Ryan Adamczeski

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This trans street medic was among 67 protesters arrested at Minneapolis hotel hosting ICE agents

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Police at the University of Minnesota arrested 67 protestors two weeks ago during a demonstration outside a hotel where ICE agents were staying, among them a street medic, a volunteer who is trained to assist protesters related to medical matters, who was there to “make sure that nobody got hurt.” Eli Purdy, 22, was one of the several dozen people charged with unlawful assembly for the rally at the Graduate Hotel in Minneapolis on January 29. He says that the protestors were making noise outside the hotel around midnight when “a cruiser came up, and I could not understand what he was saying through […]

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Trump excludes the only gay man and Black governors from White House dinner

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After announcing that he will only host Republicans during the annual presidential meeting with governors, Donald Trump has excluded the only out gay man and only Black governors from the following dinner event.  Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore have not been invited to the White House dinner with the National Governors Association, which Moore is a vice chair of. The decision comes seemingly for no reason — other than the obvious.  Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. “It’s not lost on me that I’m the only Black governor […]

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Black Americans are disproportionately criminalized for living with HIV. Here’s how

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Black people in the U.S. aren’t just more likely to have HIV — they’re more likely to be criminalized for it.  Black Americans accounted for about 38 percent of new HIV diagnoses and 39 percent of people living with HIV in 2023, according to a report from the Williams Institute, despite making up around 12 percent of the population. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Black women had the highest HIV diagnosis rate at 19.6 per 100,000, which is about 11 times the rate for white women at […]

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Florida restores funding for 16,000 people’s HIV medication — for now

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The Florida Department of Health is reversing its funding cuts to a program that provides HIV medication for low-income individuals, but only until they can do it legally.  The department published a notice Tuesday backtracking its decision to gut the AIDS Drug Assistance Program after supposedly failing to find $120 million in the state budget to cover it. Instead, the state will attempt to go through the formal rule-making process in order to make the cuts after a lawsuit from the AIDS Healthcare Foundation accused officials of violating the law.  Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The […]

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Military ban on HIV-positive enlistees could set dangerous precedent, experts warn

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The Trump administration’s fight to prevent HIV-positive people from enlisting in the military will soon be settled, but not before upending the lives of those who want nothing more than to serve.  The Department of Defense has ordered officials not to train new recruits who are HIV-positive, according to guidance sent by the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command and obtained by CNN. The order, sent January 16, states “we are pausing shipping any HIV+ applicants and will follow-up in the coming weeks,” pending a ruling from an appeals court.  “As someone who was illegally kicked out of the Peace Corps for testing positive for […]

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LGBTQ+ Americans are going back in the closet under Donald Trump: report

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LGBTQ+ people are going back into the closet during Donald Trump‘s second term as queer visibility decreases across the board, new research has found.  Nearly half of LGBTQ+ adults (47.5 percent) report being less out somewhere in their lives over the last 12 months, according to the Annual LGBTQ+ Community Survey from the Human Rights Campaign, including workplaces (26.5 percent), healthcare (25.4 percent), and public spaces (28.3 percent).  Over half of LGBTQ+ workers (57.4 percent) with employers that ended or scaled back diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) reported experiencing stigma and bias at work. This stigma appears to be increasing in all areas, as 51.1 percent […]

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Transgender youth who receive hormone therapy are less suicidal: study

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There’s simply no denying that gender-affirming care is life-saving. Transgender youth who are able to access hormone replacement therapy are less likely to be suicidal, according to a report recently published in The Journal of Pediatrics. Researchers surveyed 432 patients ages 12 to 20 over 679 days, finding that “suicidality significantly declined from pretreatment to post-treatment” across all sexes, ages, and treatment durations. “HT was associated with clinically meaningful reductions in suicidality over time, extending prior findings with a larger sample and longer follow-up,” the report concludes. “These study findings provide clinical evidence supporting the mental health benefits of timely access to HT in this population.” Hormone […]

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Indiana town sued for blocking LGBTQ+ Pride festival (again)

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A town in Indiana is being sued once again for blocking an LGBTQ+ Pride celebration by imposing strict regulations on public events — and ignoring organizers even after they met the requirements.  The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana has filed both a lawsuit and a motion for contempt against the town of Loogootee over a “new” ordinance that bans special events from taking place within 240 feet of the town fountain, where the annual PrideFest is held. The town passed the resolution in December despite a near-identical policy being blocked by a court in August.  “The City of Loogootee has passed a series of ordinances […]

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RFK Jr.’s HHS investigates Seattle Children’s Hospital over youth gender-affirming care

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has launched an investigation into Seattle Children’s Hospital for providing gender-affirming careto youth.  The department announced Friday that it has referred the hospital to the Office of Inspector General for “for failure to meet professional recognized standards of health care as according to Secretary Kennedy’s declaration.” If the department concludes the hospital violated the policy, it could lose its Medicaid and Medicare funding. Cited in the referral is the agency’s announcement from earlier this month that it is proposing to ban the lifesaving care for those under age 18, and to prevent both Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance […]

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Gen Z women are more likely to identify as bisexual but still embrace lesbian label: study

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Gen Z women aren’t trying to cancel the lesbian label — they’re just more likely to identify as bisexual.  Among 913,253 international users of the queer women’s and nonbinary dating app Zoe (71.1 percent of whom identify as female), 48.3 percent identify as lesbian, 39.8 percent as bisexual, 6.6 percent as pansexual, 3.4 percent as queer, 1.2 percent as gay, and 0.7 percent as asexual, according to a new report in Demographic Research.  Gen Z users — those born between 1997 and 2006 — were slightly more likely to identify as bisexual than lesbian, with 45 percent of users ages 20 to 29 using the bisexual […]

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