LPAC, the nation’s only organization dedicated to electing LGBTQ women and nonbinary candidates, celebrated a few bright spots in an otherwise dark election.

Ted Olson, a conservative lawyer, whose work to overturn California’s ban on same-sex marriage created an unexpected legacy, died on Nov. 13.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced last month the Pentagon has upgraded the paperwork of more than 800 veterans who were discharged other than honorably before discriminatory policies like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” were repealed.

A gay model was attacked in the District of Columbia, a trans woman in New York sued Hooters for discrimination, and the attempt to remove LGBTQ student protections was reversed in New Jersey.

If you were told there was a $10,000 bounty on trans people using the restroom, you’d probably think it was the plot of a dystopian film set in the not-so-distant future.

Winning her bid for the state’s at-large seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday, Delaware State Sen. Sarah McBride became the first transgender candidate elected to the U.S. Congress.