October is LGBTQ History Month and the Human Rights Campaign is marking it by honoring today’s out and proud candidates running for office this year. Along with many emerging leaders across the country, HRC included a select few of their “previously endorsed trailblazers” in the line-up of 2020 honorees, and US Rep. Chris Pappas of New Hampshire is one of them.
Pappas is the first openly LGBTQ person elected to Congress from New Hampshire and serves as cochair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, among numerous Congressional committees. Elected in 2018, he is running for reelection on Nov. 3.
Pappas and the Granite State’s US Senator Jeanne Shaheen were among HRC’s very first 2020 endorsements way back in May, selected so early because “New Hampshire is a key state for Democrats to retain control of the House and possibly win the majority in the Senate,” HRC National Press Secretary Lucas Acosta told New Hampshire’s WMUR-TV 9.
“Chris Pappas is one of our community’s fiercest allies in Congress,” Acosta told WMUR, which noted that Pappas’s “presence in the House means the LGBT community ‘has a seat at every table because every issue impacts our community.’”
“HRC has been leading the way for LGBTQ Americans and our fight for equal rights,” Pappas stated in HRC’s announcement. “The House made history last year when we passed the Equality Act and I look forward to working with HRC to ensure that it is passed and signed into law so that no individual will be a second class citizen because of who they are or who they love.”
“Everyone deserves to be able to live their truth,” he said, “and working with HRC we can realize a brighter future for all Americans.”
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