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"I’m affirming and saying to all of you that I am transgender, and so the best way to put this is that I’m not becoming a woman, I’m giving up pretending to be a man," Rev. Dr. Phillippa Phaneuf told her congregation in a powerful speech.
“I signed up to serve, and I will do so here again,” Alleria Stanley told The Advocate in an interview.
Infectious diseases specialist Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, who walked out of the CDC over Trump's health policies, will begin his new role at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center in February.
“Their work to defend civil rights and protect vulnerable communities shows what it means to lead boldly in the face of federal attacks,” the former White House Press Secretary told The Advocate.
His party is “not allowing men to be men,” or “women to be hot,” the Arizona Democrat complained.
The instinct to flee is not new in American life. But the scale, and the kinds of people considering it in the Trump era, reflect something different.
“If you don’t want to be called a bigot,” Council member Michele Gregory said to Salisbury Mayor Randy Taylor, “don’t do bigoted things.”
“We are either going to reject hatred and bigotry and discrimination, or our country will succumb to it,” Erik Bottcher told The Advocate.
Democrat Julie Johnson was elected to serve her North Texas constituents. Now Republicans are fighting to draw her out of the electoral map.
The Global Respect Act has 119 cosponsors.
“I recognize that it’s not viscerally comforting for some people in my own community who feel the indignities that I am facing vicariously,” Delaware U.S. Rep. Sarah McBride told The Advocate.
The former Massachusetts congressman praised California U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters for her decades of LGBTQ+ allyship at a recent PFLAG awards ceremony.
Their queer love has stood the test of time!
The Democratic rising star sat down with The Advocate for an interview about the Epstein files, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and co-parenting his cat after his divorce.
LGBTQ+ people, people of color, and liberals are embracing their Second Amendment rights.
“If we are not protecting the most marginalized of us, then who is protected at all?” asked Bahari Thomas, A4TE’s director of public education.
His launch draws heavily on themes he shared in a recent interview with The Advocate.
“Our democracy only works when everyone has a voice,” the Arizona congresswoman said.
These groups have made it their mission to strip LGBTQ+ people of hard-fought rights the community has secured.
Narissa Rahaman, executive director of Equality Virginia, was named as a counselor to Ghazala Hashmi.
“I hope the Supreme Court halts further attempts by public officials to use their personal faith to deny others their civil and human rights,” the civil rights icon told The Advocate.
