Gen Z women are more likely to identify as bisexual but still embrace lesbian label: study
Around 45 percent of Gen Z women ages 20 to 29 use the bisexual label, compared to 42.2 percent who use lesbian.
December 16, 2025
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More adults than ever — including 23% of Gen-Z — identify as LGBTQ+
About 9.3 percent of U.S. adults in 2024 said that they identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual in a new report from Gallup.
February 20, 2025
7.2 Percent of U.S. Adults Identify as LGBTQ+: Gallup Poll
The number of people who identify as LGBTQ+ has doubled over the last decade, according to the poll.
February 22, 2023
Misinformation and Menopause: What the LGBTQ Community Needs to Know
Watch us explain menopause myths, realities, and why it’s a queer issue.
October 28, 2022
More Americans identify as LGBTQ+ than ever before, according to new Gallup poll
The increase is being driven by younger generations, according to the new poll.
March 13, 2024
Support For Marriage Equality Has Flattened in U.S
A new Pew Research Center poll shows little movement since 2017 on the issue.
May 17, 2019
A Gay Reporter Travels to Chechnya to Document the Horror Firsthand
ABC News foreign correspondent James Longman not only reported on the antigay terror in Chechnya, he became part of the story.
October 24, 2019
Op-ed: Do LGBTQ Marches Still Matter?
Once the ultimate display of protest, marches may already have been replaced by digital revolutions.
August 21, 2013
Pete Hegseth is a waste of time, and Trump is a disgraceful “Sleepy Don” at meeting for military leaders
Opinion: The silver lining is that I trust our generals. who understand service, sacrifice, and leadership, and will outlast two abhorrent narcissistic jerks, writes John Casey.
September 30, 2025
Justices Thomas and Alito and the Threat to LGBTQ+ Equality
Justices Thomas and Alito want marriage equality overturned. Even if that doesn't happen, we'll still have to fight off efforts to chip away at it.
February 23, 2021
How A League of Their Own Is Changing the Game for Queer & Black Women
Stars Abbi Jacobson and Chante Adams and original player Maybelle Blair chat with The Advocate for our digital cover story about making the gayest, most inclusive League yet.
August 12, 2022
Im out Arent I
What does it mean to be out? It's one thing to be interviewed by the local and national press as a publicly gay person. It's quite another to be face-to-face with one near stranger who makes the wrong assumptions about your life.
May 24, 2006
California Sen. Laphonza Butler reads Audre Lorde in protest of GOP book banning
Butler, the first Black lesbian in the U.S. Senate, read an excerpt from Sister Outsider to her colleagues Thursday to make a point about the power of breaking silence.
February 29, 2024
DeVos, Sessions Reportedly Spar Over Trans Student Guidance
Jeff Sessions has pushed to lift the guidelines, while Betsy DeVos is opposed, says a New York Times report.
February 22, 2017
Clinton Won't Be Silenced No Matter How Many Male Opinion Writers Dema
Hillary Clinton made her first TV appearance to promote her book and she's not backing down.
September 11, 2017
Ireland's 'Silent No' Voters Could Threaten Marriage Equality
New fears about potential defeat for Ireland's marriage equality ballot question are starting to emerge after months of strong polling in support of the freedom to marry.
May 12, 2015
WATCH: Stonewall Clip Explores the Old 'Three-Item Rule'
A new Stonewall clip shows just how those old "three-article rules" were enforced on LGBT people.
September 23, 2015
Discrimination is immoral Enough said
It is time for us to seize the moral high ground and state unambiguously that antigay discrimination in any form is immoral
May 11, 2005
Attorney General: Catholic Church Guilty of Discrimination
Martha Coakley, the commonwealth's attorney general, says the Catholic diocese of Worcester, Mass., wrongfully denied a real estate sale to a gay couple.
March 19, 2014