UK Progressive: LGBT Victories: “Breathtaking Leap Forward”

In the new 113th  United States Congress, Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), will be the first elected openly gay senator in U.S. history. In the House of Representatives, Mark Pocan (D-WI), Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Mark Takano (D-CA) and Kyrsten Sinema, (D-AZ) will become the newest LGBT Americans in Congress. They will join Jared Polis (D-CO) and David Cicilline (D-RI), both of whom were re-elected.