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Opinion: A wanna-be authoritarian leader like Trump cannot tolerate dissident artists, which inevitably means he can’t tolerate his citizens either, writes John Casey.
To bring down the Communist Party, FBI informant Angela Calomiris lied about her political allegiances and her sexuality. Read about her life in an excerpt from the new biography, Undercover Girl.
Amid bar raids and the Red Scare, gay men in New Orleans established a vibrant culture. Read about the city's first first gay krewe in an excerpt from the new book Unveiling the Muse: The Lost History of Gay Carnival in New Orleans.
From the world wars and Red Scare to the fight for Irish independence, here are some queer spies worth knowing.
What Roy Cohn's legacy as a communist-hunter can teach us today.
The Human Rights Campaign is calling on the State Department to apologize for all the gays and lesbians it fired in the 1950s.
Secretary of State John Kerry just apologized for the department's 20th-century purge of LGBT employees. Now a new opera brings the lamentable Lavender Scare to life.
“People immediately started scouring their desks of Pride flags, anything personal in nature,” after Kash Patel terminated him, David Maltinsky told The Advocate.
The so-called Christians who banned a transgender woman from a soup kitchen are not reading their Bible right, according to Amanda Kerri.
The closeted, odious lawyer served as Trump's role model, but the future president was allegedly disgusted by him because he had HIV.
“Everything they don’t like, don’t want, don’t understand, or don’t approve of is now targeted," Rodney Wilson told The Advocate.
"I currently have people who wish to kill me for the sole reason of being trans,” 23-year-old Sabre told The Advocate.
The FBI director terminated the agent for having the flag at his desk during the Biden administration.
Cohn, being portrayed by Jeremy Strong in the new film The Apprentice, has been called "a Jewish anti-Semite and a homosexual homophobe."
Gay playwright Jon Marans tackles the Mattachine Society -- with the help of Ugly Betty star Michael Urie -- in his new play, The Temperamentals.
As in many authoritarian campaigns, art has been recognized as a vital form of resistance — but bad actors have sought to curtail it accordingly.
The award-winning author died this month but left behind a sterling legacy that chronicles the queer experience.
Opinion: History will honor McBride's courage and integrity while condemning the House Republicans' current cruelty, writes John Casey.
