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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.”
Pride of Woodstock VT's cochairs tell The Advocate how they built the town's inaugural Pride Month celebration from the ground up.
House Republicans are continuing their party’s culture war against the LGBTQ+ community.
Using the must-pass National Defense Authorization Act, two LGBTQ+ members of Congress have joined forces to hold up funds to the African country.
Mid Vermont Christian School withdrew from a state basketball tournament rather than face a team with a trans player.
Taylor Small got a proposal at the signing ceremony for the Respect for Marriage Act.
“I won’t sit and watch him lie,” Vermont Democratic Congresswoman Becca Balint said.
“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.
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.
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.
Organizers hope to raise funds for a summer camp for LGBTQ+ kids.
The star of The Flash was allegedly caught on video breaking into a neighbor's home to steal bottles of liquor.
He'll be the first member of the LGBTQ+ community in the post.
Instead of consoling a grieving nation, the president has tried to score political points by falsely blaming diversity efforts for the tragedy.
”I have to say something,” the Vermont congresswoman said about calling attention to the president’s bizarre behavior.
The proposed law would safeguard one of the most fundamental rights and responsibilities of American citizens.
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."
Legislation was introduced to establish a dedicated museum within the Smithsonian Institution, which garnered broad support from the Congressional Equality Caucus.
GOPers like to say they “support the troops,” but when it comes down to it, they don’t support certain troops.
It comes after the school refused to play a team with a trans girl on it.
