Perspectives

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NFL team owner reportedly donates $1million to The Trevor Project

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Arthur Blank, owner of the Atlanta Falcons, has reportedly donated $1million to The Trevor Project. The contribution, made through the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, was highlighted by former NFL player Carl Nassib, who came out as gay in 2021 while playing for the Las Vegas Raiders and has since worked closely with the organisation. “I am incredibly grateful to the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation for their extraordinary $1million donation to The Trevor Project and everyone at the Atlanta Falcons for their heartfelt support,” Nassib wrote in a 30 April LinkedIn post. “This donation helps fund counsellor training, enhance volunteer services and ensure […]

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Corporations & leaders are retreating to safe choices. They will be the death of us.

When there are threats against trans rights and the climate feels so inhospitable to the very existence of marginalized communities, it can be easy for people to retreat to safe choices. Groups might argue that it’s best to hold on to something that feels secure and solid rather than draw attention by fighting for those most under attack. But what might be claimed as small acts of safe defiance against the regime are simply complicity in disguise. We need to be fighting this endless attack on trans rights, not questioning how much we can step back with the idea that […]

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Since Tim Cook is leaving Apple, it’s now time for him to really show up for us

When Tim Cook was named to replace the legendary Steve Jobs as Apple’s CEO in August 2011, it was a wild and electric moment, not just for the tech world but for our community. His sexuality was already being widely whispered about in corporate circles, with reports circulating as early as 2011 that Cook was gay, though he was working to keep his personal life private. In fact, in April of 2011, our sister outlet, Out Magazine, named him as one of the most influential LGBTQ+ people in America. Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email […]

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Waiting for a hero to save us from Trump & MAGA? Here’s where to look…

Bonny Tyler’s now-classic pop song, “Holding Out for a Hero,” expressed the oft-wished-for hope that someone will come into our lives to take away all our cares, to ease our loneliness, to cure all the world’s evils, and make us feel secure and completely safe. Tyler evokes the image of powerful gods and “streetwise” mortals, like the great Hercules and shining Knights of old “upon a fiery steed,” as well as other “larger than life” heroes to save her from her plight. But most times, no hero will meet our expectations. And for those we rise to hero status, ultimately, the […]

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Darts player Noa-Lynn van Leuven forced to retire by trans ban

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A new ruling from the world of darts means that Noa-Lynn van Leuven, the first trans darts player to qualify for the World Championships, has been forced into “retirement.” The Darts Regulation Authority (DRA), which governs the Professional Darts Corporation (PDC), has banned trans women from competing in its women’s events with immediate effect. This follows the World Darts Federation (WDF) banning trans women from women’s competitions in 2025. ‘I respected the sport every game and every single day’ Posting on Instagram, Van Leuven shared: “I just got an email. Apparently, I just got retired. Not by choice, but because I am no longer allowed to compete. […]

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Viktor Orbán won’t be the last anti-LGBTQ+ strongman to topple

One of the world’s most openly homophobic and misogynistic leaders just lost power. Viktor Orbán is out. For years, Orbán, as prime minister, held up Hungary as proof that a country could be tightened, simplified, and brought under control — a place where national identity came first and anything that complicated it could be pushed out. That message did not stay in Hungary, it moved, was studied, repeated, and turned into strategy by political movements that wanted the same kind of power. A sitting prime minister stands in front of an international conservative audience, calls liberalism a virus, lays out a governing formula built on […]

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Attacks on abortion and gender-affirming care are inextricably linked

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What does a person seeking abortion care have in common with a young trans person seeking gender-affirming care? More than most people think. The campaign to restrict gender-affirming care follows a well-worn and ultimately successful playbook designed by anti-abortion advocates. That success has emboldened them to target intersecting issues and groups who face the steepest barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health care, like young people.  Stay up to date with the latest in LGBTQ+ news with The Advocate’s email newsletter, in your inbox five days a week. Now, the movements to restrict gender-affirming care and abortion care are evolving together […]

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Texas wants Bibles in public classrooms as another way to bully, harm, and exclude LGBTQ+ kids

I went to a Catholic school for eight years, so I had no choice when it came to learning about the Bible. I remember being confused by scripture on many occasions. As a child, I could not comprehend how Noah got all those animals onto a small boat. It was around the same time I began to wonder how Santa could carry presents for all the children in the world on his small sleigh. Nevertheless, I came to respect the Bible and what it stood for. Some might say it was eight years of brainwashing, but I prefer to think of […]

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Don’t fall for WSJ’s ‘normal gay’ whitewashing of queer life

In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, titled “I’m gay, but that doesn’t make me queer,” contributor Ben Appel draws a clean line between being gay and being “queer,” casting queerness as an ideological project built on rejecting what is normal and legitimate. On its own, the argument might read like a personal distinction, but placed alongside the Journal’s broader cultural coverage, it begins to look like something more deliberate: an effort to define which versions of queer life are acceptable and which ones are not. The problem is not that Appel’s argument is controversial. It is that it is reductive, historically thin, […]

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Leigh Ryswyk makes history as the first AFL player to come out as gay

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Leigh Ryswyk has made history as the first male Australian Football League (AFL) player to come out as gay. Speaking on radio show GayFL on 25 March, Ryswyk shared that he has been out to close friends for the last five years. “There will be people though, if they do listen to this, it will be the first time they know about this,” he said. “I’m a very private person, so it’s not all over my social media, and things like that, and that’s fine.” He continued: “It can be a bit of a shock to some people, they might not […]

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