Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Ind., speaks at Pride Fest in Des Moines on Saturday, one of several Democratic presidential candidates to make a stop there. Same-sex marriage is now legal nationwide. Some of those at the People’s Plaza in Des Moines wore T-shirts dedicated to their chosen candidate — most often Buttigieg or Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.). (Christopher Smith for the Washington Post)Although advocacy and politics have always been an undercurrent at Pride Fest in Des Moines, this year organizers dedicated an entire afternoon to it. Before same-sex marriage was legalized, lesbian mothers who didn’t give birth to their children would often do a second-parent adoption so they could be legally recognized as a parent.

Source: Washington Post June 09, 2019 00:00 UTC