As school boards vote to limit access to LGBTQ-themed books, an advocacy group has found that more LGBTQ+ people are running for school board positions than ever before. Data released by the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a national political organization that works to elect LGBTQ+ people to public office, shows that 82 out people are seeking school board seats. That's more than double the number of 32 in 2018, while in 2020 the number was 43.
According to the Victory Fund-affiliated Victory Institute’s Few & Under Fire: LGBTQ School Board Members in the U.S. report, “As of April, only 90 of the 90,000 school board members in the United States had been known to be out LGBTQ+ people.
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