This transgender boxer is fighting to save his mentor — and unlikely friend — from ICE captivity
Trans boxer Nolan Hanson tells The Advocate about his fight to get his mentor, Talap Mamyrkanov, out of ICE detention.
September 02 2025 6:00 AM
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Immigration
Illinois launches first-in-nation LGBTQ+ legal hotline
Illinois Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker has announced the launch of the nation's first-ever LGBTQ+ legal hotline.
August 22 2025 11:32 AM
Judge orders immediate release of gay Jamaican asylum seeker detained by ICE
A federal judge in Manhattan determined ICE violated Rickardo Anthony Kelly's right to due process.
August 19 2025 2:02 PM
Gay Jamaican asylum seeker 'suffering' in ICE custody, lawyer says
Rickardo Anthony Kelly was arrested by ICE at an immigration courthouse while waiting for his hearing.
August 08 2025 11:42 AM
In baseball fields, gardens, birthday parties, and more, the increasing barbarism of masked ICE agents
Opinion: ICE expands into an authoritarian arm of the state, akin to Germany's Gestapo, going unchecked and unaccountable. and shattering lives , writes John Casey.
July 16 2025 6:00 AM
Harvard seemingly caves to Trump, shuts down LGBTQ+ and women's center websites
Harvard has removed websites for its women's, LGBTQ+, and multicultural student centers.
July 11 2025 3:08 PM
LGBTQ+ immigrants face 'most immediate risk' of ICE raids in Los Angeles
Over 1.25 million LGBTQ+ adult immigrants live in the U.S., with an estimated 10 percent living in Los Angeles County.
June 13 2025 3:21 PM
California LGBTQ+ Groups condemn Trump’s ‘dangerous’ crackdown on L.A. immigration protesters
As immigration raids and protests sweep LA, California's queer groups say "LGBTQ+ immigrants are especially vulnerable."
June 09 2025 11:59 AM
ICE detained a trans migrant at her asylum hearing. Her lawyers still can't contact her
Attorneys for a transgender woman say they still haven't been able to contact her after she was arrested during her asylum hearing.
June 04 2025 5:04 PM
Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here's everything Trump has done so far
Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had "nothing to do" with Project 2025 — but now that he's in office, he's implementing it.
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May 06 2025 5:00 AM
Donald Trump's DOT will prioritize areas with higher 'marriage and birth rates'
The memo directs DOT employees to "give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average."
February 04 2025 1:42 PM
Donald Trump's lesbian niece Mary Trump slams him as 'deeply ignorant, cruel man'
"He doesn’t know what he’s talking about," Mary Trump recently said of her uncle's plan to end birthright citizenship.
December 11 2024 1:27 PM
Los Angeles becomes a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ youth and immigrants as officials reject Project 2025
The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to pass the “sanctuary city” ordinance, shielding queer youth who travel to the city to receive gender-affirming care from prosecution.
November 22 2024 12:22 PM
Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to
The work these groups do will be critical during a second Trump Administration.
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November 13 2024 10:12 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene bizarrely claims FEMA 'hates Christians' because it aids trans women
The conservative is mad that FEMA is using Hurricane Helene relief resources to "house migrants." Her evidence? A discussion panel from a year and a half ago.
October 07 2024 3:32 PM
Conservative editor backtracks after seeming to use n word regarding Haitian migrants
Rich Lowry seemed to have used the racial slur in place of the term "migrants" while speaking to Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show. He's now claimed he didn't.
September 16 2024 3:49 PM
Here's what Democrats promise to do for LGBTQ+ people in their 2024 platform
The DNC has released its full platform for the next four years, which features dozens of policies that would improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people.
August 21 2024 10:43 AM
Cecilia Gentili's legacy lives on as trans Latinx group receives first-ever HRC grant (exclusive)
The Cecilia Gentili grant will assist groups aiding trans women of color, sex workers, immigrants, and the formerly incarcerated.
August 13 2024 2:25 PM
If you think Project 2025 is scary, take a look at Donald Trump's Agenda 47
If reelected, Donald Trump will "cut federal funding for any school or program pushing critical race theory or gender ideology" and "create a new credentialing body to certify teachers who embrace patriotic values."
July 09 2024 2:35 PM
When these Venezuelan migrants couldn't afford to get married, their Denver community threw them a wedding
Nonprofit Dork Dancing hosted the wedding for Amarilis and Mariangy Delgado Gutierrez on Sunday, one year after they left Venezuela.
June 10 2024 3:55 PM