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Hi there,
It's only been a couple of days since the last newsletter, but a lot has happened so sit tight.
🚨 Republican lawmaker Nancy Mace is claiming a foster care activist attacked her. Earlier this week, the South Carolina representative said she was assaulted by a pro-trans rights advocate then she had him arrested. However, eyewitness reports don’t support her story.
🚽 Donald Trump apparently doesn't want to discuss anti-trans bathroom bans even though his political party is starting to use them at the Capitol and elsewhere. He said it was an issue dividing the country. Really? Wonder if the millions of Trump campaign dollars spent demonizing trans people could have something to do with that...
🕯️ We're taking a moment in this newsletter to honor Troy Masters, publisher of LGBTQ+ news outlet the Los Angeles Blade. Masters was 63.
⚡Sheryl Lee Ralph graced the stage at equalpride's Out100 event Wednesday night (equalpride is The Advocate's parent company). The Advocate honored Ralph as its Advocate of the Year. Check out what she had to say about advocacy and what wisdom she gave during her speech here.
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
Editor-in-chief, Advocate.com
P.S. Help support The Advocate's journalism. Find out how here.
📰 In other news:
- Virginia Republicans vote to take control of local library after losing fight to remove LGBTQ+ books
- Hate crimes skyrocket in Los Angeles, especially targeting LGBTQ+ people
- Pete Hegseth really doesn’t like LGBTQ+ people in the military
- Mistrial declared in case of missing Black gay Ole Miss student Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee
- U.S. House passes defense spending bill with anti-trans provision
- Vatican adds event for LGBTQ+ Catholics to Holy Year calendar
- U.K. bans puberty blockers for trans youth indefinitely
- Montana Supreme Court upholds block on gender-affirming care ban
- All about the nation's first gay rights group, the Society for Human Rights, founded 100 years ago
- Donald Trump's lesbian niece Mary Trump slams him as 'deeply ignorant, cruel man'
Donald Trump says he won’t debate trans bathroom use affecting ‘very small number of people’
Remon Haazen/Getty Images; Kent Nishimura/Getty Images
Virginia Republicans vote to take control of local library after losing fight to remove LGBTQ+ books
Samuels Public Library via facebook
Mistrial declared in case of missing Black gay Ole Miss student Jimmie ‘Jay’ Lee
Facebook @Oxford; MS Police Department
All about the nation's first gay rights group, the Society for Human Rights, founded 100 years ago
public domain via Gerber/Hart Library; Wellcome Images via Wikimedia Commons
Hollywood’s new 'it' girl, Somebody Somewhere’s Bridget Everett, on starring in the best TV show of 2024
Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
🌈 Look, a queer trivia hint! 🌈
Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Tuesday, you'll get a question. Today, you'll get a hint. And Saturday, you'll get the answer.
This week's question: What was the first known LGBTQ+ rights group in the U.S.?
This week's hint: The organization was founded in 1924 in Chicago.
✨ Reply with the right answer and you might be featured in a future email newsletter.
📣 What you should also be reading:
- Lesbian TikToker brutally humbles meddling men while changing her girlfriend's flat tire (Pride)
- TikToker claps back after harsh criticism of his personal 'Grindr Wrapped' and we're cheering (Pride)
- Cynthia Erivo holds space for Marsha P. Johnson, LGBTQ+ icons in Out100 speech (Out)
- Netflix's trans stars urge fighting hatred with visibility: 'We must persist' (Out)
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