Transgender candidate cleared to run in Ohio despite initial name disqualification
A law around name disclosures is being unevenly interpreted across state jurisdictions.
January 23, 2024
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What's in a (Last) Name?
With same-sex marriage on the rise, what will be the new protocol for last names? Does the bottom take the top's last name, or vice versa? Do they hyphenate? If so, whose name goes first? Our parenting writer, Frank Lowe, proposes a much simpler solution.
March 24, 2014
Abuse in the Name of Christianity
The horrors suffered by LGBT kids and others at a 'therapeutic' school are at the center of the new documentary Kidnapped for Christ -- and the experience of making the film changed its director's mind about religion.
October 10, 2013
Whats in a trans name?
Transsexual? Cross-dresser? Gender-queer? Under the "transgender" umbrella are a range of people who deal with gender identity and gender expression in nontraditional ways. A primer on who's who. Part 2 of The Advocate's ongoing transgender series
April 14, 2006
Doughnuts and name-calling
When is it all right to tell drivers who advertise their bigoted politics on their bumpers exactly what you think of their self-righteousness?
December 8, 2005
Learning to Sign My Name
When you're transitioning, the smallest moments can be revolutionary.
January 26, 2017
She Who Must Not Be Named
Find out what happened when our parenting writer, Frank Lowe, was asked a very inappropriate question in front of his son.
February 18, 2014
Ted Cruz Introduces Bill Limiting Pronouns and Names Despite Going by His Own Chosen Name
Advocates criticized the breathtaking hypocrisy of Cruz’s Safeguarding Honest Speech Act for its potential harm to the LGBTQ+ community and pointed out the irony in his own name choice.
November 29, 2023
Naming Myself as a Chinese Trans Femme
What's in a name? A lot, especially for transgender people.
March 31, 2019
Parkland Conspiracies Named 'Lie of The Year'
Fact-checking site Politifact says students were on "recieving end of the internet's worst hoaxes."
December 12, 2018