Rest in peace, Miss Major.

We will carry the bricks forward.

All this for a silly Etsy order.

Just had to pay tariffs at the door via check only to UPS. Stupid Trump tariffs. Poor guy had to wait holding my package while I searched for my checkbook to write a check.

Love that we all wrote about this ad.

Go read Parker’s newsletter on it as well.

Other trans journalists have also covered Mamdani’s incredible ad. It was so meaningful to so many.

10. Lastly, EITM is an award-winning media outlet covering LGBTQ+ issues every day. You can subscribe to support our journalism at www.erininthemorning.com/subscribe.

9. Mamdani’s unapologetic embrace of marginalized communities shows what real leadership looks like: a politics that doesn’t ask whom to abandon to win, but whom to lift up to build something worth winning for.

8. In doing so, Mamdani not only strengthens trust among progressives but also draws in those who may have felt ambivalent, offering them something increasingly scarce in politics today: authenticity.

7. Through this framing, he grounds his stance in moral clarity rather than political expedience—a rare trait in modern campaigns. For voters on the fence, the ad demonstrates that his support for transgender rights isn’t a focus-grouped calculation; it’s a reflection of his core values.

6. The ad serves as a masterclass for Democrats on how to talk about transgender people with empathy and conviction. Many of Mamdani’s own supporters may not know the history he highlights, and so it serves the purpose to educate his supporters in how to humanely talk about transgender people.

5. Mamdani closes the ad with concrete pledges—to declare New York City an LGBTQIA+ sanctuary, to allocate millions toward restoring transgender healthcare defunded under federal pressure, and to deploy “hundreds of lawyers” to combat the administration’s anti-LGBTQ+ agenda.

4. The ad opens with the story of Sylvia Rivera, a trailblazing activist who helped lead the Stonewall uprising. It traces landmarks of New York’s queer history, weaving in Rivera’s friendship with Marsha P. Johnson, before pivoting to now: a direct condemnation of Donald Trump’s escalating attacks

3. Zohran Mamdani, a New York City mayoral candidate, released a two-minute advertisement steeped in transgender history and direct commitments to the community. The ad was set to a SOPHIE song, the legendary late transgender artist.

Watch it here:

2. Republican Ads attacking trans people have dominated airwaves in recent elections. What's worse, “centrist” political consultants continue to urge Dems to drop trans people altogether. Almost never does a Democrat release an ad affirming support for transgender people. That changed this weekend.

1. As some Democrats have run from transgender rights, Zohran Mamdani is showing what so many others have lacked: courage to lead with his values over pandering to focus groups.

The ad is one of the best things I've seen from a politician on transgender people.

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The war on rainbow crosswalks has come to Texas.

After DeSantis cracked down and tore up rainbow crosswalks across Florida, the community has resisted in protest.

Now, Abbott is doing the same in Texas, seemingly at the direction of Libs of Tiktok.

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Honestly didn’t even realize Monday was Columbus Day. Does that even count as a long weekend? School is still in session.

Interesting. It was crazy on 270 through MoCo too so this strengthens the theory. I think a lot of people were heading out of the city for one reason or another.

The traffic out of DC last night was staggering. I typically remember shutdowns being low traffic, but I wonder if a lot of federal workers were leaving the city to visit family knowing that the shutdown will last at least til mid next week.

Each week, we release the Lavender Ledger, covering stories that crossed our desk that other journalists got to before us. These are the biggest stories this week that you did not see at EITM.

This week's LavLedge covers UK trans wait times, a NY roller derby legal victory, and fake SCOTUS cases.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

And now Stonewall National Monument under Trump has erased the very thing she fought for.

Love the support, Zohran. Thanks, sincerely.

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And now Stonewall National Monument under Trump has erased the very thing she fought for.

Love the support, Zohran. Thanks, sincerely.

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Good news for transgender people at MIT.

Unlike some prestigious universities, MIT has defied the Trump administration and refused its attempt to pressure the university into banning transgender people from bathrooms.

The latest from reporter S. Baum.

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