are Mississippi and Louisiana; Mississippi has, however, had legislators who came out as gay after the end of their term in the legislature, or were outed after their deaths. Alabama: Rep. Patricia Todd (D) – elected 2006 (female) Rep. Neil Rafferty (D) – elected 2018 (male) Alaska: Rep. Johnny Ellis (D) – elected 1986, came out 2016 Arizona: Ken Cheuvront (D) – served in both the Arizona House of Representatives and the Arizona Senate between 1994 and 2010 (male) Paula Aboud (D) – elected to the Arizona Senate in 2006 (female) Arkansas: Rep. Kathy Webb (D) – elected 2006 California: Assemblywoman (later Sen.) Sheila Kuehl (D) – elected 1994 to House; elected to Senate in 2000 – California's first openly gay state legislator The 2004 elections in California sent six openly LGBT people to the California State Legislature: four lesbians (Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, Senator Sheila Kuehl, and Senator Carole Migden, Senator Christine Kehoe), and two gay men (Assemblyman Mark Leno and Assemblyman John Laird). Rep. John Pérez (D) – first openly LGBT person to serve as speaker of the California State Assembly (appointed 2010) Pérez was succeeded as speaker by Assemblywoman Toni G. Atkins (D) (elected 2014), the second openly LGBT person (and the first lesbian) to hold the post. Colorado General Assembly: Rep. (later Sen.) Jennifer Veiga ((D) – Elected to the state House in 1996; became Colorado's first openly LGBT state legislature when she came out in 2002; subsequently reelected and served as House minority leader in 2003 (first LGBT person to hold this post); later elected to the state Senate. Rep. Mark Ferrandino (D) – appointed October 2007, became first openly gay man to serve in the General Assembly. In 2012, Ferrandino became Colorado's first openly LGBT speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives. Sen. Lucía Guzmán (D) –elected 2010; first LGBT person to serve as president pro tem of the Colorado Senate In 2012, the first major state race in which both major-party candidates were LGBT occurred when Pat Steadman (D) and Michael Carr (R) ran against each other in Colorado's 31st state Senate district. Rep. Leslie Herod (D) – elected 2016; first LGBT African-American to be elected to Colorado's state legislature. Rep. Brianna Titone (D) – elected 2018; first openly transgender woman to be elected to Colorado's state legislature. Connecticut General Assembly: Rep. Joseph Grabarz (D) – Connecticut's first openly LGBT state legislator; first elected