Tractor Supply caves to far-right homophobia and bigotry and drops all LGBTQ+ support
The seismic shift in attitude comes after 3 weeks of attacks by far-right extremists.
June 28, 2024
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We’re Here. We’re Queer. We’re Invisible
Loren Olson (left) moved from the big city to start a farm in Iowa with his husband. Gay life is where you find it, he writes.
April 20, 2017
What to Stream This Month: 24 LGBTQ+ Movies & TV Shows & Where To Watch Them
All Us Strangers, Our Son, Maestro, Rebel Moon, and a whole lot of queer holiday movies are headed our way this month.
December 7, 2023
Fit to serve
Openly gay sergeant Robert Stout has served his country to the fullest: He was injured during an attack in Iraq and awarded the Purple Heart. Now he's at the center of a congressional effort to repeal "don't ask, don't tell"
May 9, 2005
A Tribute to a Midwestern Bard
This week's William Inge Theatre Festival in Independence, Kan., will celebrate the life and work of a great gay 20th-century playwright.
April 30, 2013
For trans people reliant on federal programs, this election could change everything
Experts, providers, elected officials, and people with lived experience discuss how election outcomes — up and down the ballot — might impact gender-affirming care in Pittsburgh and beyond.
November 1, 2024
Teens Waving MAGA Flags Confront Students After GSA Meeting
Students chanted "this is right" while waving a 'Make America Great Again' banner
September 5, 2019
I Finally Found My American Dream in the Power of My Community
The stereotypical image of the American Dream as a white, heterosexual couple with the kids, the dog, and the picket fence was lost on this little gay girl growing up in the '70s.
July 4, 2018
Former Republican N.C. Senator Jesse Helms Dead at 86
Former senator Jesse Helms, an unyielding champion of the conservative movement who spent three combative and sometimes caustic decades in Congress, where he relished his battles against liberals, Communists, and occasionally a fellow Republican, died on the Fourth of July. He was 86. ''It's just incredible that he would die on July 4, the same day of the Declaration of Independence and the same day that Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died, and he certainly is a patriot in the mold of those great men,'' said former North Carolina GOP representative Bill Cobey.
July 5, 2008
The Year in Queer
A month-by-month breakdown of the important LGBT news events of 2008.
December 3, 2008
'LGBT Stories' Podcast: Lorri L. Jean, Soldier of the Movement
The new LGBT Stories podcast lets queer people share their own stories. Read and listen to Lorri L. Jean, the CEO of the Los Angeles LGBT Center
March 26, 2018
Recap: Election Day 2024 coverage of LGBTQ+ issues
Vice President Kamala Harris, an LGBTQ+ champion, faced former President Donald Trump in the presidential election. Hundreds of LGBTQ+ people also ran for office on the federal, state, and local levels. Here's reporting from The Advocate's team of reporters across the country, including in D.C. with Harris.
November 5, 2024
Oregon Trans Teen Dies After Abduction, Suspect Charged
Oliver "Ollie" Taylor, 17, died of a gunshot wound after having been kidnapped.
May 24, 2021
These Indiana Events Need to Relocate to a New State
It's not just Gen Con and the NCAA. Indiana is home to lots of major events -- or at least, it was.
March 28, 2015
How a Gay Man Helped Make an Impossible Mural
The story of how California's most innovative marketplace came to be demonstrates the necessity of art in an era when it's under attack.
February 8, 2017
LIVE: 2024 presidential election
Keep it here for updates from The Advocate as our senior national reporter, Christopher Wiggins, covers the DNC from the event.
August 19, 2024
Putting on an LGBTQ Film Festival in the South
Steel magnolia Jim Farmer runs Atlanta's Out on Film -- he tells us what it takes to get Georgians to embrace queer movies.
September 27, 2018
