The Advocate has told LGBTQ+ stories since 1967. Help us keep telling them

The nation’s leading LGBTQ+ magazine launched a nonprofit fundraising campaign to sustain and expand its fearless, original, award-winning reporting at a critical moment for LGBTQ+ rights and independent journalism.Since 1967, The Advocate has reported on LGBTQ+ lives, documented the queer civil rights movement, and told stories that have helped readers feel seen and less alone. Now, as the publication approaches its 60th anniversary, it has launched The Advocate Journalism Project (AJP), a nonprofit fund that directly amplifies that work. The AJP’s mission is to expand The Advocate’s independent journalism through donations from individuals, foundations, companies, and other supporters. That funding will help with storytelling, investigative reporting, training future journalists, and preserving the print publication and its archive.The Advocate is the nation’s oldest queer magazine and, in addition to publishing daily news online at advocate.com, continues to publish in print, preserving a vital way for readers, including the 81 million people in the U.S. without home broadband internet subscriptions, to connect with LGBTQ+ news, history, and culture.Donations to the AJP will help journalists document LGBTQ+ experiences, investigate threats to the community, and hold those in power accountable. The project joins a growing movement of newsrooms turning to nonprofit fundraising to expand their reporting.“Queer-focused print and digital journalism serves as a vital tool for community safety,” says Mark Berryhill, CEO of equalpride, the magazine and website’s publisher. “It connects marginalized voices and acts as a watchdog against harmful narratives. Our journalists tell stories that no one else can or will, and that reporting leads to real change. We hold the powerful accountable.”A history worth protectingThe Advocate’s roots reach back to a police raid that galvanized LGBTQ+ organizing in Los Angeles.As patrons of the Black Cat Tavern celebrat