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Hi all,
We hope you have been enjoying these early April days and that you've ordered your eclipse gear. Here's what we've been working on the last couple of days. 🌞
🐊 A sex scandal sunk the political career of a Florida Republican couple who seemed on their way to the top. Bridget and Christian Ziegler had both risen to powerful political positions when a rape allegation from a woman the two had previously been consensually intimate with led to their demise. Read how they got so high to fall so far.
🌈 The United Nations adopted a resolution supporting the rights of intersex people, the first time it has done so. The resolution, titled “Combating Discrimination, Violence and Harmful Practices Against Intersex Persons,” recognizes that intersex people exist in every society and that they “may face multiple and intersecting forms of discrimination in all areas of life, such as access to education, health, employment, sports and social security, as well as restrictions on the exercise of legal capacity and in access to remedies and justice.”
🚙 Pete Buttigieg went on Fox News to defend electric vehicles. In a very lol-moment, the transportation secretary said, "Sometimes when these debates happen, I feel like it's the early 2000s and I'm talking to people who think we can just have landline phones forever." ☎️
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
The Fall of the House of Ziegler: Moms for Liberty, a threesome, and a failed political dynasty
Facebook @bridgetziegler
Lara Trump awkwardly blames Biden’s support of trans people for high gas prices and Israel-Hamas war
Nonbinary job applicants using 'they/them' pronouns are less likely to get hired: report
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Oklahoma voters recall white supremacist, reject supporters of Ryan Walters
via KOCO 5 NEWS; Zach D Roberts/NurPhoto via Getty Images; City of Enid
'Matrix 5' is in the works, and Lana Wachowski is back — but not as director
Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images; Vincent Sandoval/WireImage
Look, a hint!
Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Tuesday, you'll get the question. Today, you'll get a hint. And Saturday, you'll get the answer.
This week's question is: In what year was Transgender Day of Visibility — which falls on March 31 each year — first organized?
This week's hint is: It began the same year former President Barack Obama became president.
Reply to this email with the answer and you may get a shout-out in a future newsletter!
What you should also be reading:
- This iconic hardcore band once helped a trans friend pay for her surgery (Pride)
- Sebastian Croft wants to star in a queer romcom & is crushing hard on this male celeb (Pride)
- 14 queens who quit or retired from drag after 'RuPaul's Drag Race' (Out)
- Neil Partick Harris & David Burtka just celebrated a milestone anniversary together (Out)
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