LPAC featured in the Dallas Voice
Even though people tend to lump all of the members LGBTQ into one homogenous group, “our issues [as queer women] are a little bit different,” Sandberg said. And while LPAC certainly supports “our gay brothers,” she continued, “We are focused on creating a place at the table for LGBTQ women. We want to have a real impact and really move the needle, primarily be electing LGBTQ women to office.”
While LPAC hopes to “lift all votes by concentrating fiercely on LGBTQ women,” Sandberg said that those efforts in the past have been hampered by a lack of solid data. That’s why LPAC recently launched the nonprofit Project LPAC and then hired pollster and researcher Celinda Lake to “undertake the first survey and first research study to understand LGBTQ women and civic engagement.” And they mean all women that come under the LGBTQ umbrella — trans women, women of color, queer women of all ages, all income levels, all races, ethnicities and backgrounds.
“We have been thrilled” with the results, Sandberg said. “We actually now have a starting point to understand and define our communities, and also to understand what we should be saying to these communities of women to get them out to vote.
“That’s where the impact really starts.”
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Original: “Promoting the power of LGBTQ women,”
February 21, 2020