DOGE is gone, leaving behind 300,000 fired federal workers, 600,000 USAID deaths, and more
Here's everything DOGE did that affected the LGBTQ+ community at home and abroad.
November 24, 2025
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president's emergency plan for aids relief
Javier Muñoz and Peppermint warn Congress 'we will be back to HIV wards' if funding is cut
Javier Muñoz and Peppermint tell The Advocate about their time on Capitol Hill fighting for HIV funds.
September 3, 2025
Biden sacrifices LGBTQ+ Pride flags at U.S. embassies to pass 'critical' spending bill (exclusive)
The Biden administration has agreed to ban LGBTQ+ Pride flags from flying at U.S. embassies in order to fund numerous health initiatives, including the AIDS relief plan.
March 22, 2024
Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act must be stopped. Now.
Even with certain restrictions against government leadership and international aid, more must be done to prevent Uganda's anti-LGBTQ+ law and the harm it will inflict on queer people, writes the Williams Institute's Ari Shaw.
January 29, 2024
1985: the year the AIDS crisis finally broke through the silence
A lot has happened in the four decades since. We take a look back.
June 26, 2025
Bernie Sanders Releases Plan to Defeat AIDS
The presidential hopeful's campaign stressed how greed from pharmaceutical companies is one of the factors contributing to the health crisis.
March 14, 2016
Lesotho's main LGBTQ+ group says it's 'not receiving grants' after Donald Trump lies
Lesotho's largest LGBTQ+ group says it has not received the millions Donald Trump claimed they have.
March 5, 2025
The Cost of Inaction on PEPFAR, the AIDS Relief Program That's Saved Millions
Leaders of Partners In Health, the international public health nonprofit, write about the danger of not funding PEPFAR, a program that's saved 25 million lives and prevented millions of HIV infections.
November 6, 2023
Javier Muñoz, Peppermint to lobby Congress against cuts in HIV funding
The celebrities will join other activists in D.C. in the coming week as part of the #SaveHIVFunding campaign, as Congress considers cutting $1 billion from essential programs.
August 29, 2025
Thank You, Dr. Fauci, for All You’ve Done — So Far!
Leaving the National Institutes of Health after 54 years, Fauci opens up about this bittersweet moment, his mentor, best days at the office, and what he hopes to do next.
December 5, 2022
House Oversight Democrats demand records over RFK Jr.’s HIV program cuts
Robert Garcia and Raja Krishnamoorthi accuse HHS of dismantling life-saving HIV programs based on conspiracy theories and anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric.
July 18, 2025
Biden, Blinken, and More Condemn Uganda's Horrific Anti-Homosexuality Act
Sanctions against the nation are possible, President Joe Biden said.
May 30, 2023
Dr. Fauci Calls Out Homophobic Lawmakers: 'The Antigay Attitude of People Is as Bad' As He's Ever Seen
On World AIDS Day, the world’s foremost authority on the disease says it’s time for us to be "very, very, very aggressive on pushing back" against the dangers caused by the extreme right.
December 1, 2023
Requiem for the Anti-LGBTQ+ Career of Kevin McCarthy
McCarthy leaves Congress after racking up a long history of hostility to the LGBTQ+ community.
December 14, 2023
Trump's 'Gag Order' Hurts the World's Most Vulnerable LGBTQ People
The president's toxic policies spread far beyond this country's borders.
June 11, 2019
Dr. Fauci reflects on religion, divisiveness, and the special place gay men have in his life (exclusive)
Fauci credits good genes and the thrill and excitement of his work with keeping him young and still going strong at 83.
August 1, 2024
New York Republican Mike Lawler declares trans community is 'not an enemy or a threat'
"LGBTQ+ people are our equals and deserve to be treated with dignity and respect," he wrote in a Facebook statement that has proved divisive.
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October 8, 2025
The Year in Queer
A month-by-month breakdown of the important LGBT news events of 2008.
December 3, 2008
Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here's everything Trump has done so far
Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had "nothing to do" with Project 2025 — but now that he's in office, he's implementing it.
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May 6, 2025