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🫠 2025 is shaping up to be a long year already. Mark Zuckerberg announced that Meta will change how its platforms moderate content from users. Those changes will see Facebook and the company's other social media sites become similar to X, formerly known as Twitter. The change in moderation guidelines includes language related to LGBTQ+ people, so expect to see more homophobic and transphobic posts allowed to stay on the sites. Great...just great.
🗳️ It's never to early to start talking about the next presidential election, right? Here are some of the probable contenders for the Democratic nomination in 2028.
🌈 Ahead of the inauguration, The Advocate asked young trans people about the biggest challenges facing them – and what the rest of us can do to help. Here's what they said.
Onward and upward,
Alex Cooper
Editor-in-chief, Advocate.com
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📰 In other news
- Eight California sheriff's deputies sacked for covering up a fellow officer's attack on trans man
- Speaker Mike Johnson quietly enacts ‘cruel’ anti-transgender bathroom ban in U.S. House of Representatives
- New Orleans activists fundraise to replace stolen plaque remembering an arson that killed 32 queer people
- Republican Sen. Tuberville wants to ban trans girls from school sports...again
- McDonald's ends some DEI practices, cites SCOTUS ruling and 'other companies' (exclusive)
- Defense Dept. reaches settlement with vets discharged under 'don't ask, don't tell' and earlier ban
Oregon swears in first LGBTQ+ treasurer, Dr. Elizabeth Steiner
Courtesy Dr. Elizabeth Steiner for State Treasurer
Republican Sen. Tuberville wants to ban trans girls from school sports...again
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Eight California sheriff's deputies sacked for covering up a fellow officer's attack on trans man
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Speaker Mike Johnson quietly enacts ‘cruel’ anti-transgender bathroom ban in U.S. House of Representatives
Maxim Elramsisy/shutterstock; Sukma Adhi Nugraha/shutterstock
McDonald's ends some DEI practices, cites SCOTUS ruling and 'other companies' (exclusive)
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Defense Dept. reaches settlement with vets discharged under 'don't ask, don't tell' and earlier ban
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These 12 Democrats are the early top contenders for the party’s presidential nomination in 2028
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🌈 Look, queer trivia 🌈
Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Today, you'll get a question. Thursday, you'll get a hint. And Saturday, you'll get the answer.
This week's question: What was the name of the New Orleans gay club that burned down in 1973, killing over 30 people inside?
💫 Respond with the right answer and you might receive a shoutout in a future newsletter.
📣 What you should also be reading
- HBO drops The Last of Us season 2 trailer—and a premiere date (Pride)
- What the heck is a 'lesbian boyfriend?' The sapphic trend explained (Pride)
- Zoe Saldaña's first kisses were with girls—says masculine women are 'really sexy' (Out)
- American Psycho author says Luca Guadagnino reboot is 'fake news' (Out)
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