https://www.advocate.com/rss.xml en https://assets.rbl.ms/32874384/origin.png https://www.advocate.com https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/racist-laura-loomer-angie-nixon Right-wing personality Laura Loomer spent the weekend testing whether any racist invective was too crude for Donald Trump’s political orbit. Marjorie Taylor Greene, of all people, decided there was.]]> Sun, 30 Aug 2026 19:04:42 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/racist-laura-loomer-angie-nixon https://www.advocate.com/opinion/faith-communities-hiv-aids-preventio Strategy work usually gets described in terms of what an organization needs to build: new systems, new partnerships, new infrastructure. But HIV strategy should begin with another question: What networks of relationships and influence already exist, and why have we not adequately invested in them as pathways to prevention and care?]]> Sun, 30 Aug 2026 08:00:01 EDT Jennifer Moore Phillips https://www.advocate.com/opinion/faith-communities-hiv-aids-preventio https://www.advocate.com/opinion/mike-pence-jd-vance-beards I spent the better part of Trump's first term rolling my eyes, sometimes with rage, at Mike Pence. If you'd asked me then what a nightmare vice president looked like, I'd have pointed to the awkward and strange Pence and his mysterious animosity toward the LGBTQ+ community.]]> Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:00:01 EDT John Casey https://www.advocate.com/opinion/mike-pence-jd-vance-beards https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/karoline-leavitt-gone On Karoline Leavitt’s final day as White House press secretary, President Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office, took a black marker to a map and crossed out the name of a 7,300-square-mile Great Lake shared with Canada.]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:14:23 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/karoline-leavitt-gone https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/kennedy-center-skeptical-judge As President Donald Trump threatens to tear down the Kennedy Center if he can’t inscribe his name on it, a federal judge called one of the president’s arguments a “non sequitur.”]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:45:15 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/kennedy-center-skeptical-judge https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/rihanna-kelver-wyoming-self-defense A judge in Wyoming will soon decide whether the state’s stand-your-ground law protects a transgender activist.]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:19:01 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/news/crime/rihanna-kelver-wyoming-self-defense https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/laura-loomer-milo-yiannopoulos-ice The Trump administration’s immigration dragnet has caught one of MAGA’s provocateurs, who last year asked, “What are they waiting for?" regarding the president’s mass deportation program’s start.]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:37:11 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/laura-loomer-milo-yiannopoulos-ice https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/hunter-biden-gay-interview Coming out is usually more personal than mathematical. Hunter Biden made it both.]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:24:10 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/hunter-biden-gay-interview https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/talbott-trans-military-supreme-court The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to clear the way for the Pentagon to fire decorated transgender troops who have so far beaten the government in court. The Department of Justice is asking the high court to intervene before a judge can hold a trial on whether the ban forcing them out is constitutional.]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 13:03:26 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/talbott-trans-military-supreme-court https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/back-to-school-lgbtq-gifts As back-to-school season rolls around, LGBTQ+ students are buying their classroom wares and getting ready to start their academic years. The proper tools are important right now, particularly as conservative legislators pass laws that try to dim LGBTQ+ students’ ability to express themselves.]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:04 EDT Quispe López https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/back-to-school-lgbtq-gifts https://www.advocate.com/politics/pediatrics-association-no-genital-exam This story originally appeared on Them.

This medical group would like transphobes to keep its name out of their mouth. ]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:36:01 EDT Mathew Rodriguez https://www.advocate.com/politics/pediatrics-association-no-genital-exam https://www.advocate.com/opinion/donald-trump-lake-ontario-sharpie I am in a bit of a tit-for-tat with my building’s management over what I believe is its plan to raise my rent considerably when my lease comes up for renewal in September.]]> Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:34:00 EDT John Casey https://www.advocate.com/opinion/donald-trump-lake-ontario-sharpie https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/moms-for-liberty-sues-nj Moms for Liberty has sued a New Jersey school district over policies protecting transgender students’ privacy.]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:08:00 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/politics/states/moms-for-liberty-sues-nj https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/court-denies-doj-transgender-subpoena A federal appeals court has refused to let President Donald Trump’s administration obtain sensitive medical records belonging to transgender young people who received care in New York.]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 16:14:59 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/court-denies-doj-transgender-subpoena https://www.advocate.com/opinion/donald-trump-natalie-harp-daddy Natalie Harp needs help — not the world’s worst father figure or his knuckle-dragging sycophants. In July 2020, Harp’s father, Robert, died by suicide. According to her estranged brother, Preston Harp, Natalie Harp and their mother wanted to tell people he died in his sleep. Preston Harp refused, insisted on telling the truth, and reportedly helped trigger a rift between the siblings that continues today.]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:26:08 EDT Josh Ackley https://www.advocate.com/opinion/donald-trump-natalie-harp-daddy https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-state-university-director This story originally appeared on Them.

The state of Georgia has settled a lawsuit from a former Georgia Southern University employee who said she was fired for objecting when the school didn’t want to provide free chest binders to students, CBS News Atlanta reported on Thursday. ]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:57:32 EDT Mathew Rodriguez https://www.advocate.com/news/georgia-state-university-director https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/lgbtq-students-anti-lgbtq-bills School has long been where American culture wars are rehearsed before they play out everywhere else. This year, LGBTQ+ students are once again the rehearsal’s central subject — and, as usual, its least consulted party. Lawmakers are debating over queer kids in hundreds of bills, yet strikingly few adults have thought to ask what the students themselves make of it.]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:00:04 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/print-issue/lgbtq-students-anti-lgbtq-bills https://www.advocate.com/news/people/dolly-parton-trans-chauffeur This story originally appeared on Them.

As the world is still reeling from the news of the death of legendary Queen of Country Music Dolly Parton on Tuesday, many of her LGBTQ+ fans have resurfaced evidence of her long and enduring support of the LGBTQ+ community.]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:51:00 EDT Mathew Rodriguez https://www.advocate.com/news/people/dolly-parton-trans-chauffeur https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/mike-collins-twink-fascist A conservative operative who called himself a “twink fascist” posted a swastika made from the word “twink,” repeatedly used an anti-Black slur and shared an image depicting him in clothing closely resembling Ku Klux Klan regalia.]]> Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:22:34 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/mike-collins-twink-fascist https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-demolish-kennedy-center The Trump administration has set a condition for preserving the Kennedy Center: President Donald Trump must be allowed to put his name on it, or the erstwhile prestigious cultural arts institution will be torn down.]]> Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:21:45 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-demolish-kennedy-center