https://www.advocate.com/rss.xml en https://assets.rbl.ms/32874384/origin.png https://www.advocate.com https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/advocate-nl-8-14-26 Happy Friday folks! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox with an intriguing piece from Ariel Messman-Rucker.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:23:05 EDT Edgar Ramirez https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/advocate-nl-8-14-26 https://www.advocate.com/politics/alice-wade-new-hampshire This story originally appeared on Them.

New Hampshire Democratic state representative Alice Wade has spent her brief time in office pushing forward progressive policy points, often fighting against anti-transgender legislation such as bathroom restrictions and gender-affirming care bans since being elected in 2024. As the 25-year-old’s nascent political career gained momentum in the spring of 2025, Wade tells Them that she considered an exploratory campaign for Congress in the state’s 1st Congressional District (CD-1), seeking the backing of other progressives.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:28:50 EDT Quispe López https://www.advocate.com/politics/alice-wade-new-hampshire https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/worldpride-amsterdam-after-berlin As boats float down Amsterdam’s Prinsengracht canal during this year’s WorldPride Canal Parade, security guards pace alongside the temporary bleachers, repeatedly asking attendees to remain seated. One man in vibrant red sunglasses keeps rising anyway, eager for a better view of the next float.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:29:36 EDT Alysse Dalessandro https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/worldpride-amsterdam-after-berlin https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/jd-vance-doj-transgender-hospitals Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:03:29 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/jd-vance-doj-transgender-hospitals https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-eyebrows Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s son-in-law Michael Alfonso is running for office, but all the internet can talk about is his eyebrows.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:44:10 EDT Ariel Messman-Rucker https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/sean-duffy-michael-alfonso-eyebrows https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/gay-bear-culture-ozempic Larger, hairier gay men who felt excluded from mainstream gay culture and its obsession with smooth skin and a low body fat percentage formed their own community in the late 1970s and dubbed themselves “bears.”]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:05:27 EDT Ariel Messman-Rucker https://www.advocate.com/news/culture/gay-bear-culture-ozempic https://www.advocate.com/news/wisconsin-gay-principal-lawsuit A former Wisconsin school administrator, who was voted Principal of the Year, alleges that a school board fabricated stories about him "grooming" students before refusing to renew the gay educator’s contract.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 12:21:32 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/news/wisconsin-gay-principal-lawsuit https://www.advocate.com/politics/shevrin-jones-homophobic-text-attack This story originally appeared on Them.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:35:00 EDT Mathew Rodriguez https://www.advocate.com/politics/shevrin-jones-homophobic-text-attack https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/frank-perez-louisiana-dies Frank Perez, the writer, educator, and archivist whose work preserved generations of LGBTQ+history in New Orleans and across Louisiana, died Saturday after a sudden battle with cancer. He was 57.]]> Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:45:05 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/obituaries/frank-perez-louisiana-dies https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/advocate-nl-8-13-26 Hello and Happy Thursday, folks! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:08:31 EDT Edgar Ramirez https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/advocate-nl-8-13-26 https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trevor-project-excluded-988 The Trevor Project spent years helping build the federal crisis service for LGBTQ+ young people and handled roughly half of all calls, texts, and chats routed through it. Now, as the Trump administration prepares to reinstate the service it abruptly discontinued last year, the organization has been told it will not be included.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:31:49 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trevor-project-excluded-988 https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/massachusetts-transgender A transgender young person confronted Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell over why her office hasn’t sued hospitals denying gender-affirming care.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:01:28 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/health/transgender-health/massachusetts-transgender https://www.advocate.com/news/philadelphia-drag-queen-ice-custody Philadelphia’s drag community is rallying around drag queen Chantal Waldorf after their detention by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:25:05 EDT Jacob Ogles https://www.advocate.com/news/philadelphia-drag-queen-ice-custody https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/breaking-news-8-13-26 Erik Cox Photography / Shutterstock]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:10:42 EDT Edgar Ramirez https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/breaking-news-8-13-26 https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-kennedy-center-inscription Having been ordered by a federal judge to remove President Donald Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., Trump’s handpicked board has devised a new way to put it back.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:53:09 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/trump-kennedy-center-inscription https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/peggy-flanagan-unseats-angie-craig Minnesota Democrats chose a progressive ally over an LGBTQ+ history-maker Tuesday, handing Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan victory against lesbian U.S. Rep. Angie Craig in the Democratic-Farmer-Labor primary for U.S. Senate.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:22:21 EDT Christopher Wiggins https://www.advocate.com/politics/election/peggy-flanagan-unseats-angie-craig https://www.advocate.com/opinion/nba-washouts-mock-trans-people Two failed NBA players have found a new way to make a mockery of transgender people, and they’re using women’s professional basketball to do it. And just like every other attempt to delegitimize trans human beings, it will fail.]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:59:18 EDT John Casey https://www.advocate.com/opinion/nba-washouts-mock-trans-people https://www.advocate.com/news/aau-propublica-sports-investigation This story was originally published by ProPublica
]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:39:31 EDT Molly Hensley-Clancy - Propublica https://www.advocate.com/news/aau-propublica-sports-investigation https://www.advocate.com/sports/wnba-trans-players-bad-faith This story originally appeared on Them.

The WNBA has commented on the growing number of outsiders trying to use the league’s gender eligibility policies to stir up controversy. ]]> Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:53:50 EDT Mathew Rodriguez https://www.advocate.com/sports/wnba-trans-players-bad-faith https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/advocate-nl-8-12-26 Hello and Happy Wednesday! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox with another exclusive from The Advocate's Christopher Wiggins.]]> Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:38:19 EDT Edgar Ramirez https://www.advocate.com/newsletter/advocate-nl-8-12-26