Category: The Advocate

Author: Trudy Ring 14 transgender elected officials you should know From left: Tyler Titus, Andrea Jenkins, James Roesener, and Evelyn Rios Stafford Courtesy Committee to...

Author: Christopher Wiggins This Sunday, the AIDS Memorial Quilt will return to Washington, D.C.Ann E Zelle/Getty ImagesRay Chavez/MediaNews Group/The Mercury News via Getty ImagesGoncalo Telo/Shutterstock...

Author: George Del Junco Why is coming out in the 21st century so hard?I will never hurt him.I will never hurt her.I will never hurt...

Author: John Casey In the 1980s and early ‘90s, AIDS victims and gay and bi men were treated as pariahs, not only by society, but...

Author: Trudy Ring Peggy Caserta, a lover of rock icon Janis Joplin, has died at age 84.Caserta met Joplin, her neighbor on Haight Street, in...

Author: Riki Wilchins The New York Times“don’t ask, don’t tell.” And it will be more brutal than either one of these. In fact — with...

Author: Trudy Ring The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has eased the regulations on kidney and liver donations between HIV-positive donors and HIV-positive...

Author: Alex Cooper Happy Saturday, Screen shot via Fox News Office of U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall Bob Korn/Shutterstock Justin Sullivan/Getty Images MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty...

Author: Trudy Ring Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent, a billionaire investment manager who is gay, as secretary of the Treasury. Keep up with the...

Author: Trudy Ring U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican, has introduced a bill to deny transgender identity. Keep up with the latest in LGBTQ+...

Author: Trudy Ring The controversy over gender-affirming care for trans minors is coming to the U.S. Supreme Court December 4. U.S. v. Skrmetti,”There are a...

Author: Trudy Ring Some same-sex couples are worried about the status of their marriages under a new Donald Trump administration. Legal and financial experts don’t...

Author: Ryan Adamczeski A video that claimed to show Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services Rachel Levine performing a pagan ritual is fake, fact-checkers...

Author: Erin Reed Texas wasted no time escalating its attacks on transgender people as the state GOP prefiled 32 anti-trans bills on the first day...

Author: Christopher Wiggins U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg urged fellow Democrats on Thursday to stay focused and not allow themselves to be consumed by the...

Author: Christopher Wiggins Jonathan Gomez Noriega, a former aide to Jersey City, New Jersey Mayor Steven Fulop who also served on an LGBTQ+ task force,...

Author: Jacob Ogles President-elect Donald Trump’s new pick for Attorney General, Pam Bondi, will bring a mixed record on LGBTQ+ issues to the Justice Department....

Author: John Casey If Election Day felt like the apocalypse, this week has felt like a never-ending April Fools’ Day. To all those who said...

Author: Alex Cooper Hi y’all, MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images Drew Angerer/Getty Images Courtesy The Trevor Project Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post; Jason Mendez/Getty Images portrait...

Author: John Casey It has become an annual event for me to talk with someone or multiple stars of HBO’s Somebody Somewhere. Last year, I...