11/7/24

Hi there,

🗳️ A lot of us were hoping for a different outcome in the presidential election this week. As the editor-in-chief of Advocate.com, I want to let you know that we are going to hold those in power to account. We will continue to bring you LGBTQ+ news — stories about how we survive and how we thrive.

🎉 With that said, it's important to note the LGBTQ+ history made on election night. Delaware's Sarah McBride will be the first out transgender member of Congress. That is huge! It's especially significant given the attacks directed at the trans community in recent weeks. Read more about McBride's win below. ⬇️

🌈 And other queer history was also made. The Advocate's senior politics editor Trudy Ring pulled together this piece about the candidates who are bringing representation to our government.

🫏 Also, apparently, LGBTQ+ folks are more progressive than ever. Donald Trump might have won the presidential election, but "normal" gays still voted for Kamala Harris. An overwhelming 86 percent of LGBTQ+ voters backed the Vice President compared to just 12 percent who voted for Trump. That's 15 points higher than in 2020, when 27 percent of LGBTQ+ voters cast their ballots for him, and makes Harris the most popular candidate among queer voters in the past five presidential elections.

Onward and upward,

Alex Cooper

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“People have chosen to stay in the military because they see people like me,” First Lieutenant Brian Femminella told The Advocate.

Rep. John McGuire’s proposed Riley Gaines Act would allow athletes to sue colleges that permit transgender women to compete in women’s sports.

The Republican-led legislation places the state increasingly out of step with the rest of New England on trans rights.

The longtime California Republican congressman is packing it up.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to betold.

More For You

Most Popular

Conservative lawmakers are attempting to take away protections that some local governments have put in place to prevent discrimination against their LGBTQ+ citizens.

A queer Black writer reflects on Rev. Jesse Jackson’s evolving relationship with LGBTQ+ people — and what it meant for those of us raised in the Black church.

Opinion: Proximity to (and even building) misogynistic machinery will not protect you, writes contributor Josh Ackley.

Jill Collen Jefferson, the founder of JULIAN, explains what happens when a transgender woman’s death is ruled a suicide and a community calls it something else.

On Truth Social, the president appeared to leave the door open to kids getting gender-affirming care with "express written approval of the parents."

These celebrities brought the sex appeal in their steamy videos this year.