Nadeau, Allen, and Silverman Receive Top Ratings from GLAA

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questionnaire, which surveys candidates about their stances on various issues prioritized by the LGBTQ political group.Issued every two years, the questionnaire grades mayoral, Council, and attorney general candidates — in both the primary and the general elections — on the depth and thoroughness of their answers, in addition to holding GLAA’s preferred positions on various issues.

Candidates are rated on a scale of -10 to +10, with points awarded for answers that align with GLAA’s positions, as well as their record on LGBTQ rights.

Points may be docked for any anti-LGBTQ advocacy or actions deemed hostile to the community.To assist candidates in completing the survey, GLAA mails candidates a brief outlining why it supports particular positions along with the questionnaire, and how those positions are beneficial to the LGBTQ community.Among the issues emphasized in GLAA’s 2022 brief are: deeply affordable housing for people earning less than 30% of the Area Median Income, strengthening inclusionary zoning, expanded access to housing voucher programs, decriminalizing sex work, repealing the subminimum wage for tipped workers, funding the Office of Human Rights in a way that ensures it can resolve its case backlog, establishing overdose prevention facilities, utilizing oversight to reform the way D.C.

jails operate — especially with regard to transgender inmates — and divesting from the Metropolitan Police Department to fund anti-poverty and anti-violence programs.All candidates who returned questionnaires were graded on their responses.