Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African-American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004.
Democrat Sarah McBride makes history as first openly trans US state senator
The politician made history when she won for the Democrats in Joe Biden’s home state of Delaware at just 30 years old, making her highest ranking transgender public official in the United States. “We did it.
We won the general election. Thank you, thank you, thank you,” McBride posted on Twitter after news of her victory was confirmed. “I hope tonight shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them, too.” McBride first got into politics by interning at the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency where she, again, made history as the first openly transgender person to work there.
In 2016 she addressed the Democratic National Convention with a speech where she celebrated the real opportunity of being able to elect LGBTQ+
