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Joe Biden gets backing of Pete Buttigieg at Dallas rally.

Pete Buttigieg endorsed Joe Biden for president at a rally in Dallas Monday night, with Buttigieg calling the former vice president a man of great decency and Biden responding by saying Buttigieg reminds him of his late son, Beau…

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Who was first to defend gay marriage, Sanders or Biden?

A key vote on LGBT rights was taken 23 years ago in Congress and the results found two lawmakers who are now leading contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — Bernie Sanders and Joseph Biden — on opposite sides of the contentious issue…

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The very first LGBT couples to marry in their countries.

Every wedding is an important day. But some marriages make history — such as the unions that signal a country’s acceptance of LGBT rights for the first time. Last week 27-year-old Sharni Edwards and Robyn Peoples, 26, became the first gay couple to…

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Senator refuses to resign over ‘evil’ drag queens comment.

Kentucky state senator Phillip Wheeler is refusing to resign after making “homophobic” comments about “evil” drag queens. At a campaign rally for Republican state representative Richard White last weekend, Wheeler held up a photo of the Democratic governor of Kentucky…