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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.New Hampshire voters have elected Chris Pappas to the U.S. Senate, making the Democratic congressman the first out gay man elected to the chamber and preserving a Senate seat for his party.Pappas handily defeated Republican former Se...
Pro-LGBTQ+ incumbent candidate, US Sen. Jon Ossoff, is the projected winner of Georgia's US Senate election, according to VoteHub. The political publication The Hill also projected him as the winner. While the Associated Press hasn't called the race, its current results tracking ...
Democratic candidate for Senate from Michigan, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, published his closing message this afternoon on Fox News, declaring, "I mean it when I say our campaign is open to all who are in search of a better future. As senator, I will always put Michigan first and fight f...
The Supreme Court today heard oral arguments in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, a case that pits religious rights claimed by the Catholic Church in Colorado against the state's declared obligation to protect citizens from discrimination. The religious schools want funds from the...
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Tuesday in a case examining whether Colorado's exclusion of religious preschools from a publicly funded education program violates the First Amendment's guarantee of religious freedom. In St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy, Catholic presch...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.The U.S. Supreme Court’s three liberal justices sharply questioned Tuesday whether Catholic preschools should receive taxpayer funding while retaining the ability to reject children of LGBTQ+ parents. However, many of the conservativ...
“I don’t want to go home.” Imagine a young person in foster care telling their caseworker those words. They don't explain why at first. Maybe they’re afraid. Maybe they’re trying to find the courage to say something they’ve never said aloud. With time and careful questions, the c...
The leader of a neo-Nazi group that menaced people attending a drag queen story hour event has admitted that the group violated the state’s civil rights law. In a July 30 press release, New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella announced that Christopher Hood and 19 members...
The singer-songwriter reflects on her queer identity, Filipino heritage, and the experiences behind her new album, In the Living of It. For indie-pop singer songwriter Issadora Ava, the beauty of life are the moments that don’t always make sense. Sometimes, clarity emerges only i...
Three authors have joined an advocacy group in a federal lawsuit challenging the Alabama Public Library Service’s anti-trans book ban. Late last week, legal nonprofit Democracy Forward filed the lawsuit in the US District Court for the Middle District of Alabama on behalf of auth...
Chris Gallant, the out Democratic candidate for New York’s First Congressional District, says he’s “not embarrassed or ashamed” of a series of racy photos that recently resurfaced in media reports. Over the weekend, right-wing outlet the New York Post reported that more than a de...
Out former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg mocked Donald Trump for spending so much time talking about other men's bodies these past few weeks. Buttigieg appeared on CNN last night to talk about the midterm elections. He was talking about how, while polling shows that the...
Election night viewing parties are taking place in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia on Tuesday. The Human Rights Campaign Greater D.C. Steering Committee will hold a watch party at Number Nine (1435 P St., N.W.) from 7-9 p.m. Crush Dance Bar (2007 14th St., N.W.) will have its own pa...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.St. Louis police are investigating the August shooting death of a transgender woman as a homicide after initially classifying it as an apparent suicide. Her mother challenged that finding.Jhené Audrict, 21, was found dead on August 1...
Vice President JD Vance is now claiming he only dressed up as gay wizard Albus Dumbledore for Halloween because he “lost a bet.” And if you don’t know why that’s so funny, then brother, you need to befriend more transgender women.At a campaign rally in Rome, New York on the eve o...
Pete Buttigieg posted a message on his social media accounts urging his followers to get out and vote. Buttigieg's term as transportation secretary ended in January 2025, and he has spent the past year traveling across the country to build support for Democrats in numerous races....
“Do you know a child that is interested in gender-affirming surgery? We can help!" claims a text message anonymously sent to Missouri voters last week. "Protecting a child’s right to have this surgery is on the ballot this Tuesday,” the message adds, though the state already bans...
Poll workers across the country are pulling out the ballots and “I voted” stickers, bracing for one of the most divisive and consequential midterm elections in modern times. Few states have drawn as much media attention, fiery rhetoric, and last-minute political shake-ups as Mich...
When a conservative voter asked Vice President JD Vance a question about housing affordability, he responded by mentioning a US senator's buttocks. During a Fox News town hall last Thursday, October 29, a woman who identified herself as the vice president of her university’s Turn...
Dr. John Gartner, a medical professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and psychology expert, says that Donald Trump is in the worst health he has seen in his decades-long career. "In 40 years of clinical practice and almost 30 years of teaching psychiatric resident...
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic US Senate candidate in Michigan, refused to backpedal his support of transgender people's civil rights when questioned about it by conservative commentator Ross Douthat in a 60 Minutes interview that aired yesterday. Douthat mentioned to El-Sayed th...
Somewhere in the District of Columbia, a child under five may soon come to live with me. I do not yet know the child's name or story. I know only that my job will be to offer care and stability, and to help that child return home whenever possible. I am in the final stages of fos...
Thomas Bradley on Sunday became Australia’s first openly gay state governor. Bradley took office as Queensland's premier at a ceremony that took place at Parliament House in Brisbane, the state’s capital. The former Court of Appeal judge succeeded Jeannette Young, whose term as g...
This story is a joint investigation with The Advocate.On Tuesday, residents of four U.S. states — Arizona, Colorado, Nebraska, and Washington — will vote on whether to ban transgender athletes from organized sports. Each state has a ballot measure backed by political action commi...
A new YouGov/Economist poll included two questions about trans and non-binary identities in the United States. The startling results show just how much people believe Democrats will handle trans rights better than the Republicans, with a 29-point margin separating support for the...
There are more than 100,000 LGBTQIA+ residents in the District of Columbia, and every single one of us deserves to be prioritized. We deserve to be seen, heard, and put first. Janeese Lewis George’s goal of delivering a “People First” approach offers renewed hope and possibility....
D.C.’s Rainbow History Project has named former Washington Blade publisher Lynne Brown as a 2026 LGBTQ Community Pioneer, a role the group says recognizes “instrumental” contributions to the D.C. LGBTQ community. A statement released by Rainbow History Project says Brown will be ...
More than a dozen LGBTQ+ venues across the country have had their Facebook and Instagram accounts suspended by the social media platforms’ parent company, Meta, in recent months, often with no explanation and no response from an actual human at the company. “We still don’t know w...
Elon Musk is blowing a right-wing dogwhistle ahead of the midterm elections by posting what appear to be AI-generated images of Star Wars antihero Anakin Skywalker sitting for a Sith family portrait. “This is what they stole from us,” Musk wrote on X, accompanying a doctored imag...
A Democratic leader in Iowa announced she does not support the state's Democratic US Senate candidate after he released an anti-trans ad last week. Kathy Winter, chair of the Osceola County Democratic Party, released a statement slamming state Rep. Josh Turek's ad declaring that ...
On Sunday, Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling responded to a person criticizing her anti-transgender views by pointing out his fetish gear and making fun of his glasses … you know, the thing that the central character of her uber-famous book series also wears!The exchange began ear...
According to the polls, Democrats are looking at a really good night tomorrow. Democrats are all but certain to take control of the House, the only question is how many seats they'll win. The Senate races in key states are a lot closer, but even there, pollsters are predicting De...
When most people think of Revolutionary War heroes, the powdered wigs and stoic paintings of George Washington or the Marquis de Lafayette come to mind. But there is another hero who was instrumental in securing America's victory over the British 250 years ago — and he was gay. H...
Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate, Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, is being praised on social media for his response to the media frenzy over Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) endorsing El Sayed's Republican opponent. While being peppered with questions over the endorsement, El-Sayed quieted re...
Out soccer legend Megan Rapinoe – who has long been a staunch supporter of trans rights – recently explained why the debate over the "fairness" of trans women athletes competing on women's teams is completely misguided. On the Who's With Me? podcast, W. Kamau Bell asked Rapinoe, ...
A group of anti-transgender protestors showed up at a women’s soccer game between the Seattle Reign and the Orlando Pride at Seattle’s Lumen Field on Sunday following several local news reports that Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank had been encouraging a demonstration.But many a...
Dear Michael, I’m in a sexless marriage. My husband hasn’t been interested in sex in a long time. It’s not something he has wanted to work on. He says he just isn’t that interested. I love him a lot. At first I pushed him to address it. There were no physical causes, he said (doc...
Recently, I was chatting with an 11-year-old girl about a movie character who carried a secret about herself that was so terrifying she worried that the people who loved her most would reject her for it if they learned her truth. As we talked, I mentioned that some people see the...
Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg called out fellow Michigan Democrat Rep. Haley Stevens for endorsing the Republican running for a US Senate seat in the state. Stevens, who lost the primary to Democratic Senate candidate Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, endorsed Republican Mike ...
Control of Florida's Sarasota County Schools Board will flip to a Democratic majority following recent election wins and the fact that Moms for Liberty co-founder Bridget Ziegler — who was implicated in a 2023 rape scandal alleged by the woman she and her husband had threesomes w...
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger on Saturday campaigned in support of a proposed constitutional amendment that would codify marriage rights for same-sex couples in the state. Her campaign website notes she had previously expressed support for Question 2. "Back in 2006, I was a ne...
Last weekend, over 150 people gathered in Montreal, Canada, for the first-ever in-person Queering Wiki international conference. Hosted by Wikimedia LGBT+ and Wikimedia Canada (Wikimedia is Wikipedia's parent company), the gathering brought together contributors, editors, activis...
‘Frida…A Self Portrait’Through Nov. 8Shakespeare Theatre Company’s Klein Theatre450 7th St., N.W.tickets start at $49Shakespearetheatrecompany.org With her trademark unibrow and a wreath of dahlias woven into pinned black braids, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo was unmistakably herse...
Queer actress and activist Sophia Bush says she does not speak or write the president's name. While promoting her book, And I Will Tell You Mine, whihc covers some of her activist work, Bush told The Hill that "someone who chooses to exemplify and bolster the very worst of human ...
Blog #1 I arrived in Barcelona safely and on time for my overnight before boarding the Celebrity XCEL for the sixteen-day transatlantic cruise back to Miami. I stayed at the AC hotel SOM, a Marriott, and it was fine. They had a car pick me up at the airport. Checked into a 9th fl...
Author JK Rowling is facing criticism for posting an upskirt image of a transgender woman last weekend while demanding that the trans woman debate her. Rowling wrote post after post on X on July 11, demanding that trans writer Freda Wallace debate her after Wallace called Rowling...
It’s obviously a massively important goal for the Democrats to take both the House and the Senate on Tuesday, and to make headway in state legislatures across the country. But if they fall short of that goal, then because trans people’s safety and existence have somehow been a ma...
Republicans make their final argument before the Midterms: Be very afraid of trans people Just one example: "They take them as young children, and Timmy leaves home and comes back Sarah," Donald Trump said at a rally in Texas this week to drum up support for Ken Paxton's US Senat...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger stood Saturday morning inside the oldest lesbian bar on the East Coast, urging voters to erase a 20-year-old constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. Three days before Election Day, the commonwealth’s...
This article first appeared on Mother Jones. It has been republished with the publication’s permission. For the first time in nearly 10 years, Alice* didn’t spend her fall welcoming a new class of students. After leaving her role as a high school English teacher last spring, she ...
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who is currently running for governor of Alabama, went on a 20-minute, lie-filled rant on the Senate floor accusing trans people of being violent and "deranged" and proposing that the United States bring back mental institutions to house them. Tuberv...
Colorado is a solidly blue state with protections for trans people on the books. When a hospital stopped providing gender-affirming care to trans youth because of policies from the Trump administration, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled that it had to resume care (the hospital is ...
In a time ripe with anti-LGBTQ+ – and especially anti-trans – animus, LGBTQ+ media has been critical in both holding leaders accountable and educating the public on LGBTQ+ issues. But as publications of all kinds struggle to survive in the current landscape, many questions have a...
Here are this week’s most popular positive stories, with some fun social media posts tossed in too. Like seeing uplifting content like this? Sign up for our Good News email. Happy Halloweekend, everyone! It's perhaps not so surprising that this week's Good News Roundup grab bag h...
Delaware issued its first-ever state historical marker recognizing an LGBTQ+ site yesterday — the mayor and a queer state legislator both say it's evidence of the area's increasing inclusivity. The Delaware Public Archives will place a historical marker recognizing Poodle Beach, ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.New Texas court documents identify a Republican group as a client linked to text messages impersonating an LGBTQ+ advocacy group. The Republican Women’s Caucus Fund denies any involvement.Travis County District Judge Jan Soifer order...
Star of stage and screen Sir Patrick Stewart passed away in his Los Angeles home yesterday after “a brief and poignant journey with Alzheimer’s disease and Lewy body dementia,” according to spokesperson Kelly Bush Novak. Stewart will be remembered for his iconic roles as Captain ...
In a world fraught with anxiety and fear, waking up Wednesday morning, Oct. 28, with a Goldilocks feeling that everything was just right was just odd. And then breaking news confirmed it: Dolores Huerta, icon, civil rights legend, hero to the long, too-often-ignored farm workers ...
This story originally appeared on The Advocate.When Mike Manning came out on television at 22, he thought he might be surrendering the life he wanted, including marriage, children, and the ordinary comforts of belonging. Seventeen years later, he is married and nominated for an E...
Democracy Forward has filed a lawsuit against the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS), challenging a state regulation that restricts public libraries from purchasing books for young readers that contain material related to transgender people and gender identity. The lawsuit was...
