Gay agenda: win elections

Gay and progressive election results (at least the ones I know about, summarized on the blog Towleroad):

* The National Organization for Marriage heavily promoted a GOP candidate for a vacant state Senate seat in Iowa. Their candidate lost, preventing consideration of a marriage protection amendment.

* Adam Ebblin elected as first gay senator in the Virginia Senate.

* Lesbian Annise Parker kept the mayor job in Houston, barely avoiding a runoff.

* The anti-gay candidate for Largo, Fla. City Commission was defeated.

* LaWana Mayfield, lesbian, won a seat on the Charlotte, NC, city commission.

* Gay Chapel Hill, NC, mayor Mark Kleinschmidt reelected.

* Alex Morse, gay and only 22, became mayor of Holyoke, Mass.

* Tim Eustace won a seat in the NJ Assembly, becoming the second gay Assemblyman.

* Chris Seelbach is the first openly gay city council member in Cincinnati.

* Bruce Harris will become mayor of Chatham Borough, NJ, and is gay, black, and GOP.

* Lesbian Mary Doran will serve on the School Board in St. Paul, Minn.

* Pedro Segarra is back as mayor of Hartford, CT. He was unopposed. I got tired of saying they're all lesbian or gay. Just assume so.

* Zach Adamson is the first openly gay City Council member in Indianapolis.

* Caitlin Copple will join the City Council in Missoula, MT.

* Daniel Hernandez (famous from the Gabby Giffords shooting) was elected to the Tucson School Board.

* Traverse City, MI, kept it's anti-discrimination ordinance, approving it my 63%.

* Maine kept its same-day voter registration law despite nasty anti-gay tactics by the GOP.

* Mississippi rejected the "personhood at conception" amendment by 55%.

* Ohio overturned the nasty anti-union law rammed through last spring.

The bad news.

* Rose Marie Belforti made a stink in Ledyard, NY when, as town clerk, refused to grant gay marriage licenses after they were approved in the state. She won reelection by 62%.

* Manuel Rodriguez ran a nasty anti-gay campaign and won in the Houston school system (don't know the office).

More good news supplied by commenters:

* John Campbell will be Treasurer in Harrisburg, PA.

* New London, CT, has restored the office of mayor and its first occupant will be Daryl Justin Finizio, who is gay.

* Michael Sutphin elected to the town council of Blacksburg, VA.

* Palm Springs kept its gay mayor Steve Pougnet.

* Attleboro, MA, kept its gay mayor Kevin Dumas who was elected for a 5th term.

* More in Houston: Mike Laster elected to the city council.

* Council Bluffs, IA, elected GOP Nate Watson to city council.

* Dems regained control of the Wake County (Raleigh), NC, school board. This race was recently featured in NPR as a small race attracting big money. Can't win nationally? Fight locally.