Outreach & Inclusion is Our Mission
Stonewall DFL represents the DFL in the LGBTQ community and represents the LGBTQ community in the DFL.
As the official LGBTQ outreach arm of the DFL, we participate in Pride and other events in every corner of the state – educating and registering voters, promoting our endorsed candidates, and creating a pipeline for LGBTQ people to get involved in the DFL Party.
We remind the Party of – and help it fulfill – its obligations of outreach and inclusion for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people.
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Belong to Something Greater!
Stonewall DFL members have voting privileges at all membership meetings and committee meetings; this includes voting for candidate endorsements.
The entire membership generally meets once or twice a year, electing the board of directors which meets monthly. Members are encouraged to be active with our six standing committees which meet with varying schedules. All meetings are public and guests are welcome.
Electing Champions for our Community
Stonewall DFL works for a safe and equitable Minnesota by endorsing and electing LGBTQ and allied candidates for public office in and in the Minnesota DFL Party. Our endorsements are important to many Minnesotans who seek our advice choosing candidates that will champion issues impacting the LGBTQ community.
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Stonewall DFL is outraged and heartbroken at the news of the assassination of Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark. We are additionally outraged at the attempted assassination of Senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette. We continue to hope that Senator Hoffman recovers and will, once again, be a true champion for the rights and needs of people with disabilities in Minnesota.
Speaker Emerita Hortman was a titan in Minnesota. She played a major part in ensuring the 2023-2024 DFL trifecta here in Minnesota, and ensured that the promise of the Minnesota Miracle 2.0 became reality. As part of the Minnesota Miracle 2.0, Speaker Emerita Hortman shepherded through bills that would make Minnesota the first Transgender refuge state in the United States and a ban on conversion therapy.. These policies, along with many more, currently makes Minnesota one of the safest states for the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in the nation. Minnesota serves as a bulwark against the constant homophobia and transphobia coming from the Trump administration in large part to Speaker Emerita Hortman and the DFL trifecta in 2023 and 2024.
The loss of Speaker Emerita is unfathomable. Stonewall DFL will work to continue her legacy by fighting for marginalized communities like she did so fiercely.
We ask that all leaders, no matter their political affiliation, completely and totally condemn violence in all of its forms. We encourage members, the public, and the media to call what happened this morning what it is: an assassination. As we continue to decend into fascism, we must not let words lose their meaning like many political leaders desperately want.
Political violence can never and will never be acceptable. We must always work towards a better future, just as the Speaker Emerita always did.
Towards Liberation for Us All,
Brian Swancutt
Chair, Stonewall DFL