"I'm not sure that he ran before as an openly gay legislator," the Speaker said.

She is featured in the 2013 documentary Breaking Through, and is currently writing a memoir about her time as Idaho's first openly gay legislator.

In May 2012, Representative Wyatt became, at that time, the nation's only openly gay Republican legislator.

He is the first openly gay male legislator in Colorado history.

"She never wanted to be pegged as the gay legislator," Ms. Stuckey-Benfeld said.

Anderson was Washington State's first openly gay legislator.

He was vying to become the first openly gay legislator representing Brooklyn.

Josh Boschee was elected as North Dakota's first openly gay legislator.

An eighth-generation Vermonter, Squires was elected in 1990 as Vermont's first openly gay legislator.