Top Stories from Advocate.com for 04/08/2023

[View this email in your browser]( Top Stories from [Advocate.com]( [Share]( [Share]( [Tweet]( [Tweet]( [Forward]( [Forward]( [Florida's First Gay Latino Lawmaker, Carlos Guillermo Smith, Announces State Senate Run]( [Carlos Guillermo Smith]Out politician Carlos Guillermo Smith is making a return to Florida politics. The Orlando Democrat on Friday filed to run for Florida Senate. [Read on »]( [Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith Blocks Judicial Nominee Who Supports Trans Rights]( [Scott Colom and Cindy Hyde-Smith]U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith of Mississippi is blocking the judicial nomination of a district attorney from her state because he’s supported transgender rights and once received help from a political action committee funded by George Soros. [Read on »]( [12 Photos Celebrating the Earth and the Male Form by Steven Menendez]( [Images from the collection featuring a man sitting on a rock and another with a man leaning on a work.] [Read on »]( [Amy Schneider's Book Will Focus on What She Learned Making Trans History on 'Jeopardy!']( [Amy Schneider]Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has a memoir coming out this fall, and in it she’ll deal with how she gained all the knowledge that resulted in her stellar performance, plus her personal life, including her transgender identity. [Read on »]( [1973: When the LGBTQ+ Movement Caught Fire]( [PFLAG rally]1969 is etched in LGBTQ+ history as a landmark year because of Stonewall, but there’s another year that’s just as significant or maybe more so — 1973. [Read on »]( [Gay Man Brutally Stabbed in New York City, Police Search for Suspects]( [Rafael Ribot]The NYPD Hate Crime Task Force announced it is searching for seven young people in connection with the beating and stabbing of a gay man in Hell’s Kitchen late Wednesday night that was caught on video. [Read on »]( [White House Announces Crisis Hotline for LGBTQ+ Youth]( [White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre]Following the enactment of several bills barring transgender children from exercising their rights nationwide, the [Biden]( administration is emphasizing the existence of a hotline that children can call. [Read on »]( [Texas LGBTQ+ Activist Kirk Myers-Hill Dead at 54]( [Kirk D. Myers-Hill]South Dallas has a deep sadness over the unexpected death of a nonprofit founder, community leader, and activist. [Read on »]( [Would the Pope Fall Foul of Uganda’s Pending Anti-LGBTQ+ Law?]( [Pope Francis and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni]Ugandan lawmakers have passed extreme legislation, that includes the death penalty for repeat offenders, requires people to report anyone suspected of being gay or lesbian to the authorities, and could send activists to jail for 20 years. President Yoweri Museveni has 30 days to sign the bill for it to become law. [Read on »]( [Meet Queer Multi-Talented TikTok Star Brooklynne Webb]( [Brooklynne Webb]Brooklynne Webb has taken the social media world by storm. She has one of the largest fan followings on TikTok, with over 739 million likes and more than [10 million followers]( as well as on Instagram, with almost [430,000 followers](. She's an outspoken advocate who champions the celebration of body positivity. [Read on »]( [Florida's Anti-Drag Bill Could Land 'Rocky Horror' Screenings in Hot Patootie]( [Tim Curry in Rocky Horror Picture Show and Florida state Sen. Clay Yarborough]Could Florida turn showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show into a ballroom blitz of the worst kind? [Read on »]( [Tennessee Home of Progressive Journalist Shot at While Family Slept]( [Justin Kanew, founder of the Tennessee Holler news site.]A day before [Tennessee]( [Republicans]( expelled two Black members of the state legislature who had joined protesters calling for meaningful gun reform after a mass shooting at Covenant School in Nashville, where six people, including three children, were killed, the founder of a progressive news site, The Tennessee Holler, revealed that someone had shot up his home last weekend. [Read on »]( [by PubExchange]( [Advocate Subscription]( [Out Traveler]( [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](.