Inside the massive protest against Project 2025 and anti-trans laws coming to D.C. (exclusive)
A renowned organizer for the upcoming Gender Liberation March tells The Advocate how you can attend — and why you should.
August 30, 2024
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All Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries — Here's why
Three women GOP State Senators joined Democrats last year to block an extreme conservative-backed bill.
July 1, 2024
Supreme Court blocks Idaho's ban on emergency abortions, but it's 'not a victory for pregnant patients'
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked an Idaho ban on emergency abortions, but Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says the decision "is not a victory for pregnant patients."
June 27, 2024
Rhode Island advances law protecting doctors who provide abortions & gender-affirming care
Eleven years (to the day) after passing marriage equality, Rhode Island lawmakers took another notable step to protect LGBTQ+ health care.
May 6, 2024
Just one Christian Nationalist group is behind Idaho's bans on trans care and abortion
Attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care are heavily intertwined, and one group conservative hate group continues to use its influence in Idaho.
April 19, 2024
A Texas woman was charged with murder for having an abortion. Now, she's suing the state
Lizelle Gonzalez spent two nights in jail after being charged with murder in “the death of an individual by self-induced abortion."
April 1, 2024
'Fractured landscape:' Abortions in the U.S. are increasing, despite 'drastic' bans
Despite abortion restrictions being implemented in 21 states since the overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortions are increasing in the U.S.
March 25, 2024
'Retaliation': Texas AG Paxton demands PFLAG provide names, addresses of trans members
A legal filing by PFLAG National revealed that Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas was seeking identification of transgender members.
February 29, 2024
Family planning and fertility services grind to halt in Alabama after devastating ruling
Family planning services in Alabama have been completely upended by an unprecedented and unscientific state Supreme Court ruling.
February 22, 2024
A South Carolina woman was forced to leave the state for an abortion. Now, she's suing
Despite being less than six weeks pregnant, Taylor Shelton said that healthcare providers would not assist her in terminating her pregnancy, nor provide her resources for services elsewhere.
February 21, 2024
Alabama Supreme Court endangers IVF access by ruling frozen embryos are people
In a notable union of church and state, the Alabama Supreme Court cited Christian faith as reason to jeopardize access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).
February 20, 2024
Backlash to transgender health care isn’t new − but faulty science used to justify it has changed over time
As in the 1930s, opposition to trans medicine today is part of a broad reactionary movement against what some far-right groups consider the “toxic normalization” of LGBTQ people.
February 4, 2024
Abortion restrictions amount to sex-based discrimination, state Supreme Court says
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled against an antiquated anti-abortion law, with justices issuing a scathing rebuke of the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson decision.
February 1, 2024
Restore Roe: Biden and Harris warn supporters what a second Trump term could mean for bodily autonomy
The president, the vice president, and their spouses delivered this message loud and clear at the "Restore Roe" rally in Virginia on Tuesday.
January 23, 2024
Democrats propose bill to defend IVF, slam 'Republican attacks on reproductive health care'
Democratic Sen. Tammy Duckworth and Rep. Susan Wild have introduced the Access to Family Building Act, which would protect IVF treatment in the U.S.
January 19, 2024
Trans healthcare, abortion, & more: These are the LGBTQ+ laws that took effect January 1
Here are the biggest pieces of legislation for bodily autonomy that are now in the law of the land.
January 9, 2024
Golden Globe Nominees Colman Domingo, Rachel Weisz & More on Their Acclaimed Projects
We spoke with Golden Globes nominees Rustin’s Colman Domingo, Dead Ringers’ Rachel Weisz, Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham, and others about queer identity and more. Here's what they had to say.
December 29, 2023
This New Bill Hopes to Require LGBTQ+ Inclusive Sex Ed Nationwide
The Real Education and Access for Healthy Youth Act would recommend inclusive, trauma-informed sex education in schools nationwide.
August 28, 2023
Texas High School Students Subjected to Anti-LGBTQ+ Anti-Abortion Protest
The protesters don’t want to teach their kids about certain topics but they are protesting those topics in front of the kids.
August 23, 2023
The Right Is Using the Anti-Abortion Dobbs Ruling to Attack Trans Care. Will It Work?
After an appeals court cites the Dobbs ruling in upholding a trans care ban, there's cause for concern — but not panic, LGBTQ+ activists say.
July 15, 2023
Kamala Harris: Our One-on-One With the Vice President
As Republicans vehemently attack reproductive and trans rights, the VP sees a linked battle for bodily autonomy.
June 21, 2023