Tammy Baldwin: “Today in the US alone, we're pushing upwards to 1,000…”

“But really we thought from the best we could calculate, and you couldn't Google things back then, but there were probably two dozen out elected officials in the world. And Today in the US alone, we're pushing upwards to 1,000 [openly LGBTQ elected officials]. now, maybe only 11 in Congress. But I mean, it is really another way to track progress. But we're still far below our numbers in the population.” (19:31–19:38)

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