Gay Activist and Writer Jeffrey Escoffier Dead at 79
Author: Trudy Ring Jeffrey Escoffier, a longtime activist, author of works on gay identity, and creator of public health campaigns, has died at age 79....
June 26, 2022
The Advocate Covers Over the Decades
Author: Advocate.com Editors Following the death of George Floyd at the hands of police in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, the Black Lives Matter movement gave...
June 25, 2022
Police Say Man Killed Gay Lover, Burned Corpse To Hide Relationship
Author: Donald Padgett Police in Philadelphia arrested a man they say killed his gay lover and left the burning corpse in a local park in...
June 25, 2022
Russian Artist & Activist Faces Jail For Vagina Drawings
Author: Donald Padgett An LGBTQ+ rights activist, visual artist, and children’s theater director in Russia has been accused of acting as a foreign agent and...
June 25, 2022
Anti-Abortion Activists Will Aim Viciousness at Marriage Equality
Author: John Casey Views expressed in the Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate...
June 25, 2022
A religious kook rushed the stage to scream at a drag queen. He didn’t get the response he expected.
Author: Greg Owen An Ohio drag queen has shared his terrifying account of being accosted on stage by an anti-LGBTQ fundamentalist and the remarkable reaction...
June 25, 2022
Shooting Outside Gay Club in Oslo Leaves 2 Dead Hours Before Pride
Author: Alex Cooper A mass shooting outside a gay club in Oslo, Norway, early Saturday has left two people dead and around 19 wounded. It...
June 24, 2022
The States Banning Abortion Now That SCOTUS Has Ruled
Author: Trudy Ring Wyoming has passed a law banning abortion “except in cases of rape, incest and serious risk of death or ‘substantial and irreversible...
June 24, 2022
Provincetown Reacts to SCOTUS’s Disgraceful Overturning of Roe v. Wade
Author: Cara Glass Provincetown Reacts to SCOTUS’s Disgraceful Overturning of Roe v. Wade The Supreme Court ruled Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, meaning any...
June 24, 2022
Kamala Harris Blasts SCOTUS, Says Marriage Equality Is on the Line
Author: Christopher Wiggins Speaking to a crowd in Plainfield, Illinois, Vice President Kamala Harris addressed today’s overturning of Roe v. Wade. “Today, as of right now, as...
June 24, 2022
Roe Now v. Roe Then: A History of the Overturned Ruling
Author: Christopher Wiggins Roe Now v. Roe Then: A History of the Overturned Ruling In 1970, attorneys for a pregnant woman under the pseudonym “Jane...
June 24, 2022
Biden on Today’s SCOTUS Decision: ‘This is Not Over’
Author: Christopher Wiggins President Joe Biden addressed the cameras this afternoon to criticize the U.S. Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade. Biden said that the U.S....
June 24, 2022
Single straight World Cup fans shocked to discover they can go to jail in Qatar for having sex
Author: John Russell LGBTQ soccer fans aren’t the only ones feeling uneasy now about the 2022 World Cup taking place in Qatar. Both homosexuality and...
June 24, 2022
Twitter has become an outlet for sorrow & rage after Supreme Court overturns Roe v Wade
Author: Greg Owen In a reversal no less shocking after a draft opinion had been released months earlier, the Supreme Court today overturned the landmark...
June 24, 2022
Roe v Wade is dead. Ending marriage equality & bringing back sodomy laws are next.
Author: John Gallagher The Supreme Court made it official: in a 6-3 decision, the justices ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the...
June 24, 2022
NY library reverses decision to ban LGBTQ children’s books after outcry
Author: John Russell A public library on Long Island, N.Y., has reversed its decision to remove its Pride displays and ban all LGBTQ-themed books from...
June 24, 2022
Trans Athletes Effectively Banned From Women’s Swimming Events
Author: Alex Cooper The organization behind international swimming, FINA, announced a ban on trans women athletes from competing in women’s events if they did not...
June 19, 2022
On Juneteenth, Think About Black Americans
Author: Daniel McHenry Views expressed in The Advocate’s opinion articles are those of the writers and do not necessarily represent the views of The Advocate or our parent...
June 19, 2022
The teacher who created the first public school Gay-Straight Alliance retires
Author: Nic Austin Bob Parlin deserves his retirement. After coming out as gay while working as a teacher in 1992, a student went to him...
June 19, 2022
Trans athlete in New Zealand denied entry to women’s darts tournament
Author: Greg Owen A transgender woman in New Zealand has been barred from a women’s darts tournament because the organization sponsoring the event said they...
June 19, 2022
