8/29/24

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🫏 LGBTQ+ issues didn’t come up in Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz’s interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday, but a lot of other things did. Disappointing but maybe not super surprising. The Advocate's Trudy Ring has five key takeaways from the interview, their first since becoming the Democratic presidential and vice-presidential nominees.

🍎 JD Vance continues to be weird. The Republican vice-presidential nominee once lambasted Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers and a lesbian, saying she’s not a mother and that “if she wants to brainwash and destroy the minds of children, she should have some of her own and leave ours the hell alone.” Weingarten has described herself as a “mother by marriage.” She is married to Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, and they have two daughters who Kleinbaum brought to the relationship.

Below, check out other pieces The Advocate has published recently from a YouTube chef murdering his alleged lover to how abortion rights are polling. ⬇️

Onward and upward,

Alex

5 key takeaways from Kamala Harris's first media interview as the Democratic nominee for president

JD Vance once trashed a lesbian teachers' union president as a childless indoctrinator brainwashing kids

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A gay man was the only applicant for a town council seat. He lost anyway — because of his sexuality

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Abortion rights ballot initiatives are winning big in polls — even among Republicans

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Baptist pastor says gay preachers 'should get a bullet in their brain'

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Queer aging is the next frontier in LGBTQ+ human rights

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YouTube chef and son of Spanish actors convicted of murdering and dismembering surgeon in Thailand

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