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Pete Buttigieg hints at 2028 presidential run: ‘Save me a seat’

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Former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg may not have formally entered the 2028 presidential race, but on Friday in New York, he came closer than ever to saying aloud what many Democrats have long suspected: he is preparing to run again. The clearest signal came near the end of his appearance at the National Action Network’s 35th annual convention, where civil rights icon and MS NOW host Rev. Al Sharpton asked the question hanging over Buttigieg’s reemergence onto the national stage. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. “When you ran […]

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Ohio Man Pleads Guilty In Pride Flags Arson Spree

Cincinnati’s NBC affiliate reports: A man who is accused of intentionally setting fire to multiple Pride flags across Cincinnati pleaded guilty this week to a federal charge that he faces in connection with the incidents. According to court documents, Thomas Niehaus, 53, pleaded guilty to one count of malicious fire on Thursday at the Potter Stewart Courthouse in downtown Cincinnati. This comes after Niehaus is alleged to have targeted and set fire to multiple flags that were displayed outside different homes in Clifton and Northside last July. One yard sign with a picture of a Ukrainian flag was also said to […]

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The wild saga of FDR’s $1 million gay military sex sting

Had the consequences not been ruinous for the men entrapped, the story would read like a comedy.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt — before he served as 32nd president of the United States — in 1919 approved a secret operation to rid the U.S. Navy in Newport, Rhode Island, of “cocksuckers and rectum receivers.” Their method? Volunteer agents would have gay sex and then tell on the sailors they had sex with for being gay. Roosevelt was serving as assistant secretary of the Navy and, according to historian Sherry Zane, who published an article on operation “Section A,” he even consulted lawyers […]

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Texas AG Candidates Vow To Overturn Obergefell

The Texas Tribune reports: More than just campaign trail grandstanding, promises from both candidates to use the agency to try to overturn decades-old Supreme Court precedent offer a glimpse at how Texas’ next attorney general could go even further than outgoing incumbent Ken Paxton in channeling the office’s powers toward pursuit of the conservative legal movement’s white whales. Empowered by the overturning of Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court’s current favorable makeup, conservatives are itching to go after other long-standing rulings such as those allowing gay marriage, keeping religion out of government and giving the feds authority over the states. Last session, Sen. […]

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LESBIAN VISIBILITY WEEK NORTH AMERICA Returns April 20-26

Lesbian Visibility Week North America (#LVW26), powered by The Curve Foundation, kicks off on Monday, April 20 and runs through Sunday, April 26 with a diverse range of coordinated events built on a simple but powerful truth: visibility boosts belonging and safety. The yearly celebration ensures that LGBTQ+ women’s and nonbinary people’s lives, culture, and communities are visible in public, social, and cultural spaces through intergenerational programming and community building. This year’s Lesbian Visibility Week embraces the theme Health & Wellbeing through activities spanning high-profile receptions, civic proclamations, cultural festivals, wellness gatherings, sports events, and more. With hundreds of events planned across cities […]

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Carlson To Launch Own Imprint With “Ex-Gay” Book

The Guardian reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson is set to launch his own imprint and publish books by the likes of Russell Brand and “alt-right” commentator Milo Yiannopoulos. The imprint, Tucker Carlson Books, will be part of the US-based publisher Skyhorse. Among the titles set to be published by Carlson’s imprint is Brand’s How to Become a Christian in Seven Days,described by Skyhorse as a “testimony and guide to a timeless, yet zeitgeist-capturing, grounded, yet psychedelic encounter with Christ”. Carlson’s imprint will also publish Yiannopoulos’s book, Ex Gay. Yiannopoulos has previously been shunned by publishers, with one insider calling his 2017 memoir,Dangerous, a […]

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LGBTQ+ people have always made history. But students are only just starting to learn that.

There has never been a time when LGBTQ+ people did not exist in classrooms, but for most of the history of American education, they were invisible. In addition to closeted students and teachers, classes could move through years of history, literature, and health classes without encountering queer people in any direct way. In practice, that often meant students would never hear the word “gay,” let alone any other queer identities.  Curriculum decisions have always determined which histories are treated as central and which are left out. For LGBTQ+ people, this is a particularly potent problem in K–12 schools, where discussions […]

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Trump Admin Settles Lawsuit By LGBTQ Groups, Will Allow Pride Flag To Return To NYC Stonewall Monument

The federal government agreed on Monday that the rainbow Pride flag could fly at the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan, reversing its decision to remove it and dealing a blow to the Trump administration’s nationwide assault on diversity initiatives. The removal of the Pride flag in February from the monument, which is in Greenwich Village, drew fierce backlash from L.G.B.T.Q. people across the country and state and local elected officials in New York, who saw it as an attack on the symbolic heart of the gay rights movement. The agreement, which was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan, settled a […]

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New report shows affirming adults are critical to the success of LGBTQ+ students

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Glisten, the LGBTQ+ education advocacy group, has a new report out detailing what it’s like to be an LGBTQ+ student today, “at a time when their identities are being weaponized against them.” Those identities “are being debated and restricted,” said the group’s CEO, Melanie Willingham-Jaggers, and “this study speaks truth to a menacing power.” Speaking the truth in this year’s report were the students themselves; for the first time, Glisten conducted focus groups to hear the kids describe their answers in their own words. Key findings paint a layered portrait of LGBTQ+ youth who “are whole people with complex lives that defy the […]

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Celebrate Pride with Purpose – Advance, Advocate, Act Up with Us! Sonoma County Pride Parade and Festival Booth Registration Is Now Open

We’re excited to officially open registration for the 2026 Sonoma County Pride Parade & Festival, and we’d love for you to join us again! You’re receiving this because you’ve been an important part of our Pride family—whether as a vendor, parade participant, or community partner—and we’d be honored to have you back as we come together for another unforgettable weekend of visibility, celebration, and community. This year’s theme, “Pride & True: Advance, Advocate, Act Up,” is a call to action. It honors the progress we’ve made while reminding us that Pride has always been rooted in advocacy, visibility, and collective power. From the parade route […]

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