Rainbow Wave: The LGBTQ Election Winners 🎉

Amazing news: A historic Number Of LGBTQ Candidates Won Primaries In 2018 Midterms! Over 100! We also won YES on 3 in Massachusetts, to protect transgender accommodations. Check out some of the LGBTQ winners below!

Tammy Baldwin

America’s first and only openly LGBTQ senator reelected

Teri Johnston

First-ever lesbian mayor of Key West

Brian Sims

Out Pennsylvania state legislator reelected

Jared Polis

First openly gay man elected to governor

Sharice Davids

First ever out lesbian Native America woman on Congress

Megan Hunt

First openly LGBTQ person, who is bisexual, to win State Legislature in Nebraska

Betsy Driver

The First Intersex Mayor of a U.S. City

Kate Brown

Openly LGBTQ person reelected to Governor of Oregon by just 7 votes

JD Ford

Indiana’s First Openly Gay State Lawmaker

Brandon Woodard

Openly gay candidate took a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives

Susan Ruiz 

Openly gay candidate took a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives

Gavin Newsom 

Next governor of California

Angie Craig

First openly gay person elected to Congress from Minnesota

Julie Johnson

Out lesbian Julie Johnson unseated the Republican rep. in Texas House of Representatives

Chris Pappas

New Hampshire’s first openly gay member of Congress

Gerri Cannon

Out trans woman elected to the New Hampshire House

Lisa Bunker

Out trans woman elected to the New Hampshire House

Malcolm Kenyatta

First LGBTQ black man elected to the Pennsylvania legislature

And as a MAJOR bonus…

77-year-old Althea Garrison will become the first openly trans person to be seated on the Boston City Council

View all the winning LGBTQ candidates on NBCnews.com

This article was updated Nov 8, 2018 at 8:34 PM

Cover photo from: famousdc.com