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Politicians that came out after retiring from office?

Should the "By state delegation" section of this article include politicians that came out after retiring from office? Some examples include:

California
- Rep. Michael Huffington - served 1993–1995, came out 1998
Maryland
- Rep. Robert Bauman - served 1973–1981, published autobiography entitled The Gentleman from Maryland: The Conscience of a Gay Conservative in 1986
Mississippi
- Rep. Jon Hinson - served 1979–1981, came out sometime after losing reelection

X n ux 16:28, 30 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The claim that Jones is one of the "first openly gay" people in Congress is blatantly false. From Wkipedia: Gerry Studds[1] (MA-12, MA-10) – served 1973–1997, outed 1983 U.S. representative (first to voluntarily come out): Barney Frank[2] (MA-4) – served 1980–2013, came out in 1987 U.S. representative (first out Republican): Steve Gunderson (WI-3) – served 1981–1997, outed 1994 U.S. representative (first Republican to voluntarily come out): Jim Kolbe (AZ-5) – served 1985–2007, came out 1996 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C55:6D00:814:F86A:1D6A:AF4B:1747 (talk) 20:39, 28 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Content forks

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)[reply]