Christopher Wiggins

Flint Del Sol thought the government might tell him no. He did not expect it to say the quiet part in writing. For nearly three years, Del Sol, an educator and author, had been pursuing a workplace discrimination complaint with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against his former employer, a Southern California school district where he taught for more than a decade. As a transgender man, he says he filed the complaint after years of threats, scrutiny, and what he described as discriminatory treatment tied to his transition and his advocacy for LGBTQ+ students. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ […]

Pete Buttigieg said Friday that an anonymous child protective services allegation brought police and a Child Protective Services worker to his family’s home this week, forced his 4-year-old twins into forensic interviews, and left him briefly separated from them before authorities concluded the report was false. In a deeply personal Substack post titled “A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family,” the former transportation secretary described the incident as a “cruel, politically motivated hoax” that invaded his home, frightened his family, and pulled his children into the brutal machinery of American politics. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with […]

After years of Republican attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, especially transgenderrights, a new poll finds that most likely voters still prefer candidates who support LGBTQ+ people over those who oppose them. The survey from Data for Progress, released Friday and shared exclusively with The Advocate, found that 51 percent of likely voters said they were most likely to vote for a candidate who vocally supports LGBTQ+ rights. Thirty-two percent said they would prefer a candidate who vocally opposes LGBTQ+ rights, and 16 percent said they did not know. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days […]

As conservative lawmakers across the country target transgender rights and revisit long-settled questions about LGBTQ+ equality, Delaware moved in the opposite direction. On Tuesday, Gov. Matt Meyer, a Democrat, signed legislation modernizing the state’s parentage laws, expanding legal protections for children and families formed through assisted reproduction, surrogacy, donor conception, and other paths to parenthood commonly used by LGBTQ+ people. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. The updated Delaware Parentage Act may lack the political flash of debates over bathrooms, sports, or marriage equality — but for many LGBTQ+ families, advocates say, few laws […]

As the Trump administration continues its unprecedented assault on LGBTQ+ rights, some of the nation’s most prominent queer leaders and allies gathered Tuesday night in Washington, D.C., with a message that was equal parts warning, celebration, and call to action: don’t give up. Bob the Drag Queen hosted Equality PAC’s annual National Pride Gala, attended by members of Congress, activists, celebrities, and donors, packed a ballroom just blocks from the Capitol, where speakers repeatedly returned to a common refrain — that the current wave of anti-LGBTQ+ attacks, particularly those targeting transgender people, can be defeated through political organizing, visibility, and persistence. Stay up to […]