Project 2025 vowed to roll back LGBTQ+ rights. Here's everything Trump has done so far
Donald Trump claimed on the campaign trail that he had "nothing to do" with Project 2025 — but now that he's in office, he's implementing it.
May 6, 2025
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People in states with abortion bans are twice as likely to die during pregnancy
The risk is greatest for Black women in states with bans, who are 3.3 times more likely to die than White women in those same states.
April 25, 2025
Meet Raquel Willis, the transgender activist who's one of TIME's Women of the Year
"This honor was validating for my career and for my passion, but not for my womanhood," Willis tells The Advocate.
March 31, 2025
He voted for Trump. Now he’s worried his trans son will lose gender-affirming care
A Trump voter is worried that his trans son will lose gender-affirming care access.
March 17, 2025
Ohio bill would ban ejaculation without intent to conceive — with exceptions for LGBTQ+ people
The Conception Begins at Erection Act contains exceptions for men using birth control, donating sperm, masturbating, or having sex with another man or member of the LGBTQ+ community.
February 14, 2025
Mark Robinson drops lawsuit over CNN's 'Black Nazi' report
Robinson filed the lawsuit over a report which found his full name, picture, and known email address attached comments supporting reinstating slavery and referring to himself as a "black NAZI!"
February 4, 2025
Under Trump's 'authoritarian era,' these LGBTQ+ and abortion rights activists are standing up
The organizers behind last year's Gender Liberation March tell The Advocate about how they're fighting back now.
January 30, 2025
Why Laverne Cox says she won't debate transgender rights
The Orange is the New Black actor recently spoke at event for Planned Parenthood where she highlighted the connection between bans on gender-affirming care and bans on abortion.
December 18, 2024
Idaho allowed to partially enforce ‘abortion trafficking’ law
An appeals court still blocked a provision in the legislation that vaguely banned “recruiting” pregnant youth for abortions.
December 4, 2024
Wyoming's abortion ban has been overturned, including its ban on abortion medication
The abortion bans "undermine the integrity of the medical profession by hamstringing the ability of physicians to provide evidence-based medicine to their patients," a district judge ruled.
November 19, 2024
Here are 26 organizations fighting Donald Trump that you can donate to
The work these groups do will be critical during a second Trump Administration.
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November 13, 2024
10 states voted on pro-abortion referendums. 7 of them passed
Millions will now have access to abortion thanks to the passage of state constitutional amendments.
November 6, 2024
Abortion and trans rights need more than a Kamala Harris victory: 'Legalization does not equal access'
While its CEO has a “best case” and “worst case” in mind, there will still be plenty of work for Elevated Access no matter the outcome of the November elections.
October 17, 2024
Death of a Georgia mother denied an emergency abortion was 'preventable,' panel rules
An official state committee concluded that 28-year-old Amber Nicole Thurman's death was “preventable,” and the hospital’s delay in performing an abortion had a “large” impact on her passing.
September 17, 2024
Inside the massive protest against Project 2025 and anti-trans laws coming to D.C. (exclusive)
A renowned organizer for the upcoming Gender Liberation March tells The Advocate how you can attend — and why you should.
August 30, 2024
Hillary Clinton connects 2024 to 2016 — and history
Staffers from Clinton’s 2016 campaign were touched and energized by their former boss’s exhortation to “keep going.”
August 20, 2024
Not just state pride — Why LGBTQ+ Minnesotans are 'overly proud' of Tim Walz (exclusive)
Minnesota's leading LGBTQ+ groups tell The Advocate what a Walz vice presidency could mean for queer communities.
August 16, 2024
NC Republican governor candidate Mark Robinson, who called abortion 'genocide,' took his wife to get one
That's not a leak — Robinson said it himself in a new ad.
August 5, 2024
'Cat Ladies for Kamala Harris' are campaigning AND shading JD Vance
Women have put up with Republican attacks on their rights for decades — but they're drawing a line at attacks on their pets.
August 1, 2024
Iowa’s six-week abortion ban is now in effect
The Iowa law bans abortions after cardiac activity is detectable in an embryo, something that can occur as early as six weeks of gestation. There are some exceptions to the ban, including for rape, incest and to save the life of the mother.
July 29, 2024
'Devastated:' A six-week abortion ban will go into effect in Iowa next week
Health care practitioners in the state decried the ruling as a decision that "will push abortion care almost entirely out of reach in Iowa."
July 23, 2024