Advocate NL 8/24/26

Happy Monday, folks! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez here, back in your inbox, starting off with news from Colorado.Christopher Wiggins reports the Congressional Equality Caucus said Monday that 179 members of Congress, including 13 senators, had signed a brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to preserve Colorado’s power to prevent publicly funded preschools from denying admission to children because they or their parents are LGBTQ+.The brief in St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Roy is led by U.S. Rep. Mark Takano of California, the caucus chair (with a history of putting the LGBTQ+ first!) , with Democratic Sens. Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin and Jeff Merkley of Oregon. Its signers include Reps. Hakeem Jeffries, Katherine Clark, Pete Aguilar, Nancy Pelosi (who is on the cover of our September/October issue!), and every Equality Caucus co-chair.“St. Mary wants public money to turn a four-year-old away based on who their parents are. I know what that message does to a child,” Joseph Wright, an adult child of a lesbian mother, said.Check out Christopher's full reporting on how the preschool case reached the Supreme Court in the first place and consider becoming an Advocate supporter at this critical time in our history as the Trump administration launches repeated attacks against our community.179 lawmakers tell SCOTUS not to let taxpayer money-accepting religious preschools reject LGBTQ+ familiesMacho man JD Vance says he hates ‘good-looking guys with beards’ during weird manufacturing speechWhat trans women over 50 should know about their sexual healthGay New Jersey detective says supervisor groped him — and bosses did nothingSam Smith opens up about coming out as nonbinary and falling in loveGay adult performer Christian Styles dies at 29Trans band teacher accepted an Iowa school job offer. Days before classes, the board blocked his hiringMike Pence stumbles through response to his transgender CIA briefer’s praise: ‘heartened’ she felt respectedTrump wildly cl