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“Queer people, trans people, people of color are waking up today feeling in danger,” U.S. Rep. Becca Balint said. “We need to have a full-throated declaration that we are going to be there with them.”
Donald Trump may have won in part based on lies Republicans spread about a vulnerable minority of Americans.
“I think people don’t understand the emotional and psychological toll it takes on us as openly gay members of Congress that we are in those committee hearings when people are saying horrible things about us,” Balint says.
Three Equality PAC co-chairs tell The Advocate they’re confident in her chances to carry the day.
The proposed law would safeguard one of the most fundamental rights and responsibilities of American citizens.
Pride of Woodstock VT's cochairs tell The Advocate how they built the town's inaugural Pride Month celebration from the ground up.
These states have taken the step to protect bodily autonomy.
Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, the first woman and first out gay mayor of Vermont's largest city, tells The Advocate about how blue states must be proactive instead of reactive in the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
Emma Mulvaney-Stanak, who was previously a state representative, said that "when you have marginalized people at the table, decisions change because you remember humanity matters."
There were notable wins in both red and blue states, with Texas moving toward sending a lesbian to Congress and Burlington, Vt., electing a lesbian mayor.
Officials at Mid Vermont Christian School say the state is committing unconstitutional religious discrimination.
The women took their elopement to the summit of Vermont's third-largest mountain.
Legislation was introduced to establish a dedicated museum within the Smithsonian Institution, which garnered broad support from the Congressional Equality Caucus.
House Republicans are continuing their party’s culture war against the LGBTQ+ community.
GOPers like to say they “support the troops,” but when it comes down to it, they don’t support certain troops.
Using the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, two LGBTQ+ members of Congress have joined forces to hold up funds to the African country.
Gov. Phil Scott signed legislation protecting access to gender-affirming care and abortion.
It comes after the school refused to play a team with a trans girl on it.
Mid Vermont Christian School withdrew from a state basketball tournament rather than face a team with a trans player.
