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❤️ Happy Lesbian Visibility Week! 🎉
📽️ Lesbian films have come a long way over the past two decades. From low-budget indies and underground cult hits to Oscar contenders and chaotic mainstream comedies, queer female characters have slowly taken up more space on screen — and even managed to carve out happily ever afters every now and then. Here are the 20 best of the last 20 years.
🚨 The Trump Administration has proposed eliminating funding for a crucial suicide hotline dedicated to LGBTQ+ youth. “Suicide prevention is about risk, not identity. Ending the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ youth specialized services will not just strip away access from millions of LGBTQ+ kids and teens – it will put their lives at risk,” Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project, said in a statement.
🕯️ Upon Pope Francis’s death Monday, LGBTQ+ activists and other leaders are remembering him as a transformative pontiff.
Onwards and upwards,
Alex Cooper
Editor-in-chief, The Advocate
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Gay man Nancy Mace cursed out in South Carolina Ulta says ‘a fire was lit’ from Republican's ‘meltdown’
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Senate staffer accused of having sex in Capitol building recounts 'horrific' backlash
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Insurer illegally discriminated by denying trans teens coverage for top surgery, court rules
ADragan/ShutterstockIn his heart, I believe Pope Francis was a much stronger LGBTQ+ ally than he appeared in public
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Trump Administration to defund suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ youth starting in October
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LGBTQ+ and other leaders call Pope Francis progressive and transformative
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Justices Kavanaugh & Barrett signal they may uphold access to PrEP and preventive care protections
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Pete Buttigieg calls Pete Hegseth ‘unfit to lead’ after second bombshell Signal chat leak revelation
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🌈 Look, queer trivia! 🌈
Each week, The Advocate newsletter has a little bit of LGBTQ+ trivia. Today, you'll get the question. Wednesday, you'll get a hint. And Friday, you'll get the answer.
This week's question: The origin of the word lesbian comes from the name Lesbos, a Greek island, and home to which famous poet of ancient Greece?
⚡ Respond with the correct answer, and you might get a shoutout in a future email newsletter!
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📣 What you should be reading:
- Onya Nurve says she's the 'kryptonite' to JD Vance (Pride)
- 'More Kerstin Casparij and less JK Rowling,' soccer fans react to this trans ally moment (Pride)
- A tribute to The Last of Us character Joel Miller — a heroic ally in a toxic, antigay world (Out)
- Ross Mathews and Wellinthon on how their wedding inspired a heartwarming children's book (Out)
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