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LGBTQ+ Victory Institute
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Non-profit working to sustain global LGBTQ+ political power and LGBTQ+ equality at all levels of government. Get mad, get elected. 🏳️‍🌈

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🏳️‍🌈✨ We’re hitting the streets for WorldPride and you’re invited! Join LGBTQ+ Victory Institute as we MARCH in the WorldPride Parade this Saturday, June 8 at 1PM! 💃🏽🌈

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MARCH WITH VICTORY INSTITUTE SATURDAY JUNE 7TH AT 1PM
May 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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🚨 LAST CHANCE! 🚨 Applications for LGBTQ+ Victory Institute’s Candidate & Campaign Training are due TOMORROW! If you’re ready to run for office—or help LGBTQ+ candidates win—this is your sign to apply NOW. 🏳️‍🌈💪

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🚨 LAST CHANCE! 🚨 Applications for LGBTQ+ Victory Institute’s Candidate & Campaign Training are due TOMORROW! If you’re ready to run for office—or help LGBTQ+ candidates win—this is your sign to apply NOW. 🏳️‍🌈💪
March 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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"Thank you, Madam Chair."

That was Congresswoman Sarah McBride’s swift and dignified response when a male representative misgendered her during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe hearing.
"Thank you, Madam Chair." That was Congresswoman Sarah McBride’s swift and dignified response when a male representative misgendered her during a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Europe hearing.
March 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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🏳️‍🌈🏛️ We were thrilled to welcome an incredible group of LGBTQ+ state and local lawmakers to our office during the National League of Cities conference! 🌟

Connecting, networking, and strengthening the pipeline of LGBTQ+ leadership—this is how we build power.
Group of people (LGBTQ+ elected officials) and Victory Institute President & CEO Evan Low in front of a Victory Institute step and repeat
March 11, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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This isn’t just a setback—it’s a call to action. Now, more than ever, we must come together to support organizations like Victory Institute that are training and empowering LGBTQ+ leaders nationwide.
White text with black background: “Our movement has always thrived in moments of crisis. While we’d prefer no crisis, it refocuses us. It motivates us. And oftentimes leads to breakthroughs that we may not have had otherwise. It destroys complacency. It instills urgency.”
February 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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🚨 Apply by Wednesday, March 26, 2025, for priority consideration to our 2025 Candidate & Campaign Training! 🚨

📍 Houston: May 15–18, 2025
📍 Los Angeles: September 4–7, 2025
📍 Washington, DC: October 17–18, 2025

Your journey to elected office starts here. victoryinstitute.org/trainings/ca...
LGBTQ+ Victory Institute is bringing its signature Candidate & Campaign Training to Houston on May 15 – 18, 2025, as part of its efforts to train a diverse pipeline of LGBTQ+ leaders to run for office and win! This Houston Candidate & Campaign Training will feature our Elected Official Trainer Olivia Hill, Nashville Metro Councilmember At-Large and a Candidate & Campaign Training alumna. LGBTQ+ Victory Institute is bringing its signature Candidate & Campaign Training to Los Angeles on September 4 – 7, 2025, as part of its efforts to train a diverse pipeline of LGBTQ+ leaders to run for office and win! This Los Angeles Candidate & Campaign Training will feature our Elected Official Trainer Danica Roem, Virginia State Senator and a Candidate & Campaign Training alumna. LGBTQ+ Victory Institute is bringing our 2-day Candidate & Campaign Training to Washington, DC on October 17-18, 2025, as part of its efforts to train a diverse pipeline of LGBTQ+ leaders to run for office and win!
February 10, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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🏳️‍🌈 Victory Institute’s global program is now at risk. We’ve spent years building a pipeline of #LGBTQ leaders across the world, and this reckless decision puts it all in jeopardy. This isn't a 'ball of worms', as #Musk called it - people's lives and work are at stake.

#elonmusk #donaldtrump #usaid
LGBTQ+ person holding a trans flag while seated, wearing a trans flag face mask. Headline "USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it". By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and FATIMA HUSSEIN of AP Black background with two quotes: "It’s been run by a bunch of radical lunatics. And we’re getting them out,” Trump said to reporters about USAID on Sunday night." “It became apparent that it’s not an apple with a worm it in,” Musk said in a live session on X Spaces early Monday. “What we have is just a ball of worms. You’ve got to basically get rid of the whole thing. It’s beyond repair.”
February 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Former Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg is right: don't become memorized by every terrible thing - but turn that shock into action.
January 31, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Against presidents and hateful bills alike.
Protect Trans Youth in the color of the trans flag - white, light blue and pink, with stripes in the same color on the side
January 31, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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We cannot let this stand. If you believe in protecting LGBTQ+ leaders and ensuring their voices are heard, we need you. Donate now. 🏳️‍🌈

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Our team is collaborating with other organizations and exploring legal options. We will prevail. But solutions, especially legal ones, will take time. And we must continue working while the courts decide. And we must send a a clear message: we will not be erased, criminalized, or vilified for believing in bodily autonomy and equal rights for all of us, especially our transgender and nonbinary siblings. 

 We cannot pause or falter. And with this spending freeze, we need you with us like never before. Donate to the Defend Global Progress Fund today and send a clear message: we will not let equality end with a Trump Presidency.
January 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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🚨 LGBTQ+ leaders around the world are in danger. And our programs to support them have been shut down. Thanks to a Trump Executive Order, the State Department and USAID suspended nearly all foreign assistance grants, including two grants that fund LGBTQ+ Victory Institute’s global work.
Chaos and uncertainty swirl around Trump’s foreign aid freeze, the hill
January 31, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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Will we see you at #WeAreCreatingChange in Las Vegas this month? Come check out our session Time2Run: LGBTQ+ Candidacy & Campaigns on Saturday, January 25, 2025!

Get mad. Get trained. Get elected!

#lgbt #lgbtq #political #politics #pride #lasvegas #creatingchange
Creating Change Las Vegas Conference with headshot of Elliot Imse that says "I'm Presenting! My session is: #Time2Run: LGBTQ+ Candidacy & Campaigns". Hosted by the National LGBTQ Task Force. Creating Change Las Vegas Conference with headshot of Itay Balely that says "I'm Presenting! My session is: #Time2Run: LGBTQ+ Candidacy & Campaigns". Hosted by the National LGBTQ Task Force.
January 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Cuyo objetivo es proporcionar un espacio de diálogo, fortalecimiento y articulación en materia de la participación política y democrática para construir una sociedad más inclusiva. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

💬 ¿Te interesa participar? Postúlate en www.liderazgoslgbt.com
Aplicaciones abiertas, da clic al link de nuestra biografía para llenar tu formulario de postulación al "VII Encuentro de Liderazgos Políticos LGBTIQ+ de las Américas y el Caribe". Aplicaciones abiertas, da clic al link de nuestra biografía para llenar tu formulario de postulación al "VII Encuentro de Liderazgos Políticos LGBTIQ+ de las Américas y el Caribe".
January 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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#ÚltimoMomento 📢 Aplicaciones abiertas, da clic al link de nuestra biografía para llenar tu formulario de postulación al "VII Encuentro de Liderazgos Políticos LGBTIQ+ de las Américas y el Caribe".

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Aplicaciones abiertas, da clic al link de nuestra biografía para llenar tu formulario de postulación al "VII Encuentro de Liderazgos Políticos LGBTIQ+ de las Américas y el Caribe". Aplicaciones abiertas, da clic al link de nuestra biografía para llenar tu formulario de postulación al "VII Encuentro de Liderazgos Políticos LGBTIQ+ de las Américas y el Caribe". Aplicaciones abiertas, da clic al link de nuestra biografía para llenar tu formulario de postulación al "VII Encuentro de Liderazgos Políticos LGBTIQ+ de las Américas y el Caribe". Aplicaciones abiertas, da clic al link de nuestra biografía para llenar tu formulario de postulación al "VII Encuentro de Liderazgos Políticos LGBTIQ+ de las Américas y el Caribe".
January 15, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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💬 Interested in participating? Apply at www.liderazgoslgbt.com!

⚖️🌈 A collaborative effort by the consortium including: PROMSEX, Caribe Afirmativo, Diversidad Dominicana, Somos CDC, @yaajmexico.bsky.social & Victory Institute!
Today, applications are open for the "VII Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Political Leaderships of the Americas and the Caribbean." Today, applications are open for the "VII Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Political Leaderships of the Americas and the Caribbean."
January 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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#BreakingNews 📢 Applications are now open!

Today, applications are open for the "VII Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Political Leaderships of the Americas and the Caribbean." Now more than ever, it is important for us to come together and move forward towards equality‼️

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Today, applications are open for the "VII Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Political Leaderships of the Americas and the Caribbean." Today, applications are open for the "VII Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Political Leaderships of the Americas and the Caribbean." Today, applications are open for the "VII Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Political Leaderships of the Americas and the Caribbean." Today, applications are open for the "VII Meeting of LGBTIQ+ Political Leaderships of the Americas and the Caribbean."
January 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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MORE scenes from the 2024 LGBTQ+ International Leaders Conference …. And the photos are LIVE 👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

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people sitting on the edge of a stage, with two rows of people behind them. These are the LGBTQ+ elected officials on stage. These are the LGBTQ+ elected officials on stage. Lorena Austin is in the center, laughing. LGBTQ+ elected official Emma Curtis LGBTQ+ elected officials Keturah Herron and US Senator Tammy Baldwin sit at a table, talking. The LGBTQ+ Victory Institute logo is on a large step and repeat behind them.
January 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Back where she belongs... in the U.S. Senate.
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin being sworn in by Vice President Kamala Harris, 2024
January 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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A longtime Victory Institute alumni, Leader Woodard has defended LGBTQ+ rights in Kansas - no easy feat!

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Stephanie Byer, Susan Ruiz, and Brandon Woodard in front of the International LGBTQ Leaders Conference Sign and logo (logo is a V with a white background).
January 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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✨🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈Scenes from the 2024 International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference (more to come!)
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin stands at a grey podium at LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's LGBTQ+ International Leaders Conference Arizona State Senator Lorena Austin laughs onstage at LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's LGBTQ+ International Leaders Conference Kentucky State Senator-elect Keturah Herron holding award and California State Senator Toni Atkins Former Bogota Mayor Claudia Lopez stands at a grey podium at LGBTQ+ Victory Institute's LGBTQ+ International Leaders Conference
December 12, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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Proud to support and defend Congresswoman-elect Sarah McBride and the many trans, non-binary and gender non-confirming people who work on Capitol Hill (and rest assured, trans people are not a new phenomenon in government).

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Headline in white text "Nancy Mace Calls Incoming Transgender Congresswoman A Threat—After Fighting For Ban From Women’s Bathrooms" by Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes Staff. Picture of Sarah McBride in the background of text. Black background with white text. Text reads, "We strongly condemn the acts by Speaker Johnson and Rep. Mace to introduce bigoted and transphobic policies at the Capitol—a place where all Americans should be welcome. Announcing an ill-conceived anti-trans policy, on Transgender Day of Remembrance no less, not only serves to cause more distraction and division but is a harmful stunt with real impact. This policy will harm many dedicated employees who work in the Capitol and is short-sided and dangerous. Voters elected Sarah McBride to represent them, and this will impede her ability to do so. Voters also overwhelmingly said they wanted their elected officials to focus on a multitude of issues to help improve our nation. Instead of doing vital work for our nation, Johnson and Mace chose to shamefully target transgender public servants.". LGBTQ Victory Institute logo at the bottom, eight green stripes in the top right corner.
November 21, 2024 at 8:46 PM
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You can also register for 👀free👀 if you sign up to be a volunteer, which we think is a really cool way to attend Conference, and also, we need volunteers to help our amazing team: forms.microsoft.com/pages/respon...
November 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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The International LGBTQ+ Leaders Conference is right around the corner, and we're calling on YOU to be part of something extraordinary! 🌈✨

📅 When: December 5-7, 2024
📍 Where: Washington, DC

Learn more: site.pheedloop.com/event/lgbtql...
November 19, 2024 at 2:49 PM