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Make way for Slayer Pete, Biden’s ruthless secret weapon.

Mayor Pete has found his format: the five-minute, remote-feed evisceration. He always looks so nice, Pete Buttigieg — handsome in that white, Midwestern, college yearbook way, with a smile that seems bucktoothed but isn’t and those perfectly, and apparently naturally, arched eyebrows…

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The United States Naval Academy evolves with LGBT acceptance.

Before graduating from the United States Naval Academy (USNA) in 1985, Paula Neira had difficulties accepting she was trans. “I was fighting this internal battle, but asking for help would’ve gotten me kicked out,” Neira said. Steve Clark Hall, a gay…

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A record number of LGBT candidates are running in November.

More lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer candidates will appear on ballots across the country this November than ever before, according to a new report from the LGBTQ Victory Fund, a group that trains, supports and advocates for queer candidates…

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Trump has gutted LGBT rights. Can Biden undo the damage?

For a lot of LGBTQ+ Americans, Joe Biden is the man who fueled the marriage equality movement in its final stretch. His 2012 announcement that he supported same-sex marriage forced President Barack Obama to publicly endorse marriage equality ahead of his…

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These gay flash mob wedding proposals make us all romantics.

If you’re making your wedding proposal a public spectacle, you gotta be pretty confident what the answer is gonna be! Luckily, all the proposals below have happy endings. We’re spotlighting some of our favorite gay flash mob wedding proposals from…