Trump’s plan to shutter FEMA leaves U.S. ‘more vulnerable,’ says former head of agency
“People are going to fall through the cracks," former FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell told The Advocate.
June 25, 2025
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Meet the gay man helping FEMA fight misinformation during natural disasters
“Information is a lifeline,” Justin Ángel Knighten told The Advocate at the National Response Coordination Center.
January 8, 2025
Monkeypox: CDC's HIV/AIDS Prevention Director to Help Oversee Response
The White House selected Dr. Demetre Daskalakis of the CDC as deputy coordinator for the country's monkeypox response.
August 2, 2022
Pete Buttigieg confronts Elon Musk’s falsehoods about government’s Hurricane Helene relief: ‘Give me a call’
The tech billionaire acknowledged speaking with the transportation secretary.
October 5, 2024
Monkeypox Emergency Declaration to End in January, Biden Admin Says
The U.S. has reported 17 deaths from the virus and almost 30,000 cases.
December 3, 2022
Marjorie Taylor Greene bizarrely claims FEMA 'hates Christians' because it aids trans women
The conservative is mad that FEMA is using Hurricane Helene relief resources to "house migrants." Her evidence? A discussion panel from a year and a half ago.
October 7, 2024
Hillary Clinton Takes Trump to Task on Puerto Rico Hurricane Response
Trump "clearly doesn't want to talk about Puerto Rico," Clinton says, calling on him to send in the Navy to assist.
September 25, 2017
Head of Nation's Largest LGBTQ+ Group to Retire
Lorri L. Jean will retire from the Los Angeles LGBT Center in July 2022, but the center is already beginning a search for her successor.
September 21, 2020
Climate change is increasingly worrying LGBTQ+ youth: report
This concern is associated with symptoms of depression and anxiety, according to the Trevor Project's new research brief.
July 17, 2024
Mpox Is Almost Gone in the US, Leaving Lessons & Mysteries Behind
More than 300,000 people in the U.S. have been diagnosed with the virus, including 23 who died.
January 31, 2023
North Carolina's Anti-LGBT Governor Reportedly Joining Trump White House
Trump has pledged to "take care" of Pat McCrory, a source tells The Charlotte Observer.
December 15, 2016
Monkeypox: 1-on-1 With the White House's Response Deputy Coordinator
Dr. Demetre Daskalakis takes questions about traveling, gauging risks, handshakes, and more.
August 12, 2022
Climate change is disrupting access to HIV treatment
A new analysis finds that the parts of the country where HIV prevalence is high are also some of the most at-risk areas for climate disasters.
November 25, 2024
North Carolina Lawmakers Override Governor's Veto of 3 Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills
The bills, restricting trans health care, trans sports participation, and LGBTQ+ content in schools, now become law immediately.
August 16, 2023
'LGBT Stories' Podcast: Lorri L. Jean, Soldier of the Movement
The new LGBT Stories podcast lets queer people share their own stories. Read and listen to Lorri L. Jean, the CEO of the Los Angeles LGBT Center
March 26, 2018
New Orleans after Katrina: 'This is home'
A year after the hurricane devastated their community, many gays and lesbians are still struggling to rebuild. Others are deciding whether to come back at all.
August 28, 2006
11 Times Marjorie Taylor Greene Was the Worst
Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has a remarkable record of crazed rhetoric, from space lasers to pedophilia to gazpacho police. And the fact that she's turned against Trump doesn't change that.
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August 12, 2022
Chef Susan Feniger Is Cooking With Fire to Protect Restaurants
The lesbian creator of some of L.A. and Las Vegas's hippest Mexican restaurants reflects on her nearly four decades in the industry -- and wonders about its future.
December 8, 2020
Meet the Point Foundation’s Class of 2017
These lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer students are in for a great year ahead!
June 22, 2017
Pete Buttigieg commits federal resources to Baltimore bridge collapse recovery
From the scene of the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse, the transportation secretary promised that the Biden-Harris administration would be there to help the area recover.
March 26, 2024