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Delaware Senate race now has 2 LGBTQ candidates challenging Tom Carper
Candidate Eugene Truono is sole GOP challenger at this point.
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This is the average face of the United States Congress
Watch and see how Senators brush off the photo and it’s implications, but stick around to find out how their constituents reacted to it.
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Watch James Comey testify about President Trump here
The fired FBI director’s testimony is being compared to the Super Bowl in terms of media coverage and viewer interest.
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Once again Republicans turn to Mike Pence to save their anti-equality agenda
Last time it was Betsy DeVos’s nomination; the vote this time is to reverse Obama-era legislation protecting funding for Planned Parenthood.
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Mike Huckabee queerbaits Lindsey Graham
Did Mike Huckabee really suggest Sen. Lindsey Graham is gay?
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Here’s what happened at Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch
Gorsuch said his role, if confirmed as the next Justice, was “not about politics,” and pledged equal justice to both “poor and rich.”
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Advocates warn Senators: Gorsuch poses a ‘significant threat’ to our community
“His views are fundamentally at odds with the notion that LGBT people are entitled to equality, liberty, justice and dignity under the law,” say LGBTQ advocates.
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Joe Biden: ‘I am going to run in 2020’
“For president. And also, what the hell man, anyway.”
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That time Jeff Sessions mocked a lesbian mom and son facing deportation
Watching her 12-year-old boy in tears, Sen. Jeff Sessions leaned towards one of his aides and sighed, “Enough with the histrionics.”
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Human Rights Campaign stands by Republican Mark Kirk despite racist remark
UPDATE: The Human Rights Campaign has now revoked its endorsement of Sen. Mark Kirk.
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North Carolina’s anti-LGBTQ law a factor in close Senate race
Sen. Richard Burr has criticized both the Charlotte City Council, and the General Assembly for going too far with what it passed.
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Republican Mark Kirk moves left in attempt to keep Senate seat
The Republican senator from Illinois is doing his best not to look like an anti-LGBT, pro-gun Republican as he seeks re-election.
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Obama to welcome antigay leader of India
Narendra Modi refused to allow a gay American envoy enter his country, but he’s being welcomed here next week
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Senate panel confirms 1st openly gay military service leader
But it’s unclear when the full Senate will take up Eric Fanning’s nomination to be Army secretary.
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Gillibrand to introduce legislation to prohibit anti-LGBT adoption bias
The Every Child Deserves a Family Act would prohibit any entity that receives federal funds from discriminating against adoptive or foster parents based on sexual orientation, gender identity or marital status.
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Ted Cruz introduces bills to block marriage equality for same-sex couples
Just days before the U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear arguments on the constitutionality of same-sex marriage bans, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has filed two bills to protect states that prohibit same-sex couples from marrying.
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Cory Booker delivers impassioned speech on Senate floor to underscore need for marriage equality
The N.J. Senator took to the Senate floor to underscore the importance of nationwide marriage marriage equality, and to tell the story of Jim Obergefell, lead plaintiff in one of six cases to be heard by the Supreme Court.
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Senate OKs budget amendment granting VA, Social Security benefits to married same-sex couples
Eleven GOP senators, many of whom face competitive re-election fights in 2016, supported the amendment offered by Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
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Ted Cruz seeks to overturn D.C. laws on gay rights, reproductive health
The measures, known as disapproval resolutions, could in theory halt local laws passed last year by the D.C. Council and signed by the city’s mayor.
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Cruz reintroduces bill to strip federal marriage benefits in states where gay marriage not legal
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act, a bill that would require the federal government to recognize only marriages that are valid under the laws of the state in which a couple reside.