"For three years, Craig and her former partner worked to convince the Tennessee courts that being gay did not disqualify them from retaining custody of their son, Josh, whom they'd raised from infancy after his birth mother selected them to adopt him. Josh is now 28 years old with a toddler of his own, but Craig says that, even all these decades later, the ferocious mama-bear energy she needed to win the right to be his mother lives on."
"Right now, she's using that energy to run for U.S. Senate in Minnesota after already making history as the first lesbian mom in the House of Representatives. Craig has served in Congress since 2019, when she eked out a victory despite running in a Republican stronghold that had only sent two Democrats to Congress since the 1940s. She has since proved her staying power."
"I got up every single day for almost 3 years, and my partner and I didn't know whether we would have our son to put to bed that night. So every fight I've taken on from a district that had been in Republican hands fo"
Angie Craig and her former partner spent nearly three years persuading Tennessee courts that their sexual orientation did not disqualify them from retaining custody of their son Josh, whom they raised from infancy after his birth mother selected them to adopt him. Josh is now 28 and has a toddler. Craig channeled the ferocious determination that won that custody fight into a political career, becoming the first lesbian mother elected to the U.S. House in 2019 from a Republican-leaning district. She has won reelection decisively, serves four terms, and is now campaigning for U.S. Senate while engaging conservative voters.
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