Under Trump's 'authoritarian era,' these LGBTQ+ and abortion rights activists are standing up
The organizers behind last year's Gender Liberation March tell The Advocate about how they're fighting back now.
JANUARY 30, 2025
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Toolkit Helps Grassroots Activists Fight DOMA
The Respect for Marriage Coalition launched a new website with resources to help activists participate in the campaign to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act.
JULY 26, 2012
Human Rights Campaign Expands Grassroots Effort, Looks to 2018
Investing millions of dollars and hiring new staff, HRC hopes to influence congressional and gubernatorial races.
JULY 11, 2017
Pride Fests Too Corporate, in Danger of Being Left Behind
It's time for our pride festivals to embrace their grassroots past and ditch their big business present, writes activist Alex Morash.
APRIL 26, 2017
What Is Gays Against Groomers?
Even though it claims to be a grassroots organization, many believe Gays Against Groomers is funded by right-wing groups that are directly and indirectly supporting DeSantis.
JULY 6, 2023
View From the Hill: The Dems
Despite a last-minute effort from President Obama, for the moment, the LGBT movement -- from big-dollar establishment donors to the grassroots troops -- seems to have turned its proverbial back on the administration.
JUNE 19, 2009
Calling All Creative Comrades
A new grassroots media organization holds it inaugural event in Los Angeles, and what starts as a networking event becomes a call to arms for media professionals to figure out new ways of working as the economy and old media empires are crumbling.
DECEMBER 15, 2008
Grassroots Website Launches Massive International Movement
More than a million people are expected to turn out for Saturday's international rally to collectively raise their voices against discrimination and inequality. JoinTheImpact.com's Amy Balliett says she created the site and the rally just a week ago, and the response has been immense.
NOVEMBER 15, 2008
Marriage Only Came Because Grassroots Refused to Wait
While the major LGBT rights groups have of course played a big role in getting marriage equality, it's the grassroots that made it happen.
APRIL 28, 2015
Molly Cook, Texas's first out LGBTQ+ state senator, is ready to make change (exclusive)
The emergency room nurse and grassroots organizer will advocate for both incremental and revolutionary change.
MAY 16, 2024
Meet the People Spending Their Lives Trying to Save TV Shows
United We Fan, the new documentary by Michael Sparaga, explores the history and evolution of passion-filled grassroots save-our-show campaigns. Watch an exclusive clip.
MARCH 29, 2018
Eric Himan: Indie Idol
As he releases his seventh studio album, Supposed Unknown, grassroots folk-pop rocker Eric Himan looks back at his determined decade as an openly gay artist and lyrical activist.
APRIL 28, 2011
NCIS Star Pauley Perrette Takes On Prop 8
NCIS star Pauley Perrette calls herself a "Christian, churchgoing, Bible-quoting, praying, thinking civil rights activist" -- which might explain the actress's passionate letter and grassroots efforts urging Californians to vote no on Prop. 8.
OCTOBER 27, 2008
HRC Is Planning a Grassroots Assault on the Trump Agenda
HRC Rising hopes to replicate one of the rare successes in the 2016 election cycle, writes JoDee Winterhof.
JULY 12, 2017
Gays Against Groomers Is Not a Grassroots Organization: Report
Despite what some of the people associated with Gays Against Groomers claim, the group is a political outfit of right-wing operatives and not a grassroots organization.
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
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How We Killed Oxford, Ala.'s Hate Law
Getting an insidious "bathroom law" repealed took intense organization and grassroots work. Read the inside story here.
MAY 13, 2016
Bi Brigade: For Bisexuals, by Bisexuals
The Portland, Ore.-based group has launched a grassroots multimedia series hoping to provide insight from and for the bi community.
JUNE 26, 2014
Family boosters
The nation's leading group of straight allies, PFLAG chapters can claim considerable grassroots success. But some members want more support from the struggling national office
AUGUST 15, 2005