La visita del papa León XIV a Sudamérica, prevista para noviembre, ofrece un contexto para abordar una cuestión que atraviesa el testimonio de la escritora venezolana Marisol Johana Díaz Reyes de Córdova: el lugar de las personas trans en las comunidades de fe. Radicada en Uruguay, Díaz de Córdova r
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This week, Colorado voted on two anti-trans ballot initiatives. One of them passed, and while the other is still too close to call, it looks likely to pass. But the story doesn’t stop there: the new governor and the Democratic supermajority in the Colorado House and Senate could ...
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By BRENDA WINTRODE | A Baltimore lawmaker’s former campaign treasurer has been charged with taking money from his campaign account — more than $87,000 — without his knowledge, according to court documents. Maryland State Prosecutor Charlton T. Howard, III charged Melissa Ann Smit...
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Donald Trump has been making increasingly wild claims about how much he won the 2024 election by. He didn't even win a majority of the popular vote in that election, but has been saying he won in a "landslide" for over a year. He apparently found a way to claim that he won the el...
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Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is getting pretty quiet on social media, posting a short message implying that she is very relaxed as the vote count continues to go against her reelection. Boebert is currently down by about 1% of the vote total in Colorado's Fourth Congressional Distr...
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NBC News declared that Colorado's Proposition 134 passed with 94.4% of the vote counted. The current vote count shows that 52.4% of Colorado voters responded "Yes" to Prop 134. The AP said yesterday that Washington's Initiative 638, another sports ban that received 56.8% of the v...
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LGBTQ elected officials around the world have welcomed the U.S. midterm election results. New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas on Tuesday became the first openly gay man elected to the U.S. Senate. He will join U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.), who in 2012 became the first open...
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This story originally appeared on Out.As the Republican Party faces the reality that it suffered historic losses in the midterm elections, the Missouri state House is set to name a new majority leader who is related to Chappell Roan.Roan's conservative uncle, Missouri state Rep. ...
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Florida voters elected Republican Marshall Rawson, a man with neo-Nazi ties who has called for executing queer people, to the Florida State House of Representatives on Tuesday. He defeated his Democratic opponent, Merrillee Malwitz-Jipson, by 36.4 percentage points. Rawson, age 3...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate."Check on your trans friends," wrote a woman on Facebook Wednesday morning, sending a melancholy message on the same day most social media posts were hailing "the blue wave," the "blunami," and the "the rainbow wave". It's all in ref...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A ban on transgender female athletes in Long Island has been lifted by an appellate court, the latest ruling in a case that has been ongoing with varying outcomes since 2024 — and another political blow to its mastermind.The New York...
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), who made anti-transgender politics a key feature of his governorship, criticized the Republican Party yesterday for spending millions on anti-trans ads. Online commenters say his comments are an attempt to distance himself from his party's national ...
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This story originally appeared on The Advocate.A senior official in President Donald Trump’s Justice Department senior official who consistently targeted the LGBTQ+ community is out after a controversial 18-month run.Harmeet Dhillon, who oversaw the Justice Department’s Civil Rig...
