Advocate NL 10/29/26
Hello and Happy Thursday, folks! Huerta, the labor rights activist, civil rights leader, and United Farm Workers co-founder, died Wednesday surrounded by family at her home in Bakersfield, California. She was 96. For actor Patrick Stewart, who died at 86, supporting the LGBTQ+ community was a no-brainer from the beginning. The Advocate interviewed the icon in 2015, in which he said being a supporter of gay civil rights "was always a natural and uncomplicated choice." "When I look back to my early career and early experience, my ease and comfort being in the company of and intimately close with gay and lesbian colleagues and friends was always, for me, the most natural, and I might even say at times appealing aspects of the life I was living," he said. May both rest in power. Kent NISHIMURA / AFP via Getty Images Jennifer Balkcom for Congress David Parry/PA Images via Getty Images The…