We are still savoring the wonderful queer victories of the US Midterm Elections, which will ensure that 2027 is set to be the most LGBTQ+ Congress ever, with at least 17 out of the members.  If we had to pick one unexpected victory that gave us the most pleasure/satisfacation it would be, without question, what happened in Mississippi, even though the victor is ‘straight’. 

Three years ago,  Republican U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith used her Senate power to block Scott Colom from becoming a federal judge, citing his supposed position on transgender athletes. But she really had her comeuppance when Mississippi voters chose him to take her seat.

Colom delivered a Democratic breakthrough in one of the country’s most reliably Republican states. He will become Mississippi’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction and the first Democrat elected to the chamber since 1982.

PS For the record, Colom is both straight  and married.