Joe Biden names gay former ambassador & Obama advisor to a top campaign position

Rufus Gifford
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Former Vice President Joe Biden has hired the out gay former U.S. Ambassador to Denmark – and one of Barack Obama’s top election campaign advisers – to be his new deputy campaign manager focused on finance, external outreach, and coalition building.

Rufus Gifford was referred to as Obama’s unofficial “ambassador to the gay community.” He was named ambassador in 2013, and in 2015 he married his husband Stephen DeVincent in Copenhagen, shortly after marriage equality was legalized in the U.S.

Related: Denmark is snubbing the American ambassador over Trump’s attacks on LGBTQ rights

“Rufus will focus on places where finance intersects with policy and political work and will also occasionally serve as a spokesperson for the campaign,” a campaign official told the Washington Post.

On Twitter, Gifford said that…

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