Election night 2012 was a happy occasion for the bisexual community in the United States as all five openly bisexual candidates on the national and state ballots swept to victory.
Former Connecticut Democratic State Rep. Evelyn Mantilla came out as the nation’s first bisexual state official in 1997. Since then the number of bisexual state-level officials who have come out during their term has slowly grown to six.
Democrat Micah Z. Kellner has won the special election called to fill the New York State Assembly seat recently vacated by Pete Grannis who had been appointed Commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation. ( Read more... )