Stories Collection

  1. One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of Facial Hair * Allan Peterkin * Arsenal P...
  2. I was disappointed that your time line for 2001 did not include Frank O'Bannon's beco...
  3. Henry Messer and his partner, Carl House, just celebrated 50 years together. That's a...
  4. GET READY FOR A RUSH of the new--OK, the `80s--as gay icons on two continents spice u...
  5. MAWRDEW CZGOWCHWZ JAMES McCOURT "It's not unpronounceable," insists James McCourt...
  6. A fabulous performance by Naomi Watts and a great movie in Mulholland Drive, and it i...
  7. Slovakia is proving to have a political climate that's even harsher than its rugged t...
  8. WHEREVER GAY GOSSIPS gather, rumors are flying that Rosie O'Donnell is planning to co...
  9. Drift * Written and directed by Quentin Lee * Starring R.T. Lee, Greyson Dayne, Jonat...
  10. It's no coincidence that the gay rights movement was born at the end of the 1960s, wh...
  11. In our February 5 story "Gale Force," Queer as Folk actor Scott Lowell is referred to...
  12. It was fun while it lasted. On January 31, just over a month after Toronto drag queen...
  13. Not far from where a rickety elevated train platform cuts through the heart of a poor...
  14. Storytelling * Written and directed by Todd Solondz * Starring Mark Webber, Paul Giam...
  15. When Cole Porter met Noel Coward on Capri, the boys they in tow went mad at the sight...
  16. Stuart Denton began the New Year with everything to live for. The chairman of the Pla...
  17. When Dwight Slater was recruited to the highly ranked Stanford University football te...
  18. Inshallah * Written and performed by Sandra Bernhard * Joe's Pub, New York City (and ...
  19. "I was quite worried about pulling the whole lesbian thing off, though, because I'd n...
  20. Condoms are unsafe--that's the message from conservative activists with increasing vo...
  21. In this year of uncertainty, how will gay men and lesbians approach their travel plan...
  22. While studying the feelings of gays and lesbians about the idea of creating a gay cab...
  23. Lance Loud's commentary touched me deeply ["Lance Loud: A Death in An American Family...
  24. Greg Henson has more than one reason to thank Sharon Stone this Valentine's Day. Not ...
  25. FIRST IT WAS MELISSA AND JULIE, Ellen and Anne, k.d. and Leisha. Now former Boyzone m...
  26. Jenni Olson's an expert on trailer trash. Movie trailers, that is. "There's trailer t...
  27. Sex-Crime Panic * Neil Miller * Alyson Books * $14.95 In 1954 and 1955 in Sioux Cit...
  28. If John Loan is telling the truth, New York's gay service groups may be unknowingly p...
  29. ONE OF THE MOST UNLIKELY yet camera-friendly sensations to emerge from the 2002 Sunda...
  30. "You're late," Jenifer Lewis snaps as I pull up in front of the minimanse she shares ...
  31. In the early 1990s, Manhattan-based art dealer and publicist Andy Behrman was still l...
  32. Nothing indicates the level of hysteria behind the jailing of David Pasquarelli and M...
  33. Norway's minister of finance, Per-Kristian Foss, married his longtime partner, Jan Er...
  34. Rocker Melissa Etheridge was immortalized in Los Angeles's Rock Walk of Fame on Janua...
  35. Despite the economic downturn and a conservative federal government--both of which ma...
  36. Gary Indiana seems to have forged a literary career from the gay dregs of life. In hi...
  37. Lois Marrero and I met in 1986 while working at the Tampa police department. Lois had...
  38. During the 2002 Winter' Games, activist groups will descend on Salt Lake City to make...
  39. Last year, on a postcard-perfect fall day, Charles Underwood and Wayne Toles exchange...
  40. Four * Written by Christopher Shinn * Directed by Jeff Cohen * Starring Keith Nobbs, ...
  41. "I want to come out internationally," proclaims San Francisco dancer-choreographer Da...
  42. "Questions about my sexuality, I guess, will always be questions.... I wouldn't even ...
  43. Couch potatoes looking for gaycentric entertainment could find themselves with three ...
  44. If you didn't know better, you might miss the significance of HBO's latest direct-mai...
  45. Ever since the flowers I sent her failed to get my eighth-grade English teacher to fa...
  46. What's in a name? Juliet, despairing that Romeo's name was the sole barrier thwarting...
  47. When the Olympic contenders march on Salt Lake City's Rice-Eccles Stadium for the Feb...
  48. The placid atmosphere of an upscale subdivision of Longwood, Fla., near Orlando, has ...
  49. When it comes to running their business, personal and professional partners James Kle...
  50. Swing When You're Winning * Robbie Williams * Chrysalis/EMI U.K. (import only) Ther...
  51. Activists and conservatives alike cheered New York governor George Pataki at his Stat...
  52. Activists in Massachusetts have a nagging suspicion that a proposal to ban gay marria...
  53. Alissa Wykes doesn't scare easily. The 5-foot-6, 209-pound professional football play...
  54. Singer-songwriter Magdalen Hsu-Li gladly identifies as many things--including as a pa...
  55. I read "This Is Mark Bingham" [January 22] on the train after having spent Christmas ...
  56. Nearly a year to the day after Diane Whipple was fatally mauled by two presa canario ...
  57. DIED: Jimmy "Buc" Buccalo, 41, popular circuit DJ, of undisclosed causes, in Atlanta,...
  58. Dan Pallotta wants nothing less than to change the world. It's a dream he's held clos...
  59. Ninja Death Squad write and sing anthems for today's disaffected youth, but don't exp...
  60. Your article "Life Goes On" [January 22] was possibly the best article you have ever ...
  61. A January 8 Supreme Court decision limiting the scope of file Americans With Disabili...
  62. It's easy enough to hit the store for flowers or chocolates, but if you really want t...
  63. What if someone made a movie about JFK, his storied family background, his adored chi...
  64. When Christopher Rice published his first novel, A Density of Souls, in 2000 at age 2...
  65. To the wonderful gay and lesbian New York City firefighters and police officers pictu...
  66. Maggie McIntosh already had the distinction of being the first female majority leader...
  67. As the cover story in this issue affirms, AIDS Ride founder and chief organizer Dan P...
  68. Storytelling, the new film by Todd Solondz (Happiness), received some gay press last ...
  69. The Snow Garden * Christopher Rice * Talk Miramax Books * $23.95 Christopher Rice's...
  70. Officials in Florida's Miami-Dade Country have given the go-ahead for a September ref...
  71. THE BUZZ LOVED Robert Altman's film Gosford Park for all its upstairs-downstairs wit ...
  72. Stagestruck is the name of Sarah Schulman's 1998 award-winning nonfiction book about ...
  73. Keith Strickland may be the most musically diverse surviving member of the legendary ...
  74. Just weeks before his death on December 21, writer Lance Loud called Alan and Susan R...
  75. THE FILM'S DIRECTOR WAS OPENLY GAY; the young actor was only playing gay. Now, in rea...
  76. Homebody/Kabul * Written by Tony Kushner * Directed by Declan Donellan * Starring Lin...
  77. The B-52's Universe: The Essential Guide to the World's Greatest Party Band * Mats Se...
  78. People persecuted for homosexuality during the Franco regime in Spain will have their...
  79. THE QUACK IS BACK. Queer Duck, the outrageous cartoon that originally gained a cult f...
  80. Enigmatic, witty novelist Iris Murdoch lived a life of the mind until her death from ...
  81. "What Animal and I do best is improvisation," says 28-year-old Bitch, a self-identifi...
  82. I appreciate seeing The Advocate speak to the issue of HIV infection in gay men despi...
  83. It sounds like a grisly scene out of a horror movie, but reports that three Saudi Ara...
  84. After a decade of planning, the 41,000-square-foot, $15 million San Francisco Lesbian...
  85. Iris * Directed by Richard Eyre * Written by Eyre and Charles Wood * Starring Hugh Bo...
  86. Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality * Jonathan Ned Katz * University o...
  87. In The Advocate's January 22 "News of the Year" time line, Stephen Herbits should hav...
  88. Could finding out that his father is gay have pushed American Taliban member John Wal...
  89. Barney Frank has just come from the House floor, where he was marshaling opposition t...
  90. Whatever that elusive "gay sensibility" may be, it seems to trail actor Jim Broadbent...
  91. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, men proudly recorded their intense friendsh...
  92. After reading your interview with Sir Ian McKellen, I have even greater respect for t...
  93. I first became curious about what it means to be a gay in smalltown America after a m...
  94. DIED: Eugene H. Nickerson, 83, pro-gay New York federal judge best known for trying t...
  95. For many parents and educators, the Internet is a lot like an unpredictable and stree...
  96. In 1995 The Advocate proudly broke the news that Sir Nigel Hawthorne--who died on Dec...
  97. Maybe it was the effects of September 11. Maybe it is a recognition of the progress o...
  98. In "The Gay Guide to Middle-earth" [December 25] you mention queer-friendly themes in...
  99. "I guess I'm gonna have to stick with [being lesbian] for a while--as opposed to othe...
  100. When Michal Eden was elected to the Tel Aviv--Jaffa city council in 1998, she became ...
  101. There are probably very few gay men and lesbians with Internet access who don't know ...
  102. Mike White's unforgettable turn as a childlike gay man in 2000's creepy comedy Chuck ...
  103. It's a brand-new year, but the surviving partners of gay people killed in the Septemb...
  104. Despite an erroneous Associated Press headline declaring writer and activist Larry Kr...
  105. THE TALL, SLENDER MAN locking his bicycle outside an unpretentious Toronto restaurant...
  106. In 1930 William Haines was America's number 1 movie star. He was also gay. Haines liv...
  107. What a pleasure to see The Advocate interviewing the amazingly talented Laura Innes [...
  108. Last year, acting Massachusetts governor Jane Swift came out strongly against marriag...
  109. There's more to Internet activism than signing petitions or forwarding E-mails. Let's...
  110. When BBC TV personality Christopher Price was offered a plum two-year contract for a ...
  111. In his first scene on Bravo's new reality series The It Factor, which follows the liv...
  112. After reading "`Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Goes to War" [December 4], I thought it might ...
  113. The education reform bill that was expected to be signed into law by President Bush i...
  114. As soon as the Internet was created, battles for privacy and personal freedom on the ...
  115. The Golden Globe Awards, a ritual at which I usually scoff for the celebrity-panderin...
  116. After 30 years on the Los Angeles city council and three runs for mayor--most recentl...
  117. From left: Spike Cutolo, detective, New York Police Department Whereabouts on Septemb...
  118. Marlene Dietrich: Her Own Song * Written by Karin Kearns * Directed by J. David R...
  119. Although I recently wrote about the events of September 11 in The Advocate, I neverth...
  120. Long before September 11, the gay community was disproportionately afflicted by depre...
  121. "Thees ees how you need to bring her to or-gahsm," says Tristan Taormino in her best ...
  122. JANUARY 1/11: [A] Wanda Jean 41, becomes the first African-American woman since 195...
  123. 2001 was not the year Stanley Kubrick said it would be. Instead of hurtling through s...
  124. (1) Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior Tim Bergling Bergling's book may be ...
  125. According to Anthony Rapp, one of the perks of acting in a movie with Russell Crowe i...
  126. "A police officer walked in one day and started asking me questions." Alex Donis is r...
  127. "God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probab...
  128. Remember lesbian chic? Hollywood doesn't. For those who keep track, it seems that eve...
  129. Tony Bennett thrives on discovery and collaboration. There's no need for the legendar...
  130. Until 2001, for most people, mention of the Salvation Army conjured up warm images of...
  131. (1) Hedwig and the Angry Inch Actor-cowriter-director John Cameron Mitchell and music...
  132. They may not be pro baseball players, but lesbian DJs are heavy hitters on the dance ...
  133. It was a scene that once would have made advocates for people with AIDS explode into ...
  134. Lisa Udelson and JD Samson have a lot in common. They're both from Cleveland. They've...
  135. (1) Ladyfest Midwest, Chicago A low-budget, high-energy happening with Le Tigre, Tega...
  136. Lance Loud was an Advocate columnist for many years during the 1990s. He was already ...
  137. Reading a Ben Brantley review leaves little doubt: This is a man who loves his job. A...
  138. In the summer of 2000, when Eden Riegel won the high-profile role of Bianca, the most...
  139. It took a while for Alice Hoglan to muster the courage--not to mention the technologi...
  140. 1) The Full Monty and The Producers (Broadway) They put gay people onstage, not backs...
  141. (1) Ellen DeGeneres She couched lesbian jokes in a nun's habit on Will & Grace, launc...
  142. Today, it seems like an omen that Jeffrey Collman woke up at 2 A.M. on September 11 a...
  143. Ah, Marlene Dietrich. Her beauty was considerable, but her go-to-hell spirit is the r...
  144. It's going to take us all a while to accept this, but if we as gay people are going t...
  145. I identify myself as a Democrat. Nonetheless, I speak from the same voice as Rich Taf...
  146. By mid autumn daily temperatures in Minneapolis hover around 50 degrees, but on Novem...
  147. CHRISTMAS IS LOOKING AWFULLY PINK THIS YEAR--judging by Call Me Claus, which airs on ...
  148. Kylie Minogue says she loves strolling through the streets of New York. It's one of t...
  149. C. Dixon Osburn's My Perspective in the November 20 issue of The Advocate misstated t...
  150. As one dark chapter for Egypt closed with the final judgments of 52 gay men arrested ...
  151. On September 10 the board of directors for Washington, D.C.'s Whitman-Walker Clinic a...
  152. Second Skin (Segunda Piel) * Written by Angeles Gonzalez Sinde * Directed by Gerardo ...
  153. John and I have been together 13 years. (John would say for 12 years and two months. ...
  154. Derided as a businessman with no political experience when he entered the New York Ci...
  155. Minersville, Pa., isn't known for much except its nearby glowing bronze memorial to t...
  156. Mamma Mia! * Written by Catherine Johnson * Directed by Phyllida Lloyd * Starring Lou...
  157. Thank you for such an absolutely fabulous article on, well ... AbFab ["AbFab: The Com...
  158. "Seriously, all of my friends, all of my dancers, are gay, and I love them; they're m...
  159. A hit or two of ecstasy might cause more than just an overwhelming desire to dance th...
  160. Where do you go to find an actor bold enough, bewitching enough to play the most powe...
  161. The Women * Written by Clare Boothe Luce * Directed by Scott Elliott * Starring Krist...
  162. With respect to the graffiti on the Navy's aircraft carrier bomb [The Nation, Novembe...
  163. What a difference a year makes. In 2000 gay rights advocates lost in five of the six ...
  164. Frustrated by therapists who seem uncomfortable discussing your sex life? Worried tha...
  165. WITH A SONG IN MY HEART Give music lovers the gamut from the newly restored Funny G...
  166. For Canadian theater and film director Robert Lepage, the historic events of Septembe...
  167. As a gay man and a journalist, I am always interested in the coverage given to major ...
  168. When New Yorkers on November 10 presented Pope John Paul II with the helmet of fire d...
  169. In yet another sign that drug-resistant HIV may be spreading, researchers at the Cent...
  170. STAR TRIPS: No matter what the folks on your shopping list ask for, they really want ...
  171. Actor Edward Hibbert is appearing in the hit Broadway revival of Noises Off, a comedy...
  172. Contrary to the rhetoric of the religious right, more than 80% of parents in the Unit...
  173. If all the Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter hype has you jonesing for some sci-fi o...
  174. ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR B0AT Outdoorsy gals are flocking to women's white-water rafting ...
  175. Isadora: A Sensational Life * Peter Kurth * Little, Brown * $29.95 At the turn of t...
  176. Amid criticism from conservative religious groups, Salvation Army officials on Novemb...
  177. Thanks to such self-confident and unashamedly out older gay people as our cover subje...
  178. It is not pretty when straight white guys experience the powerlessness of terror for ...
  179. Children's books have always benefited from the talent of queer authors and illustrat...
  180. I commend you on your article on Lexa Rosean ["Something Wiccan This Way Comes," Nove...
  181. DIED: Kris Kovick, 50, author, activist, and cartoonist, of breast cancer, in San Fra...
  182. CLOONEY, PITY, DAMON, CHEADLE--OCEAN'S 11 INCLUDES HUNKS FOR DAYS. But it's Elliott G...
  183. "Women are bigger pigs than men!" laughs Laura Innes in mock dismay. "They were so in...
  184. Lost * Gregory Maguire HarperCollins * $26 Ghost stories are endlessly recyclable, ...
  185. My circumcision in 1944 was "successful." There were no complications. However, I con...
  186. By the time the Olympic flame ignites the grand torch at the 2002 Winter Games in Sal...
  187. "MY FRIENDS ARE ALREADY warning me about the Christian groups," says lesbian folk mus...
  188. Are you ready to rock? Nashville-based newly out rocker Cindy Bullens is--although sh...
  189. I guess it was predictable, given the climate of the times. When German historian Lot...
  190. Thank you for printing the interview with Anne Heche ["The Agony and the Ecstasy of A...