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Buttigieg feels momentum with $600K raised in 24 hours.

Pete Buttigieg had the single biggest fundraising day of his 2020 campaign on Monday, according to an aide to the South Bend, Indiana, mayor, receiving a significant boost after a widely heralded performance during a CNN town hall. A series of top…

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Trump to host Brazil’s anti-gay president at White House.

Donald Trump has invited Brazil’s anti-LGBT president Jair Bolsonaro to the White House. The far-right Brazilian leader, who holds extreme anti-LGBT beliefs, will meet with Trump at the White House on March 19, US officials announced. A statement said the pair will discuss…

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ACT UP was unofficially founded 32 years ago today.

Today marks the 32nd anniversary of the unofficial founding of ACT UP, one of the most important queer advocacy groups in history. Without it, the worst days of the HIV epidemic might have stretched out far further, and queer liberation…

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Westboro Baptist Church’s protest backfires.

The picket signs of the Westboro Baptist Church will be on display on Monday in Richmond. According to the Kansas-based group’s website, the first stop is the State Capitol. The group plans to speak out against House Del. Danica Roem…

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Clash of the Hoosiers: Buttigieg takes on Pence.

Democratic presidential candidate and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday blasted Vice President Mike Pence — the former governor of Buttigieg’s home state, Indiana — for becoming “the cheerleader of the porn star presidency” after enacting policies of “social extremism” on the non-federal level…

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Gay Disney characters: Who might be secretly LGBT?

There is a definite lack of gay Disney characters but there have been many hints that characters are LGBT in previous movies. Disney’s first openly gay character was introduced in the 2017 live-action version of Beauty and the Beast…