Pennsylvania is alone among northeastern states in lacking a law banning anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination. But it could be the first with a lieutenant governor drawn from the LGBTQ+ community.
State Rep. Brian Sims, the gay man seeking the office, notes the irony of the situation. “It’s not lost on me in any way that I’m running to be the first out lieutenant governor in a state that doesn’t have LGBTQ equality,” he says.
Sims, the first out
