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Kayla Gagnet
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senior VP of editorial at equalpride: @advocate.com, @out.com, @pride.com 🏳️‍🌈
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SJ Joslin, the park ranger who got fired for hanging a trans pride flag in Yosemite National Park, joined the drag queen and activist for this special moment.
Out100 2025: Massive trans pride flag from national park becomes red carpet moment with Pattie Gonia
SJ Joslin, the park ranger who got fired for hanging a trans pride flag in Yosemite National Park, joined the drag queen and activist for this special moment.
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November 22, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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BREAKING: The gay former FBI official fired last month for having a Pride flag at his desk during the Biden administration is suing Kash Patel and Pam Bondi.

www.advocate.com/news/kash-pa...
Gay former FBI official sues Kash Patel & Pam Bondi for Pride flag firing
David Maltinsky says he was illegally terminated in October for displaying a Progress Pride flag at his desk during the Biden administration.
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November 19, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Breaking: New lawsuit filed against Trump admin.

“The military has made me who I am. It has made me a better person,” plaintiff Master Sgt. Logan Ireland told me. “All that I wish is for the military to see that and to honor that same sacrifice that I’ve given.” www.advocate.com/news/transge...
Transgender Air Force members sue Trump administration over revoked retirements
“The military has made me who I am. It has made me a better person,” Master Sergeant Logan Ireland told The Advocate. “All that I wish is for the military to see that and to honor that same sacrifice ...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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SCOOP: Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner apologized for homophobic language and antigay slurs he admitted to writing on Reddit in an interview with me this afternoon, after I confronted him on comments I discovered from as recently as 2021.

www.advocate.com/politics/gra...
Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner admits using ‘indefensible’ antigay slurs in unearthed Reddit posts
"Today I find that stuff abhorrent," Platner told The Advocate. "And I am sorry that I ever used it.”
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October 22, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Reporters covering Skrmetti: We have real people who will face real consequences from this decision available to talk to you today, as I'm sure does every other major LGBTQ+ org and the ACLU. There's no excuse to not include their voices in your story.
June 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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These potential popes range from LGBTQ-friendly, continuing the work of Pope Francis, to deeply anti-LGBTQ+.

🔗: www.advocate.com/news/10-pote...
Who could succeed Pope Francis? We look at 10 possibilities — Potential successors come from all over the world and range from moderate to deeply conservative on LGBTQ+ issues.
May 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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One of Trump’s latest schemes is to reopen the notorious federal prison on Alcatraz Island — a place with a little-known queer history.
The queer men of Alcatraz: the hidden history of the prison Trump wants to reopen
The famous "Birdman" and many others imprisoned on the island were queer.
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May 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The reports that Canada has launched a crisis line for Americans after the Trump administration proposed cutting the 988 suicide prevention line’s LGBTQ+ option are FALSE.

This is not happening. It’s an internet hoax. Misinformation.

I checked.

www.advocate.com/news/fact-ch...
No, Canada hasn’t launched a suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ Americans
The internet rumor is false, but there are still resources available for people in crisis.
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April 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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BREAKING:

Erika Hilton (@erikahilton.bsky.social), a Black transgender congresswoman in Brazil, announced that she's taking legal action against Donald Trump after being issued a U.S. visa with "male" as her gender marker — and she's taking the case to the United Nations.
Trans politician vows to take legal action against Trump's 'hatred' after being misgendered
After being issued a U.S. visa that misgendered her, Erika Hilton is taking the case to the United Nations.
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April 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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There are no “entire men’s teams” turning trans. But there is an entire political strategy built on pretending there are.

www.advocate.com/politics/tom...
GOP senator claims ‘entire men’s teams’ are transitioning. There’s no evidence of that because it’s not true
Sen. Tommy Tuberville's office did not return The Advocate's request about evidence supporting these claims.
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April 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Hey, I’m on this week’s The Advocate Weekly podcast discussing the trans military ban and the incredible young men and women that I met who are trans plaintiffs in one lawsuit challenging Trump's ban and who just want to serve.

🎧 on Spotify or wherever you podcast. open.spotify.com/episode/43dO...
March 2nd, 2025 (with Hope Giselle and Christopher Wiggins)
The Advocate Weekly · Episode
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April 3, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I want you to meet Clayton McCallister. He and his wife have a young daughter. For them, this incredible young man has reached peak fitness levels to qualify to be an elite pararescue Air Force recruit.
He’s fighting Trump’s trans military ban. www.advocate.com/news/clayton...
This trans Air Force recruit wants to jump out of planes to save others. He's suing Trump to serve
Clayton McCallister is one of the trans people challenging Donald Trump's transgender military ban.
www.advocate.com
April 2, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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On Transgender Day of Visibility, we lift up our transgender and non-binary neighbors here in Rhode Island and across the country.

Everyone should be able to live as their true selves.
March 31, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Nothing against heavy dramas like 'Fellow Travelers.' But #MattBomer is ready for some comedy! #MidCenturyHulu

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March 27, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Celebrate Pride for the whole year with @out.com and @advocate.com! Subscribe now for just $6 a year.

Subscribe here: www.b2bmediaportal.com/equal/subscr...
March 26, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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After years of withering policy losses hurting LGBTQ+ Floridians, have political winds shifted in the Sunshine State?

🔗: www.advocate.com/politics/flo...
Have LGBTQ+ rights in Florida reached a turning point? Advocates have hope
March 24, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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For many transgender veterans, new anti-trans policies don't just feel like a loss of health care — they feel like an attempt to erase them entirely.

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“First they say you don’t belong. Then they say your service wasn’t real. Then they start stripping away your rights. I’ve seen this before, and I know where it leads.” Retired Marine Corps gunnery sergeant Sarah Klimm
March 20, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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harrowing. includes an account of a young man who sounds like he may be the person we profiled last night on MSNBC.

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March 21, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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After a long career as a Hallmark heartthrob, Out's March/April cover star Luke Macfarlane is ready to "get his hands dirty" in reality TV and Hollywood. 🛠️✨

Read the cover story 😍: www.out.com/out-exclusiv...
March 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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"The reason you should care about this is not that it could happen to you but that it is already happening to others. It is happening to people who, we claim, have rights just because we are human. It is happening to me, personally."

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Opinion | There’s a Name for What Trump Is Doing to Trans People: Denationalizing (Gift Article)
The message is that we are a threat to the nation. The subtext is that we are not of this nation.
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March 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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After we broke this story, Department of Veterans Affairs press secretary Peter Kasperowicz denied the policy change and demanded a retraction.

However, the rescission memo is listed on the VA's government website and the original Directive 1341 has been deleted.

www.advocate.com/news/transge...
BREAKING: Trump's VA rescinds policy treating transgender vets with dignity (exclusive)
The Trump administration quietly reversed the policy, which means trans veterans won't be protected from discrimination at VA facilities.
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March 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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An upstate New York teen who was singled out by a school board member during debate over a club focusing on LGBTQ+ issues is now running against him.
Teen targeted by homophobic school board member now running for his job
Upstate New York student Elizabeth Lewis was singled out by her school board's vice president during discussion of a GSA.
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March 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
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Pete Buttigieg will not be running for U.S. Senate in 2026 — which could mean he's playing the long game.

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“Today, our country is demonstrably less free, less secure, less democratic — and less prosperous — than it was just ten weeks ago.” Pete Buttigieg
March 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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out.com
You’re fabulous. But your credit card debt is keeping you fabulously broke, and other payment options like "Buy Now, Pay Later" (BNPL) are probably making things worse. Let’s fix that.
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LGBTQ+ folks are drowning in credit card debt — here's how to escape
Get your financial shiz in order before Pride.
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March 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM