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In what way was Frances Perkins “openly LGBT”? Sajita ( talk) 17:38, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
I don't think we need that footnote in the heading for State Legislators. It really should be a paragraph right underneath the heading. It is OK to have sentences underneath headings to explain the listing. That does not defeat the purpose of a list. As it stands now, someone wanting to wikilink directly to the subheading needs to type ...#State legislators.5B4.5D which would be incorrect if other footnotes are placed in the list before this subheading. All they should need to type is ...#State_legislators -- JoannaSerah ( talk) 18:54, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
I know this is a list of firsts, but putting state legislators in this order just looks like a mess. Most people, I believe, would be looking for state lists to be in alphabetical order. If we insist on chronological order, then there needs to be a sentence or something explaining how to read the list (Underneath the subheading, not in a footnote). Otherwise we will have others change this too. The footnote doesn't even say that the whole list is in chrono order, just that "the first out person to serve in each of those states is listed here." That could be true even of an alpha sort. As a guide, see List of the first LGBT holders of political offices which has a link to this list. This separates countries and even states (if you look at Australia) in alpha order. Putting the US states in alpha order would be much more readable, more uniform with other lists and can be searched more easily by the regular user. We can put a sentence in that says that Massachusetts was the first state with an out elected state representative, if deemed necessary. I really think the states themselves should be listed alphabetically. -- JoannaSerah ( talk) 18:54, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
I just reverted part of a recent edit about records. They don't belong in an article about first office holders. It would amount to a tally sheet as new records came in. Also, it appeared to be original research. I left the addition of Rep. Micah Kellner in, but have some doubts as to inclusion. Why was this included? I think originally, as far as the state legislatures go, the list was for the first officeholders of either chamber, not specifically the first of each individual chamber. This relates also to some recent inclusions of Mark Ferrandino, Pat Steadman and Lucía Guzmán. I don't think Steadman or Guzmán need to be in the list as they weren't the first in the legislature as a whole. Veiga should stay for first in the state leg. and Ferrandino should stay for first male in the state leg. There might be others like this, I only went back so far in the edit history. Thank you.-- JoannaSerah ( talk) 18:28, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Should the "By state delegation" section of this article include politicians that came out after retiring from office? Some examples include:
X n ux 16:28, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Hoylman Willfilm123 ( talk) 07:10, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
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Listed here is the 1st County Board President, Cathy Woolard in Georgia in 2002. However, the 1st County Board Chair was Jay Fisette in Arlington VA in 2001. These positions are equivalent. The major difference is that the President is directly elected. Shouldn't Jay Fisette be counted as the first County Board President/Chair, rather than Cathy Woolard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linafpinto1 ( talk • contribs) 18:36, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Am in the middle of 20 gazillion things right now or I would do the update myself, but this article needs updating for 2018 in light of Colorado electing the nation's first openly gay governor on Tuesday. Lawikitejana ( talk) 16:21, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
SO MANY of these lack references. This needs fixing ASAP for BLP. DemonDays64 ( talk) 09:55, 21 December 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
Is this a list of FIRSTs or not? The section "State legislators", in particular, have a lot of multiple entries. Needs trimming to "just firsts". Platonk ( talk) 22:21, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
The two articles List of first openly LGBT politicians in the United States and List of LGBT politicians in the United States have become contents forks of each other. Non-firsts have been creeping into the FIRSTS article, and the plain 'list of' article is woefully deficient in list entries compared to the FIRSTS article. The latter article, using tables (which is prettier and vastly more interesting for a reader to view) would quickly become unwieldy in size should it even attempt to include all the "firsts" in it.
Either the articles need to be merged, or drop one of them, or they need to be separated further — perhaps into one FIRSTS article and the other as people in CURRENT office positions (not to include past office holders). Platonk ( talk) 22:23, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
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In what way was Frances Perkins “openly LGBT”? Sajita ( talk) 17:38, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
I don't think we need that footnote in the heading for State Legislators. It really should be a paragraph right underneath the heading. It is OK to have sentences underneath headings to explain the listing. That does not defeat the purpose of a list. As it stands now, someone wanting to wikilink directly to the subheading needs to type ...#State legislators.5B4.5D which would be incorrect if other footnotes are placed in the list before this subheading. All they should need to type is ...#State_legislators -- JoannaSerah ( talk) 18:54, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
I know this is a list of firsts, but putting state legislators in this order just looks like a mess. Most people, I believe, would be looking for state lists to be in alphabetical order. If we insist on chronological order, then there needs to be a sentence or something explaining how to read the list (Underneath the subheading, not in a footnote). Otherwise we will have others change this too. The footnote doesn't even say that the whole list is in chrono order, just that "the first out person to serve in each of those states is listed here." That could be true even of an alpha sort. As a guide, see List of the first LGBT holders of political offices which has a link to this list. This separates countries and even states (if you look at Australia) in alpha order. Putting the US states in alpha order would be much more readable, more uniform with other lists and can be searched more easily by the regular user. We can put a sentence in that says that Massachusetts was the first state with an out elected state representative, if deemed necessary. I really think the states themselves should be listed alphabetically. -- JoannaSerah ( talk) 18:54, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
I just reverted part of a recent edit about records. They don't belong in an article about first office holders. It would amount to a tally sheet as new records came in. Also, it appeared to be original research. I left the addition of Rep. Micah Kellner in, but have some doubts as to inclusion. Why was this included? I think originally, as far as the state legislatures go, the list was for the first officeholders of either chamber, not specifically the first of each individual chamber. This relates also to some recent inclusions of Mark Ferrandino, Pat Steadman and Lucía Guzmán. I don't think Steadman or Guzmán need to be in the list as they weren't the first in the legislature as a whole. Veiga should stay for first in the state leg. and Ferrandino should stay for first male in the state leg. There might be others like this, I only went back so far in the edit history. Thank you.-- JoannaSerah ( talk) 18:28, 21 November 2011 (UTC)
Should the "By state delegation" section of this article include politicians that came out after retiring from office? Some examples include:
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brad_Hoylman Willfilm123 ( talk) 07:10, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
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Listed here is the 1st County Board President, Cathy Woolard in Georgia in 2002. However, the 1st County Board Chair was Jay Fisette in Arlington VA in 2001. These positions are equivalent. The major difference is that the President is directly elected. Shouldn't Jay Fisette be counted as the first County Board President/Chair, rather than Cathy Woolard? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linafpinto1 ( talk • contribs) 18:36, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
Am in the middle of 20 gazillion things right now or I would do the update myself, but this article needs updating for 2018 in light of Colorado electing the nation's first openly gay governor on Tuesday. Lawikitejana ( talk) 16:21, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
SO MANY of these lack references. This needs fixing ASAP for BLP. DemonDays64 ( talk) 09:55, 21 December 2020 (UTC) (please ping on reply)
Is this a list of FIRSTs or not? The section "State legislators", in particular, have a lot of multiple entries. Needs trimming to "just firsts". Platonk ( talk) 22:21, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
The two articles List of first openly LGBT politicians in the United States and List of LGBT politicians in the United States have become contents forks of each other. Non-firsts have been creeping into the FIRSTS article, and the plain 'list of' article is woefully deficient in list entries compared to the FIRSTS article. The latter article, using tables (which is prettier and vastly more interesting for a reader to view) would quickly become unwieldy in size should it even attempt to include all the "firsts" in it.
Either the articles need to be merged, or drop one of them, or they need to be separated further — perhaps into one FIRSTS article and the other as people in CURRENT office positions (not to include past office holders). Platonk ( talk) 22:23, 24 December 2021 (UTC)