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In The Advocate's Women section, readers can find out the latest news and updates that are important to lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women. Discover articles related to politics, arts and entertainment, health, parenting, business, travel, and more. Find out about women from all spheres of influence who are working toward advancing the LGBT rights movement like Tammy Baldwin, Guinevere Turner, Gloria Steinem, Ellen Page, Laverne Cox, and Diana Nyad. Watch videos, read articles, and stay up-to-date on all issues related to gay women.

Hillary Clinton, Shirley Chisholm, and Margaret Chase Smith
Print Issue

Trailblazing women in politics: A historical perspective

As Kamala Harris makes history in her current run for the presidency, we reflect on some previous female candidates who also threw their hats in the ring.

Elizabeth Banks in Skincare
Arts & Entertainment

How 'Skincare' tackles women's aging, consent, and othering a queer-coded Latino

Elizabeth Banks and Luis Gerardo Méndez play rival estheticians in the layered film Skincare, inspired by a true story.

Melissa Etheridge's Chappell Roan mash-up is the lesbian collab we didn't know we needed
Arts & Entertainment

Melissa Etheridge's Chappell Roan mash-up is the lesbian anthem we didn't know we needed

Rock legend Melissa Etheridge mashed up one of her classic songs with Chappell Roan's hit "Red Wine Supernova" in a magical coalescence of lesbian icons' music.

​​Olivia McKayla Ross and Jazmin Renée Jones search for Mavis Beacon
Arts & Entertainment

Watch: Queer filmmakers search for typing teacher Mavis Beacon in new doc

In a clip from Seeking Mavis Beacon, director Jazmin Renée Jones and Olivia McKayla Ross interview a documentary subject about what the Haitian model who inspired the titular AI character in early tech's "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing" meant to them as a Black woman.

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Election

Inside the massive protest against Project 2025 and anti-trans laws coming to D.C. (exclusive)

A renowned organizer for the upcoming Gender Liberation March tells The Advocate how you can attend — and why you should.

Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel shows her wedding band as she speaks on the third day of the Democratic National Convention
Election

Michigan's Dana Nessel: Republicans 'can pry this wedding band from my cold, dead, gay hand'

Nessel said that Kamala Harris' actions as Attorney General of California over 13 years ago "meant a lot" to her, as Harris "was fighting for families like mine."

DNC 2024
Election

Here's what Democrats promise to do for LGBTQ+ people in their 2024 platform

The DNC has released its full platform for the next four years, which features dozens of policies that would improve the lives of LGBTQ+ people.

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News

American Airlines banned a lesbian for having sex with a man on a plane. She's confused, too (exclusive)

TikToker Erin Wright tells The Advocate about her bizarre and frustrating experience being wrongly put on American Airlines' no-fly list.

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People

Holland Taylor on 'generational difference' and future with girlfriend Sarah Paulson

The actor recently told Andy Cohen that she "worries" about the 32-year age-gap between her and Paulson.
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News

What are 'transvestigations'? The 'hate-driven conspiracy theory' explained

From Algerian boxer Imane Khelif to figures like Taylor Swift and Michelle Obama, "tranvestigations" are a particularly bizarre form of hatred hitting public figures.

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Politics

NC Republican governor candidate Mark Robinson, who called abortion 'genocide,' took his wife to get one

That's not a leak — Robinson said it himself in a new ad.

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Election

'Cat Ladies for Kamala Harris' are campaigning AND shading JD Vance

Women have put up with Republican attacks on their rights for decades — but they're drawing a line at attacks on their pets.

Fox News show Host Jesse Watters Primetime
News

Fox News host Jesse Watters thinks men who vote for women ‘transition’ to women

Even the other hosts on Fox News' The Five thought Waters went off the deep end with his recent comments.

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News

'Devastated:' A six-week abortion ban will go into effect in Iowa next week

Health care practitioners in the state decried the ruling as a decision that "will push abortion care almost entirely out of reach in Iowa."

Megan Rapinoe Sport Your Period campaign
Exclusives

Megan Rapinoe shuts down period stigma, Republicans, and homophobic soccer players (exclusive)

Megan Rapinoe tells The Advocate about her campaign with Knix to end period stigma, and the state of LGBTQ+ acceptance in women's soccer.

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World

Lesbian reveals the reality of being LGBTQ+ in Cameroon after president's daughter comes out

After the coming out of Brenda Biya, the president of Cameroon's daughter, one lesbian in the country opens up about being “afraid for my life every day."

Anna Heilferty
Sports

This out women's soccer player is celebrating Pride without labels: 'You're good just where you are'

Washington Spirit defender Anna Heilferty tells the Advocate about growing LGBTQ+ representation in women's soccer.

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Crime

A lesbian couple was brutally beaten by group of men in Halifax. Police still haven't filed charges

Two LGBTQ+ women are seeking justice after a group of men violently assaulted them over the weekend.

Brenda Biya daughter of Cameroon president Paul Biya with girlfriend Brazilian model Layyons Valenca
News

Cameroon president's daughter comes out, reveals relationship with Brazilian model

LGBTQ+ relationships are criminalized in Cameroon, carrying a sentence of up to five years in prison.

South Carolina State Senate building pro choice abortion rights rally
Politics

All Republican women in the South Carolina Senate lost their primaries — Here's why

Three women GOP State Senators joined Democrats last year to block an extreme conservative-backed bill.