Report: Only 0.1 percent of elected officials are LGBTQ.

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There are only 559 openly LGBTQ elected officials among the estimated 11 million LGBTQ adults in the U.S., according to a new Victory Institute report.

Just before the 2009 Houston mayoral runoff election, 35,000 postcards were sent to houses across the city showing one of the candidates, Annise Parker, being sworn in as city controller next to the woman who is now her wife…