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LGBT candidates keep winning in 2020’s ‘rainbow wave.’

Primary election season may be winding to a close, but LGBTQ+ candidates just keep winning in election races across the country. That includes Kansas’ Stephanie Byers and New York’s Ritchie Torres, the latter of whom had to wait more than…

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Gay billionaire funded an anti-LGBT candidate and he still lost.

Gay billionaire PayPal founder Peter Thiel funded the campaign of an anti-LGBT+ Republican running for US senate in Kansas. Kansas US senate candidate Kris Kobach lost the GOP primary to representative Roger Marshall, a less divisive Republican, on Tuesday, 4 August…

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Democratic candidate’s shocking anti-LGBT social media posts.

Democrat Albert Chester, a candidate in Florida’s 5th congressional district primary race is drawing fire after numerous anti-LGBTQ posts on social media were unearthed by local progressive activists. The vile tirades included a description of coming out as “confessing and…

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Trump’s most anti-LGBT advisor pushes Christian nationalism.

Trump campaign advisor Jenna Ellis, an anti-LGBTQ extremist with ties to a hate group, came out swinging on behalf of Christian nationalism during a campaign event hosted by Asian Pacific Americans for Trump. Ellis, who has previously told supporters that…

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Trump promoted MD said homosexuality is ‘agenda of the Devil.’

President Donald Trump and his allies have promoted a video featuring Dr. Stella Immanuel, who made false claims regarding the coronavirus. Immanuel has a history of anti-LGBTQ remarks, including claiming that homosexuality is the “agenda of the Devil” and is “perverted…