Florida city installs Pride bike racks after being forced to remove rainbow crosswalks
St. Petersburg's new bike rack publicly displays LGBTQ+ Pride while complying orders to keep crosswalks undecorated.
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Rachel Maddow on standing up to government lies and her Walter Cronkite Award
The out MS NOW anchor spoke with The Advocate about being honored with a journalism award and her podcast, Burn Order, which traces how government lies led to the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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North Carolina county dissolves library board for refusing to toss book about a trans kid
“It’s a pretty dramatic response to wanting to have diverse and inclusive books on shelves,” PEN America’s Kasey Meehan said.
December 15 2025 11:45 AM
11 times Donald Trump has randomly brought up his ‘transgender for everybody’ obsession
The president continues to bring up transgender people in situations completely unrelated to their lives.
December 15 2025 9:22 AM
Pete Buttigieg mocks Trump Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s strange airport pull-up stunt
“I love exercise. I love air travel. Putting them together is not really something I would think to do,” the former Transportation secretary said.
December 11 2025 1:00 PM
Texas city votes to overturn LGBTQ+ antidiscrimination protections
Arlington, Texas has removed “gender identity and expression” and “sexual orientation” from its antidiscrimination protections.
December 10 2025 4:03 PM
Trump rants nonsense about transgender people instead of fixing affordability crisis at Pennsylvania rally
He called "affordability" a Democratic hoax while repeating bizarre "transgender for all" claim.
December 10 2025 12:31 PM
RFK Jr.’s health department is using religious freedom to strip transgender people of health care
“This administration is obsessed with targeting trans folks,” former HHS deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.
December 09 2025 5:34 PM
D.C. appeals court keeps Trump’s transgender military ban in place despite one judge’s blistering dissent
The ban “brands all transgender people, without regard to individual merit, as unworthy to serve in our armed forces solely because they are transgender,” Judge Cornelia Pillard wrote.
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December 09 2025 3:48 PM
Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump was 'extremely angry' over vote to release Epstein files
Greene claimed the president told her "people will get hurt" if she went through with her vote to release the Epstein files.
December 08 2025 11:58 AM
Trump DOJ rolls back policies protecting LGBTQ+ inmates from sexual violence
Trump's DOJ will no longer enforce safety standards for LGBTQ+ inmates in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
December 05 2025 11:12 AM
‘Gayest’ Congressman Robert Garcia & Maine Gov. Janet Mills target Trump at LGBTQ+ leadership conference
The out ranking member of the House Oversight Committee and the ally who fought Donald Trump got rousing applause for their opening remarks.
December 05 2025 9:13 AM
Here are all of Trump's political enemies that have been charged or investigated (so far)
Here's a breakdown of all the cases against Trump's political opponents, and why he would want to target them.
December 02 2025 9:52 AM
More LGBTQ+ people are quietly planning to flee America as fears of fascism in Trump’s second term rise
The instinct to flee is not new in American life. But the scale, and the kinds of people considering it in the Trump era, reflect something different.
December 02 2025 7:00 AM
DOGE is gone, leaving behind 300,000 fired federal workers, 600,000 USAID deaths, and more
Here's everything DOGE did that affected the LGBTQ+ community at home and abroad.
November 24 2025 1:18 PM
U.S. Coast Guard backtracks on acceptability of ‘potentially divisive’ swastikas & nooses
After intense backlash, the agency issued a new general order clarifying its position on hate symbols.
November 21 2025 10:27 AM
New U.S. Coast Guard policy OK with some swastikas & nooses, but not transgender service members
Hate symbols will now be recategorized as "potentially divisive.”
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November 20 2025 4:58 PM
Decorated FBI agent trainee fired over Pride flag warns new ‘Lavender Scare’ is spreading ‘like wildfire’
“People immediately started scouring their desks of Pride flags, anything personal in nature,” after Kash Patel terminated him, David Maltinsky told The Advocate.
November 19 2025 3:28 PM
Gay former FBI official sues Kash Patel & Pam Bondi for Pride flag firing
David Maltinsky says he was illegally terminated in October for displaying a Progress Pride flag at his desk during the Biden administration.
November 19 2025 12:48 PM
Getting personal with Robert Garcia, who’s been leading the Democrats' release of the Epstein files
The Democratic rising star sat down with The Advocate for an interview about the Epstein files, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and co-parenting his cat after his divorce.
November 18 2025 8:03 AM