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    Opinion

    Young LGBT people are more politically engaged than the rest of Generation Z

    Melissa Deckman
    Mileah Kromer
    July 26, 2019
    Young LGBT people are more politically engaged than the rest of Generation Z

    Deckman is a professor of political science at Washington College. Kromer is director of the Sarah T. Hughes Field Politics Center at Goucher College.

    Last year's midterm elections were a "rainbow wave," with more openly lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people elected to public office than at any other time in American history.

    According to the Victory Fund, a political action committee that supports LGBT candidates, a record 627 openly LGBT candidates ran for public office in 2018, with 399 appearing on the general election ballot.

    However, LGBT Americans still remain woefully underrepresented in political office, which suggests that political participation by older generations of LGBT Americans is less frequent than political activism by their straight counterparts. This dynamic, however, may be changing with future generations.

    Recent surveys on young Americans in their late teens and early 20s — including one weconducted — reveal that the youngest generation of LGBT Americans is far more engaged in politics than their straight counterparts.

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