Republican Sen. Mike Lee wants to ban pornography with new bill
Utah Republican U.S. Sen Mike Lee has introduced legislation that would reimagine the definition of pornography and, in the process, potentially eliminate all interstate online porn. It’s another instance of Republicans supporting policies laid out in the Heritage Foundation‘s Project 2025.
Kirsti Noem won’t say if gay asylum-seeker deported to El Salvador’s ‘hellhole’ prison is still alive
A gay man who sought safety in the United States was instead disappeared into one of the most notorious prisons in the world—and on Wednesday, a sitting member of Congress demanded to know why.
New Republican House bill bans transgender troops & seeks to strip trans vets of security clearances
House Republicans are planning to introduce a bill that would make President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender military service permanent and expand it. The legislation, drafted by Alabama U.S. Rep. Barry Moore, would not only implement the ban through federal law but also require the discharge of any currently serving trans troops and restrict access …
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🌈 Let Pride season officially begin! The Advocate dropped our Pride cover story, featuring actor and activist Cynthia Nixon. The star of cultural phenomena like And Just Like That… and The Gilded Age opens up to Tracy E. Gilchrist about her art and her politics.
Cynthia Nixon is leaning into queer joy, art, and family between protests
It’s late March in New York City, and Cynthia Nixon honors sapphics throughout the decades at the storied lesbian bar Henrietta Hudson for this cover shoot. She stands tall on the street outside the bar of the historically queer West Village in a power suit, arm akimbo in one photo; in another, she’s clad in …
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Why Chasten Buttigieg wrote a new children’s book about two dads that isn’t about being different
When Chasten Buttigieg spoke with The Advocate from his home in Traverse City in early May, he had just seen a hummingbird for the first time this season. It was the kind of moment he’s learned to savor — one of nature, stillness, and the quiet that now surrounds the family he’s raising with his …
Pete Hegseth is trying to force this transgender soldier out of the military. He won’t leave voluntarily
When Lt. Nicolas Talbott heard the U.S. Supreme Court had granted the Trump administration’s request to pause a lower court ruling in a transgender military ban case, he was sitting in a Mexican restaurant, halfway through a nacho.
Silence isn’t a strategy: Why leaders must talk about depression before it talks back
Off and on since young adulthood, I’ve dealt with periodic depression. At work, I tried to wear a mask that said, « Oh, I’m fine. Nothing to see here. » My silence, of course, only made it worse.