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HRC Rallies to Drive Antigay Democrat From Office

Progressive Marie Newman, backed by HRC and others, is challenging U.S. Rep. Dan Lipinski in the Illinois Democratic primary.

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Black LGBTQ+ leader derides Trump’s cuts to HIV funding after State of the Union

Kelley Robinson and other leaders spoke about Black groups stepping up to fill in dangerous gaps left by the Trump administration.

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Transgender Chicago man hospitalized after saving baby from drowning in Lake Michigan

“I wasn’t going to let that baby die,” Lio Cundiff said.

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This Georgia education champion could be the first Black out gay man to represent the South in Congress

“We need a stronger set of Democrats who are willing to fight for their communities,” Everton Blair told The Advocate.

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Clinton depositions spur Democrats’ demand for Donald Trump’s Epstein files testimony

“The person who actually appears more times in the files than the former president, who we want to speak with, is President Donald Trump," Rep. Robert Garcia said.

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Chuck Schumer leads New York Democrats’ bill to protect Pride flags at Stonewall & national park sites

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From left, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, both Democrats from New York, host a news conference outside the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 26.
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Democratic lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday to protect the Pride flag at national park sites, including New York City's Stonewall National Monument, after the Trump administration previously ordered the flag removed from the historic LGBTQ+ landmark. Keep Reading →

Stand up to Trump's SOTU attack on trans kids

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Donald Trump gestures as he delivers the State of the Union in the House Chamber of the US Capitol in Washington, DC, on February 24, 2026. The president took aim at transgender young people in his address.

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There is a comforting story many of us tell about progress. We imagine rights arrive because the world improves, knowledge spreads, time passes, and people naturally become kinder. We picture history as a staircase that society slowly climbs together. Keep Reading →

Trump uses State of the Union to demonize transgender kids and their families

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U.S. President Donald Trump, with Vice President JD Vance and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson looking on, delivers his State of the Union address during a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2026, in Washington, DC.

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President Donald Trump used Tuesday night’s State of the Union address to single out a teenage girl’s story and, in doing so, cast the broader transgender community as a political target, turning the nation’s most-watched annual speech into a familiar culture war flashpoint. Keep Reading →

Meet the masc lesbian judge challenging the justice cis-tem with lived experience

Judge Denise Hernández of Travis County, Texas

Judge Denise Hernández of Travis County, Texas

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The first openly lesbian Latine judge in Texas, Denise Hernández, was awarded the Bettie Naylor Award by the Human Rights Campaign last month for her outstanding dedication to LGBTQ+ rights and for paving the way for better regulations in courtrooms. The award was created in honor of Bettie Naylor, a lesbian Texan activist and founding member of the Human Rights Campaign. Keep Reading →

Trump administration scrubs LGBTQ+ questions from federal surveys

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LGBTQ+ Americans are disappearing from federal surveys.

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Hundreds of federal surveys have removed questions tied to sexual orientation and gender identity, according to a new report from the Williams Institute, which cites President Trump’s executive orders as the reason. Keep Reading →
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