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This Republican Senate candidate says he’s running to vanquish witchcraft
Navy veteran Hung Cao, who is aiming to unseat Virginia Democrat Tim Kaine, wants to stop witches from taking over the state.
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Virginia Senate moves to repeal state’s same-sex marriage ban
Many are worried that if the Supreme Court overturns federal marriage equality, LGBTQ+ Virginians could lose their right to marry.
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Schumer slow-walks marriage equality vote before midterms
Political momentum will be a determining factor in Senate leader Chuck Schumer’s calculations about whether to bring the Marriage Equality Act up for a vote.
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Senators call for the federal government to apologize for past anti-LGBTQ policies
The resolution acknowledges that at least 100,000 people and their families fell victim to anti-LGBTQ discrimination and prejudice practiced by the federal government.
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How much more will it take for Democrats to recognize that bipartisanship is dead?
The trap that Democrats keep falling into is thinking of the Republican Party as a normal political entity. It is not.
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Community leaders mourn after transgender rights pioneer Babs Siperstein passes
“Babs is a leader, a trailblazer, and a role model for an entire generation.”
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Republicans confirm Sam Brownback as ‘Religious Freedom Ambassador’
At the confirmation hearing, Brownback wouldn’t even say if he thinks that executing gay people is unacceptable.
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Trump ‘religious freedom’ nominee refuses to condemn antigay executions
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback also faced tough questioning during his Senate confirmation hearing about his own anti-LGBTQ voting record.
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Debunking post-election myths about LGBT issues & middle America voters
If LGBT people had a state, we’d be the size of North Carolina and have 15 electoral college votes.
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Tim Kaine married a lesbian couple the night of Donald Trump’s inauguration
The couple, Dea Jones and Sharon McLeod, said they weren’t in a rush to “make it legal” until Donald Trump became president.
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Kaine says he won’t run for president in 2020, will stand up to Trump
“Maybe the reason I’m in the Senate is for the next four years,” Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine said.
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Tim Kaine casts vote, but happily waits for 99 year-old woman to go first
Kaine said he’d have to get used to being number two.
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Tim Kaine explains why he didn’t push Pence on LGBT issues during debate
“I viewed this as fundamentally a debate that was about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, not about Tim Kaine and Mike Pence.”
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Watch: Rachel Maddow frustrated Pence wasn’t asked about LGBTQ rights
Rachel Maddow joins a growing chorus of pundits and media outlets baffled that Mike Pence wasn’t asked about his radical anti-LGBTQ rights history and current policy.
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Did Grindr send a racist tweet during last night’s vice presidential debate?
There was some serious drama on Grindr’s Twitter page last night.
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Mike Pence’s ‘Mexican Thing’ and ‘Drop to my knees’ lines win debate
Social media had a field day with Mike Pence‘s two most memorable, dirty sounding lines of the night.
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Tim Kaine is running for VP; Mike Pence is running for president in 2020
The vice presidential debate was 90 minutes of chaos disguised as an exchange of ideas.
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Why wasn’t Mike Pence’s history of homophobia mentioned in the debate?
Mike Pence said he’d be “happy” to defend his running mate Donald Trump, but he never did, and never once had to defend his anti-LGBTQ record.
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We’ve got your Veep debate right here
Here’s how to get the LGBTQ view of the vice presidential candidates’ debate.
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Tim Kaine invited a married lesbian couple to the vice presidential debate
Carol Schall and Mary Townley were plaintiffs in a lawsuit that led to the overturn of Virginia’s anti-marriage equality laws.