Ohio changes election forms to protect transgender political candidates
Vanessa Joy, a trans woman, was disqualified as a candidate for the state legislature because she didn't know of the prior name requirement.
DECEMBER 31, 2024
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Judicial Candidate Says Gays Are Damned and Muslims Deranged
Yet Donald McBath says he'll be fair to all people if he's elected to a Florida judgeship.
MAY 31, 2018
Kim Davis Switches Parties, Now a Republican
The Kentucky clerk says the Democratic Party left her a long time ago, so she's doing the same.
SEPTEMBER 25, 2015
Hate Crimes, Including Anti-Trans Crimes, Rose in 2019
The increase is documented in an FBI report, but there are many other hate crimes that go uncounted, activists say.
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
Ky. Gov. Takes Kim Davis's Name Off Marriage Licenses
Newly elected Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin granted the Christmas wish of antigay county clerk Kim Davis when he issued an executive order today requiring that marriage license forms be revised to remove clerks' names.
DECEMBER 22, 2015
Huckabee: 'God Showed Up' in Form of Kim Davis
The presidential hopeful praises the recalcitrant Kentucky county clerk at an antigay rally, televised live, as she is released from jail.
SEPTEMBER 8, 2015
Leo Varadkar, Ireland's Gay Prime Minister, Resigns
Varadkar's orientation has been a nonissue, but housing shortages and other problems eroded support for his party.
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
Gay Republican Richard Grenell: Trump to Seek Presidency Again
"He's told me personally, multiple times, that he does want to run again," Grenell said on a right-wing media outlet. But the Senate could prevent that.
JANUARY 26, 2021
The legacy of John Paul II
The first "television pope" helped to defeat Communism and to inspire a new generation of Catholics. But this pope also ignored an epidemic of pedophilia while giving prominent attention to the vilification of God's gay and lesbian children. We can only hope the next pope will be more compassionate.
APRIL 1, 2005
Separate ballot questions support, oppose gay couples in Colorado
State lawmakers on Friday approved a ballot measure to provide domestic-partner rights, one day after signature gathering began on an initiative to ban same-sex marriage.
MARCH 25, 2006
Mayor Pete Buttigieg: Nation Ready for a Gay Millennial President
The South Bend, Ind., mayor tells The Advocate why he launched a presidential exploratory committee today.
JANUARY 23, 2019
Armed Neo-Nazis With Swastika Flags Disrupt Wisconsin Pride Event
“It was so terrifying to have Nazis there that even the religious protesters and Gays Against Groomers left,” an organizer said.
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JULY 31, 2023
Democratic Party committee in Alabama votes to disqualify gay primary winner
A Democratic Party committee in Montgomery, Ala., on Thursday night voted to disqualify Patricia Todd (pictured), a gay candidate for the state legislature, as well as the woman she defeated in the primary runoff because both women violated an archaic party rule that party officials said no other candidate has obeyed since 1988.
AUGUST 25, 2006
Trump's Final Act — or Ours?
Former FBI agent Susan SurfTone looks at the past week's news and sees the beginning of an end.
OCTOBER 1, 2019
What Queen Elizabeth II Didn't Say About LGBT Rights in Her Speech
The monarch struck a note for inclusivity, but some say she didn't go far enough.
JUNE 21, 2017
Ted Cruz Creates Anti-LGBT 'Religious Liberty' Panel
The group, which will advise Cruz on policy, includes hate group leader Tony Perkins, the Benham brothers, and more.
MARCH 2, 2016
Out From The Shadows: Turkey's Transgender Population
Turkey is a Muslim country where the very existence of transgender people, only now coming out of the shadows, is endangered.
JUNE 1, 2015
Speaker Mike Johnson's long history with anti-LGBTQ+ Family Research Council extremist exposed (exclusive)
They've been partners in homophobia for decades, and Johnson recently appeared at a hate-filled "prayer" event cofounded by Perkins, according to a new report.
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
Kansas GOP Proves Republicans Are Now a Hate Group
Party leadership looks the other way as the Kansas Republican Party votes to "oppose all efforts to validate transgender identity." Take it as a sign.
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
A Look Inside How LGBT Readers of The Advocate Voted Last Week
The Advocate's Election Day exit survey shows 9% of you voted on marriage equality in some form and 64% of you have a clear candidate for 2016.
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
Petition to Block Oregon's Domestic-Partnership Law Fails
Opponents of Oregon's new same-sex domestic-partnership law failed to turn in enough valid signatures to block the measure, clearing the way for it to take effect next year, state elections officials said Monday. Oregon will join eight other states that have approved spousal rights in some form for gay couples -- Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Maine, California, Washington, and Hawaii. Massachusetts is the only state that allows gay couples to marry.
OCTOBER 10, 2007