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Gay Republicans: Mitch McConnell please deny us equal rights.

A group of gay Republicans – including the former head of the Log Cabin Republicans – have launched a petition to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanding that he squash any attempt to give LGBTQ people equal rights. That’s right, they’re literally…

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Religious right claims straight couples can’t use ‘husband’ & ‘wife’.

A conservative radio host and Christian pastor complained that gay people have stolen the terms “husband” and “wife” from straight people, and straight people are now calling each other “partners” because they’re “weak.” Jesse Lee Peterson discussed South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and…

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NOT fake news…Trump is selling LGBT pride-themed shirts.

While Donald Trump has declined to officially declare June Pride Month since taking office, he’s still totally fine with profiting off of LGBTQ people. According to new reporting from NewNowNext, the Trump-Pence White House is now selling Pride-themed tees on…

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A homophobe comes to the defense of another homophobe.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says it’s “slanderous” for Pete Buttigieg to call Mike Pence a homophobe. Pompeo, who has a pretty homophobic record himself, discussed the matter Tuesday on conservative commentator Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. Buttigieg, the mayor of…

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If Roe falls, same-sex marriage could be next.

In the past several weeks, Republicans in Alabama, Missouri, and Georgia have pushed through a series of horrifying bills that effectively ban abortion and criminalize the procedure, a bald attempt to trigger a legal challenge with the hope of eroding…

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It’s 2019 & politicians still equate same-sex marriage to pedophilia.

Back before the U.S. legalized marriage equality in 2015, conservative politicians would warn that it would lead to pedophilia and man-on-dog marriage (right, Rick Santorum?). Of course, these hateful predictions never materialized. But even though American conservatives have mostly stopped doomsaying…

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This is what Americans really think about same-sex marriage.

In Pew Research Center polling in 2004, Americans opposed same-sex marriage by a margin of 60% to 31%. Support for same-sex marriage has steadily grown over the past 15 years. And today, support for same-sex marriage remains near its highest point since…