LGBTQ candidates won big in last night’s off-year elections

Virginia Delegate Danica Roem
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LGBTQ candidates won big in last night’s election. In their victories, many of them also smashed through rainbow ceilings and made history.

Here are 10 of last night’s history-making wins.

Related: Virginians just picked a Trump-endorsed, anti-LGBTQ Republican as governor 

Danica Roem, Virginia

Danica Roem was reelected to the Virginia House of Delegates for a third term and will continue to be the country’s longest-serving out trans legislator. Roem defeated the anti-LGBTQ Christopher Stone, who is opposed to marriage equality and adoption rights for LGBTQ couples.

Thu Nguyen, Massachusetts

Thu Nguyen, who came to America from Vietnam as a refugee when they were a baby, was elected to the Worcester City Council last night, becoming the first…

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