LGBTQ+ immigrants face 'most immediate risk' of ICE raids in Los Angeles
Over 1.25 million LGBTQ+ adult immigrants live in the U.S., with an estimated 10 percent living in Los Angeles County.
June 13, 2025
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'No Kings' protests: What to know about the June 14 rallies against Trump
June 14 will see the largest nationwide protest of President Donald Trump's second term thus far. Here's everything to know.
June 13, 2025
Oregon, Portland sue Trump over plan to send National Guard
No, Portland is not "war-ravaged."
September 30, 2025
This Jewish Trans Woman Sees Parallels Between U.S. and 1930s Germany
When Jews collectively said "NEVER AGAIN," they meant it, writes Rebecca Kling. That applies to American abuses at the border.
July 13, 2019
Trans Latina woman fighting to shut down ICE facilities honored with human rights award
Arely Westley, this year's recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, tells The Advocate about this "crucial moment" in time for queer and immigrant communities.
March 31, 2024
Illinois Democratic candidate Kat Abughazaleh calls out DOJ indictment
“If their goal was to silence me, they picked the wrong person,” she told The Advocate.
October 29, 2025
Phillip Schofield, U.K. TV Host and LGBTQ Ally, Comes Out as Gay
"All you can be in your life is honest with yourself," he said.
February 7, 2020
Protests erupt across U.S. at hospitals complying with Trump's under-19 anti-trans executive order
Demonstrators argue that hospitals should stand as a bulwark against Trump and should care for all of their patients, rather than comply without a fight.
February 7, 2025
Uganda's Tallest Peak Now Topped With Rainbow Flag
A California businessman used his vacation in Uganda to plant an LGBT pride flag atop the country's highest mountain.
April 25, 2014
Creating Change Reflects a Movement in Transition
Was Creating Change 2016 really more volatile than in years past, or was that frustration simply the result of a movement trying to find its footing after symbolic, but limited, victories?
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February 1, 2016
Chris Pine Blasts Russia's Anti-LGBT Law
'What's happening there... is extraordinary and awful,' says Pine.
January 15, 2014
San Francisco rejects initial push to reclaim LGBTQ+ historic site from private prison use
Local advocates had urged city officials to oust the private prison operator and reconsider the zoning on the site, which had been used for transitional housing for 30 years.
July 17, 2025
There’s No Sugarcoating the Discrimination in Cakeshop Case
"Religious freedom" is the wrong term when referring to attempts to deny LGBT people service, writes GLAAD's Sarah Kate Ellis. Religious exemption is more like it.
December 4, 2017
Stop Being the Purity Police Over Corporate Sponsorship of Pride
It's nice to imagine we don't need large companies to underwrite our celebrations, but those who organize Pride events know their help is a necessity.
May 10, 2017
WATCH: Activists Protest Outside Russian Consulate in S.F.
Activists gathered outside San Francisco's Russian Consulate in an effort to raise awareness about hostility towards LGBT people in Russia.
August 5, 2013
This week, RFK Jr. and Donald Trump showed how disease and despotism walk hand in hand
Opinion: When tanks replace syringes, the deterioration of our health and democracy will follow, writes John Casey.
June 11, 2025
Putin's Top Priority: 'Equal Terms' for Olympic Athletes
The Russian president says his nation is most concerned with producing a smooth-running Winter Olympics where all athletes are treated equally.
December 19, 2013
Growing Pains, Opportunity for Nation's Most Influential Queer Gathering
The National LGBTQ Task Force has been bringing thinkers together at the Creating Change conference since 1988. This year's event may be the most important one yet.
December 14, 2016
Jon Lovett and Tim Miller team up to ‘raise hell’ over gay asylum-seeker vanished to El Salvador by Trump
Andry Hernández Romero entered the U.S. legally, fleeing persecution for being gay. Then the Trump administration disappeared him, sending him to a dystopian prison. They’re trying to get him back.
May 22, 2025
ICE Still Locks Trans Women in Cells With Men
A former detainee says Immigration and Customs Enforcement must stop housing transgender women with men in private prisons. In a word, it's about rape.
May 25, 2015
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema Slammed for Betraying Base, Praised by Anti-LGBTQ+
"For her to be the person to stand in the way of [progress]... that is untenable to us."
September 22, 2021