Everything LGBTQ Voters Need to Know About the Upcoming Presidential Debates

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LGBTQ voters: Mark your calendars. Over the next month, there will be four Democratic presidential candidate forums—two of them devoted exclusively to LGBTQ issues. And one of those LGBTQ forums will be the first-ever to be broadcast by a major network.

The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) is partnering with CNN to host a nationally televised LGBTQ presidential town hall on October 10, similar to the recent climate change town hall hosted by CNN on September 3. As with the climate change event, the LGBTQ forum will have each candidate on stage with a CNN moderator for a set period of time to answer questions from the moderator and members of the audience.

Lucas Acosta, HRC’s national press secretary, said some details are still being worked out, but any candidate who meets the Democratic Party’s threshold criteria for participating in the party’s debates will be invited to participate in the LGBTQ forum.

Acosta said HRC has already received indications from many of the top polling candidates that they will participate: former Vice President Joe Biden; U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Amy Klobuchar; former U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro; and South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg.

Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2019/09/everything-lgbtq-voters-need-to-know-about-upcoming-presidential-debates/

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