Stories Collection

  1. For eight years, network television has regularly paraded gay characters through Amer...
  2. There's something mean-spirited and wholly about a church that would shut its adoptio...
  3. When NBC's groundbreaking television hit Will & Grace premiered eight years ago, ...
  4. "Yes, he's hot. Back off!" --CHARLIZE THERON, after an audience member ye...
  5. "Are you ready to rock?" asks a small voice. A girl no older than 10 and no...
  6. "The question comes up: Is there a constitutional right to homosexual conduct? N...
  7. When Andrew Sullivan asked for whom the bell tells, he articulated what I have been t...
  8. My plan to walk from San Diego to San Francisco evolved from a very simple thought: T...
  9. Here's my advice to all of you who are still broken up about Brokeback Mountain's los...
  10. Our Lives Are the Rivers * Jaime Manrique * Rayo/HarperCollins * $24.95 Before ...
  11. As bogus "family values" issues are used more and more by the Right to driv...
  12. Conflict between gays and Muslims has been increasing in the Netherlands in recent ye...
  13. Who: Gretchen Hamm, self-described straight mom to the same-sex wedding industry, and...
  14. As I drove by the First Evangelical Free Church near St. Louis on February 25, where ...
  15. Out singer and songwriter Rachael Sage thinks of her albums in terms of colors--even ...
  16. John Travolta has been cast as Edna Turnblad in the big-screen version of Broadway's ...
  17. What I Did Wrong * John Weir * Viking * $23.95 Published in 1989, John Weir's The...
  18. I write this in response to your article on Nathan Christoffersen ["What Would N...
  19. How do you find out what mainstream religious leaders really think about same-sex mar...
  20. FOE THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, for bowing to pressure from ...
  21. It's a man's world, but for gay men, it would be nothing without a big, fabulous blac...
  22. When your band's name is Ex-Boyfriends, you better have good stories to back it up. T...
  23. Headphone masters Sennheiser gets into the portable game with their new CX 300 earbud...
  24. KIM MOSS, a longtime AIDS activist, as executive director of the Memphis, Tenn.-based...
  25. Rose of No Man's Land * Michelle Tea * MacAdam Cage * $22 Saltier than shrimp ram...
  26. Imagine my surprise to read that the 13-year-old Dinah Shore Weekend is "the wor...
  27. The Red Cross recently joined U.S. blood banks and blood centers in urging the Food a...
  28. Some political pundits and antigay leaders accused anonymous gay rights activists of ...
  29. STEPHEN GATELY, former singer for Boyzone, and ANDY COWLES, an Internet entrepreneur ...
  30. Is the Bush administration trying to turn back the clock to a time when federal emplo...
  31. Since its inception in 1999, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the dust...
  32. Spice Girls aside, if you like things both sporty and posh, you'll be well pleased wi...
  33. ERIC STERN, a longtime Democratic activist, as executive director of the gay politica...
  34. The Lady in Question Is Charles Busch * Produced and directed by John Catania and C...
  35. Anya Kamenetz cites three reasons young gays today are financially stretched ["I...
  36. Police still haven't charged anyone in the gruesome slaying of out Brooklyn, N.Y., te...
  37. As straight parent couple Dave and Kelly Sopp toured the country exhibiting their dis...
  38. TROY BENAVIDEZ, a national board member for the gay group Log Cabin Republicans and l...
  39. When Paul Hackett threw his hat into the ring to try to unseat incumbent Republican U...
  40. With a new CD due in July, gay Christian pop duo Jason and deMarco are turning up eve...
  41. We think of Andy Warhol, with his silk-screened Elvises and Marilyn Monroes, as the a...
  42. In the brief but inspiring article "Biking to Block Phelps" [Report, March ...
  43. When someone spray-painted FAGS-MOBILE on their tour bus in Cleveland, Tenn., on Marc...
  44. First the single morn with a baby is ejected like a rocket out of her pew and out of ...
  45. The pending arrival of a baby, by JANN WENNER, founder of Rolling Stone magazine, and...
  46. For over 120 years families have come to the White House on the Monday after Easter t...
  47. With the April 25 release of Reintarnation (Rhino), k.d. lang reminds us of her roots...
  48. What makes these three gay men and one lesbian experts on sussing out secrets? We qui...
  49. When Oregon high school student Brandon Flyte directed and starred in the gay-themed ...
  50. Thank you for your coverage of the Los Altos [Calif.] High School gay-straight allian...
  51. Since opening Cactus Canyon, a 720-acre clothing-optional campground for gay men near...
  52. Dana's been gone for only a few weeks, but L Word fans are already wearing their feel...
  53. THE INSTITUTE FOR WELCOMING RESOURCES, a coalition of Protestant gay advocacy groups,...
  54. The road to parenthood can be difficult for many gay and lesbian couples. But for Cor...
  55. Kink and violence gang up to hog the spotlight in much of Stephen Petronio's choreogr...
  56. DVD A Bigger Splash April 18 (First Run Features) Originally banned for its in-...
  57. Ringleader of the Tormentors * Morrissey * Sanctuary Time was when Morrissey had tr...
  58. Tennis legend Billie Jean King is serving up two new projects: On April 20 in Beverly...
  59. I appreciate that every issue of The Advocate devotes a page to the contributions mad...
  60. Whether embraced, attacked, or arrested, the 33 young LGBT activists on the "Equ...
  61. They're ba-a-ack! Gay faves Chad Allen and Thea Gill are now filming new installments...
  62. During the 2004 presidential campaign, Andy Szekeres volunteered as John Kerry's Wisc...
  63. For the second time in her career, out tennis sensation Amelie Mauresmo has hit the t...
  64. The marquee at the Manhattan Theatre Club reads BASED ON A TOTALLY TRUE STORY in bold...
  65. Are lesbians a dying breed? This year on L Word, there was disturbing trend that's em...
  66. Journey Into Paradise: The Larry Levan Story * Various Artists * Rhino Not to be co...
  67. Judy Wieder has led many lives. In her office next office next to mine at LPI Media, ...
  68. I was grateful for your GenQ article on Queers on Wheels I "On Wheels Together,&...
  69. Despite the breakout success of Transamerica, the "T" in LGBT is still sile...
  70. "I was like, 'How could you say that? Why would you say that?'" --VIN DIE...
  71. When Phia Xiong came out to his family at a young age, he was disowned, accused of re...
  72. On a cool Saturday afternoon in a nondescript Hollywood photo studio, the members of ...
  73. Todd Parr likes the fog and sea lions. His favorite color is blue. He likes macaroni ...
  74. "John Dunleavy, the [New York City St. Patrick's Day] parade chairman, touched o...
  75. Transmission Impossible * Billy MacKenzie * One Little Indian Before his 1997 suici...
  76. 1964-65: Camp Records, based in Hollywood, issues 10 singles and two LPs of parody so...
  77. I am one of those gay men who found Brokeback Mountain and the soundtrack to be profo...
  78. Tune in to the second installment of The Advocate's television alter ego, The Advocat...
  79. I came out as a lesbian in 1978, nearly four years after being ordained a Presbyteria...
  80. Dennis Shane Mitchell, 20, was the recipient of the first-ever Leroy F. Aarons Schola...
  81. As Abby DeWald puts it, "Why not have a calendar of girls with little tits and b...
  82. I was worried. I had started to identify with George W. Bush. When my partner and I...
  83. Brass Ankle Blues tells the story of one summer in the life of Nellie Kincaid, a 15-y...
  84. Most gays and lesbians know tennis legend Billie Jean King--interviewed in this issue...
  85. In our April 11 story "Chemistry Lesson," TLA Releasing should have been li...
  86. In Israel teenagers can either carry a gun or carry a pride flag. Both will satisfy a...
  87. JT LeRoy, the literary sensation and fictional transgender teen invented by musician ...
  88. HIV was still a killer when I learned I was infected in early 1995, roughly a year be...
  89. FOE GONZAGA UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL TEAM FANS, who yelled "Brokeback Mountain!&quo...
  90. Lesbian student Jennifer Jones, 21, says her election as homecoming king at Hood Coll...
  91. Angel that blocks both herpes and HIV? It might seem too good to be true, but that's ...
  92. As the new director for the National Center for HIV. STD, and TB Prevention at the Ce...
  93. Will a once-a-day HIV pill lead to an increase in unprotected sex among people who se...
  94. Thank you for your article about gay corporate leaders ["Breaking the Mold,"...
  95. Few people knew about Tom Malin's past as an escort until the morning of February 17....
  96. How can you convince people in the bright red state of Idaho to vote against an amend...
  97. From the moment she first exchanged sardonic quips with Alice and Shane in the Planet...
  98. With a wag of his finger, our ever-opinionated Advocate.com columnist Karel argues th...
  99. When did you last see a lesbian playwrights name up in lights on Broadway? That's rea...
  100. Will the civil rights movement still be inclusive of gays and lesbians now that it ha...
  101. "Big Edie and Little Edie were honorary gays," exclaims composer Scott Fran...
  102. Dog Sees God * Century Center for the Performing Arts, New York City * Open-ended run...
  103. "Many Americans, especially parents, still have deep concerns about the directio...
  104. After gay composer Ned Rorem turned 80 back in 2003, he decided to try some things he...
  105. Jarrett Lucas, 20, was raised by his grandparents as a Jehovah's Witness. He was 14 w...
  106. At the height of civil rights fervor in the mid 1960s, when Janis Ian was just 15 yea...
  107. Showtunes * Stephin Merritt * Nonesuch Despite its title, Showtunes does not featur...
  108. Dear Everyone, First of all, please forgive me for not getting this Christmas letter ...
  109. For gay or questioning youth, a sympathetic ear can sometimes be hard to find. But th...
  110. The NeatReceipts Scanalizer ($230) isn't just a scanner. It reads information from yo...
  111. Chupacabras * Phideaux * Bloodfish Music Warning signs abound: the haunted-house or...
  112. The United Church of Christ may be the most gay-friendly mainstream Christian denomin...
  113. Ordinarily, you may be a conservative driver. But something about BMW's 255-horsepowe...
  114. Winter Journal * Luke Parkin * Pacific Whether or not you warm up to pianist Luke P...
  115. We all have traumatic high school memories. Mine just happened to involve mental heal...
  116. For more than three decades a deeply admired advocate for stable relationships and so...
  117. Afro Promo Now available (Other Cinema) Out archivists Jenni Olson and Karl Bruce K...
  118. Playing the most visible--and most sexually active--gay teen on TV doesn't raze 19-ye...
  119. Hector L. Torres, who will be competing in the triathlon at Chicago's Gay Games this ...
  120. Desperate Housewives on your iPod is cool, but are you ready for broadband gay TV? In...
  121. Action: The Complete Series Now available (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) The to...
  122. College is supposed to be a time of learning, growing, and, not to mention, fun. Most...
  123. At age 14, Jeff Jordan came out. At 17, he started a company focused on getting peopl...
  124. * Directed by Fernando Eimbcke * Starring Diego Catano * Warner Independent Pictures ...
  125. Midnight Cowboy Now available (MGM/Sony Pictures Home Entertainment) Gay director...
  126. DEAN HANSELL OCCUPATION: Managing partner COMPANY: LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene, & M...
  127. Renee Sotile was a teenager when, on the television in her parents' house, she watche...
  128. Grey's Anatomy: Season One * Starring Sandra Oh * Buena Vista Home Entertainment ...
  129. THEATER Boston Marriage Los Angeles: Geffen Playhouse; Washington, D.C.: Actors' Th...
  130. The North Tower Circle sits on a short connecting road between two one-way streets on...
  131. In mid January, University of Notre Dame president and Catholic priest the Reverend J...
  132. Will gay audiences fall in love with a show about a Viagra-popping polygamist jugglin...
  133. TV The Real World: Key West Premieres February 28 (MTV) Well, you couldn't do thi...
  134. "Where do I put this fire? Where do I put this burning rage of fire inside me? W...
  135. "Where ya from?" The achingly gruff voice of Harvey Fierstein echoed throug...
  136. T Cooper's cheeky and inventive second novel, Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes, is ...
  137. Confessions of a Mormon Boy * SoHo Playhouse, New York City * Open-ended run Confes...
  138. The judge speaks, you, everyone, for being here today. I know this is a very, very ha...
  139. The evangelical Christian blogosphere ricocheted with outrage in mid January. The cas...
  140. Thank you for Dan Savage's tirade against deposed Spokane mayor Jim West ["No Ex...
  141. Alison Dock had been an activist for gay and AIDS causes in Chicago for many years. B...
  142. ANYDA MARCHANT, 94, retired attorney, novelist, and publisher, at her home in Rehobot...
  143. My connection with Transamerica started when my friend Duncan Tucker--who would go on...
  144. In the glory days of gay liberation our movement was blessed with strong support from...
  145. West Hollywood, Calif., resident Doug Eichler strolled into Regal Cinemas' Avenue 13 ...
  146. Thanks for Patrick Moore's article on the hypocrisy of news coverage in the Middle Ea...
  147. It turns out the Ocean County [N.J.] Board of Freeholders does have a heart. On Janua...
  148. The longest-running Los Angeles--based soap opera, ABC's General Hospital, is speakin...
  149. ANDREW MATTISON, 57, coauthor of The Hale Couple with his partner, David McWhirter; H...
  150. In November 1985, San Francisco resident Cleve Jones glanced at a wall and had a simp...
  151. I got conned by JT LeRoy. I know, I know--get in line with Winona Ryder, right? And i...
  152. "Will's ... moribund sex life [on Will & Grace] continues to irritate gay pe...
  153. Despite a daily, strictly medicinal dose of the New York Times crossword puzzle, I do...
  154. Further to your interview with Michael Shernoff [Q&A, January 31], unprotected or...
  155. The arrest of antigay Baptist minister Lonnie Latham (pictured) for propositioning an...
  156. Will & Grace fans know Leslie Jordan as Beverley Leslie, but the actors wicked So...
  157. RICHARD HATCH, 44, the gay former winner of Survivor, of tax evasion charges, January...
  158. FOE GENE SHALIT, for a review calling Jack's character a "sexual predator."...
  159. As the controversy surrounding writer JT LeRoy's true identity heats up, young LGBT S...
  160. FILM End of the Spear Now in theaters Although out star Chad Allen shines in th...
  161. In the January 17 issue, John Morgan Wilson writes about Hollywood actors who come ou...
  162. GLSEN founder and executive director Kevin Jennings offers a moving tribute to The Ad...
  163. "Every movie in the last three years you look like a scary dyke with no teeth.&q...
  164. Jeromy Carpenter is a clerk at Trader Joe's in Seattle's Central District. He spends ...
  165. Whether you found it a life-altering touchstone, a good cry, or even a major snooze, ...
  166. Playwright David Grimm unlaces corsets and unbuttons breeches in his randy Restoratio...
  167. Andrew Sullivan rightly condemns the Catholic Church's purge of gay seminarians [Agai...
  168. Utah's annual film festival! may be history, but the queer films that premiered there...
  169. As a Canadian, I want to apologize. For many years, I looked down on you. I sniffed a...
  170. "School is a place where you go to learn and grow, not a place where you should ...
  171. If not for Diana Ossana, it's highly doubtful we'd be cheering Brokeback Mountain on ...
  172. Project Runway watchers who miss the larger-than-life style of season I winner Jay Mc...
  173. Peter Guber knows the movie business like no one else. In the 1980s he produced smash...
  174. The caption on page 38 of our January 31 story "Where Has the Gay Art Gene?"...
  175. 1 SALEM, ORE. A federal judge threw out a lawsuit January 20 brought by a gay Portl...
  176. Can children rolling eggs across the White House lawn be an act of radical gay activi...
  177. How'd they do it? That's the question moviegoers may have pondered after seeing some ...
  178. Eva Solo offers an alternative to French press with their CafeSolo coffee maker ($75)...
  179. It's unprecedented, this new gay movie that's al] the talk. It's a same-sex romance t...
  180. Two months after acquiring LPI Media (publisher of The Advocate, Out, and other magaz...
  181. DEAD JIM MORRISON Occupation: Poet and lead singer of the Doors, 1967-1971 Loca...
  182. Can a police force be too sensitive to homophobia among youth? Just ask 21-year-old O...
  183. Phyllis Gates, the former Mrs. Rock Hudson, died January 4 at age 80, and the Los Ang...
  184. It's been said that the Eclipse's voluptuous haunches, aggressively styled front end,...
  185. October 13, 1997: Annie Preulx's short story "Brokeback Mountain" appears i...
  186. Maryland doesn't offer civil unions, and same-sex couples there may never need to agi...
  187. Most of the approximately 5 to 6 million people infected with HIV in South Africa--th...
  188. BETTY BERZON, 78, a lesbian longtime activist and renowned psychotherapist, who autho...
  189. There was a time when openly gay college students faced difficult and unique challeng...
  190. Before Rock Hudson's marriage to Phyllis Gates, media coverage of his love life walke...
  191. The Little Dog Laughed * Written by Douglas Carter Beane * Directed by Scott Ellis * ...
  192. In this issue The Advocate profiles the Names Project as it struggles with funding an...
  193. Virginia may not be the most gay-friendly state, but a proposal to bar gay adoptive p...