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Use This Cheat Sheet from The Advocate to Look Smart When Talking Election Day Politics

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South Florida husbands among Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash

Adam Hlavaty and Henry Parra were remembered as a loving couple devoted to family, travel, and service.

In ‘Test,’ queer bodybuilders and their struggles finally take center stage

The new film shines a light on queer bodybuilding and the pressures on men to seek physical perfection.

Advocates entered a Georgia ICE detention center to visit a queer detainee and felt ‘darkness’

Behind barbed wire and glass, organizers found a queer Cameroonian mother exhausted, fearful of medical care, and determined not to lose hope.

Florida voters deliver wins for LGBTQ+ candidates and losses for Moms for Liberty

Five out Democrats advanced in Florida House races as Equality Florida-backed school board candidates defeated extreme conservative rivals.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

Trump wildly claims hospitals are performing ‘reverse surgery’ on trans patients ’at my order'

Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, a current U.S. senator, admits national security is ‘not my thing’

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Peggy Flanagan wins Minnesota Senate primary with unapologetic defense of trans rights

Three Democrats and one Republican are vying to become Florida’s first out gay congressman

Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy earns an ‘F’ from leading Ohio LGBTQ+ group

James Talarico tells Rachel Maddow how bigoted, anti-trans politics distract from GOP corruption

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Maryland school district caves to Trump and adopts forced outing policy to expose LGBTQ+ students

The Anne Arundel County policy change came after Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged the Justice Department to punish the district, citing parental rights protections.

Kansas law forced these men into women's bathrooms. Their compliance highlights the absurdity

A group of transgender men who call themselves the "SB244 compliance crew” have been using women’s bathrooms in protest of a Kansas law that mandates that they do so.

The despair on the USS Abraham Lincoln exposes the deadly fraud of Pete Hegseth’s machismo

The sailors on the ship are desperate, and I know how terrifying it is when no one sees it, writes John Casey.

If anyone should get a motel room, it’s Senator John Kennedy and Donald Trump

The Louisiana Republican's Obama and Colbert antigay smear campaign surely earned Trump’s undying love.

Black LGBTQ+ survivors speak out about conversion therapy in religious spaces

Two Black gay men share how conversion therapy rooted in religious teachings shaped their lives—and the lasting trauma these practices continue to cause in Black communities.

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Use This Cheat Sheet from The Advocate to Look Smart When Talking Election Day Politics

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Adam Hlavaty and Henry Parra were remembered as a loving couple devoted to family, travel, and service.

The new film shines a light on queer bodybuilding and the pressures on men to seek physical perfection.

Behind barbed wire and glass, organizers found a queer Cameroonian mother exhausted, fearful of medical care, and determined not to lose hope.

Five out Democrats advanced in Florida House races as Equality Florida-backed school board candidates defeated extreme conservative rivals.

LGBTQ+ stories deserve to be told.

More For You

Most Popular

The Anne Arundel County policy change came after Education Secretary Linda McMahon urged the Justice Department to punish the district, citing parental rights protections.

A group of transgender men who call themselves the "SB244 compliance crew” have been using women’s bathrooms in protest of a Kansas law that mandates that they do so.

The sailors on the ship are desperate, and I know how terrifying it is when no one sees it, writes John Casey.

The Louisiana Republican's Obama and Colbert antigay smear campaign surely earned Trump’s undying love.

Two Black gay men share how conversion therapy rooted in religious teachings shaped their lives—and the lasting trauma these practices continue to cause in Black communities.

The out gay founder of the newest queer dating app is stepping away from the company he founded.