House, governor and state treasurer - and speaking about their identity on the campaign trail.
Just over two decades later, at least five openly LGBTQ+ candidates are running in statewide elections - for U.S. The move sparked the “Take Back Vermont” movement, a backlash that contributed to the electoral defeat that fall of 16 incumbent lawmakers who had voted in support of civil unions. In the spring of 2000, when Evans-Frantz was an adolescent, Vermont became the first state to legalize civil unions, at the time the strongest form of legal representation for same-sex relationships. “Fern's death is a reminder that where we are culturally and where the laws are are two different things, and they both can support each other.”
But also, I know that trans people are getting murdered in this state,” Evans-Frantz said, referring to the fatal stabbing of Fern Feather, a transgender woman, in April.
