Robert Cromey, ally priest who performed San Francisco's first same-sex church weddings, dies
Cromey was a pre-Stonewall advocate of LGBTQ+ rights and joined Dr. Martin Luther King on his March to Selma.
JANUARY 27 2025 11:42 AM
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Watch a bishop scold Donald Trump about attacks on LGBTQ+ and immigrants during inaugural prayer service
“There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives,” the Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde told the president.
JANUARY 21 2025 3:37 PM
No, HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine isn't performing pagan rituals in the woods
The doctored footage has been circulating on social media lately in which Levine's head was digitally placed onto the body of a woman wearing robes and a pentacle necklace.
NOVEMBER 22 2024 3:42 PM
Historic Vatican gathering punts on LGBTQ+ issues
The Synod of Synodality was supposed to decide important doctrinal issues but instead upset most, observers say.
OCTOBER 28 2024 12:48 PM
LGBTQ+ Catholics ask Pope Francis to reconsider church opposition to gender-affirming care
A group of LGBTQ+ Catholics and their allies held a private meeting with the pope over the weekend in which they urged him to reverse the church's stance on transgender health care.
OCTOBER 15 2024 2:34 PM
Meet the transgender Lutheran pastor preaching acceptance: 'Nothing is wrong with you'
Drew Stever, a minister in the Evangelical Lutheran Church, is one of the few out transgender clergy members to be ordained by a Christian institution.
OCTOBER 04 2024 4:39 PM
What are 'Religious Freedom' laws, and how are they used against LGBTQ+ people?
Just how far does religious freedom go? Many human rights experts believe it's already gone too far.
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Chicago Chick-fil-A will share a building with Black and trans-led LGBTQ+ group
Brave Space Alliance said that they were only made aware of the new location planned for the floor beneath them when local news outlets reported on its opening.
JANUARY 23 2025 4:42 PM
Vatican welcomes straight-acting, celibate gay priests in training...for now
The church also declares LGBTQ+ folks exist "in a situation that seriously hinders a correct relationship with men and women."
JANUARY 14 2025 10:50 AM
Vatican adds event for LGBTQ+ Catholics to Holy Year calendar
An Italian association for LGBTQ+ Christians has announced that it will perform a pilgrimage in September, marking one of the hundreds of events in next year's Jubilee.
DECEMBER 11 2024 5:05 PM
Vatican gay sex hits rock bottom, and the Internet responds
Is this why young people are leaving the church?
OCTOBER 25 2024 3:05 PM
British priest dead, another arrested after night of poppers, ecstasy, and gay sex
A drug-fueled night of sex turned deadly.
OCTOBER 09 2024 5:19 PM
Oklahoma superintendent wants $3.3 million to put 55,000 Trump Bibles in classrooms
Ryan Walters recently asked the Oklahoma Legislature for $3 million in the state Department of Education's 2026 budget request to purchase Bibles for schools. But not just any Bible.
OCTOBER 04 2024 3:39 PM
Vivian Wilson, Elon Musk's trans daughter, calls out Christian writer for 'anti-queer' op-ed about her
Vivian Wilson is calling out a Christian ex-gay for his transphobic op-ed about her.
MARCH 06 2025 11:12 AM
Bishop Budde is unapologetic about confronting Trump over his treatment of LGBTQ+ people and immigrants
“It wasn’t like I was talking about people I don’t know,” Budde told The Advocate.
JANUARY 28 2025 3:05 PM
Livid Donald Trump demands apology over bishop's 'nasty' National Prayer Service sermon
He called Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde’s sermon “nasty in tone," said she wasn’t good at her job, and claimed that “she and her church owe the public an apology.”
JANUARY 22 2025 1:02 PM
New D.C. Catholic archbishop is pro-LGBTQ+ and anti-Trump
Robert McElroy has made many statements supporting LGBTQ+ people and criticizing Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies.
JANUARY 06 2025 5:30 PM
A New York judge refused to marry a lesbian couple. The community wants her to resign
Felicia Pitts-Davis is being investigated by the state Commission of Judicial Conduct for refusing to marry a lesbian couple despite marrying a straight couple moments before.
DECEMBER 06 2024 11:39 AM
Luke Evans’ memoir shows why there’s no such thing as a gay Jehovah’s Witness
The only documented experiences we have about growing up LGBTQ+ as a Jehovah’s Witness comes from former members, like Evans, who have left – or been forced to leave.
NOVEMBER 11 2024 3:29 PM
Harris's campaign says Donald Trump is 'not up to the job' after transphobic Al Smith Dinner monologue
The former president clearly did not understand the assignment, while Vice President Kamala Harris did.
OCTOBER 18 2024 2:24 PM