Gavin Newsom cut LGBTQ+ health funding. The CA legislature is set to restore $40 million
Newsom eliminated funds for health programs centered around LGBTQ+ youth, women, and transgender people last month.
June 13, 2025
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Ariana Grande & Pedro Pascal among 100 celebrities asking Congress to save LGBTQ+ youth 988 hotline
Over 100 celebrities are calling on Congress to secure funding for a hotline that supports LGBTQ+ youth considering suicide.
June 2, 2025
Trump administration to defund suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth starting in October
A leaked budget draft shows the federal government's plans to eliminate all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services.
April 21, 2025
Trump Administration to close LGBTQ+ youth suicide hotline in 30 days
The closure is several months ahead of its initial October 1 deadline, first revealed by leaked budget draft in April.
June 18, 2025
Democratic senators denounce plan to cut LGBTQ+ suicide and crisis hotline
“While we strongly disagree with the many actions taken by the Trump Administration targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, we believe that suicide prevention should be a nonpartisan issue," the Democratic senators wrote.
May 7, 2025
House Democrats demand RFK Jr. stop Trump’s deadly plan to end LGBTQ+ suicide prevention services
Lawmakers say the move to eliminate 988’s LGBTQ+ youth line is “shortsighted and dangerous” and “will have lethal consequences.”
May 13, 2025
Advocates and health experts worry Trump's suicide prevention hotline cuts will increase LGBTQ+ youth deaths
Karine Jean-Pierre and others have called out Trump’s proposed cuts to LGBTQ+ suicide prevention services, which health experts and advocates alike say could devastate the 988 lifeline for queer youth.
April 28, 2025
LGBT History Classes Are Coming to California Schools
In a groundbreaking move, the California State Board of Education voted to comprehensively expand its LGBT curricula.
July 15, 2016
Obama Pledges DADT Repeal
A look at President Obama's first State of the Union address.
January 27, 2010
Op-ed: Maine Report Lifts Veil on NOM’s Illegal Fundraising Scheme
The National Organization for Marriage has been losing at the ballot box, in courthouses, and in public opinion, but now the group's shady practices provide another hurdle.
May 22, 2014
New Ugandan Law to Crack Down on NGOs 'Promoting Homosexuality'
The Anti-Homosexuality Act allows for the imprisonment of leaders of nongovernmental agencies that work with the LGBT community, but a new law could make punishments even harsher.
April 29, 2014
This Group Ensures LGBTQ-Inclusive Lessons Are Actually Taught
Blue states are passing laws mandating LGBTQ people and rights are included in school curricula, but progress has been slow and spotty.
September 5, 2019
Ugandan Lawmaker Promises Homophobia for the Holidays
Recalling a promise made by another parliamentarian in 2012, a Ugandan legislator says the nation will get a new 'jail the gays' act just in time for Christmas.
November 26, 2014
Out in Kentucky
Gay Democratic state legislator Ernesto Scorsone talks with The Advocate about Kentucky's funding of an antigay private college and the governor's abandonment of employment protections for LGBT people.
May 23, 2006
Rachel Maddow's Dogged Reporting May Take Trump Down
The out MSNBC host provides a guide to the details emerging about Russia's interference in the presidential election -- and the Trump campaign's possible collusion.
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March 9, 2017
Project 2025’s horrors keep getting exposed on tape
Despite conservatives' concerted efforts to obscure the plan to institutionalize Trumpism, the public keeps learning more about the dystopian plan.
August 17, 2024
Montana Governor, Who Has Nonbinary Child, Signs Law Defining Sex as Binary
It's one of three anti-LGBTQ+ bills the Republican governor signed.
May 23, 2023
Trump administration finalizes plan to eliminate LGBTQ+ 988 crisis services during WorldPride
The Trevor Project called it a “fatal proposal.”
June 9, 2025
An End to the HIV Epidemic? Not If Trumpcare Passes
"More people are going to get sick and more people are going to die."
June 20, 2017