04/12/24

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✨ Dr. Jill Biden took Trump and Republican lawmakers to task for targeting LGBTQ+ rights. “We’ve made progress, but there’s still so much more to do. And we can’t, and we won’t go back and refight the fights of the past,” Biden said at a Human Rights Campaign Speech on Friday, outlining the ongoing legislative attacks aimed at the LGBTQ+ community. “Just last month, we had to fend off more than 50 antigay amendments that Republicans tried to force into the government funding bill,” she noted. 📣

🚨 The brother of a gay British man is warning that despite his release from Qatari prison, his brother's detention in the country could be a death sentence. Forty-four-year-old Manuel Guerrero moved to Qatar, where homosexuality is illegal, seven years ago for his work. He was detained on February 4 after being entrapped by law enforcement through a fake Grindr profile, and was held in jail for nearly two months. Now, he's no longer detained, but he can't leave the country.

🌈 LGBTQ+ and allied members of Congress Friday introduced a resolution to support the Rise Up for LGBTQI+ Youth in Schools Initiative, “a call to action to communities across the country to demand equal educational opportunity, basic civil rights protections, and freedom from erasure for all students, particularly LGBTQI+ young people, in K–12 schools,” as the resolution states. 🌈

Onward and upward,

Alex Cooper

Jill Biden calls Donald Trump a ‘bully’ and ‘dangerous to our country’ at Human Rights Campaign event

Christopher Wiggins for The Advocate; Tommaso Boddi/Variety via Getty Images

British gay man ‘tortured’ in Qatar is almost out of HIV medicine, family says (exclusive)

flier via twitter @QatarFreeManuel

A youth's call to action on this Day of NO Silence

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Germany makes it easier to change gender and name on legal documents

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Democrats introduce resolution in support of LGBTQ+ youth

Courtesy offices of United States Representative Mark Takano, congresswoman barbara lee, United States Senator brian schatz, United States Senator ron wyden

White House announces new rules on background checks for firearms sales in America

Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images; Shutterstock

Watch Jimmy Kimmel's hilarious LGBTQ+ campaign video: 'You can't spell Biden without Bi'

BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images; Randy Holmes/ABC

Look, a hint!

Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Today, you'll get the question. Today, you'll get a hint. And Sunday, you'll get the answer.

This week's question is: What was the most challenged book in 2023, according to the American Library Association?

The hint is: It's the third year in a row that the book has landed at the top of the most challenged list.

Reply to this email with the answer and you may get a shout-out in a future newsletter!