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LGBT Democrats Play Visible Role at DNC Winter Meeting in DC

The Democratic Party’s support for LGBT rights and the election of a record number of LGBT people — nearly all Democrats — to public office in the 2018 midterm elections were widely discussed at the Democratic ...

Pete Buttigieg Makes Pitch to LGBTQ Voters in Bid to Become First Out Gay President

It’s pronounced “Boot-a-judge.” That was the first thing South Bend, Ind. Mayor Pete Buttigieg cleared up for the Washington Blade in response to questions about his 2020 presidential run in a Jan. 31 interv...

White House Mum on Trump’s Anti-LGBT Meeting with Ginni Thomas

The White House remains silent on President Trump’s reported meeting with anti-LGBT activist Ginni Thomas, the spouse of conservative U.S. Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, despite objections from LGBT rights ...

Gay Mayor Pete Buttigieg Announces His Bid for 2020 Presidency

Openly gay Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg has announced he will run for President in 2020, reported the Wall Street Journal. The Afghanistan veteran emphasized his youth – he’s only 37 years old – in a video p...

Anti-Trans History of Kamala Harris is Criticized After She Announces Bid for 2020 Presidency

Questions of Kamala Harris’ transgender rights record have come up after she announced her bid for the 2020 presidential election, reported PinkNews. The California senator, who was the state’s Attorney Gene...

Tulsi Gabbard Apologizes for Anti-Gay Past in New Video

Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard apologized for her anti-gay past — including 2004 remarks calling marriage-equality advocates “homosexual extremists” — in a new video Thursday. “In my past, I...

Anti-LGBTQ Past of Potential 2020 Presidential Nominee Tulsi Gabbard Revealed

Democrat Tulsi Gabbard announced in an interview with CNN that she was throwing her hat into the ring for the 2020 presidency. However, CNN revealed that she has an anti-LGBTQ past. Gabbard worked for her fa...

Warren’s Newfound Support for Surgery for Trans Inmates could Impact 2020 Race

Transgender advocates cheered Elizabeth Warren for coming out this week in favor of transgender inmates having access to gender reassignment surgery, which could potentially raise it as an issue for 2020 presid...

RNC Committeeman: ‘Dumb Ass People’ Elected Kyrsten Sinema to Senate

In the aftermath of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) being sworn-in this week as the first openly bisexual U.S. senator, a member of the Republican National Committee took to Facebook on Saturday to express conste...

Lesbian EEOC Appointment Dies in Senate

The nomination of lesbian attorney Chai Feldblum for a third term on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission died in the Senate last week when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) declined to...

LGBTQ Ally Elizabeth Warren Announces Bid for 2020 Presidency

Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren announced her bid to challenge Donald Trump for the 2020 presidency with a video featuring a Pride parade and a same-sex wedding, reported PinkNews. https://youtu.be/rbH0R...

A time of reckoning: Atlanta's LGBTQ community addresses racism problem

Transgender Troops, Trump Officials to Testify Before Congress on Military Ban

Key LGBT Groups Not Invited to Trump Summit on Decriminalizing Homosexuality

Dolly Parton Calls Pansexuality, Bisexuality, and Gender Fluidity “Fashionable”

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Karl Lagerfeld Dies at 85

Actor Don Cheadle Sports Pro-Trans T-shirt on Saturday Night Live

Ghost Story-Themed Play Makes Magic