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Via The Hill:

President Obama, continuing his two-day fundraising trip to California, touted progress on gay rights to deep-pocketed audiences including a handful of Hollywood stars on Wednesday night.

In his remarks, he compared recent progress on gay rights to the civil rights movement.

“In successive waves, the history, the scope of this country has always been to further broaden the meaning of citizenship to include more and more people; to give better and better expression to our highest aspirations; to make the country more fair and more just and more equal,” he said. “That’s what wars were fought about. That’s what the civil rights movement was about. That’s what the women’s movement was all about. That’s what the workers’ movement was all about — this constant progression to include more and more people in the possibility of the American Dream. And so this is just one more step in that journey that we’ve taken as a nation.”

Obama, who attended fundraisers in San Francisco earlier in the day, followed up with two star-studded events in Los Angeles, one held at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, setting for the film “Pretty Woman,” and a smaller event at the home of “Glee” creator Ryan Murphy.

Both Beverly Hills fundraisers leaned heavily on the president’s newly strengthened support of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights. Obama’s public support for gay marriage, announced last month, has particularly bolstered his support in California, and Wednesday’s events were expected to raise millions for the president’s reelection campaign.

Attendees, according to press pool reports, included “Pretty Woman” star Julia Roberts, Reese Witherspoon, Jane Lynch, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Cher and Ellen DeGeneres. “Glee” star Darren Criss performed for the hotel crowd. Fox’s high school musical “Glee” is known for featuring gay characters and themes.