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How to help women, children, and LGBTQ+ people impacted by Hurricane Helene

LGBTQ+ people and women face unique needs after climate disasters that are often ignored by federal disaster response. Here's how you can help.

Organizing in a Time of Anxiety: Taking Inspiration From the Gay Men’s Health Crisis

For progressive organizers, it can sometimes feel like there is so much to do and so many injustices to fight that it's hard to even know where to begin. Here's how you can start.

How I helped change the law that put me and other Black people with HIV behind bars

Reflecting on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, one individual's battle against outdated HIV laws and deep-seated stigma highlights the urgent need for change and compassion.

Vulnerable LGBTQ+ Sex Workers Targeted Again by Politicians

The EARN IT Act, which the Senate could advance tomorrow, is dangerous.

Trump Is Trying to Turn Gays Against Muslims

Both the GOP nominee and many of his LGBT supporters are using Islamophobia to sway Democrats. It's disgraceful, writes People for the American Way's Peter Montgomery.

Was Taylor Swift Singing About HIV Criminalization?

Taylor Swift’s lyrics resonate in a troubling way for those who’ve seen blood reconfigured as a weapon by misguided HIV criminalization laws.

Are Queer Folks Prepared for the GOP to Use Monkeypox Against Us?

Gay men on Fire Island over the holiday weekend weighed in on stigma, monkeypox, and a history of the right weaponizing health conditions against LGBTQ+ people. 

Hateful Homophobe Rush Limbaugh Dead at 70

Over a 30-year broadcasting career, Limbaugh racked up a litany of anti-LGBTQ+, anti-feminist, racist, and otherwise bigoted comments.

Black D.C. Trans Activist Nona Conner Has Died at Age 37

"Words cannot describe the magnitude of Nona's significance in our lives, our team, and community will never be the same without her and her gracious light," a tribute said.

The young and the restless

Young queers are sacrificing sleep and testing their endurance in an attempt to change the political landscape.

The High Cost of Not Being Open to All

The Cakeshop case could set a precedent for legalized discrimination. That would be a very expensive mistake by the Supreme Court.

Organizing the '87 March, Sans Email

Without Facebook and Google, it was more difficult to organize the 1987 March on Washington than it is for this year's event. Something is lost in all the indirect communication, though.

Left unprotected, the fight for inclusive Title IX isn't over

The Biden-Harris administration's new Title IX rule promised to protect LGBTQ+ students from sexual violence, but conservative states are blocking its implementation and leaving many queer assault survivors unprotected.

Tempting gay employees

The Advocate's top ten companies for 2000 adds to a growing list of sweet workplaces for gays and lesbians

Dear White LGBT People, Prove Black Lives Matter

Activists Cleve Jones and Liz Highleyman on the ways white LGBT people can do their part to end an HIV crisis in the black community.

A Time for Integration

Slowly but surely, a new generation of gay guys and girls is showing a generation of people used to living their lives on the outskirts how to integrate again.

Hope in the Godless Days of AIDS

Faith and sexuality: two things that rarely go together well. Out Episcopal priest Elizabeth Edman tackles the subject in her new book, Queer Virtue, and shares this powerful excerpt of finding hope in the darkest of days.