What you need to know on Election Day — and what happens after
While we’re likely to know a lot about the election, including who won many key House and Senate races, we may have to again wait a while to know who won the presidency.
November 5, 2024
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While we’re likely to know a lot about the election, including who won many key House and Senate races, we may have to again wait a while to know who won the presidency.
All around Los Angeles, teams of volunteers dispatched by the Gay and Lesbian Center are responding to claims of friction at the polls. Thalia Zepatos, director of community engagement for the No on 8 campaign, said many places throughout L.A. County have reported harassment and illegal electioneering by churches. No on 8 volunteers have been removed from church grounds, one polling worker reportedly quoted the Bible, and at least one poll worker has urged people to vote Yes on 8.
One LGBTQ+ entrepreneur has some novel advice for defeating the pandemic.
Grey's Anatomy star T.R. Knight spent Election Day volunteering for No on 8, standing 100 feet away from poling places handing out palm cards and urging people to vote against the same-sex marriage ban. Here he recounts the well-wishers who brought cookies and cheered from cars and the Prop. 8 supporters who yelled and spat -- one even got violent. But Knight says all he ultimately felt was sadness when Prop. 8 passed.
The election could mean LGBTQ+ firsts in Virginia, New Jersey, and Mississippi, along with important progress elsewhere.
McConnell and his ilk will do anything to stop minorities from voting; it must be our mission to win back our inalienable right.
At least 514 out candidates ran or are running in 2023 elections, up 19.5 percent from in 2021, when 430 out candidates ran.
Black women helped defeat Roy Moore, but they don't want to be anyone's backbone but their own, writes Rev. Irene Monroe.
It’s part of a 6-figure ad buy targeting "equality voters."
Bo French, Tarrant County Republican Party Chair, has been both condemned and defended by his colleagues.
Pointing fingers at California's African-Americans over the passage of Proposition 8 is rushing to judgment, writes The Advocate's Teresa Morrison. Race-baiting is simply a repeat of the terrible injustice of Prop. 8.
Why all the surprise about the idea of states divorcing? They are already trying to separate themselves from transgender people, drag queens, people of color, and the Chinese, to name just a few.
Young people are more likely to embrace gender as fluid, according to new polling.
Volunteers in one of California's most conservative cities are trying to change minds at the last minute on Proposition 8. They are blanketing east Bakersfield, the predominantly working-class and Democratic-leaning area of the city. Bakersfield has seen some of the state's most dedicated support for passing Prop. 8.
Like other polls, an informal survey on Scruff has the Democratic frontrunner winning in New York.
Complications with the Peach State's new voting system led to long lines during its primary.
"We should allow our kids to come to their own conclusion of how they will identify themselves," the bill's co-author said.
Jeff Westendorf is president of the Log Cabin Republicans chapter in Iowa and a Giuliani supporter. Westendorf is the second of five LGBT Iowans whom The Advocate will follow through the Iowa caucus on January 3, 2008.