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The lawyer who helped give us marriage equality may be Donald Trump’s biggest problem
Roberta Kaplan reminds voters Trump is a sexual assaulter just when he wanted to take an electoral victory lap.
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Who is Kevin McCarthy? Where does he stand on LGBTQ+ issues?
He may be tight-lipped, but his legislative record makes his anti-LGBTQ+ politics perfectly clear.
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Jim Kolbe, the last out gay Republican in Congress, has died
Kolbe, who retired in 2006, reluctantly came out ten years earlier as The Advocate prepared to out him as a hypocrite for his support of DOMA.
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Who is Hakeem Jeffries? Where does he stand on LGBTQ rights?
Most recently, he has supported the Equality Act and the Respect for Marriage Act, two important pieces of LGBTQ legislation.
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Joe Biden & other Democratic leaders cheer Senate vote on Respect for Marriage Act
“Love is love, and Americans should have the right to marry the person they love,” President Joe Biden said in a statement.
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Congress is debating marriage equality & LGBTQ legislators aren’t pulling any punches
“If I was the entity on the other side of the aisle, I would be more concerned with my own members accused of having cocaine-fueled orgies than worrying about the morality of my marriage.”
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The Supreme Court may overturn same-sex marriage. A new bill could enshrine it into federal law
The bill could help ensure same-sex marriages are recognized nationwide, but — as always — it’s unclear if enough Republican senators will help support it.
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LGBTQ activists are already preparing for SCOTUS potentially overturning marriage equality
“Believe me: all the LGBTQ legal and advocacy groups are on alert.”
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GOP candidate promises to ban Pride Month because “Homosexuality and Transgenderism are evil”
“When I win this election everyone will know their gender again,” Stewart Parks wrote. “The populace will know Men cannot get pregnant and can actively define a woman.”
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New book revisits when Bill Clinton stood against marriage equality for political capital
Sasha Issenberg reveals that the Clinton White House was only worried about the political implications when it came to DOMA. Principles never entered into their considerations.