LGTB FL Candidates Will Be Winning All Over The State!

Openly LGBT candidates are running for office at all levels of government in Florida this year, a sign that gay politics may be changing in a state that has lagged some of its neighbors in terms of political milestones for the LGBT community. (Alabama and Georgia both have elected openly gay state legislators, but Florida still has not.)

“By Florida standards, there’s been an explosion of gay candidates and activity and openly gay elected officials,” saidEric Johnson, a Fort Lauderdale political consultant who is also a member of the Victory Fund’s Campaign Board, a national group of some 100 community leaders who help identify, endorse and raise money for openly LGBT candidates for public office.

“The likelihood of adding gay elected officials in 2010 is quite high. It seems to me that we’ve turned a little corner in Florida as it relates to openly gay candidates seeking office and being seen as legitimate candidates,” Johnson told the Florida Sun-Sentinel