Hi all,

📩 The Department of Justice, under President Donald Trump and Attorney General Pam Bondi, has sent a letter to gay California U.S. Rep. Robert Garcia demanding he clarify his criticism of billionaire Elon Musk and the Trump administration.

🕯️ We're taking a moment to honor the memory of Tahiry Broom, a trans woman killed in Michigan.

🗳️ U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell, who announced Thursday that he will not seek reelection in 2026, will leave with an egregiously anti-LGBTQ+ record. The Advocate's Trudy Ring broke it down.

🌈 The number of adults in the United States who identify as LGBTQ+ is higher than ever. About 9.3 percent of U.S. adults in 2024 said that they identify as "lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or something other than heterosexual" in a new report from Gallup, up over one whole percentage point from the previous year. This is also nearly double the amount who identified as LGBTQ+ in 2020, and almost three times as many as those who did in 2012, when Gallup first began measuring it.

Onwards and upwards,

Alex Cooper

Editor-in-chief, Advocate.com