After initially endorsing gay former South Bend, Indiana mayor Pete Buttigieg in the 2020 presidential race, Equality California and its Nevada-based affiliate Silver State Equality Friday threw their support behind the presumptive Democratic Party nominee former vice president Joseph R.
Biden Jr. The two statewide LGBT advocacy groups are the first major LGBTQ+ civil rights organizations to do so, as most had also endorsed Buttigieg prior to the Iowa caucuses in February.