Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, California AG Rob Bonta receive awards from Victory Fund
The two were recognized as allies to the LGBTQ+ community.
17 hours ago
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Trudy Ring
Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.
University of Louisville caves to anti-LGBTQ+ forces twice this week
The university canceled a graduation ceremony for LGBTQ+ students and reached a reported seven-figure settlement with an anti-transgender former professor.
APRIL 24 2025 6:45 PM
Insurer illegally discriminated by denying trans teens coverage for top surgery, court rules
The decision came in a case involving Premera Blue Cross.
APRIL 21 2025 9:16 PM
Federal judge blocks Trump admin's gender-restrictive passport policy
The State Department can't enforce the policy denying gender marker changes or the X marker while a lawsuit against it proceeds, the judge ruled.
APRIL 18 2025 8:13 PM
New Hampshire men can't wear anti-trans gear at their kids' school while their lawsuit proceeds
Two men have sued the Bow School District in an effort to protest transgender athletes.
APRIL 15 2025 8:25 PM
How the SAVE Act would make it harder for trans people, married women, and some men to vote
The U.S. House has passed the bill, and activists are urging the Senate to reject it.
APRIL 15 2025 10:28 AM
White House anti-gender-affirming care post is full of lies
A new post on the White House website calls this care "chemical and surgical mutilation" and "immoral, unjust, and disproven practices." None of that is true.
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Pedro Pascal says transphobe J.K. Rowling is 'heinous loser'
The actor, whose sister Lux is transgender, joined writer and activist Tariq Ra'ouf in denouncing Rowling's support for the U.K. Supreme Court's recent anti-trans ruling.
APRIL 25 2025 6:29 PM
Defense Department reinstates gender-affirming care for trans troops
It represents another setback for the Trump administration.
APRIL 24 2025 4:25 PM
Economic insecurity linked to LGBTQ+ youth mental health issues: Trevor Project report
Most research on economic factors has focused on adults, but the new report shows how they affect young people.
APRIL 23 2025 12:00 PM
Activists stack coffins in front of State Department to protest PEPFAR cuts (in photos)
The gutting of the global HIV-fighting program could bring back "the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic," says the Human Rights Campaign's Matt Rose.
APRIL 17 2025 3:22 PM
'Kelly Clarkson Show' producer steps into live theater as your 'friendly neighborhood trans lady'
Caragh Donley tells the story of her life and transition in He Said, She Says, now playing in New York City.
APRIL 15 2025 6:17 PM
Keith St Clare, pioneering gay magazine publisher, dead at 79
St Clare published the San Francisco-based magazine Vanguard, took in many foster children, and produced a youth-oriented TV show.
APRIL 14 2025 6:34 PM
Activists hold 'die-in' at HHS to protest Trump health care cuts: in photos
At the die-in, while a narrator slowly read through a list of devastating health outcomes that HHS funding cuts will have on the LGBTQ+ community.
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A trans man who's changed hearts and minds in the South takes his work nationwide at the helm of GenderCool
"I feel so deeply connected to this work that I’m stepping into," says Chase Glenn, the new executive director of the GenderCool Project.
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Houston's Black Queer AF Week promises music, visibility, hope, and joy
Performances by JT, Voice winner Asher HaVon, and more are scheduled, along with drag, dancing, and networking opportunities.
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What LGBTQ+ audiences should see at the TCM Classic Film Festival
Musicals, divas, a bathhouse comedy, drag queens, and more!
APRIL 24 2025 7:42 AM
Supreme Court conservatives sympathize with parents objecting to LGBTQ-inclusive books
In hearing the Mahmoud v. Taylor case, conservatives leaned toward siding with these parents, while liberals wondered what other content parents could opt their kids out of.
APRIL 22 2025 6:18 PM
LGBTQ+ and other leaders call Pope Francis progressive and transformative
“Pope Francis was a transformational leader who included LGBTQ people in historic ways," said Sarah Kate Ellis of GLAAD.
APRIL 21 2025 5:15 PM
U.S. activists call U.K. anti-trans ruling 'a serious blow' to human rights
Some worry it will affect trans rights in the U.S. and other countries.
APRIL 16 2025 4:38 PM