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Trump admits anti-transgender attacks are one of GOP’s ‘great sound bites’
4+ day, 17+ hour ago (462+ words) Before a Dallas arena dotted with empty seats, Trump acknowledged that Republicans deploy attacks on transgender athletes strategically before elections....
Mike Johnson swore Everton Blair in as the South’s first Black gay congressman
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (826+ words) The Georgia Democrat's arrival in the House of Representatives made history and placed him beside a speaker whose career has been defined partly by opposition to LGBTQ+ equality....
Ed Markey showed Democrats how to defend trans people and win elections
1+ week, 4+ day ago (286+ words) Opinion: The Massachusetts senator’s primary win shows that voters may be over politicians willing to sacrifice minority groups in pursuit of an imaginary middle ground, writes Josh Ackley....
Taxpayers are no longer paying Karoline Leavitt to lie to them from the White House podium. She’s gone
2+ week, 2+ day ago (409+ words) After more than 19 months, the youngest White House press secretary in American history is done....
Trump wants credit for Kennedy Center renovations that haven’t happened. A judge isn’t buying it
2+ week, 2+ day ago (350+ words) The hand-picked board wants to carve the president’s name into the national memorial landmark before completing any of the work it would credit him for....
How LGBTQ+ people can fight back against gerrymandering
2+ week, 5+ day ago (810+ words) Republicans are working hard to erode our voting rights, but here’s what we can do to fight back. A Women’s March participant holds a sign referencing voting suppression and gerrymandering while marching on Market Street in downtown San Francisco. Gerrymandering…...
The closetocracy? 11 anti-LGBTQ+ Republicans dogged by gay rumors
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1264+ words) They built careers attacking queer people. Then whispers about their own sexualities — and, in some cases, full-blown scandals — followed them....
Two covers and 15 years: How a portrait of Nancy Pelosi brought my career full circle
3+ week, 4+ day ago (210+ words) On his way to photograph the former House speaker for The Advocate, Mike Nelson thought of his younger self — paying his dues and dreaming of this exact moment. Then he remembered an old photo....
Advocate Pelosi NL 8/18/26
3+ week, 6+ day ago (51+ words) “I have given up power. But I have not given up influence.”The morning The Advocate's Christopher Wiggins was preparing to interview Nancy Pelosi, she had told communications director Ian Krager she wanted to discuss the future."But there is…...
Tatted-up Nancy Mace turns to podcasting after political career flames out
4+ week, 3+ hour ago (183+ words) The South Carolina Republican previously discussed getting inked because of "the pain that I need to feel."...