How to help women, children, and LGBTQ+ people impacted by Hurricane Helene
LGBTQ+ people and women face unique needs after climate disasters that are often ignored by federal disaster response. Here's how you can help.
October 2, 2024
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Organizing in a Time of Anxiety: Taking Inspiration From the Gay Men’s Health Crisis
For progressive organizers, it can sometimes feel like there is so much to do and so many injustices to fight that it's hard to even know where to begin. Here's how you can start.
November 6, 2023
How I helped change the law that put me and other Black people with HIV behind bars
Reflecting on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, one individual's battle against outdated HIV laws and deep-seated stigma highlights the urgent need for change and compassion.
February 7, 2024
Vulnerable LGBTQ+ Sex Workers Targeted Again by Politicians
The EARN IT Act, which the Senate could advance tomorrow, is dangerous.
July 1, 2020
Trump Is Trying to Turn Gays Against Muslims
Both the GOP nominee and many of his LGBT supporters are using Islamophobia to sway Democrats. It's disgraceful, writes People for the American Way's Peter Montgomery.
October 3, 2016
Was Taylor Swift Singing About HIV Criminalization?
Taylor Swift’s lyrics resonate in a troubling way for those who’ve seen blood reconfigured as a weapon by misguided HIV criminalization laws.
January 6, 2016
Hateful Homophobe Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70
Over a 30-year broadcasting career, Limbaugh racked up a litany of anti-LGBTQ+, anti-feminist, racist, and otherwise bigoted comments.
February 17, 2021
Are Queer Folks Prepared for the GOP to Use Monkeypox Against Us?
Gay men on Fire Island over the holiday weekend weighed in on stigma, monkeypox, and a history of the right weaponizing health conditions against LGBTQ+ people.Â
July 8, 2022
Black D.C. Trans Activist Nona Conner Has Died at Age 37
"Words cannot describe the magnitude of Nona's significance in our lives, our team, and community will never be the same without her and her gracious light," a tribute said.
May 27, 2021
The young and the restless
Young queers are sacrificing sleep and testing their endurance in an attempt to change the political landscape.
October 25, 2006
The High Cost of Not Being Open to All
The Cakeshop case could set a precedent for legalized discrimination. That would be a very expensive mistake by the Supreme Court.
December 5, 2017
Organizing the '87 March, Sans Email
Without Facebook and Google, it was more difficult to organize the 1987 March on Washington than it is for this year's event. Something is lost in all the indirect communication, though.
June 9, 2017
Left unprotected, the fight for inclusive Title IX isn't over
The Biden-Harris administration's new Title IX rule promised to protect LGBTQ+ students from sexual violence, but conservative states are blocking its implementation and leaving many queer assault survivors unprotected.
October 7, 2024
Tempting gay employees
The Advocate's top ten companies for 2000 adds to a growing list of sweet workplaces for gays and lesbians
October 10, 2000
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
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
Dear White LGBT People, Prove Black Lives Matter
Activists Cleve Jones and Liz Highleyman on the ways white LGBT people can do their part to end an HIV crisis in the black community.
September 25, 2015
