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 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…

The LGBTQ+ Victory Fund on Monday endorsed 35 candidates across 19 states, expanding its push to build LGBTQ+ political power as rights face renewed challenges in the 2026 election cycle.

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At a glance, the list reads like a catalog of local and state races, city councils, county commissions,…

Amid a torrent of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and a national political climate increasingly defined by fear and distortion, Evan Low has come to an unsettling realization: What the country is living through right now is not normal.

Low, the president and CEO of the LGBTQ+ Victory Fund and Victory Institute and a former California state lawmaker, had just returned from Creating Change, the annual…