Trevor Project and Puma Team Up to Provide Free LGBTQ+ Inclusivity Training in Sports
The self-paced online training is designed for coaches, athletic directors, and other adults who work in youth sports.
May 30, 2023
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24 New Year’s Resolutions for 2024 to Support Your LGBTQ+ Loved Ones & Friends
Here's some recommendations on supporting your queer community as we head into 2024. What's your resolution for supporting LGBTQ+ lives?
December 31, 2023
Don't Let the Language Police Get You 'Butthurt'
When people use offensive words, it often comes from a place of privilege — not malice — writes Kit Williamson.
January 26, 2016
Massachusetts Schools Roll Out Comprehensive LGBT Curriculum
Teachers assembled lessons that will include LGBT history and explore the works of writers like Willa Cather and Langston Hughes.
April 25, 2018
Vico Ortiz Slams Buenos Aires Government Over Gendered Language
The Our Flag Means Death star is vocally pushing back against a recent decision to ban the use of inclusive language in Buenos Aires schools.
June 13, 2022
D.C. Republican Committee Adopts Gay-Inclusive Platform
The D.C. Republican Committee adopted language inclusive of "sexual orientation" in its platform.
July 1, 2012
Dictionary.com Capitalizes 'Black' & 'Pride' in 'Biggest Update Ever'
In a major change, homosexuality is now an "outmoded" term that has been replaced with other language.
September 3, 2020
We Have Many Enemies. Janelle Monáe Is Not One of Them
Some objected to Moonlight star's proposal of a sex strike for women's rights, chiding it as heteronormative. Writer Erica M. Hart heartily disagrees, saying Monae should be commended for using her platform to criticize the patriarchy.
April 12, 2017
Op-ed: Born a Man? No, Born a Baby
When people say transgender women were 'born as men,' it creates an inaccurate image.
June 18, 2014
Pope Francis changed the conversation on LGBTQ+ Catholics—will the next Pontiff hit mute?
Opinion: Pope Francis's lasting legacy is his transformative embrace of LGBTQ+ Catholics, which ignited hope for inclusion in the Church.
April 21, 2025
NBC anchor misgenders trans Rep.-elect Sarah McBride on TV. Here’s what newsrooms should do when that happens
“Mistakes happen on the air and in everyday conversation, and the best course is to apologize, correct, and move on, then work to not repeat it,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis told The Advocate.
November 25, 2024
Donald Trump orders Women’s History Museum to remove trans people or lose funding
Trump has declared the accomplishments of trans people are “improper ideology.”
April 9, 2025
Spain's Pro-Gay Marriage Socialists Win Reelection
Socialist prime minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero won reelection Sunday in a clear endorsement of a record of social change including the legalization of gay marriage and on-demand divorce, reforms once unthinkable in overwhelmingly Roman Catholic Spain. Zapatero also shifted Spanish foreign policy by pulling troops from Iraq in his first term, which he won three days after Islamic militants killed 191 people in a string of bombings against commuter trains. Voters handed Zapatero his second term despite worries about a slumping economy, immigration, and resurgent Basque separatists, blamed for gunning down a member of the prime minister's party on Friday -- timing that recalled the March 11, 2004, Madrid attacks.
March 11, 2008
Why We Are Still Failing LGBTQ Students
Stopping bullying is not enough, says education activist Sabia Prescott.
September 10, 2019
25 Years Ago, Rita Hester Was Brutally Stabbed in Her Apartment. Her Family is Still Seeking Closure
Hester’s murder sparked Transgender Day of Remembrance and inspired community action in her hometown of Boston
December 14, 2023
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
How the respectability politics of fairness will lead us nowhere
Opinion: "We must fully reject respectability politics and those who espouse it — now is no time for capitulation or compromise," argues Marcie Bianco.
September 10, 2025
Gay People Do Not Have License to Weaponize Homophobic Slurs
Antigay names sting even when it's LGBTQ+ people using them.
September 1, 2020