Winsome Earle-Sears: The anti-LGBTQ+ ultraconservative Republican trying to replace Virginia's governor
LGBTQ+ advocates warn that elevating the lieutenant governor to the governorship would be detrimental to the community.
December 17, 2024
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Gay lawmaker demands to know extent of U.S. Christian group's ties to Uganda's deadly antigay law
U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, sent a pointed letter to the Fellowship Foundation, the right-wing group also known as the Family.
February 1, 2024
Patricia Arquette Shares Her Fondest Childhood Memories of Alexis
At the Alexis Arquette Family Foundation's launch, the Oscar-winning actress told The Advocate about the precocious humor and creativity of her late sibling.
March 31, 2017
Poll Finds Majority of Americans Support Anti-Trans Policies Despite Claiming to Oppose Discrimination
A majority of respondents to a Washington Post-Kaiser Family Foundation poll say gender is determined at birth and support restrictions on health care and sports participation.
May 8, 2023
12 far-right groups with extreme anti-LGBTQ+ positions that threaten civil rights
These groups have made it their mission to strip LGBTQ+ people of hard-fought rights the community has secured.
November 12, 2025
Maybach foundation reaches out to Uganda’s AIDS effort
During its short existence, the Maybach Family Foundation has been successfully setting up young people with globally prominent mentors. Now the group is taking on AIDS in Uganda with the help of two young doctors from the region and their mentor, a San Francisco researcher.
May 25, 2007
Right-wing group won't condemn Uganda's 'kill the gays' law, enraging queer Democrats
"When you’re given the opportunity to publicly oppose a law that permits the government to execute LGBTQI+ people just because of who they are, why wouldn’t you take it?" says Congressional Equality Caucus Chair Mark Pocan.
March 4, 2024
Virginia MAGA Republican Winsome Earle-Sears’s recent donations reveal she’s more extreme than Trump on IVF
The revelation comes less than two weeks before voters in the state pick their next governor.
October 25, 2025
Marsha P. Johnson's family fights for trans legacy at Stonewall
“This is not just an erasure of words — it is an erasure of history," Johnson's cousin says of the removal of "transgender" and "queer" from the website for the Stonewall National Monument.
February 19, 2025
Harris-Walz campaign slams Trump, Vance, and Republicans for not supporting IVF protection bill
Republican senators killed a bill Tuesday that would have protected IVF.
September 17, 2024
Big Loophole? Chick-fil-A Is Already Raising Questionable Cash
President Dan Cathy tweeted a photo this week from a Chick-fil-A backed fundraiser for a group once described as antigay by an investigation of the company's giving.
September 20, 2012
Did Chick-fil-A's Anti-LGBT Giving Double?
Chick-fil-A said they were leaving the politics to the government, as early as 2011. Think Progress says that ain't so.
March 15, 2013
Cow Appreciation Day Protests Underway In Florida
Marriage equality advocates attend Chick-Fil-A's annual giveaway.
July 13, 2012
Should LGBT People Trust Betsy DeVos?
The nominee for secretary of Education said, "I fully embrace equality." Yet LGBT organizations have sounded the alarms about her antigay past and the unclear position of her present-day views.
January 18, 2017
Why do family groups destroy families?
With hundreds of millions of dollars to spend, right-wing so-called "family" groups ought to be helping LGBT youth instead of alienating them from their conservative parents.
June 28, 2006
Not So Fast: Chick-fil-A's Questionable Giving Isn't Over
The fast food chain is highlighting the fact it stopped giving to a host of antigay groups. But some organizations remain that were considered questionable in the past.
January 28, 2013
Chick-fil-A President Assures Huckabee: Nothing Has Changed
Cathy spoke Huckabee on Friday to assure him that nothing has changed about his restaurant chain's antigay ways.
September 22, 2012
Is It Still Okay to Go to Coachella?
A donation from the festival's owner to Elton John's AIDS charity follows years of funding for anti-LGBT groups.
March 23, 2018