The Promise of Pride
Outward: Slate's LGBTQ podcast
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The Provocatives During Pride Month in DC
The Victory Fund, which is sort of the main organization that funds and trains and endorses LGBTQ candidates for public office at all levels of the ballot. So there's a gay ex cop running for city council person against a progressive incumbent. His campaign chair with whom he launched his campaign was a Republican who not only was a registered Republican but had deep ties to Trump and the world of insurrectionary conservatives. The victory fund has given more than $70,000 to this campaign, which is actually kind of a lot in a local campaign. It also doesn't hurt that this candidate is relatively handsome.
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