# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/brian-sims
# Generated: 2026-08-12T18:16:05.181Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/brian-sims"
name: "Brian Sims"
slug: "brian-sims"
description: "Brian Kendall Sims is an American politician, activist and attorney. A Democrat, he was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 182nd district from 2013 until 2022. Sims is also a lawyer and advocate for LGBT civil rights. Sims became the first openly gay elected state legislator in Pennsylvania history. He won re-election on November 6, 2018. He was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania in 2022, finishing in second place behind Austin Davis with 25% of the vote. Since leaving public office in 2022, Sims served as the managing director of Government Affairs and Public Policy at Out Leadership, on the Board of Trustees of the Tyler Clementi Foundation, and as CEO of Agenda PAC."
tagline: "American politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Sims_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1978-09-16"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           51.36
  momentum:             6.664926931106471
  historical:           11.24828133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     80
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 248
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/BrianSimsPA"
    handle:    "BrianSimsPA"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/briansimspa/"
    handle:    "briansimspa"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
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    handle:    "brian.k.sims"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://sims4pa.com/"
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    title: "Brian Sims"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "برایان سیمز"
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    title: "Brian Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sims"
    title: "Brian Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Sims"
    title: "Brian Sims"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brian Sims"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Brian Sims"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump