Rep. Robert Garcia, one of the most prominent gay lawmakers in Congress, advanced Tuesday to California's November general election, putting him on a path to represent a city that has spent the past several years turning itself into a national symbol of conservative resistance to LGBTQ+ visibility.
Garcia won a decisive 51.74 percent of the vote with 61 percent of votes counted, according to…
Pete Buttigieg is leading the field of potential Democratic presidential contenders for 2028, according to a new national poll.
The latest Emerson College Polling survey, released this week, found Buttigieg at 18 percent support among Democratic primary voters, narrowly ahead of California Gov. Gavin Newsom at 16 percent. New York U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez followed at 11 percent,…
"Shut up, you ugly fuck.” How long before those five words wind up for sale as a T-shirt, a ballcap, and a bumper sticker for sale at the official store of the Democratic Party?
We don’t know, but we’re watching a viral online volcano of rowdy reactions and explosive expletives, following the official Democrats account on X, telling White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller to do…
The first out LGBTQ+ person elected to Congress from the South lost a closely watched Democratic primary Tuesday night after former U.S. Rep. Colin Allred defeated incumbent U.S. Rep. Julie Johnson in Texas’ newly redrawn 33rd Congressional District.
With 78.17 percent of precincts reporting at 11:07 p.m EDT, according to Decision Desk HQ, Allred led Johnson 53.76 percent to 46.24 percent in…
For years, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has built his political brand around grievance, confrontation, and attacks on LGBTQ+ people. On Tuesday night, moments after toppling Sen. John Cornyn in one of the most consequential Republican primary upsets of the Trump era, he returned to one of the movement’s favorite targets, transgender children.
Standing before supporters during his Senate…
When Bentley Hudgins talks about democracy, they rarely begin with ideology.
They talk about brown water running from neighborhood taps. About losing housing after an apartment complex changed ownership. About sleeping in a 1997 Dodge Dakota pickup truck during a brutal Georgia summer. About being disbelieved by doctors for years before finally receiving treatment that restored their…
For Congresswoman Sarah McBride, a Democrat who represents Delaware, the fight for paid family and medical leave has never been an abstract policy debate. It is bound up in grief, caregiving, economic survival, and the memory of marrying her husband on a Washington, D.C., rooftop just days before he died of cancer.
Standing before advocates in Washington on Thursday, McBride delivered one of…
After years of escalating anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric in American politics, a new national report suggests the consequences are no longer confined to campaign ads, legislative fights, or online outrage. For many LGBTQ+ candidates, the threats have become intensely personal and increasingly physical.
The threats arrive in direct messages, voicemail inboxes, comment sections, and late-night emails.…
As the Trump administration intensifies its legal campaign against healthcare providers, New Jersey Democrats are moving to fortify the state as a refuge for transgender patients and doctors caught in the widening political fight.
On Thursday, the New Jersey General Assembly Health Committee passed legislation designed to shield providers of reproductive and gender-affirming care from…
Virginia Democrats’ chaotic redistricting battle has claimed one of the party’s most closely watched congressional campaigns. Retired Space Force Colonel Bree Fram, the highest-ranking out transgender officer in the U.S. military, announced Wednesday that she is ending her bid for Congress after the state’s Supreme Court threw out newly drawn congressional maps weeks before early…
Miguel Trindade Deramo is running for the Washington, D.C., City Council in one of the most politically progressive neighborhoods in America. But the candidate says a year, marked by federal crackdowns, immigration sweeps, armed patrols, and fear spreading through Washington’s queer nightlife corridors, revealed how unprepared the nation’s capital was to protect many of the people who live…
Speaking from hospice care and appearing unwell in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday, the Democrat said he is living with end-stage heart failure. “I’ve felt better. On the other hand, I anticipate feeling worse,” he said. “After 86…
In the wake of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that curtailed states’ ability to prohibit so-called “conversion therapy” outright, Colorado lawmakers are advancing a bill to deter the practice through civil liability rather than direct bans.
The proposal, House Bill 26-1322, would allow people who say they were subjected to conversion therapy to sue licensed mental health providers, as…
House Democrats forced a breakthrough Wednesday in their fight to question former Attorney General Pam Bondi over the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epstein files, filing a civil contempt resolution after she skipped a subpoenaed deposition and prompting Republicans to announce, within hours, that she will now testify next month.
Rep. Robert Garcia, the gay ranking Democrat on…
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is appointing a Black lesbian archivist and librarian on Wednesday to lead one of the city’s most consequential but often overlooked agencies, elevating a longtime advocate for information access at a moment when battles over public records, history, and identity are intensifying nationwide.
Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, who has spent nearly two decades working…
As LGBTQ+ rights face sustained political attack across the country, the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund used its annual National Champagne Brunch in Washington, D.C., on Sunday to celebrate both rising queer leadership and the allies who have stood with them on difficult ground.
One of the afternoon’s most prominent honorees was Andy Beshear, Kentucky’s Democratic governor and a potential 2028…
Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear will be honored Sunday in Washington, D.C., by the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund, receiving the group’s Allyship Award at its annual national brunch, which draws LGBTQ+ elected officials, candidates, and major donors. The gathering has increasingly become a barometer of who, in American politics, is willing to take a visible stand on LGBTQ+ rights.
The award, given to public…
California Democrats are moving swiftly to push Rep. Eric Swalwell out of the governor’s race after a former staffer accused him of sexual assault, with two of the state’s most prominent Democratic voices now publicly signaling that his campaign may be over.
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, through spokesperson Ian Krager, said Friday that the woman accusing Swalwell “must be respected and…
A closely watched congressional race in Nebraska is becoming a flash point not only in the battle for control of the U.S. House, but in a broader fight over LGBTQ+ rights.
At issue is Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District, the Omaha-based swing seat being vacated by retiring Republican Rep. Don Bacon. Democrats view the district as one of their strongest pickup opportunities in 2026. But as…
Nathalie Kanani, the Democratic Party's candidate for the US Senate seat representing Georgia, published a Passover greeting ad in the Atlanta Jewish Times on the eve of the holiday – only for the ad to contain a deeply embarrassing error. Alongside the text "Have a blessed Passover – wishing you a holiday rich in love […]
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Maryland lawmakers are advancing legislation that would expand anti-discrimination protections across the state's education system, explicitly covering all students, including transgender youth, as advocates warn that both federal enforcement and school conditions for LGBTQ+ students are deteriorating.
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A senior House Democrat is warning that the firing of Pam Bondi will not halt congressional scrutiny, accusing the former attorney general of helping shield President Donald Trump from accountability in matters tied to the Epstein files.
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In a sharply worded statement released after Bondi’s…
President Donald Trump marked Transgender Day of Visibility with a White House statement attacking transgender Americans and broader gender diversity, reviving rhetoric that LGBTQ+ advocates say stigmatizes an already vulnerable community.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear appeared visibly offended when he sat down for an exclusive interview with The Advocate on Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Colorado’s ban on so-called "conversion therapy" for minors.
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"The Supreme Court is absolutely wrong," Beshear said…
A new poll shows Democratic Rep. Chris Pappas and former Sen. John E. Sununu locked in a statistical tie in New Hampshire’s 2026 U.S. Senate race.
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The Emerson College Polling survey, conducted March 21–23, finds Pappas at 45 percent and Sununu at 44 percent in a hypothetical general…
Amid rising costs of living, Prime MinisterMette Frederiksen ’s center-left party won just 22% of the vote in yesterday’s nationwide election, marking the Social Democrats’ worst result since 1903. The left-wing Socialist Party and right-wing Danish People’s Party were the beneficiaries, undermining the notion that…
Despite polling showing progressives maintain a slight edge on education, public trust in the party has plummeted
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President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters Monday morning before boarding Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in Florida, delivered a familiar blend of grievance and policy demands, with transgender people once again at the center of his rhetoric.
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Senate Democrats on Saturday blocked a Republican-backed amendment that would have barred transgender girls and women from participating in female school sports, defeating an effort to attach the measure to the GOP’s SAVE America Act during a tense and meandering weekend debate that showed little sign of resolution.
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Daniel Biss, the mayor of Evanston and a former Illinois state representative and senator, narrowly defeated Gen-Z candidate Kat Abughazaleh in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for Illinois’ 9th Congressional District, emerging from a race that tested generational divides inside one of the country’s most reliably blue seats.
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