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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-27T14:13:44.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.advocate.com",
  "tags": [
    "new law took effect",
    "Read more about the law's impact.",
    "proposed a new bill",
    "See what Sen. Chuck Schumer had to say about the proposal.",
    "running for Congress",
    "Meet Everton Blair.",
    "just $9.95"
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  "textContent": "➡️ It was a difficult week for transgender people in Kansas, where a new law took effect that immediately stripped roughly 1,700 people of their driver's licenses. Read more about the law's impact.\n\nAt the federal level, Democrats have proposed a new bill to protect Pride flags at the Stonewall National Monument and other national park sites. It comes after the Trump administration ordered the flags removed, sparking widespread protests at the site of the 1969 LGBTQ+ rights riots. See what Sen. Chuck Schumer had to say about the proposal.\n\nA former high school math teacher turned education advocate is running for Congress in Georgia. If elected, he'd become the first out Black LGBTQ+ member of Congress from the South. Meet Everton Blair.\n\nCatch up on those stories and more below!\n\n### Transgender Chicago man hospitalized after saving baby from drowning in Lake Michigan\n\n\n\n\n### Georgia education champion could be first Black out gay man to represent South in Congress\n\n\n\n\n### Kansas immediately revokes transgender residents’ driver’s licenses\n\n\n\n\n### Clinton depositions spur Democrats’ demand for Donald Trump’s Epstein files testimony\n\n\n\n\n### Chuck Schumer leads New York Democrats’ bill to protect Pride flags at Stonewall & national park sites\n\n\n\n\n### 'They better take away duct tape': Trans men say they'll keep binding despite FDA crackdown\n\n\n\n\n### Outraged Ben Shapiro says Candace Owens documentary labels Erika Kirk a ‘lesbian pedophile’\n\n\n\n\n### 'Heated Rivalry' star slams Olympic men’s hockey team for cozying up to Trump\n\n\n\n\n### Get Out / The Advocate in your physical mailbox too!\n\n\n\n\nGet a year's subscription to _The Advocate_ and _Out Magazine_ for just $9.95.",
  "title": "The Advocate newsletter: 2/27/26"
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