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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/31/mississippi-first-gay- lawmaker-fabian-nelson-legislature

The US state of Mississippi has elected an openly gay person to its
legislature for the first time ever.

Fabian Nelson’s victory this week left Louisiana as the only American
state never to have elected an LGBTQ+ person to its legislature. And it
served up a salve of sorts to a wave of laws passed in Republican-
controlled state legislatures that discriminate against LGBTQ+ people, including a ban in Mississippi on gender-affirming hormones or surgery for anyone aged 17 or younger.

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In an interview with the Associated Press on Wednesday, Nelson, a
Democrat, called his election to the Mississippi house “a dream” and “shocking”. But Nelson, a foster father, also said: “Ultimately what won
this campaign is the fact that I’m in touch with my community and the
issues my community is facing.

“At the end of the day, I put my suit on the same way every other person
who walks in that statehouse does. I’m going to walk in there, and I’m
going to be a sound voice … in the state of Mississippi.”

Nelson, a 38-year-old realtor, won his seat by triumphing in a Democratic primary election runoff on Tuesday over Roshunda Harris-Allen, a local alderwoman and a professor of education at Tougaloo College, a
historically Black institution. Tuesday’s race was necessary after neither Nelson nor Harris-Allen had secured a majority of the vote in a three-way primary on 8 August.

Republicans did not run a candidate for the general election scheduled for
the fall. So, by virtue of his win on Tuesday, Nelson has clinched the statehouse seat that had been up for grabs. He is scheduled to be sworn in ahead of Mississippi’s next legislative session in January.

His district encompasses an area south of the state capital of Jackson. As
he has told media outlets such as the Los Angeles Blade and LGBTQ Nation, Nelson’s priorities include pushing for an expansion of Mississippi’s
Medicaid program as well as developing the economy and infrastructure for
his district’s underserved areas.

He is also hoping to impede Republicans’ anti-LGBTQ legislative measures
and efforts to disenfranchise voters in and around Jackson, which is
mostly Democratic.


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