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Couples from Hulu Documentary ‘We Live Here: The Midwest’ Discuss Life After Filming

Discover the poignant journeys of LGBTQ+ families in this Hulu documentary, showcasing resilience, love, and the quest for acceptance in the Midwest.

Watch Mom Illustrate to Kids What It's Like to Be Transgender in 'We Live Here: The Midwest' Clip

In an exclusive clip from Hulu’s documentary We Live Here: The Midwest, an Iowan mom, who married her childhood sweetheart, illustrates her partner’s identity for their five children.

Iowa LGBTQ Activists Leaning Toward Warren, Buttigieg

The Advocate asked some politically active LGBTQ Iowans who they'll be caucusing for Monday night.

WATCH: Trans Women Tell Janet Mock, 'I Am a Woman'

Mock and four guests school viewers on the basics of being transgender.

Op-ed: The Gift of Adoption

Adoption is a process that is still inaccessible to many, leaving countless children without families.

Op-ed: Differences Don't Make Families Inferior

Zach Wahls may have two moms but his Iowa upbringing was otherwise traditional. Still, some people look down on families like his.

Op-ed: Pope Francis, Will You Accept Me?

A gay Catholic calls on Pope Francis to welcome all of God's children.

LGBTQ People of Color Are in Rural America Too

Democratic candidates, don't forget we exist.

Gayest Cities in America February 2011

Gayest Cities in America

WATCH: Illinois Celebrates Statewide Marriage Equality

Same-sex couples have been able to marry in some parts of the state for several months, but now marriage equality is the law of the entire Land of Lincoln.

Trump and Vance made up racist lies about Springfield, Ohio. Now, an LGBTQ+ leader speaks out

Because of Trump’s grotesque racist lie about Haitian immigrants, which JD Vance defended, the Ohio town is under constant threat. A local LGBTQ+ organization is calling the bigotry out.

Sam Champion Talks Extreme Weather and Climate Change

Weather isn't going to suddenly become less extreme, says the out meteorologist.

Forget blue Think red

In an open letter to the leaders of LGBT organizations, a Birmingham, Ala., resident urges a new strategy for equality: Remember the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and take the fight to the places that most need to be educated--the South and the Midwest

What Is The Future of Gender? Kate Bornstein Has The Answers

"Gender is a playground," the trans icon says.

How to fight the far right

Are you sick and tired of getting beaten back by the religious zealots in this country? Take 15 minutes and make a difference right now. Here’s how

We Need a Queer Army in Oklahoma (and Kansas and Alabama)

Blue staters, push your cynicism aside and help us.

Drag Race's Gigi Goode: 'Black Lives Matter, Trans Lives Matter'

The season 12 contestant discusses the finale of RuPaul's Drag Race and using her platform to help others.