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ISSUE

ADVANCING LGBTQ+ EQUALITY

GREG LED PHOENIX TO BECOME A NATIONAL LEADER ON LGBTQ+ PROTECTIONS. IN CONGRESS, HE’S FIGHTING TO DEFEAT MAGA’S HATEFUL AGENDA.

Greg Stanton believes LGBTQ+ rights are a basic question of dignity, freedom, and equal protection under the law. No one should lose a job, a home, access to care, the right to marry, or the ability to serve their country because of who they are or who they love.

That conviction has guided Greg’s work from Phoenix City Hall to Congress. As mayor, he helped lead Phoenix to adopt landmark nondiscrimination protections for LGBTQ+ residents. In Congress, he has fought to write those protections into federal law, defend marriage equality, protect transgender Americans from political attacks, and stand up for LGBTQ+ youth, service members, workers, and families.

Greg will not rest until every member of the LGBTQ+ community can live safely, openly, and with dignity in their own communities. And as Trump and MAGA Republicans escalate attacks on LGBTQ+ Americans, Greg will fight back relentlessly, ensuring Arizona leads with courage, fairness, and respect for every person who calls this state home.

ENDORSEMENTS

  • Equality Arizona

  • Arizona Stonewall Democrats

GREG’S RECORD

  • Helped introduce and pass into law the Respect for Marriage Act to protect marriage equality under federal law.

  • Cosponsored and voted for the Equality Act to finally write explicit LGBTQ+ nondiscrimination protections into federal civil-rights law.

  • Voted against the House Republican bill targeting transgender students in school sports, rejecting a national culture-war mandate aimed at trans kids.

  • Cosponsored the Fit to Serve Act to protect transgender servicemembers from being forced out of the military because of who they are.

  • Pushed the FDA to end discriminatory blood-donation restrictions that blocked many gay and bisexual men from donating blood despite no sound scientific justification.

  • Cosponsored the Do No Harm Act to stop religious freedom law from being twisted into a license to discriminate.

  • Cosponsored legislation to prohibit commercial conversion therapy and backed legal efforts defending state bans on conversion therapy for minors.

  • Fought Trump administration attacks on transgender Americans, including passport restrictions, the military service ban, attacks on gender-affirming care, and weakened VA and EEOC protections.

  • Fought to preserve the 988 LGBTQ+ youth crisis lifeline, opposing cuts to specialized suicide-prevention services.

  • Opposed efforts to erase LGBTQ+ service history, including the renaming of the USNS Harvey Milk.

  • Supported the Global Respect Act to hold foreign officials accountable for human-rights abuses against LGBTQI+ people.

  • Backed anti-bullying and anti-hate initiatives, including GLSEN’s Day of Silence and protections for LGBTQ asylum seekers facing violence and persecution.

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