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Pride Month

Pioneering transgender lawmaker on how to fight transphobic bills

Danica Roem, the first openly transgender lawmaker to be elected and serve in a state legislature, talks with Eric Garcia about being a voice for transgender Virginians, what Democrats can do to defend trans youth and the future of political representation

Mondaire Jones on the ‘powerful forces’ trying to pull America back

‘Growing up, I had never imagined someone like me could run for political office, let alone get elected to Congress,’ Jones tells Gustaf Kilander

Rachel Levine on bigots, DeSantis and being Biden’s top trans official

EXCLUSIVE: Rachel Levine is assistant secretary for health in the Biden administration and the most senior transgender official in American history. She talks to Io Dodds about her contentious confirmation hearing and her belief bigotry against trans people is in the minority and borne from misinformation.

Meet the gay man serving as the ‘American welcome’ to foreign leaders

EXCLUSIVE: ‘I would never have been an ambassador had it not been for the fact that I was gay, because I had to fight for where I was in the world,’ Rufus Gifford tells Gustaf Kilander

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