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McBride thanked her fellow Delaware representatives for helping her "realize the awesome responsibility and the awesome opportunity that we have to leave this state better and kinder than we found it."
The Orange is the New Black actor recently spoke at event for Planned Parenthood where she highlighted the connection between bans on gender-affirming care and bans on abortion.
The international superstar opens up about overcoming cultural stigmas to come to a place of self-love and acceptance.
“Mistakes happen on the air and in everyday conversation, and the best course is to apologize, correct, and move on, then work to not repeat it,” GLAAD president and CEO Sarah Kate Ellis told The Advocate.
“Once he decided to partake in a hate-filled campaign, the community in Jersey City no longer wanted to work with him, making him unable to do his work responsibilities,” the mayor’s press secretary told The Advocate.
In 2021, a jury convicted Smollett on five counts of disorderly conduct.
Jeanne Pepper, the mother of Blaze Bernstein, sat down with The Advocate to talk about what it means for her family that Samuel Woodward’s anti-Semitism and homophobia got him locked up for the rest of his life.
Gaetz's long history of sex crime allegations and misusing taxpayer funds put him right in line with Trump.
"If what you want is a centrist campaign that's quiet on trans issues ... that candidate existed, and she just lost," Oliver said during a recent episode of Last Week Tonight.
Vivian Wilson is once again calling out her biological father for claiming she's "dead" just because she transitioned.
The former ‘Drag Race Canada’ contestant Kyne Santos was recognized with the National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Award for Excellence in Science Communications.
Looking at the groups that threaten drag queens, transgender people and the broader LGBTQ+ community.
“Would you have sex with a Trump voter?” Billy on the Street is back to answer the hard-hitting questions one week out from the elections.
Fifty years after her death, the legendary actress and Andy Warhol museis having a moment — and we’re so here for it.
The actor "just wanted one positive thing to come out of" the role, he revealed in his memoir, Sonny Boy.
Monét X Change tells The Advocate about her new podcast, Monét Talks, and the "biggest lie" in politics today.
The anti-public education crusader said he can’t be canceled despite criticism of hypocrisy.
She will maintain her role as White House press secretary.
"It doesn't matter to me if you’re male or female. Whoever is in there, I love," Jenna Tea's 89-year-old great-grandmother Katherine says in a viral video.
While some conservatives praise his ‘bravery’ for ‘changing his ways,’ others give him the ax.
