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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.”
“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.
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.
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."
Balint cites Greene's numerous anti-LGBTQ+, anti-Semitic, Islamophobic, racist, and otherwise bigoted comments as well as her promotion of conspiracy theories in her censure resolution.
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.
Organizers hope to raise funds for a summer camp for LGBTQ+ kids.
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.
The star of The Flash was allegedly caught on video breaking into a neighbor's home to steal bottles of liquor.
Taylor Small got a proposal at the signing ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act.
He'll be the first member of the LGBTQ+ community in the post.
More than 430 out LGBTQ+ candidates won their elections in the 2022 midterms.
Balint, a lesbian, is a longtime Vermont state legislator and former teacher.
Balint easily won the state's Democratic primary for U.S. House Tuesday, and she's likely to win in November and become Vermont's first woman in Congress.
