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Super Tuesday Exit Polls Show Bernie Sanders as Winner Among LGBTQ Voters

Exit polls from twelve of the fourteen Super Tuesday voting states found that Bernie Sanders walked away with more votes from self-identified LGBTQ voters than any other candidate, according to NBC News. The...

Sanders Wins New Hampshire in Narrow Lead over Buttigieg

After taking home a narrow victory over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa caucuses, former mayor Pete Buttigieg has come in second behind Sanders in the New Hampshire primaries on Tuesday (February 11). Accord...

Buttigieg and Sanders Lead in Iowa

With 96 percent of the results from Monday’s caucus in Iowa in, Pete Buttigieg is neck and neck with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders for the top spot. Buttigieg, who made history as the first openly LGBTQ Democr...

Poll Reveals Bernie Sanders Leading in Support Among LGBTQ Voters

A poll from the Morning Consult of over 95,000 potential Democratic voters—12 percent of whom identified as LGBTQ—reveals that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the top candidate among young and “very liberal” LGBTQ voter...

Bernie Sanders to Now Attend LGBTQ Town Hall

The Human Rights Campaign has confirmed that Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will now attend the organization’s LGBTQ Town Hall after reports that he would be the only major candidate to not at...

Democratic Presidential Candidates Address Trans Issues

The National Center for Transgender Equality Action Fund (NCTE) interviewed three Democratic presidential hopefuls on how they’d protect trans rights if elected, reported CBS News. New Jersey Sen. Cory Booke...

LGBTQ Issues Omitted from Democratic Debate

Last night’s second round of Democratic debates brought disappointment to many LGBTQ voters and activists, as not a single mention or question of LGBTQ rights was included in the entire three-hour event. The...

Six Democratic Candidates, Including Pete Buttigieg, Would Beat Trump in 2020, Poll Finds

A new poll from Quinnipiac University found that the six leading Democratic presidential candidates, including openly gay Pete Buttigieg, would beat Donald Trump if elected to the Democratic ticket. Accordin...

Democratic Presidential Candidates Decline to Speak at Anti-LGBT Group’s Summit

Six Democratic presidential candidates have declined an invitation to speak at an anti-LGBT group’s summit in Iowa. NBC News on Monday reported U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), f...

Pete Buttigieg Places Third in National Poll

After reaching third place in Iowa polls, gay Presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg has placed similarly in a poll from Change Research among Democrat primary voters nationwide. Buttigieg placed third in a pol...

Ocasio-Cortez, Pelosi, Sanders Hang Transgender Pride Flags Outside Their Offices

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) showed their support for the transgender community by hanging transgender pride flags outside their ...

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

Trump Campaign Advisor Purposefully Misgenders Transgender Penn. Secretary of Health

Biden Says He Can Beat HIV by 2025 — But Activists are Skeptical

Trump’s Own AIDS Council Opposes His Anti-trans Health Rule

Is gay Atlanta rapper Anye Elite about to break out?

Disney Channel’s ‘The Owl House’ to Have Openly Bisexual Character

New Documentary Follows Life of Gay Disney Songwriter Howard Ashman

‘The Ellen DeGeneres’ Show Under Investigation Over Claims of a Toxic Work Environment