Washington, DC – Today, with just about one more week until the November election, Equality PAC announced that during the 2024 election cycle, it has raised more than $20.7 million. In addition to supporting its nine incumbents and six challengers, Equality PAC is the only congressional identity PAC that has supported every DCCC Frontliner and Red2Blue candidate, sending more than $763,000 to races across the nation.
“This year, Equality PAC celebrated its 10th anniversary. When we first started in 2014, we raised just a few thousand dollars to support our small but mighty caucus of LGBTQ members. In this short amount of time, Equality PAC has established itself as an unmatched force in LGBTQ politics, raising a record breaking $20.7 million during this election cycle,” said Equality PAC Co-Chairs Ranking Member Mark Takano (D-CA) and Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-NY). “We have not only expanded our caucus, but we have drastically changed its composition from what used to be an all-white, almost all gay male delegation into a strong and diverse coalition that will soon have members from every region of our nation. This includes a record of six LGBTQ women and several other firsts that will be sworn into the 119th Congress: the first openly queer Latina, the first openly LGBTQ person from the south, and the first openly trans person ever elected to federal office. And we recognize that to build a new Pro-Equality Majority in the House that will pass the Equality Act, we need defiant allies that will stand up for our community. That is why we are the only congressional identity PAC to donate to every DCCC Frontline and Red2Blue candidate. These numbers are historic. The progress we have made is historic. And in November, we will make history by electing the greatest number of openly LGBTQ Americans to ever serve in Congress.”
Equality PAC’s mission is simple: to elect more LGBTQ+ persons to Congress — individuals who will have a seat at the table, impact the debate, and humanize the LGBTQ community’s concerns. All the funds we raise are used to elect and re-elect LGBTQ persons to Congress and secondarily support strong LGBTQ community allies who will proudly and unapologetically stand with us in the fight to pass the Equality Act and equal protection under our nation’s laws.
In the short time that Equality PAC has existed, Equality PAC has played an unmatched role in making history for the LGBTQ community, electing LGBTQ leaders at the federal level such as current House Members Sharice Davis (Kansas); Ritchie Torres (New York); Becca Balint (Vermont); Robert Garcia (California); Eric Sorensen (Illinois); Angie Craig (Minnesota); and Chris Pappas (New Hampshire), as well as former House Member Mondaire Jones (New York). Equality PAC has been instrumental in winning key races that have determined control of Congress because we know that without pro-Equality majorities, the progress our community has made and the civil rights and equal protections we have fought so hard for, and are still fighting for every day, remain in jeopardy.
