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Trump is coming for your poppers: Major producer closes amid FDA crackdown

Several other companies seem to have followed suit.

Trump’s health department launches ‘vile’ anti-trans website featuring right-wing influencer (exclusive)

Trump and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. “are starting their tenure at HHS by attacking trans people, harming their access to health, and promoting unscientific rhetoric about sex as a so-called immutable characteristic,” former HHS official Adrian Shanker told The Advocate.

RFK Jr. lies to senators about claiming that pesticides make kids transgender in HHS confirmation hearing

“I never said that,” he claimed. The record says otherwise.

20 savage reactions to Robert F Kennedy Jr. being picked to run Health & Human Services

We're really starting to wonder who has the brain worm here?

Gay men have been cautious about mpox. Will a second Donald Trump term set them back?

Gay men are more trusting of medicine than other groups, but the incoming Trump Administration will need more than their willingness to continue combating mpox.

RFK Jr. drops out of presidential race, endorses Trump

Kennedy, a conspiracy-minded anti-vaccine activist with a bizarre history, had been running for president as an independent.

RFK Jr. attacks gender-affirming care for minors while admitting he has brain worms. Really.

In a very real development, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attacking transgender youth’s access to health care while admitting that a parasite has eaten part of his brain.

Five years after COVID began, Biden's health adviser warns of the new dangers to public health

One of the world’s top health experts used to sleep with one eye open. Now, he says he’s been sleeping with all three eyes open.

Black gay official could lose leadership role after criticizing Louisiana governor's anti-LGBTQ+ post

Davante Lewis talks to The Advocate ahead of a vote to remove him from his vice chairman role on Louisiana's Public Service Commission — all for defending former HHS official Dr. Rachel Levine.

No, HHS Assistant Secretary Rachel Levine isn't performing pagan rituals in the woods

The doctored footage has been circulating on social media lately in which Levine's head was digitally placed onto the body of a woman wearing robes and a pentacle necklace.

Project 2025's creator is 'ecstatic' over Trump's terrible cabinet picks

As the rest of the world scratches their heads at Trump's bizarre and unqualified cabinet picks, Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts said the choices are "sending signals that you better go back if you're here illegally."

Lesbian Sen. Tammy Baldwin's Republican opponent attacks her partner in campaign ads

The ads accuse her of a conflict of interest but appear to be targeting her for being LGBTQ+.

Gay Democrat Ritchie Torres joins Republican lawmaker to call for Secret Service reform

The two appeared on Morning Joe to discuss their bipartisan effort to secure protectees of the U.S. Secret Service after Trump assassination attempt.

RFK Jr. makes California ballot by collaborating with political party with a bigoted, anti-LGBTQ+ past

The son of the former Democratic attorney general under President John F. Kennedy accepted the American Independence Party’s ballot spot in California. The group has a problematic history.

Mitch McConnell will leave Senate with egregiously anti-LGBTQ+ record

The Republican, who announced Thursday that he will not run for reelection in 2026, has a record of opposition to LGBTQ+ equality.

Republicans strip Louisiana's only LGBTQ+ elected official of leadership role

Davante Lewis tells The Advocate about his removal as vice chairman on Louisiana's Public Service Commission, which he believes was racially and politically motivated.

Why LGBTQ+ groups are angry at RFK Jr.'s confirmation

Kennedy has denied that he ever said chemicals cause gender dysphoria or that HIV doesn't cause AIDS — but he did.

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis backtracks apparent support for RFK Jr. leading HHS (exclusive)

A spokesperson for Polis told The Advocate that “Governor Polis has not changed his view as a whole on RFK Jr. or on the Governor’s previously stated concerns regarding some of RFK Jr’s positions."

BREAKING: Trump picks anti-trans, anti-vaccine Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head Health and Human Services

RFK Jr. is an anti-trans conspiracy theorist and vaccine denialist who has been repudiated by his famous family.

Republican Mark Robinson says ‘wickedness’ of marriage equality will lead to pedophilia as ’next human right’

He made the anti-LGBTQ+ comments during sermons at churches. It's not the first time he's made such bigoted remarks.