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After election, more than 1,000 LGBTQ officials will serve in the U.S.
Some LGBTQ candidates celebrated historic firsts across the country on election night, while advocates say others’ losses signal trouble ahead of 2022.
Once Tuesday night’s victors are sworn in, the United States will have elected more than 1,000 concurrently serving LGBTQ officials for the first time in history, according to the political action committee LGBTQ Victory Fund.
At least 237 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer candidates were on the ballot — an 18.5 percent increase since the last off-year election, in 2019, according to the Victory Fund, NBC News reports.