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National Park Service reverses Pride ban for employees in uniform after backlash from LGBTQ+ community
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland reversed an earlier policy forbidding employees from participating in uniform, which caused uproar.
LGBTQ+ Community Centers: Invaluable, Imperiled
As other queer spaces shutter, community centers offer services, camaraderie, and respite.
LGBTQ+ Elders Face Decades of Discrimination. Republicans Don’t Care
Cutting eldercare -- especially services for LGBTQ+ elder communities -- from the American Jobs Plan would be inhumane.
Election season got you down? This crisis line is soothing LGBTQ+ mental health (exclusive)
As lawmakers target the community, the need for mental health services skyrockets. FOLX Health CEO Liana Douillet Guzmán tells The Advocate about a new service that's helping.
50 Years of Pumps & Circumstance: S.F. Imperial Court
The Imperial Council of San Francisco, the 2nd largest LGBT group in the U.S., marks 50 years of glitter, grandiosity, and community service.
Watch: Barack Obama's Message in Honor of Stonewall Day
The 44th president will be part of a star-studded virtual fundraising event benefiting groups that provide sorely needed services to the LGBTQ+ community.
Why Brotherhood, Inc. Will Never Stop Serving LGBTQ+ People in Need
For nearly 25 years, the agency has provided outreach to the LGBTQ+ community, housing services to those living with HIV, and low income housing to those experiencing homelessness in New Orleans.
This Activist Organized a Powerful Vigil for Trans Day of Remembrance
As a part of her Point Foundation Community Service Project, University of Souther California student and 2017 Point Scholar Kerri Cecil organized a memorial honoring the 2,609 trans people murdered since 2008.
Eric Himan’s Battle Cry
Striking, gay, tattooed pop-rocker Eric Himan has amassed a loyal following at his club dates across the country. But it's his activist lyrics and take no prisoners attitude that has gay service men, the trans community and practically everyone who ever longed for a musician to empathize with their feelings that has fans lining up around the block.
United Methodist Church ends 40-year ban on LGBTQ+ clergy
The church has long been divided into factions over its stance on homosexuality and gay clergy and even weighed splitting into two separate churches over the issue.
Gay members of Congress worried about mpox outbreak ask for data in letter to Joe Biden (exclusive)
Reps. Ritchie Torres and Mark Pocan sent a letter to the president and Health and Human Services Secretary to learn what the administration is doing to prepare against a potentially worse mpox outbreak.
Biden Names Adrian Shanker as Senior Adviser on LGBTQI+ Health Equity
Shanker, a longtime advocate for LGBTQ+ and HIV-positive Americans, will work in the office of the assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services.
LGBTQ Centers Band Together, Urge Congress to Up Financial Support
Over 160 LGBTQ centers are asking leaders not to forget the nearly 40,000 people they serve each month.
L.A. LGBT Center's Funds for STI Testing Restored After Public Outcry
LGBTQ Angelenos called, emailed, and tweeted outrage after the center's public funding was cut by the Los Angeles Department of Public Health.