Texas elected Julie Johnson to replace Representative Colin Allred on Tuesday, marking the first time that the Lone Star State has chosen an openly LGBTQ person to represent it in Congress. The Democrat won Texas’s 32nd Congressional District by a landslide, pulling more than 60 percent of the vote against Republican Darrell Day, reported The Dallas Morning News . She will represent parts of Collin, Dallas, and Denton Counties. But Johnson’s win isn’t just a local victory for LGBTQ Texans—it’s