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Hello again folks, Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez back on this Thursday.

A Republican running for governor in Maine compared transgender youth to children who consider those who identify as animals.

This story originally appeared on Them.

Republican politicians in New York are enraged by bills that would make the state’s child custody laws gender neutral, despite anti-male bias in child custody decisions sparking years of outcry from many conservatives.

Far-right influencers launched what appeared to be a coordinated campaign to deride Harley-Davidson as “gay” and “woke.” Many of the attacks promoted the same competitor as a supposedly more « based » alternative.

A core principle of American education is under threat in Congress: the right of families to work with educators, school librarians, and local school boards to decide what students read and learn.

I’ve been covering Donald Trump for The Advocate since 2019, through his first term, through his off years sulking and griping at Mar-a-Lago, and now through his nightmare return to the White House over the last two years.

After the withdrawal of at least one group of marchers and a frenzy of complaints, there will be no Grand Marshal Icon at the 2026 WeHo Pride Parade, say the event’s organizers, West Hollywood leaders, and former honoree Kathy Hilton.

We are witnessing one of the most aggressive attacks on LGBTQ+ people in America in generations. It is heartbreaking, but in many ways, it does not feel new.

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.