民主党員s flock to Des Moines Pride festival where Gillibrand 小旅行するs the city with drag queen, Buttigieg 配達するs fiery speech and やすりを削る人／削る機械s 宣言するs he was プロの／賛成の-LGBT 'before it was popular'

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民主党員s 捜し出すing the party's 大統領の 指名／任命 have descended on Gay Pride festivities in Des Moines, Iowa, seeming eager to burnish their プロの／賛成の-LGBT bona fides.

On Saturday, U.S. 上院議員 Kirsten Gillibrand served drinks at a gay 妨げる／法廷，弁護士業 and 小旅行するd the city with a drag queen, former U.S. 代表者／国会議員 Beto O'Rourke 参加するd in a morning 5K Pride run, and South Bend, Indiana 市長 Pete Buttigieg 配達するd a fiery speech.

A half-dozen other Democratic 候補者s spoke at a 大統領の 会議, 含むing U.S. 上院議員 Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s, who said he supported gay 権利s 'before it was popular.'

The 群れている comes ahead of a 重要な party dinner in Cedar 早いs on Sunday, where 19 of the 候補者s are 推定する／予想するd to speak.

Former 副大統領 Joe Biden, who remains the 前線 走者 in Iowa in a new 投票 解放（する）d Saturday night, is 持続するing a low profile and will not begin （選挙などの）運動をするing in Iowa until Tuesday.??

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 and New York 上院議員 Kirsten Gillibrand (権利) 小旅行するs the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest with drag queen Vana Rosenberg on Saturday in Des Moines

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 Beto O'Rourke, 中心, and his wife Amy talk with a fellow competitor after running the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest Fun Run 5K on Saturday

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 上院議員 Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s 迎える／歓迎するs people during a （選挙などの）運動をする stop at the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 and South Bend, Indiana 市長 Pete Buttigieg speaks during a （選挙などの）運動をする stop at the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest on Saturday

At his event Saturday, Buttigieg, running to become the first 率直に gay U.S. 大統領，／社長, told 行動主義者s there was 'no going 支援する to normal' in fighting 差別 against the LGBTQ community.

Speaking at a 決起大会／結集させる on the steps outside the Iowa 明言する／公表する capitol, Buttigeig said 権利s for the community were still under 脅し from 共和国の／共和党の 大統領 Donald Trump, and he 警告するd against complacency.

'Don't listen to anybody in either party who says we can just go 支援する to what we were doing,' Buttigieg told a （人が）群がる celebrating the 10th 周年記念日 of the Iowa 最高裁判所's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to overturn a 禁止（する） on same-sex marriages.

'We know that the struggle is not over, not even の近くに. At a time like today when you can still be 合法的に 解雇する／砲火／射撃d in so many parts of this country because of who you are or who you love, we have work to do,' he said.

Buttigeig also spoke at a dinner 栄誉（を受ける）ing Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard, who was beaten to death in 1998 for 存在 gay.?

Gillibrand (権利) 小旅行するs the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest with drag queen Vana Rosenberg (中心) and Kyla Paterson on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa

Gillibrand (left) speaks with an attendee at a Pride event at the 炎ing Saddle on Friday

Gillibrand shops for a hat during a （選挙などの）運動をする stop at the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest on Saturday

一方／合間, at a 会合，会う the 候補者s event during Pride 週末, the 77-year-old やすりを削る人／削る機械s distanced himself from the perception that many old, white men are anti-gay 権利s.

'Now, I have to tell you that this 問題／発行する of gay 権利s isn't something new to me. Way 支援する, before it was 政治上 popular 支援する in 1983, as the 市長 of the City of Burlington, Vermont, I supported our first gay pride parade,' やすりを削る人／削る機械s said in 前線 of the gold-ドームd Iowa 明言する／公表する （ワシントンの）連邦議会議事堂 building.

'And t hat was before it was popular.'

He also talked to the （人が）群がる waving rainbow 旗s and wearing shirts 支持するing for gay equality about how he used some of his more 進歩／革新的な 政策s to help the gay community.

'And we passed 目印 住宅 法令／条例 that 保護するd people from 存在 差別するd against based on their 性の orientation,' he 追加するd to a 元気づける （人が）群がる that 勇敢に立ち向かうd the 85 degree heat.

The self-布告するd Democratic 社会主義者 touted himself as having one of the most gay-friendly 記録，記録的な／記録するs of all the 候補者s running in the 2020 Democratic 最初の／主要な.

独立した・無所属 Vermont 上院議員 Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s said Saturday he supported gay 権利s before it was '政治上 popular'?

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s, 中心, 迎える／歓迎するs a 地元の 居住（者） during the 資本／首都 City Pride fest, Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa

While speaking to a （人が）群がる of about 300 in Des Moines, Iowa, he said he supported the first gay pride parade in Vermont in 19 83. He also touted the 明言する／公表する he 代表するs as the first to 合法化する gay marriage

やすりを削る人／削る機械s made the （人命などを）奪う，主張する a few hours after Buttigieg appeared as the guest （衆議院の）議長 to help celebrate the 10-year 周年記念日 of when Iowa passed equal marriage 権利s to the gay community.

Buttigieg, the 市長 of South Bend, Indiana, has been married to his husband, Chasten, since last June. Instead of 参加するing in the 会合，会う the 候補者s 会議 in the afternoon, he was the guest （衆議院の）議長 for the 10 Years of Love 祝賀.

He spoke to a （人が）群がる of about 150 festival goers.

やすりを削る人／削る機械s continued to try to distinguish himself from the other straight male 候補者s, and paraded 対立 to the 弁護 of Marriage 行為／法令／行動する, which defined marriage for 連邦の 目的s as the union of one man and one woman. It was later 支配するd 憲法違反の.

'Today, you're looking at a 候補者 the …に反対するd ? again, when it was not so popular ? the so called 弁護 of Marriage 行為／法令／行動する. You remember that?' He asked the （人が）群がる and was met with 元気づけるs and boos.

'We …に反対する the Don't Ask Don't Tell 軍の 政策 差別,' he continued. 'And I'm proud to 代表する the 明言する／公表する of Vermont, which was the first 明言する／公表する in the country whose 立法機関 合法化するd gay marriage.'

Buttigieg arrives for a （選挙などの）運動をする stop at the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest on Saturday in Des Moines

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 Pete Buttigieg, 権利, 提起する／ポーズをとるs for a selfie during the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest Saturday in Des Moines

Buttigieg 迎える／歓迎するs 地元のs 居住（者）s during the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest on Saturday

The support of the gay community this 週末 from the 候補者s comes まっただ中に 論争 after 大統領 Donald Trump 報道によれば 拒絶するd requests for U.S. 大使館s to 飛行機で行く the rainbow Pride 旗 at the 大使館s during Pride month.

U.S. 大使館s in イスラエル, Germany, Brazil and Latvia requested to 飛行機で行く the rainbow 旗 on 大使館 flagpoles during June, NBC News?first 報告（する）／憶測d, but were 否定するd 許可 from the 明言する／公表する Department.

June became the month to celebrate LGBTQ Pride in 記念 of the Stonewall 暴動s, which were violent demonstrations that occurred in June 1969 when a police （警察の）手入れ，急襲 took place on members of the gay community on New York City.

Several 候補者s 非難するd the Trump 行政?while speaking in the first （政党の）幹部会，党集会 明言する／公表する Saturday.?

O'Rourke stretches before 参加するing in the Pride Fest Fun Run 5K in Des Moines

O'Rourke 近づくs the finish line in the Pride Fest Fun Run 5K on Saturday in Des Moines, Iowa

Jacob Adams, a 32-year-old new Iowan 居住（者） who （機の）カム out to support やすりを削る人／削る機械s and was wearing a shirt with 'Bernie' in rainbow print, said he think the 進歩／革新的な 候補者 would do 井戸／弁護士席 in the gay community, even though he is running against a 候補者 who is 率直に gay.

'絶対, I mean Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s has been fighting for gay 権利s almost all his life,' Adams told Dailymail.com after listening to やすりを削る人／削る機械s's 発言／述べるs.?

'I look 支援する at his history in Vermont and he was there in the 80s fighting for gay equality, and I don't think a lot of people know that. Bernie やすりを削る人／削る機械s is not the type of person that brags about that 肉親，親類d of stuff,' he said.?

Just a few weeks 事前の, Adams moved from San Diego, California to Iowa, and said he was over the moon to have the o pportunity to speak 直接／まっすぐに with やすりを削る人／削る機械s after standing in line for six hours at a California to not even make it in to see him speak.??

すぐに after やすりを削る人／削る機械s spoke, longshot 候補者 and former Maryland 下院議員 John Delaney took 行う／開催する／段階, and there was a 集まり exodus of listeners who returned to the other 味方する of the street where Gay Pride festivities and venders were still 始める，決める up.

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 and former Colorado 知事 John Hickenlooper tries his 手渡す at 巨大（な） Jenga -type game while （選挙などの）運動をするing at the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest on Saturday

Democratic 大統領の 候補者 and self-help author Marianne Williamson 迎える／歓迎するs people while （選挙などの）運動をするing at the 資本／首都 City Pride Fest on Saturday in Des Moines

While Gillibrand spoke to a still 使い果たすing （人が）群がる that probably didn't 最高の，を越す 100, she had to pause her 発言／述べるs when a young （人が）群がる member 崩壊（する）d from the heat.

'Call 911,' the 上院議員 yelled as she jumped off the 行う／開催する／段階 and went to the 味方する of the 崩壊（する）d girl until 医療の 職員／兵員 was able to get to her.

New Jersey 上院議員 Cory Booker, who was not part of the 会合，会う the 候補者 roster, walked around the street fair and introduced himself and spoke with 関係者s and booth 操作者s.

At one point, Booker introduced himself to an Iowan woman and her three children. After he walked away, the woman told DailyMail.com she wasn't sure whose 手渡す she just shook.?

When she was told he was a 候補者 for 大統領，／社長, she said to the young kids, 'Do you know who that was? That man is running for 大統領，／社長. I would 全く 投票（する） for him. He would be better than Trump.'