The A-List Interview: Tina Fey

Tina Fey’s next dream project? “A movie about Stonewall where I play all the people,” she deadpans. Until then, the Emmy-winning 30 Rock creator-star will keep making the Netflix streaming series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which returns this spring. Reteaming with comedy cohort Amy Poehler for Sisters, in theaters Dec. 18, the Saturday Night Live alum talks to The Advocate about her womance…

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Ahead of first-ever Congressional Forum on violence against transgender people, HRC and TPOCC release joint report

WASHINGTON – Friday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) Foundation and the Trans People of Color Coalition (TPOCC) released a comprehensive report on the epidemic of violence against transgender people – particularly transgender women of color. The report comes ahead of the first-ever Congressional forum set for next Tuesday on the scourge of violence against transgender…

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How churches view gays in 2015

“Although fundamentalists and many others equate homosexuality with sin, it’s generally agreed there has been a softening in the positions of some churches, and a re-examination of homosexuality in many others.” That was the opinion expressed in an article from the San Francisco Sunday Examiner and Chronicle in 1977. Since then religious fundamentalism has grown into a…

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Fitness after the Jack O’ Lantern is gone

The end of the Halloween season will be just the start of Rossini’s William Tell Overture and all the weight-gaining chaos that is forthcoming. Your waistline is on manifest destiny alert and could conquer even the mightiest of your belts if something isn’t done in time. The great holiday season has a way with adding…

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HRC calls for investigation into Utah judge who removed foster child from same-sex couple

WASHINGTON — Friday, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) filed a formal complaint and called for a full investigation into now-infamous Utah Judge Scott Johansen, who is reported to have ordered a child removed from the home of her married foster parents because they are a same-sex couple. If Johansen ordered the child be removed because…

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Ted Cruz stages a ‘Rally for Religious Liberty’

Fresh off attending a conference whose host, Kevin Swanson, voiced support for the execution of gay people, Ted Cruz will stage a “Rally for Religious Liberty” in Greenville, South Carolina, today featuring a number of Religious Right activists who have referred to gay rights advocates as demonic enemies, reports Right Wing Watch. The rally is…

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Chelsea Manning responds to US government move to dismiss lawsuit seeking health care for gender dysphoria

NEW YORK – The Department of Justice has filed a brief in Chelsea Manning’s case against the United States government challenging her request to grow her hair beyond the two inches allowed by military regulation. Chelsea Manning is currently serving a 35-year prison sentence at the United States Disciplinary Barracks at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. In…

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