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The internet went into an absolute frenzy on Monday when word got out that an openly gay marine named Neil Rafferty had made the decision to run for congressman in Alabama. If Rafferty wins, he will be the first ever openly gay congressman to have served the state of Alabama, which is awesome beyond any sort of verbiage at this point. He is running for a seat in Alabama State House District 54, which is currently vacated. The best part...

Totally not-gay-at-all former Republican Congressman Aaron Schock really wants you to know he isn’t gay. At all. Maybe. Despite his live-in professional photographer, his penchant for redecorating, the numerous young gay men who went in and out of his DC apartment, and the report from one reporter about finding the not-gay Congressman in the shower with his male roommate, Schock is mortified that federal agents would ask about his sexual orientation while investigating him for corruption in office. Schock’s defense attorneys...

US Representative Sean Patrick Maloney introduced the LGBT PRIDE Act today – a year after the deadly shooting at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub. The bill is seeks to improve data collection on the sexual orientation and gender identity of victims of violent crimes. Many of the 49 victims at Pulse were gay. ‘Pulse wasn’t an isolated occurrence,’ says Maloney, New York’s first openly gay member of Congress. ‘Anti-LGBTQ violence is way too common – it happens when a transwoman of color is gunned down...

Raymond Meza is running for congress, and if he’s elected her may become the first openly gay, Latinx congressman. Meza is running in the special election for California’s 34th congressional district ahead of the current representative becoming the state attorney general. The district, which includes a lot of downtown Los Angeles, is largely Democrat. Meza is one of 23 candidates running in the primary that will be held on the 4th of April. The contestant pool includes 16 other Democrats, a former...