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“Queer people, trans people, people of color are waking up today feeling in danger,” U.S. Rep. Becca Balint said. “We need to have a full-throated declaration that we are going to be there with them.”
Donald Trump may have won in part based on lies Republicans spread about a vulnerable minority of Americans.
There were some bright spots.
America elected a man who promised to roll back the rights of transgender people.
“I think people don’t understand the emotional and psychological toll it takes on us as openly gay members of Congress that we are in those committee hearings when people are saying horrible things about us,” Balint says.
Three Equality PAC co-chairs tell The Advocate they’re confident in her chances to carry the day.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and out lawmakers mark Pride Month.
U.S. House committees approved an anti-trans sports bill and one allowing faith-based discrimination by college groups.
Balint cites Greene's numerous anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, racist, and otherwise bigoted comments as well as her promotion of conspiracy theories in her censure resolution.
Legislation was introduced to establish a dedicated museum within the Smithsonian Institution, which garnered broad support from the Congressional Equality Caucus.
The group Butler ran supports pro-choice Democratic women, including LGBTQ+ ones, running for public office.
House Republicans are continuing their party’s culture war against the LGBTQ+ community.
GOPers like to say they “support the troops,” but when it comes down to it, they don’t support certain troops.
Using the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, two LGBTQ+ members of Congress have joined forces to hold up funds to the African country.
The bill comes at a time when Republicans are trying to erase and rewrite certain histories.
The act, which would outlaw anti-LGBTQ+ discrimination nationally, comes at a time of unprecedented state-level attacks on the community.
LGBTQ+ Americans are still far from equitable representation in public office, says a new report from the Victory Institute.
The gay Democrat is holding the gay Republican accountable for his actions.
We offer over a baker's dozen of lesbian political pioneers.
The Senate is unlikely to bring the legislation to a vote.
The nation's new out governors, treasurers, and congressmembers are staring down inflation, climate change, and gun violence.
