Congressmember Dan Goldman is operating for his third time period in workplace.
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Equality PAC — the political arm of the Congressional Equality Caucus — is throwing its help behind Congressmember Dan Goldman within the aggressive race for New York’s tenth Congressional District.
The Congressional Equality Caucus, which is co-chaired by the 12 out members of Congress, is backing Goldman roughly two months earlier than the second-term lawmaker faces former New York Metropolis Comptroller Brad Lander within the June 23 main.
In endorsing Goldman, Equality PAC is praising the lawmaker’s work on LGBTQ rights and citing his help for transgender People.
“As the Trump administration ramps up its attacks on LGBTQ+ Americans, we need fighters in Congress who will stop at nothing to defend their rights,” Equality PAC mentioned in a written assertion on April 7. “That’s why we are proud to endorse Congressman Dan Goldman for re-election. Throughout his time in office, Rep. Goldman has been a relentless advocate for the LGBTQ+ community — from championing critical legislation to always speaking up and fighting back against hate and intolerance. Let’s send Rep. Goldman back to Washington to continue being the ally and representative that LGBTQ+ Americans need and deserve.”
By way of April 6, the Equality PAC had endorsed greater than a dozen candidates for Congress, together with each out candidates and allies in addition to incumbents and challengers. Equality PAC’s two different New York-based Congressional endorsements to date this 12 months embody two out politicians: Ritchie Torres, an incumbent within the Bronx’s fifteenth Congressional District, and Cait Conley, a navy veteran who’s difficult Mike Lawler in New York’s seventeenth Congressional District.
Goldman has represented the tenth Congressional District — which stretches from Decrease Manhattan to the western Brooklyn neighborhoods of Borough Park, Bay Ridge, and Prospect Heights — since 2023.
“Since day one, I have been a champion for the LGBTQ+ community in New York and across the country, and that will never change,” Goldman mentioned in a written assertion. “As the Trump administration continues its homophobic and transphobic attacks, I am proud to be leading the fight in Congress to defend the rights of all LGBTQ+ Americans. Representing New York’s 10th Congressional District — home to the Stonewall Inn, the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement — is a privilege that I do not take lightly, and I’m incredibly proud to have the support of Equality PAC as I run for re-election to continue advocating for my friends and neighbors in the LGBTQ+ community.”
Goldman and Lander have each earned help from inside the LGBTQ neighborhood all through their political careers, with every of them having beforehand been endorsed by LGBTQ political golf equipment just like the Stonewall Democratic Membership of New York Metropolis. On this race, the citywide Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Membership has endorsed Lander, whereas the Stonewall Democratic Membership of New York Metropolis, one other citywide LGBTQ Democratic membership, will endorse candidates in Congressional races on April 22.
Final 12 months, Goldman and Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Takano of California penned a letter signed by 69 Home Democrats expressing concern over the Trump administration’s removing of references to transgender and different queer People on the Stonewall Nationwide Monument’s on-line website.
Lander, in the meantime, has lengthy supported LGBTQ rights relationship again to his time within the Metropolis Council. As a metropolis lawmaker, he co-sponsored payments to ban conversion remedy, enable New Yorkers to alter the gender marker to “X” on their delivery certificates, and require single-occupant loos to welcome people of any gender.
Most lately, Lander has aggressively criticized some personal hospitals for bowing to strain from the Trump administration to limit gender-affirming care for people beneath the age of 19. Lander posted a video on Transgender Day of Visibility, asking, “When they came for trans kids, history will ask, did you speak up or did you stand by?”
“Whenever institutions like NYU Langone or Mt. Sinai shamefully violate their obligation to care for trans patients (and their obligations under NYS and NYC human rights law), our voices will rise up loudly in opposition,” Lander mentioned.
In his re-election bid, Goldman has drawn help from political leaders similar to Gov. Kathy Hochul, Home Democratic Chief Hakeem Jeffries, out Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal, and out State Senator Erik Bottcher, whereas Lander has been endorsed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Public Adovcate Jumaane Williams, and Senators Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, amongst others.
