Tempe is a city in Maricopa County,Arizona,United States,with the Census Bureau reporting a 2020 population of 180,587. The city is named after the Vale of Tempe in Greece. Tempe is located in the East Valley section of metropolitan Phoenix;it is bordered by Phoenix and Guadalupe on the west,Scottsdale and the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community on the north,Chandler on the south,and Mesa on the east. Tempe is also the location of the main campus of Arizona State University.
GLAAD is an American non-governmental media monitoring organization. Originally founded as a protest against defamatory coverage of gay and lesbian demographics and their portrayals in the media and entertainment industries,it has since included bisexual and transgender people.
Key Club International,also called Key Club,is an international service organization for high school students. As a student-led organization,Key Club's goal is to encourage leadership through serving others. Key Club International is the high school branch of the Kiwanis International family,classified as a Service Leadership Program and more specifically as a Kiwanis Youth Program. Many Key Clubs are sponsored by a local Kiwanis club.
Toni Gayle Atkins is an American politician who served as the 51st President pro tempore of the California State Senate from 2018 to 2024. A member of the Democratic Party,she previously served as the 69th Speaker of the California State Assembly from 2014 to 2016 and the California State Assembly Majority Leader from 2012-2014. She has represented the 39th State Senate district since 2016,encompassing most of San Diego.
Kenneth David Cheuvront is a Democratic politician. From 2003 to 2011 he served as Arizona State Senator for District 15,which centers on Phoenix. In 2018 he was elected Justice of the Peace in central Phoenix. He is also owner of Cheuvront Construction Inc and Cheuvront Wine Bar.
LGBTQ+ Victory Fund,commonly shortened to Victory Fund,is an American political action committee dedicated to increasing the number of out LGBTQ+ public officials in the United States. Victory Fund is the largest LGBTQ+ political action committee in the United States and one of the nation's largest non-connected PACs.
Nicole Murray-Ramirez is an LGBT activist and frequent San Diego city committee appointee known as "Empress Nicole the Great,Queen Mother of the Americas" within the Imperial Court System of which she is the titular leader.
Jared Schutz Polis is an American politician,businessman,and philanthropist serving as the 43rd governor of Colorado since 2019.
Janet Jackson is an American pop and R&B singer and actress. Jackson garnered a substantial gay following during the 1990s as she gained prominence in popular music. Recognized as a long-term ally of the LGBT community,Jackson received the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Music Album for her Grammy Award-winning sixth studio album The Velvet Rope (1997),which spoke out against homophobia and embraced same-sex love. In 2005,Jackson received the Humanitarian Award from the Human Rights Campaign and AIDS Project Los Angeles in recognition of her involvement in raising funds for AIDS Charities and received the Vanguard Award at the 19th Annual GLAAD Media Awards in 2008. In June 2012,Jackson announced she was executive producing a documentary on the lives of transgender people around the world titled Truth,saying she agreed to sign on to help stop discrimination against the transgender community.
The 2010 Arizona gubernatorial election was held on November 2,2010,to elect the Governor of Arizona. Incumbent Republican Jan Brewer ran for a full term. Party primaries were held on August 24,2010. Jan Brewer won a full term,defeating Arizona Attorney General and Democratic nominee Terry Goddard 54% to 42%.
Outrage is a 2009 American documentary film written and directed by Kirby Dick. The film presents a narrative discussing the hypocrisy of people purported in the documentary to be closeted gay or bisexual politicians who promote anti-gay legislation. It premiered at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival before being released theatrically on May 8,2009. It was nominated for a 2010 Emmy Award,and won Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival's jury award for best documentary. The documentary's prime subject was Michael Rogers,founder of BlogActive.com.
The first English-language use of the word "bisexual" to refer to sexual orientation occurred in 1892.
The 2014 Arizona gubernatorial election was held on November 4,2014,to elect the Governor of Arizona,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Javier Gonzales was an American politician who served as the 42nd mayor of Santa Fe from 2014 to 2018. Gonzales was the city's first and only openly gay mayor. He held the office of Santa Fe County Commissioner,serving two terms. Soon after,he was elected as the first Hispanic president to the National Association of Counties. Upon assuming the mayorship of Santa Fe,he was chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico.
Jeremy Allen Moss is an American politician from Southfield,Michigan currently representing the 7th State Senate District,which includes all of Auburn Hills,Bloomfield Hills,Bloomfield Township,Lake Angelus,Lathrup Village,Pontiac,Southfield,and parts of Detroit,Southfield Township,and Waterford Township. A member of the Democratic Party,he is the first openly LGBT person elected to the Michigan Senate,as well as the first to serve as President Pro Tempore. Moss previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2014 - 2018,and remains the youngest-ever member of the Southfield City Council.
The following is a timeline of lesbian,gay,bisexual,and transgender (LGBT) history in the 21st century.
