Published on March 11, 2021 at 2:48pm U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema speaking with attendees at the 2019 Arizona Technology Innovation Summit at The Duce in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo credit: Flickr/Gage Skidmore) In 2018, Kyrsten Sinema became the first openly bisexual person elected to the United States Senate. Sinema is also Arizona’s first elected female senator and its first Democratic senator since 1995. A result of 2018 midterms’ so-called LGBTQ wave or “rainbow wave,” Sinema’s election was hailed a victory for bisexual people: “To have out bisexual officials be elected to public office signifies that we have made progress in our understanding and acceptance of bisexual people,” bisexual advocate and editor of Bi Women Quarterly Robyn Ochs told NBC News. “Our cultural mainstream understanding and acceptance of lesbian and gay people has progressed much more than our understanding of bi and trans people, and this election cycle has been really important.”