More than a dozen speakers mentioned LGBT equality during the first two nights of the Democratic National Convention as, for the first time ever, Democrats increasingly view the hot-button issue as a political winner. That trend only accelerated on Thursday night. The last night of the convention features multiple openly gay speakers with prime-time billing — and this, only months after President Barack Obama was essentially forced to endorse marriage equality after Vice President Joe Biden accidentally (or not) let it slip that he believed same-sex couples should be able to marry.

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