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🚨 The Human Rights Campaign is set to lay off approximately 20 percent of its workforce in a major restructuring effort in what the group's leadership said is to adapt to the evolving political and financial landscape. The Advocate has the exclusive.
🚔 A man who worked as a journalist in LGBTQ+ media has been arrested and identified by California authorities as a fugitive sex offender who police say had been living under an assumed identity since at least 2016.
💄 As companies abandon diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, e.l.f. Beauty is staying true to the "community that we serve," its CEO recently said in a TV interview, adding, "our diversity is a key competitive advantage in terms of our results."
📣 In a time of unprecedented challenges for LGBTQ+ families, Family Equality, the national nonprofit dedicated to advancing equality for LGBTQ+ families, has announced the appointment of Darra Gordon as its new CEO.
Onwards and upwards,
Alex Cooper
Editor-in-chief, Advocate.com
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📰 In other news:
- Lawsuit challenges Trump's executive order targeting gender-affirming care
- Trump moves to abolish Education Department amid push against 'wokeness'
- Amber Ruffin to headline 2025 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But, will Trump attend?
- Donald Trump's DOT will prioritize areas with higher 'marriage and birth rates'
- Kim Davis is back in court because she doesn't want to pay a gay couple
- Transgender author Jennifer Finney Boylan: The fight is not over
- N.Y. attorney general: stopping care for trans youth will violate state law
Transgender author Jennifer Finney Boylan: The fight is not over
Courtesy Macmillan Publishers; Dan Haar via Jennifer Finney Boylan
Amber Ruffin to headline 2025 White House Correspondents’ Dinner. But, will Trump attend?
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Trump moves to abolish Education Department amid push against 'wokeness'
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Fugitive sex offender posed as LGBTQ+ journalist for years, authorities say
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Donald Trump's DOT will prioritize areas with higher 'marriage and birth rates'
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Darra Gordon to lead Family Equality as LGBTQ+ families grapple with an uncertain time (exclusive)
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N.Y. attorney general: stopping care for trans youth will violate state law
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Human Rights Campaign to lay off 20% of staff as LGBTQ+ organization restructures (exclusive)
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🚨Check out the Jan/Feb 2025 Health PLUS Wellness digital edition
We're celebrating Black History Month with our annual African American issue.
🌈 Look, queer trivia! 🌈
Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Today, you'll get the question along with last week's answer.
This week's question is: What U.S. Supreme Court case decision made marriage equality the law of the land?
Last week's question was: Who was the first out LGBTQ+ person to be the White House press secretary?
This week's answer is: Karine Jean-Pierre. Jean-Pierre stepped into the role of principal deputy press secretary on day one of the Biden administration in January 2021, becoming the first LGBTQ+ person to give a press briefing that May. One year later, in May 2022, she was promoted to the chief spokesperson role.
“I think about the different communities I carry,” she said in a recent interview with The AdvocateThe Advocate. “The LGBTQ+ community, the Black community, women, the immigrant community.” Read the interview to find out what she has planned next.
Congrats to Jack, Cher, Andre, Heather, D. Ann, and Steve for getting the answer right! 🎉
📣 What you should also be reading:
- 15 LGBTQ+ movies & TV shows coming in February 2025 & where to watch them (Pride)
- Sarah Michelle Gellar starring in a 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' sequel series has fans divided (Pride)
- Need to process queer trauma? Listen to Matt Bomer read A Little Life (Out)
- TJ Klune reveals why Bones Beneath My Skin needed a gay sex scene (Out)
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