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The recent election of Brian Sims as Pennsylvania’s first out-gay representative is another example of the national sea change of LGBTs becoming involved in politics at all levels.

The nation spoke on Tuesday and made history by electing out Democratic politicians but not two openly gay members of the GOP: one running for mayor of San Diego; the other for Congress from Massachusetts.

Openly gay candidate David Norris conceded defeat as human rights activist and poet Michael D. Higgins looked on course to be elected Ireland’s president.

Two leading Republican contenders for mayor of America’s eighth-largest city are openly gay, and voters have barely noticed. It doesn’t come up at campaign appearances or in local news coverage.

An openly gay politician who withdrew from the Irish presidential race due to controversy only to throw his hat into the ring once more has sewn up the support he needs to put his name on the ballot.

U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin entered the race Tuesday for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democrat Herb Kohl.

Openly lesbian New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn may be poised for the top political office of New York City -- and one her biggest backers for the mayorship is, reportedly, the current mayor, Michael Bloomberg.

For anyone curious about what Jim McGreevey is up to seven years after coming out of the closet to become the first openly gay governor, his simple answer is this: "Having lunch at Hudson County Correctional Center."

Openly gay Irish senate member David Norris has withdrawn from the race for the presidency of that country in the wake of revelations that he sought clemency for a friend who’d had sex with an underage male.

The Utah Democratic Party has voted overwhelmingly in favor of electing as its new chairman an art dealer believed to be the first openly gay leader of a political party in the state.