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Beyond the celebratory tweets, and despite the near-universal alignment policy-wise on LGBTQ rights, 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.

At the Human Rights Campaign’s annual Ohio gala, Biden said that enshrining the Equality Act will be his top legislative priority in his keynote address, according to the Associated Press.

“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.”

Biden’s evolution on the issue is notable, since in 2008, alongside then-Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, Biden opposed nationwide gay marriage. But in 2012, Biden publicly announced his support for same-sex marriage ahead of his boss, and then Obama, in turn, supporting the issue telling ABC's Robin Roberts that \"I've been going through an evolution on this issue.\"

Gillibrand released her LGBTQ rights agenda on June 1, to coincide with the beginning of pride month.

\"As president, I would undo Trump’s harmful policies and defend the civil rights of LGBTQ Americans,\" she writes in a Medium post. \"I’ll push for proactive policies to ensure all Americans can live free from discrimination and bigotry based on their gender identity or sexual orientation.\"

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Among the key planks of her platform, Gillibrand includes: signing the Equality Act, rescinding Trump’s ban on transgender troops, directing the Department of Justice to consider gender identity and sexual orientation as a protected class, and federally recognize a third gender in identification documents, with an “X” gender designation.

On his campaign website, Buttigieg cites a list of policies that form his platform on LGBTQ rights, that span from the Equality Act to the transgender military ban to criminal justice reform for members of the LGBTQ community.

\"Pete knows that our families, communities, and nation are stronger when we allow all individuals to be true to who they are,\" the mayor’s website states. \"A person’s sexual orientation or gender identity should not limit them from pursuing their dreams and realizing their full potential — to work, live, and go to school where they want; to love whom they choose, and to live safe, healthy lives.\"

Ahead of this weekend's events, the Human Rights Campaign praised the field for their overtures to garner support among the LGBTQ community, a significant slice of the electorate needed to win the nomination.

“We couldn’t be more happy to see the most pro-equality group of potential presidential nominees in U.S. history,\" national press secretary for campaigns, Lucas Acosta, said in a statement to ABC News Friday. \"Presidential candidates are actively courting the 10 million LGBTQ voters nationwide, speaking to our issues and directly to our community. Candidates know that LGBTQ voters and our allies are among the most highly active and engaged voting blocs in the nation, consistently outperforming our presence in the electorate. In great part, this nomination runs through the LGBTQ community.\"

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