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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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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 …

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.

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.

Every family has one. A deranged uncle, a constantly complaining aunt, a cousin who posts conspiracy theories on Facebook, or a brother who blames all of his life’s problems not on himself but on the world that’s out to get him. « Woe is me » is his only tired, eye-rolling refrain.

The Congressional Equality Caucus Wednesday denounced the advancement of a budget reconciliation bill that would make deep cuts to Medicaid and bar Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program from paying for gender-affirming care for transgender minors.

Pope Leo XIV‘s brother seems to be part of Trump’s MAGA crowd.

With many states and the federal government adopting anti-transgender policies, nearly half of the trans people in a Williams Institute survey have moved to a more welcoming state or are considering such a move.