WASHINGTON — Equality California, the nation’s largest statewide LGBTQ civil rights organization, and Nevada-based affiliate Silver State Equality released their annual joint federal legislative scorecard for 2021 on Tuesday, demonstrating broad support for LGBTQ+ civil rights and social justice among both states’ congressional delegations. In California, 42 of 53 U.S. Representatives and both U.S. Senators received perfect 100% scores. In Nevada, three of four U.S. Representatives and both U.S. Senators received perfect 100% scores.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats continued their advocacy for the LGBTQ+ community by passing a wave of pro-equality legislation in 2021. The scorecard includes eight House floor votes on priority bills, one Senate floor vote, and co-sponsorship of 11 other priority bills.
“With a change of leadership in the White House and Democratic majorities in both the U.S. Senate and House, the legislative outlook in Washington, D.C. for 2021 looked promising for the LGBTQ+ community. Equality California and Silver State Equality partnered with the Congressional delegations from California and Nevada to support several bills protecting the LGBTQ+ community,” wrote Equality California Executive Director Tony Hoang, Silver State Equality State Director André C. Wade and National Policy Director Valerie Ploumpis in a joint letter at the beginning of the scorecard. “Our priority legislation would ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity; improve the collection of hate crimes statistics; require the government to collect more data based on sexual orientation and gender identity; protect a women’s right to an abortion; and provide stronger support to LGBTQ+ people who experience sexual and domestic violence.”
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