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When two Georgia advocates reached Pauline Nadege Binam on the other side of a glass partition Thursday, the queer Cameroonian immigrant appeared exhausted. “I could tell that she’s very tired,” organizer Noël Heatherland told The Advocate after the visit. “She just seems very exhausted.” The conversation at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, south of Columbus, lasted about 40 minutes…
The Republican Party is full of politicians who actively fight to strip LGBTQ + people of their rights and humanity. But it is often those same politicians who get caught up in gay sex scandals or have their sexualities whispered about on Capitol Hill, while proclaiming their heterosexuality and adherence to “traditional family values.” Rumors that conservatives like Lindsey Graham and Mike…
Florida voters advanced several out candidates on Tuesday and, perhaps just as importantly, handed losses to candidates aligned with the once-dominant Moms for Liberty . Equality Florida cheered after 81 percent of the candidates it endorsed won their races Tuesday. Those winners included five out LGBTQ+ Democrats seeking seats in the Florida House: Jane Aman, Felipe Sousa Lazaballet, Samuel…
New Jersey has drawn a legal line around its doctors, patients and families. Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill on Thursday signed an extensive shield law protecting people who provide, receive or help others obtain reproductive and gender-affirming healthcare that is legal in New Jersey. The law, S2260/A2218 , generally prevents state agencies and courts from assisting out-of-state investigations and…
A former Virginia police officer has sued her department, alleging officials violated her privacy by requiring her to share a locker room with a transgender colleague. Now, she wants $15 million in damages. Former Norfolk Police Officer Meghan Grabow filed the lawsuit alleging that the department did not inform her she would be sharing a women’s locker room with a transgender woman. While Grabow…
This story originally appeared on Them . Not all heroes wear capes. Some just use the bathroom. A group of transgender men who call themselves the “compliance crew” have been using women’s bathrooms in protest of a Kansas law that mandates that they do so. The new law, Senate Bill 244, went into effect in February of this year, after the state legislature successfully overrode Democratic governor…
A school district in Maryland has given in to Trump administration demands to out students’ sexual orientation or gender identity if revealed at school but not at home, regardless of the student’s wishes. Anne Arundel County Public Schools Superintendent Mark Bedell, in a letter to school personnel, said the district would amend its “Safe and Inclusive Environments for LGBTQ+ Students” regulation.…
November 17, 2011, was an unusually exciting day in my young career as a photography assistant. Working in a creative field meant I didn’t usually wear a button-down shirt and tie on the job, but that blustery autumn afternoon was different. I was at the U.S. Capitol in the large, ornate office of House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi . I had just finished setting up the lighting for photographer Tim…
A decade ago, Giovonni Santiago asked the Department of Veterans Affairs for something groundbreaking: a place where transgender veterans, like him, could see doctors who understood them. The government listened. Now, Santiago says, it is dismantling the system he helped build. “It’s frustrating, but not surprising,” Santiago tells The Advocate . “We did all of this hard work to get here, and…
In 1937, Abel Meeropol, a Jewish high school teacher from the Bronx, saw a photograph he could not shake. The image showed Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith hanging from a tree after they had been lynched in Marion, Indiana. Haunted by what he saw, Meeropol wrote "Strange Fruit." Two years later, Billie Holiday transformed it into one of the most devastating protest songs ever recorded. “Southern trees…
