Kentucky elects its first-ever LGBTQ+ woman state senator
State Rep. Keturah Herron is now the first out woman ever elected to the Kentucky state Senate.
November 5, 2024
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State Rep. Keturah Herron is now the first out woman ever elected to the Kentucky state Senate.
The LGBTQ+ Victory Institute named Kentucky state Rep. Keturah Herron the 2024 Tammy Baldwin Breakthrough Award winner.
Kentucky has become a beacon of hope against the current political climate targeting queer people, writes Kentucky state Rep. Lisa Willner.
Herron, a social justice activist who is Black, queer, and genderqueer, won a special election Tuesday.
There are at least 1,043 out LGBTQ+ people in elected office around the nation, up 5.8 percent from a year ago.
Jimmy Ausbrooks, a mental health counselor, is seeking to unseat an anti-LGBTQ+ Republican in Kentucky's First Congressional District.
The proposed bill would amend current law challenged in federal court.
A federal judge today ordered the state to cover the fees for lawyers representing the couples who sued Davis when she shut down marriage license operations.
Meanwhile, the state's Republican governor and House speaker condemn "license to discriminate" legislation and "bathroom bills" like those pushed by Rep. Rick Nelson.
Davis, who went to jail in her fight against marriage equality, isn't going away.
The former Kentucky county clerk may still have to fork over money to couples she refused to marry.
Newly elected Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin granted the Christmas wish of antigay county clerk Kim Davis when he issued an executive order today requiring that marriage license forms be revised to remove clerks' names.Â
He may have granted Kim Davis's Christmas wish, but Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin still faces a hefty bill to pay the attorneys who struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage.Â
"It’s clear that the anti-LGBTQ+ agenda is starting to fail, both in Kentucky and across the country."
The House Thursday approved the bill overwhelmingly, and it now goes back to the Senate for concurrence.
At least a dozen Kentucky lawmakers, including gay state senator Ernesto Scorsone (pictured), are banding together to file a legal brief in support of a lawsuit seeking to stop state funding of a Baptist college that recently expelled a student for being gay.
Beshear signed the executive order after similar legislation repeatedly failed in the Republican-dominated state legislature earlier this year.
These aren't final decisions on the bans, but they can't be enforced while lawsuits against them are heard.
Couples would fill out a form in order to marry, but it would not be called a license -- in an attempt to placate officials who oppose marriage equality.