Fencer sues USA Fencing, U.S. Olympic Committee over trans sports ban
Dinah Yukich sued after a tournament in New York determined her ineligible to compete in women's events.
October 15, 2025
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Nancy Mace sits silently as Robert Garcia roasts her anti-trans record in House Oversight hearing
The gay Democrat called her out as she looked on.
May 8, 2025
GOP senator claims ‘entire men’s teams’ are transitioning. There’s no evidence of that because it’s not true
Sen. Tommy Tuberville's office did not return The Advocate's request about evidence supporting these claims.
April 7, 2025
15 of the gayest Summer Olympic sports
All sports are homoerotic, honestly, but these 15 Olympic contests take the gold.
August 9, 2024
USA Fencing defends decision to be inclusive of trans players
It comes after a cis woman was disqualified after refusing to play a trans woman, which caused a transphobic backlash.
April 4, 2025
A bridge, a split rail fence, a high school bathroom, and skin all raw
Jane Clementi and Judy Shepard talk about the pain of losing an LGBTQ+ child in the wake of Nex Benedict’s tragic death
March 18, 2024
Rudy Giuliani’s daughter Caroline opens up on how to mend fences with family after the election
Trying to understand others in the context of the environments that shaped them might pave the way for some empathy, Caroline Giuliani suggests.
November 5, 2024
Trump shuts down Dupont Circle and tries to spoil Pride, but he will learn that we can’t be fenced in
Opinion: We’ve fought bigger bullies than Trump, and we’ve always won, and we always will, writes John Casey.
June 6, 2025
Texas investigating USA Fencing Association after it disqualified cis player for refusing to play trans woman
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton — who has an extensive history targeting LGBTQ+ people — said the state is looking for evidence USA Fencing engaged in "false, deceptive, and misleading acts and practices.”
April 10, 2025
Why LGBT People Are Turning to Buddhism
Qsangha, an LGBT meditation group, practices "softening fences" in this difficult time.
April 10, 2018
Colorado Trans Man Assaulted on Front Porch for 'Acting Gay'
Three men hopped over Emmit Davis's fence and beat him in front of his partner, he says.
April 9, 2019
Viola Davis To Play Queer Blues Legend Ma Rainey on the Big Screen
Davis won a Tony and an Oscar for her role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom playwright August Wilson's Fences.
June 23, 2019
Viola Davis To Play Queer Blues Legend Ma Rainey for the Big Screen
Davis won a Tony and an Oscar for her role in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom playwright August Wilson's Fences.
June 23, 2019
Religious protesters suspected of bombing WorldPride route in Jerusalem
A bomb in Jerusalem exploded Friday near the route of this year's gay pride parade, injuring a worker near the West Bank separation fence.
April 21, 2007
I Finally Found My American Dream in the Power of My Community
The stereotypical image of the American Dream as a white, heterosexual couple with the kids, the dog, and the picket fence was lost on this little gay girl growing up in the '70s.
July 4, 2018
Campaign Launched to Memorialize Matthew Shepard on Postage Stamp
The announcement came on what would have been Matthew Shepard's 47th birthday. He was killed in 1998, having been attacked and tied to a fence to be left for dead.
December 1, 2023
Republican Matters
While many have hailed Democrats' courtship of LGBT voters as one giant leap for gaykind, perhaps the movement's future progress lies on the GOP side of the fence
November 1, 2007
DADT Protestors to Be Arraigned Today
The six U.S. military veterans arrested after handcuffing themselves to the White House fence in protest of the 'don't ask, don't tell' policy will be arraigned at the D.C. Central Cell Block.
April 21, 2010
Mike Pence's Plane Skids Off Runway, No One Hurt
His campaign plane broke through a fence after a rough landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport on a rainy night. The Indiana governor was en route to a campaign event, which he canceled.
October 27, 2016