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🐘 As election season peaks, conservative LGBTQ+ supporters of former President Donald Trump are hosting “Trump UNITY” events across battleground states despite the former president’s lengthy record of anti-LGBTQ+ policies — no, we don't understand it either. Organized by the Log Cabin Republicans, the UNITY tour held a rally in Charlotte, N.C., on Tuesday, where gay conservative attendees emphasized economic issues over LGBTQ+ rights and downplayed the need for further protections.
🫠 Republican Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is under fire for using unauthorized images of two cisgender teenage girls in several campaign ads targeting transgender athletes. The students aren't even from Texas. They're from Oregon.
🌈 The slate of LGBTQ+ people running for political office in the U.S. in 2024 is far more diverse than in the last presidential election year, 2020, according to a new report from the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund. The proportion of candidates who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender-nonconforming grew by more than seven percentage points between 2020 and 2024 — 7.9 percent to 15.2 percent.
✨ The Advocate just launched our first reader-revenue program, which allows you to contribute directly to The Advocate's LGBTQ+ journalism. Find out how to invest in our work here. ✨
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
The LGBTQ + candidates running in 2024 are more diverse than ever: Victory Fund
Courtesy Friends of Kim Coco; Courtesy Nathan Bruemmer for Florida House of Representatives; Courtesy Minita Sanghvi for State Senate
Over a quarter of college applicants are rejecting schools over their states' politics: report
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Ted Cruz uses unauthorized images of cisgender students in anti-transgender attack ads
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Nonbinary trans U.S. House candidate injects testosterone in campaign ad
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MAGA gays at Trump fundraising event claim LGBTQ+ community already has full equality: ‘We’re past that’
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Photos: Jewish drag artists raise money for Brooklyn and Gaza refugees
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🌈 Look, the answer! 🌈
Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia.
This week’s question was: What large multi-day dance events are popular with the LGBTQ+ community and happen in different cities throughout the year?
This week's answer is: Circuit parties.
What you should be reading:
- 25 HILARIOUS reactions to Trump's embarrassingly incoherent Joe Rogan interview (Pride)
- First look at the super queer zombie comedy 'Queens of the Dead' and we're SCREAMING (Pride)
- 13 Reasons Why star Brandon Flynn is now a married man (Out)
- The real Menéndez brothers are 'eligible for immediate parole' (update) (Out)
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