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Chest binder vendors respond to 'absurd' FDA warning letter: 'Clearly discrimination'

The FDA warned companies selling chest binders to register their products as medical devices. Here's how they're responding.

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Iowa Winners Face New Challenges in N.H.

Iowa caucus victories behind them, Republican Mike Huckabee and Democrat Barack Obama vowed to stick with their winning principles Friday in an abbreviated dash to the finish in New Hampshire's presidential primary campaign, despite facing a different political alignment and, as Huckabee put it, ''only a few days to close the sale.'' Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain, GOP poll leaders in New Hampshire, stood ready to try to douse Huckabee's ''prairie fire'' in a state that lacks the religious voting bloc of Iowa and has an ornery tradition of rejecting Iowa's Republican caucus winners. ''It will be a different race here,'' Romney said Friday.

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Chest binder vendors respond to 'absurd' FDA warning letter: 'Clearly discrimination'

The FDA warned companies selling chest binders to register their products as medical devices. Here's how they're responding.

10 Terrible Trans Words to Know (But Not Say)

Here's a guide to words well-known throughout the transgender community and yet misunderstood, misused, or unknown in the world outside the T.

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Iowa Winners Face New Challenges in N.H.

20 Best New Green Tech Products

You love your gadgets, but you may love the environment more. Now you can have it both ways with this fun and functional eco swag.

In Netflix’s “Eric,” McKinley Belcher III is haunting as closeted, gay Black NYC cop in the 1980s

“You have to love yourself and understand yourself fully before you can stand on your own two feet, and at the very end of the series, [Michael] Ledroit starts to recognize that fact,” Belcher tells The Advocate.

MRSA Is the New Black

If, like Jack, you're going to leave Project Runway early, it's best to do so with a trendy illness. Meanwhile Chris comes back for seconds.

Re-Meet the Beatles

In week 2 of Lennon-McCartney-Harrison karaoke, American Idol steals the title of "Worst Beatles Impersonation Ever" away from longtime champions the Bee Gees.

Soapside: Best and Worst of Otalia

7 Things to Do When Traveling While Trans

Our news editor has crisscrossed the country on planes, trains, and automobiles as an out transgender woman, and she's learned a few things along the way.

Tech Pioneer Revives Mystery Around Gay Brother's Death

Internet guru Steve Johnson fought for years until his brother's death was reclassified by police from a suicide to an unsolved homicide. But he's still fighting for justice.

Natalia's Curtain Call

Natalia's Curtain Call

Sexual Chacolate

It's the eighth season of Fox's commitment to bringing you monumental achievements in phone- and text message-based voting. You're in, right?

Over 40 Last-Minute Gifts for Techies, Travelers

You know those first adopters? We've got something they'll like (but so will you!).

12 Crimes That Changed the LGBT World

The Advocate has covered the LGBT community for 45 years, and these crimes won't soon be forgotten.

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The FDA warned companies selling chest binders to register their products as medical devices. Here's how they're responding.

Here's a guide to words well-known throughout the transgender community and yet misunderstood, misused, or unknown in the world outside the T.

Yoga, How to Get a Bubble Butt, a Shoe's Lifespan

You love your gadgets, but you may love the environment more. Now you can have it both ways with this fun and functional eco swag.

“You have to love yourself and understand yourself fully before you can stand on your own two feet, and at the very end of the series, [Michael] Ledroit starts to recognize that fact,” Belcher tells The Advocate.

If, like Jack, you're going to leave Project Runway early, it's best to do so with a trendy illness. Meanwhile Chris comes back for seconds.

In week 2 of Lennon-McCartney-Harrison karaoke, American Idol steals the title of "Worst Beatles Impersonation Ever" away from longtime champions the Bee Gees.

Our news editor has crisscrossed the country on planes, trains, and automobiles as an out transgender woman, and she's learned a few things along the way.

Internet guru Steve Johnson fought for years until his brother's death was reclassified by police from a suicide to an unsolved homicide. But he's still fighting for justice.

It's the eighth season of Fox's commitment to bringing you monumental achievements in phone- and text message-based voting. You're in, right?

You know those first adopters? We've got something they'll like (but so will you!).

The Advocate has covered the LGBT community for 45 years, and these crimes won't soon be forgotten.