Virginia lawmaker and metallic singer Danica Roem has made historical past but once more.
After changing into the primary brazenly transgender individual elected to the Virginia Home of Delegates again in 2017, Roem on Tuesday grew to become the primary brazenly trans individual elected to the Virginia State Senate.
Roem ran towards Republican Invoice Woolf to symbolize Virginia’s thirtieth District within the higher chamber.
“I am grateful the folks of Virginia’s thirtieth senate District elected me to proceed representing my lifelong dwelling of western Prince William County and larger Manassas,” Roem mentioned in a press release.
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“The voters have proven they need a pacesetter who will prioritize fixing roads, feeding children, and defending our land as a substitute of stigmatizing trans children or taking away your civil rights,” she added on Tuesday.
Roem did not make her sexual identification a central half her marketing campaign, as CBS Information mentioned. As an alternative, she campaigned on giving Virginia academics a elevate, making healthcare extra accessible and stopping the continued risk of gun violence.
Danica Roem’s Steel Band
Roem beforehand carried out as a vocalist for a Virginia-based metallic band referred to as Cab Trip Dwelling. In a 2017 interview with Loudwire, she described her persevering with lifelong metallic fandom.
“The humorous factor about me being in workplace, is I’ll at all times nonetheless be that metallic nerd writing ‘SLAYER’ within the nook of a pocket book,” Roem defined. “Right here I’m, a 33-year-old stepmom, newly elected and I am nonetheless writing the Metallica ninja star. That absolutely would not change once you get elected into workplace.”
She recalled, “After I was in highschool, my favourite present to observe was on Saturday nights on the general public entry channel, and it was fed in from Canada, A lot Loud. That’s the place I received a number of publicity to stuff you do not see within the mainstream — Napalm Loss of life, Nothingface. And I imply early Nothingface. They’d play black metallic stuff like Emperor. I like Swedish metallic, Finnish metallic.”
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Danica Roem in Cab Trip Dwelling
Musicians Who Ran for Political Workplace
These rockers not solely made music, but additionally wished to make a distinction on the planet.
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