed ballot measures that would amend language in their state’s Constitution to protect same-sex marriage, USA Today reported. Before same-sex marriage became legalized nationally, efforts to legalize the practice popped up in the 1990s, according to Human Rights Campaign; however, the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court pro-marriage equality ruling struck down same-sex marriage bans in 13 states. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan warned in a September interview with the New York Times that she thinks same-sex marriage and contraception are under threat after the 2022 Roe v. Wade decision.

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More than 1,000 queer candidates ran for elected office this year—and 668 made it to the general election, per NBC News. The LGBTQ+ Victory fund found that more than 90% of the total number of candidates were Democrats, and they ran in every state except Nebraska, seeing wins in at least 40 states, along with Puerto Rico and D.C. This year’s LGBTQ+ candidate pool was also more diverse than ever, with 37.6% of candidates being people of color and 15.2% not cisgender.

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In California, gay San Jose City Council member Omar Torres resigned from office shortly after his Nov. 5 arrest, the Bay Area Reporter noted. Torres faces three felony charges related to allegedly sexually abusing an underage relative decades ago. The charges are apparently not connected to a criminal investigation launched by police last month after Torres admitted in a text message that he had sex with a 17-year-old. Torres, 43, had represented downtown San Jose and the Qmunity District, the city’s queer neighborhood; his election two years ago had ended a 16-year drought of LGBTQ+ representation on the city council.