40 years later, the hope and the hurt of 'St. Elmo’s Fire'
Opinion: Times were tough for me back then. So I made things up around the film’s characters Alec and Kevin, writes John Casey.
July 2, 2025
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Opinion: Times were tough for me back then. So I made things up around the film’s characters Alec and Kevin, writes John Casey.
Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and more will harm the community.
Opinion: I feared being fired. I feared being outed. I feared other gay men. I feared the incurable plague. I feared I would die. I feared everything, writes John Casey.
The exhibit of the AIDS Memorial Quilt at the venerable St. Thomas’ Parish in Washington, D.C., features panels for the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington members who died of the disease.
The story is featured in the biography Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White.
At the die-in, while a narrator slowly read through a list of devastating health outcomes that HHS funding cuts will have on the LGBTQ+ community.
In recent years, Pope Francis suffered various health issues and was recently discharged from the hospital. He leaves behind a complicated legacy regarding LGBTQ+ rights in the Catholic Church.
The gutting of the global HIV-fighting program could bring back "the darkest days of the AIDS epidemic," says the Human Rights Campaign's Matt Rose.
Opinion: Our suffering has taught us things the powerful will never understand, writes John Casey.
These closures are part of a plan to cut 20,000 positions at HHS.
Kennedy has denied that he ever said chemicals cause gender dysphoria or that HIV doesn't cause AIDS — but he did.
Pages devoted to HIV and AIDS, assisted reproductive technologies, and youth health risks had disappeared from government websites due to Donald Trump's "gender ideology" order.
Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, and many other trans people were part of the modern queer rights movement that started with Stonewall.
Unless there is a waiver, this will stop lifesaving treatment for millions of people in developing countries.
The RuPaul's Drag Race season 8 runner-up tells The Advocate about "giving back to the community" under Donald Trump's regime through her new cannabis campaign, Kim Chi Over Flowers.
From the first woman in space to recent Nobel Prize winners, we're celebrating some of the queer pioneers who have expanded our knowledge across the years.
Amid the trauma and disappointment of the election results, we take a look at queer resistance over the past century
Cohn, being portrayed by Jeremy Strong in the new film The Apprentice, has been called "a Jewish anti-Semite and a homosexual homophobe."
The National Trans Visibility March will highlight the need for illumination, education, and advocacy for transgender people.
A groundbreaking new cohort of participants will soon travel to the nation’s capital to tackle shame and mental health challenges associated with HIV.
Lieberman, who was Al Gore's running mate in 2000, leaves a largely pro-LGBTQ+ record.