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Hello and Happy Wednesday! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox with another exclusive from The Advocate’s Christopher Wiggins.

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President Donald Trump announced Wednesday afternoon that White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt will leave her post at the end of August, closing a tenure in which the administration’s youngest-ever chief spokesperson became one of its most aggressive defenders — including when the facts did not support what she was saying and when transgender Americans …

A new ranking of cities throughout the world by how sexually liberated they are has just been published.

Seattle leaders could soon distribute $300,000 to LGBTQ+ organizations to welcome displaced transgender people to the city. The boost for local nonprofits comes as social services feel the strain of a massive influx of people fleeing persecution in Republican-led states.

Iels vivent ensemble quinze ans après leur rupture, se partagent la garde du chat ou accueillent leurs nouvelles partenaires dans le même cercle d’ami·es. Chez les lesbien·nes, une séparation ne signifie pas toujours la disparition du lien. Une autre manière de rompre… ou une difficulté à vraiment se quitter? L’article Les lesbien·nes savent-iels mieux rester …

Face au deuil, certains livres nous laissent de marbre, tandis que d’autres deviennent des phares auxquels s’accrocher. Dans sa chronique littéraire Apostropholles, Robin Corminboeuf explore, de Joan Didion à Rebeka Warrior en passant par Fleur Pierets, ces récits qui ne réparent pas l’absence, mais agrandissent peu à peu l’espace autour d’elle. L’article Les livres peuvent-ils …

Hello and Happy Thursday folks, Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox with another exclusive from The Advocate’s Christopher Wiggins.

More than four decades after New York shut down adult saunas during the height of the AIDS epidemic, state lawmakers are seeking to replace what they describe as an emergency-era policy with a modern regulatory framework built around today’s public health science.

An unprecedented settlement agreement has been reached in a case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton that requires Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston to pay $10 million to the state and create a “detransition clinic.”