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Robinson, the first Black lieutenant governor of North Carolina, has a history of extreme rhetoric that's put him at odds even with members of his own party.
Ron DeSantis, a Trump acolyte who waged a race-baiting campaign, will be the Sunshine State's next governor.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Matt Bevin (pictured above, left) loves Kim Davis, hates Medicaid expansion and is against abortion.
She lost the Vermont race to popular Republican incumbent Phil Scott.
Kotek, a longtime social justice activist, was Oregon's first lesbian House speaker, and now she's seeking to become governor.
The final weeks of the gubernatorial contest have featured a series of one-upmanship ads about who will be the most anti-trans governor.
The gay politician has received financial support from across the nation.
Edwards issued an anti-discrimination executive order in 2016 protecting LGBTQ state employees and contractors.
The ad notes that as San Francisco mayor, Newsom OK'd marriage licenses for same-sex couples in February 2004.
Pat McCrory is the governor who signed the infamous HB 2 law.
San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom has taken his first public step toward seeking higher office, filing papers to form an exploratory committee for a potential gubernatorial bid in 2010. Newsom, a Democrat best known for challenging California's ban on same-sex marriage in 2004, is six months into his second and final term, which expires in 2011. Speculation over whether he would run to succeed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has pursued him since before his reelection, but the mayor always deflected it by saying his attention remained fixed on the city.
This fall, voters will choose between a Republican incumbent who stopped local governments from protecting its citizens and a Democrat Attorney General who calls that law an "embarassment."
Democrats also won the races for lieutenant governor and attorney general.
State senator Richard Madaleno released a new ad in the tight race for governor in Maryland.
But Mississippi fails to elect an LGBT candidate to statewide office, and a supporter of Kim Davis wins the governor's race in Kentucky.
