Top Stories from Advocate.com for 11/09/2023

[View this email in your browser]( Top Stories from [Advocate.com]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( [GOP Debate Focuses on Wars, Economy, Abortion — But There's One Anti-Trans Dig]( [Republican candidates]The third Republican presidential hopefuls’ debate this year was, unlike the [first]( and [second,]( almost devoid of attacks on transgender people, probably because none of the moderators asked about the subject, although one got in a dig toward the end. [Read on »]( [SAG-AFTRA Approves Deal to End Historic 118-Day Hollywood Strike]( [SAG-AFTRA strike]SAG-AFTRA negotiators have agreed to a tentative deal that will end the longest [actors' strike]( in Hollywood history. [Read on »]( [Who Will Be at the Third Republican Presidential Debate?]( [Nikki Haley Ron DeSantis Republican Debate] [Read on »]( [Antonin Scalia's Daughter Loses School Board Race to Mother of LGBTQ+ Child]( [Meg Bryce Scalia]In another Election Day victory over right-wing forces, a progressive mother of an LGBTQ+ child has beaten the daughter of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in a Virginia school board race. [Read on »]( [Ron DeSantis Slammed by Florida LGBTQ+ Rights Group in Epic Ad Campaign]( [Equality Florida ad against Ron DeSantis]Florida’s largest LGBTQ+ advocacy group just launched a television ad comparing the destruction of Gov. [Ron DeSantis]( culture wars to hurricanes. [Read on »]( [New Jersey Elects First LGBTQ+ Woman Legislator]( [Luanne Peterpaul NJ Legislator LGBTQ][New Jersey]( has elected its first woman state legislator from the LGBTQ+ community. [Read on »]( [Lesbian Artist Faces 8 Years in Russian Prison For Criticizing Putin, Military]( [Vladimir Putin Aleksandra Skochilenko Russia]Russian prosecutors have requested a sentence of eight years in a penal colony for a lesbian artist who criticized the country’s military actions in [Ukraine]( in a supermarket protest last year, according to the Russian language [Mediazona](. [Read on »]( [Moms for Liberty Candidates Rejected by Voters in Key School Board Elections]( [Moms for Liberty Candidates Lose School Board Elections]In a sweeping rejection of the conservative [Moms for Liberty]( group across the United States, voters turned away from candidates endorsed by the group in multiple school board races. This group, known for its stance against LGBTQ+ educational materials and its advocacy for “parental rights,” faced significant losses in states from Pennsylvania to Iowa. [Read on »]( [Marjorie Taylor Greene and House Republicans Are Trying to Cut Pete Buttigieg's Salary to $1 a Year]( [Pete Buttigieg and Marjorie Taylor Greene]U.S. Rep. [Marjorie Taylor Greene]( and her fellow Republicans in the U.S. House want to reduce Secretary of Transportation [Pete Buttigieg]( salary to $1 a year, and Greene is using homophobia to promote the move, saying he’s receiving awards “for the way people have sex.” [Read on »]( [Texas Man Pleads Guilty in Murder of Trans Woman Muhlaysia Booker]( [Muhlaysia Booker Killer Sentenced]Kendrell Lavar Lyles, 37, has pleaded guilty to the murder of Black transgender woman Muhlaysia Booker in [Dallas]( in 2019, and he will be sentenced to 48 years in prison. [Read on »]( [Advocate Subscription]( [Advocate Channel]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [Instagram]( [Website]( [Email](mailto:newsletters@pridemedia.com) Copyright © 2023 equalpride, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in via our website. Our mailing address is: newsletters@pridemedia.com Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](.