Democrats vying for the party's presidential nomination are still seeking to emphasize the issue on the campaign trail to a greater degree than previous cycles.
When Pete Buttigieg stood before thousands in the heart of South Bend, Indiana, to formally announce his entrance into the 2020 race in mid-April, the 37-year-old mayor embraced the historic nature of his quest: if elected, he would be the first openly gay president to occupy the White House.
But in 2019, with three-quarters of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents supporting same-sex marriage, according to a May Pew Research poll, voters are seeing near-universal support across the expansive field of 23 candidates on key issues for the LGBTQ community, such as, the Equality Act, a landmark bill that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in workplaces, schools, etc.
And at the onset of this month, a parade of presidential hopefuls shared messages touting equality for all – part of more widespread embrace of gay rights among Democrats that reflects the broader shift in attitudes toward LGBTQ people – and as a rebuke of the conservative movement’s efforts, often led by President Donald Trump’s administration, to fortify discriminatory policies against the community.
On Vice President Mike Pence’s birthday, former Maryland Congressman John Delaney, a more moderate voice in the 2020 field, declared he is donating money to the Human Rights Campaign, one of the most prominent LGBTQ advocacy groups in the country. “It will be the first thing I ask to be done,” he said, before calling the Trump administration’s efforts to curtail LGBTQ rights, such as barring transgender troops from serving in the U.S. military “wrong” and “immoral.”
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