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Happy Saturday,
📢 President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Scott Bessent, a billionaire investment manager who is gay, as secretary of the Treasury. Bessent, if confirmed by the U.S. Senate, would be the first out member of the LGBTQ+ community to be Treasury secretary and one of only a few ever to hold a Cabinet or Cabinet-level position. Previous out Cabinet members include Richard Grenell and Pete Buttigieg. Buttigieg, secretary of Transportation in the Biden administration, was the first out Senate-confirmed Cabinet official.
🌴 Bessent lives in South Carolina with his husband, John Freeman, a former prosecuting attorney in New York City. They have two children.
👏 As our senior politics editor Trudy Ring points out, just because Trump is nominating a gay man to his cabinet doesn't mean his administration will be LGBTQ-friendly. Many of his selections have negative or mixed records when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights. Several also have connections to Project 2025, which would erode protections for LGBTQ+ people.
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
Editor-in-chief, Advocate.com
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📰 In other news...
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- Los Angeles becomes a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ youth and immigrants as officials reject Project 2025
- No, HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine isn't performing pagan rituals in the woods
- U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas introduces bill to deny transgender identity
- Former Jersey City aide fired over support for right-wing extremist sister sues Democratic mayor
Trump nominates investment manager Scott Bessent, a gay man, as Treasury secretary
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U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas introduces bill to deny transgender identity
Office of U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall
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No, HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine isn't performing pagan rituals in the woods
Courtesy Admiral Rachel Levine via x.com; footage still via instagram @selenafox
Former Jersey City aide fired over support for right-wing extremist sister sues Democratic mayor
paperwork via x.com @Jonathan_Goomez; portrait via Institute of Global Politics, Columbia University
Here's how queer couples can protect their marriage under a new Trump administration
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Who is Pam Bondi? Trump's new attorney general pick has a mixed history on LGBTQ+ issues
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Los Angeles becomes a sanctuary city for LGBTQ+ youth and immigrants as officials reject Project 2025
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🌈 Look, the answer! 🌈
Every week The Advocate has a bit of LGBTQ+ trivia in our newsletter. Today, you'll get the answer.
This week's question: What year did same-sex marriages become legal in the U.S.?
This week's answer: 2015. Full marriage equality became the law of the land on June 26, 2015, after the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges. In the landmark 5-4 ruling, same-sex married couples in the U.S. were granted equal recognition under the law.
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