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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-01T21:30:16.000Z",
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    "If you'll recall,",
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    "some LGBTQ+ history to offer",
    "Christopher Wiggins tells us"
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  "textContent": "Hello folks and Happy Wednesday! Audience Editor Edgar Ramirez back in your inbox here.\n\nToday is also the first day of July, but we're still catching up with Alysse Dalessandro's travels on the Mother Road. If you'll recall, Alysse set out in June to uncover Route 66's queer history. In her latest dispatch, she gets a nice surprise from the state of New Mexico: \"Unlike many places I’d visited along Route 66, here you don’t have to dig through museums or archives to find its LGBTQ+ history.\"\n\nArizona also has some LGBTQ+ history to offer.\n\nWhile Alysse continues her journey, Christopher Wiggins tells us of an Army combat veteran hoping to make their own history in a bid to become Maryland’s first transgender legislator.\n\nThanks folks, we'll be back tomorrow!\n\n\n\n\n### Dispatches from Route 66: Finding queer hope in New Mexico and Arizona\n\n\n\n\n### Ken Paxton spotted jetting to Iceland with alleged mistress after campaigning on ‘Christian values’\n\n\n\n\n### Village People's Victor Willis dies at 74, Trump pays tribute to himself\n\n\n\n\n### Army combat veteran advances in bid to become Maryland’s first transgender legislator\n\n\n\n\n### Opinion: Brett Kavanaugh says trans kids should not be ostracized. His sports ruling does exactly that\n\n\n\n\n### Supreme Court trans sports ruling sparks red state crackdown and blue state resistance\n\n\n\n\n### Mermaids are here and queer—just ask Chè Monique\n\n\n",
  "title": "Advocate NL 7/1/26"
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