Questionnaire Response

Governor and Lt. Governor

Please copy the form below and email it to admin@lidbk.com

Please provide your name, a link to your website, and a picture you’d like us to use.

  1. Please share what, in your view, best qualifies you to be the governor or lieutenant governor of the State of New York?

  2. While NYC is mostly blue, New York State is purple. How does your platform will ensure that, if chosen by Democrats in the primary, you will ensure a Democratic victory in November?

  3. LID is proudly a progressive club – how does your platform speak to progressive values while also appealing to a statewide victory in November?

  4. Will you commit to ensuring that persons with prior homophobic/anti-queer statements and/or positions (to include espoused beliefs that transgender people are not the gender that they present themselves as) are not given jobs in your administration (unless this person has otherwise ameliorated their prior positions through consistent acts demonstrating a commitment toward the equality of all LGBTQ people while recognizing the harm they have previously caused)?

  5. Separate and apart from dedicated LGBTQ community liaisons (which organizations like ours expect to be appointed), how will you ensure that queer leaders are represented in various Executive Chamber and statewide/gubernatorially-appointed agency executive positions and boards?

  6. LID, like many progressive organizations, works best in coalition with our partners. Please share your path to victory and how we can help if we endorse you (and please list your endorsements at the end of this questionnaire or in an attachment):

  7. Voting access is under attack across the county. While New York is ahead of many states, we have work to do. Please identify what you see as New York’s top voting access issues and share how you will address them.

  8. New York State incarcerates too many people. Period. With a disproportionate impact on people of color. Provide us some some broad outlines as to how you plan to address this.

  9. While we are confident that New York State will never ban the discussion of gender identity from public schools, we are still far away from ensuring that our public schools provide culturally competent educational support for LGBTQ families and queer, transgender and gender non-conforming youth. Will you support, and advocate for the legislature to pass:

    1. Legislation creating an LGBTQ+ History curriculum for public schools (A817/S1729)?

    2. Legislation requiring inclusive instruction and instructional materials (A808/S1929)?

    3. Legislation to promote comprehensive sex ed in public schools? (A6616/S2584)?

    4. Legislation requiring local school districts to establish policies and procedures regarding the treatment of transgender and gender-non conforming students (A840/S369)?

  10. Queer people continue to face inequality in the healthcare and housing system. Please tell us if you support:

    1. Passing the New York Health Act (A 6058/S 5474)?

    2. Legislation requiring unarmed crisis personnel to respond to mental health crises?

    3. Legislation which would mandate insurance coverage for PrEP/PEP (A808/S699)?

    4. Legislation which would make gender affirming care an essential health benefit?

    5. Passing a bill of rights for LGBTQ persons in long-term care facilities (A7807/S85)?

  11. LID and our coalition partners have been working hard to decriminalize sex with in New York State, an archaic policy that disproportionately impacts transgender women of color. Will you support the Stop the Stop the Violence in Sex Trades Act (“SVSTA”) (A849/S3075) and advocate for its passage in the legislature?

  12. The most marginalized members of the LGBTQ community are those who face constant discrimination on the basis of their gender. Please share if you support and will advocate for the passage of the following:

    1. The Gender Identity Respect Dignity and Safety Act (ensures that incarcerated individuals are housed consistent with their gender identity) (A7001A/S6677)?

    2. Gender Inclusive Ballot Act (Includes individuals who do not identify exclusively as a binary gender in eligibility for party positions) (A07933A/S6901B) (*passed by both houses of the legislature, awaits transmittal to the governor)

    3. Legislation to ban the use of conversion therapy on persons over 18 and under legal guardianship?

  13. Do you support legislation that will suspend unnecessary travel to states that permit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression (A 07991/S 06897)?

Please share your current endorsements: