PEPFAR likely to be exempt from spending cuts
The U.S. Senate and the Trump administration have agreed to exempt the global AIDS-fighting program.
JULY 15, 2025
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Trump exploits Supreme Court ruling to attack transgender people in reality-challenged White House briefing
The president continues to use trans people as a scapegoat.
JUNE 27, 2025
Karoline Leavitt: Trump wants 'less LGBTQ graduate majors' from Harvard
The White House Press Secretary justified cutting funds to Harvard by saying Trump would rather give them to trade schools, not "LGBTQ graduate majors."
MAY 28, 2025
'WWE in the West Wing:' Elon Musk got into a screaming match with Scott Bessent
Witnesses said Bessent criticized Musk's DOGE for failing to make good on its promised cuts, and Musk called Bessent a "Soros agent" who ran "a failed hedge fund."
APRIL 23, 2025
Federal judge restores AP’s full access to White House events in victory for press freedom
U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden ordered the Trump administration to allow the Associated Press back into the press pool.
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APRIL 8, 2025
Anti-trans headers placed on websites judge ordered Trump to restore
The headers were placed on major websites at the CDC, FDA, and HHS.
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Civil rights leaders vow to fight Donald Trump’s ‘Jim Crow 2.0’ assault on DEI (exclusive)
“Donald Trump and his administration are clearly confused about American values,” NAACP president and CEO Derrick Johnson told The Advocate.
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Experts brace for crisis as Trump administration’s end to key emergency resource for LGBTQ+ youth looms
Despite bipartisan pushback, the Department of Health and Human Services is scheduled to discontinue the specialized service next week.
JULY 11, 2025
Karine Jean-Pierre leaves Democratic Party, becomes independent
That's one of the revelations in the former White House press secretary's latest book, due out in October.
JUNE 4, 2025
Remembering Frank Kameny: Here's why he was a gay rights pioneer
Kameny sued the federal government after he was fired for being gay, picketed the White House, and did much more to advance the movement. Here's what you need to know about the queer rights icon.
MAY 20, 2025
100 days of erasure: Connecting the dots of Trump’s relentless war on LGBTQ+ lives
Opinion: In just three months, LGBTQ+ equality has crumbled as Pride flags fall, protections vanish, and queer survival is once again a daily fight, writes John Casey.
APRIL 29, 2025
NPR reverses course after advising Ari Shapiro to skip Pride event
NPR has been under increased fire from the Trump administration and fellow Republicans, with some looking to defund the network entirely.
MARCH 15, 2025
A queer filmmaker led Kamala Harris’s video team at the White House. Azza Cohen shares what that was like
This queer woman kept her eye and camera trained on the most powerful woman in the world for history.
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Ask Auntie: If Trump can rename the Gulf, why can't we rename ourselves?
Discover the power of names and the journey of self-discovery through the eyes of your Lovable Trans Auntie.
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
How Trump’s ‘one big beautiful’ tax bill could impact women, children and LGBTQ+ Americans
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said over the weekend that the Senate package is projected to add $3.3 trillion to the national deficit over the next decade.
JULY 1, 2025
How, under Donald Trump, we are increasingly becoming unapologetically unapologetic
Opinion: The Chrisleys, Andrew Cuomo, Mike Lee, and others spell the death of redemption in the Trump era, writes John Casey.
JULY 1, 2025
Why LGBTQ+ groups aren't fazed by Trump's 'Title IX Month' attention grab
"Pride is a protest, and it's happening whether the most-anti LGBTQ+ administration in history acknowledges it or not," an HRC spokesperson told The Advocate.
JUNE 4, 2025
LGBTQ+ demonstrators reenacted historic White House protest
The Rainbow History Project marked the 60th anniversary of the first White House protest for queer rights.
MAY 6, 2025
White House anti-gender-affirming care post is full of lies
A new post on the White House website calls this care "chemical and surgical mutilation" and "immoral, unjust, and disproven practices." None of that is true.
APRIL 28, 2025
JD 'Just Drop It' Vance fumbled a college football trophy, and the internet has memes
The vice president is being widely mocked online (again) after fumbling the College Football Playoff National Championship Trophy.
APRIL 15, 2025
Maine Gov. Janet Mills confronts Donald Trump to his face over anti-trans sports order at White House
“See you in court,” she told the president when he declared his administration’s policies to be “the federal law.”
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FEBRUARY 21, 2025