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Hello folks, Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez back (and back!, with your correct newsletter) in your inbox on this Thursday with an exclusive interview Rep. Pramila Jayapal gave to The Advocate’s Christopher Wiggins.

The Washington representative’s message to her fellow Democrats is pretty simple: Don’t throw trans people under the bus.

House Republicans advanced two higher education bills Thursday that LGBTQ+ advocates warn would weaken campus nondiscrimination protections and allow student groups to exclude LGBTQ+ people while still receiving recognition, funding, and other benefits from public colleges and universities.

Louisiana workers will soon be shielded from discipline if they refuse to use a transgender or nonbinary coworker’s name or pronouns, under a new law signed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry that LGBTQ+ advocates warn will invite workplace discrimination under the banner of free speech.

For U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal, the fight over transgender rights has become a test of whether Democrats understand the stakes of this political moment.

Judges on both U.S. coasts will determine where transgender inmates are housed and what protections from discriminatory treatment they still enjoy. The cases are unfolding as transgender inmates across the nation argue that being housed in prisons inconsistent with their gender identity constitutes cruel and unusual punishment.

Even if you’ve never seen a Marilyn Monroe movie, you’ve probably, at some point in your life, viewed vintage film clips of the star’s iconic “Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend” performance from 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. In addition to Madonna paying homage to it decades later in her “Material Girl” video, that image of …

Au Festival de la Cité, Soya the Cow et Uhura Bqueer présentent De-domestication, un rituel queer et antispéciste où une vache des Alpes croise une panthère d’Amazonie. Entre drag, écologie, racisme, colonialisme et libération animale, le spectacle transforme la scène en terrain de résistance poétique. L’article Soya the Cow et Uhura Bqueer dé-domestiquent le Festival …

La Pride de Lausanne arrive les 26 et 27 juin. On espère du monde, de la joie, des retrouvailles, des rencontres, de la danse, des looks incroyables et des slogans qui claquent. Mais l’été, c’est aussi la chaleur, les corps qui circulent, les fêtes qui s’enchaînent, les rapports parfois improvisés, les produits dont on ne …

Du 30 juin au 5 juillet, le Festival de la Cité revient secouer Lausanne avec une programmation gratuite où les corps queer, les récits trans, les colères décoloniales et les dance-floors politiques prennent toute la place. L’article Festival de la Cité 2026: décoloniser les scènes, embraser les nuits est apparu en premier sur 360°.