Retired lesbian firefighter wins PTSD disability suit after years of abuse
It's the second time Lori Franchina has challenged – and beaten – her former employer. This time her payday could reach up to $5 million.
May 19, 2025
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Cynthia Nixon is leaning into queer joy, art, and family between protests
The Gilded Age and And Just Like That... star graces the cover of our annual Pride issue and opens up about balancing career, family, and fighting for equality.
May 15, 2025
Sapphic alert: Here's every Dyke March in the U.S. in 2025
Pride parades are fabulous, but let's not forget the Dyke Marches.
May 14, 2025
Rachel Maddow says we’re in an ‘attempted authoritarian overthrow’
"The was no learning," Maddow told Colbert about Donald Trump's competence.
May 7, 2025
Cisgender woman says her gender was questioned in a Boston hotel restroom
The security guard who challenged her has now been suspended.
May 6, 2025
Night Court's Marsha Warfield on living out and proud later in life
A stand-up comedian first, she has clawed her way back, and now just past 70, she takes her life in stride.
May 6, 2025
The 11 sultriest sapphic femmes and lesbians in film and TV history
These femme characters will have you swooning!
May 2, 2025
Watch the trailer for 'Sally,' the documentary about pioneering lesbian astronaut Sally Ride
Ride flew to fame as the first American woman in space, but her 27-year relationship with Tam O'Shaughnessy became public knowledge only upon Ride's death.
May 1, 2025
Lesbian Minnesota Congresswoman Angie Craig launches historic U.S. Senate bid
She has successfully flipped a Republican district blue.
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April 30, 2025
Trump-controlled Kennedy Center forces relocation of WorldPride events
The worldwide LGBTQ+ celebration begins on May 17.
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April 28, 2025
Visions of Solidarity: Lesbian writers on how we save the world from fascism
New books by Sarah Schulman and the late Urvashi Vaid offer a blueprint for a common movement to fight against American authoritarianism and the rise of fascism worldwide.
April 25, 2025
Marriage equality or same-sex marriage? Why the language matters
This is why The Advocate uses "marriage equality" over "same-sex marriage" or "gay marriage."
April 16, 2025
Right-wing extremists threaten LGBTQ-affirming religious communities: report
A new GLAAD report sheds light on the alarming trend.
April 15, 2025
Issa Rae says 'Black Mirror' love story with Emma Corrin created 'curiosity and chemistry'
The Insecure creator falls in love with Corrin on-screen in the queer-themed "Hotel Reverie" episode.
April 14, 2025
Lesbian former police officer wins $10 million in sexual harassment lawsuit
Ashley Cummins asserted she was "forced to work in a hostile work environment where she was frequently harassed and denied opportunities based on her sex/gender and sexual orientation."
April 4, 2025
Out lesbian tennis star Daria Kasatkina flees Russia for Australia: 'I want to be myself'
Daria Kasatkina will be representing her "new homeland" from now on.
April 1, 2025
Trump orders closure of Department of Education 'once and for all'. He can’t do that without Congress
The president once famously said that he loves "the poorly educated."
March 20, 2025
Yellowjackets' Liv Hewson and Jasmin Savoy Brown say the show's queer love story is a 'bright spot'
The queer actors chat about critical LGBTQ+ visibility when queer people and stories are being erased.
March 5, 2025
Cis woman confronted by police officers in Arizona Walmart restroom for looking too masculine speaks out (exclusive)
“It’s already enough being Black and facing discrimination,” Kalaya Morton told The Advocate. “Now I have to worry about being harassed just for needing to pee?”
February 28, 2025
A straight white woman brought a discrimination case to the Supreme Court. Here's what that could mean
Marlean Ames claims that she suffered “reverse discrimination” as a straight white woman when her queer colleagues were promoted over her.
February 25, 2025
Rachel Maddow calls out MSNBC for axing nonwhite hosts: ‘That feels indefensible’
What MSNBC did was “not the right way to treat people, and it’s inefficient, and it’s unnecessary, and it kind of drops the bottom out of whether or not people feel like this is a good place to work,” the prime-time host said.
February 25, 2025