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The moment that President Joe Biden offered his endorsement to Vice President Kamala Harris’ historic run for the White House, LGBTQ+ organizations and voters hit the ground on her behalf.

Kim Hunt, a veteran LGBTQ+ rights advocate from Chicago, was at brunch when the news broke that Biden was ending his reelection campaign and throwing his support behind Harris. Hours later, Hunt was on a Zoom call with 40,000 other Black women mobilizing support for Harris. ...

Once upon a time — say, December — you could find Donald Trump talking an awfully strong pro-gay game.

“We are fighting for the gay community, and we are fighting and fighting hard,” he told a Mar-a-Lago ballroom’s worth of LGBTQ revelers gathered for a Log Cabin Republican gala, as reported by Politico.

That builds on a litany of statements made by and about Trump — “President Trump is the most pro-gay president in American history,” declared former acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell — regarding the former president’s support for LGBTQ Americans....

On Tuesday night's Countdown with Keith Olbermann, the Human Rights Campaign's legal director Brian Moulton was on hand to discuss yesterday's revelations about the National Organization for Marriage (NOM) and its willingness to embrace racially divisive tactics to achieve its goal of denying marriage equality to same-sex couples.

Conservative political commentator Pat Buchanan has been fired from left-leaning news network MSNBC after more than four months of suspension, the longtime contributor revealed Thursday night.

While Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) may have once been a comedian, his support for marriage equality is no joke.

The Massachusetts House and the Senate have approved legislation extending civil rights and hate crimes protections to the state’s approximately 33,000 transgender residents.