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HOMOPHOBIA IS LOSING ITS POWER

Homophobia is not gone yet and probably never will be entirely. Racism, misogyny, and transphobia sadly remain with us too, and LGBTQ people remain under attack by Donald Trump’s administration. However, an encouraging takeaway from the primary election season is that appealing to anti-LGBTQ sentiment is no longer a winning political strategy in many parts of the country.

The major case in point is that Pete Buttigieg

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