Stories Collection

  1. Sometimes the best way to effect change is to start in your own backyard. When Jodie ...
  2. It's still an all-too-common courtroom maneuver: A zealous attorney with an unpopular...
  3. I'm guessing that Isaac Julien does not need sleep, a great quality in a filmmaker (a...
  4. In your "Sixth Annual Gay Guide to the Oscars" [April 2], Alonso Duralde strains to f...
  5. Faced with a $4.4 million budget shortfall, the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center sa...
  6. CONVICTED: Transgendered woman Vonlee Nicole Tiitlow, 34, of killing Donald Rogers, h...
  7. One hot summer day in Kansas when I was 17, I came inside to take a break from mowing...
  8. I believe somehow as the days get .dark that we are called to become aware of light, ...
  9. I agree that gay content shouldn't be taken out of films ["Gay Be Gone," April 2]. Wh...
  10. Officials at the army base in Fort Bragg, N.C., took the "don't tell" part of the Pen...
  11. It's tough enough for some gays to be open about their sexual orientation in the Unit...
  12. It all started, I think, with Volvo. Until then, cars were boy toys marketed to young...
  13. This just in from the lab: If you've always figured that straight guys who feel their...
  14. The notion that Noel Freeman is the first out Corps of Cadets member in Texas A&M's 1...
  15. Exodus International North America, the notorious "ex-gay" Christian ministry that tr...
  16. Recent pedophilia scandals in the Roman Catholic Church in Boston and elsewhere have ...
  17. Dirk Shafer had barely entered his first circuit event, the 1996 Palm Springs White P...
  18. J'Noel Gardiner may have a Wisconsin birth certificate that says she's a woman, but s...
  19. Cross Survivor with Popstars and you've got Pop Idol, the latest British pop cultural...
  20. I was filled with joy when I read the article "The Sound of Silence" in your April 2 ...
  21. Though both of France's leading presidential candidates addressed gay voters in an in...
  22. Who's that hot gay couple caught in bed on the cover of the United Kingdom's Telegrap...
  23. In 1995, suffering from the worst ravages of HIV, Dick Scanlan nevertheless continued...
  24. Thanks to The Advocate for recognizing the passing of two such important pioneers in ...
  25. A conservative Australian politician's attempt last month to embarrass a well-respect...
  26. Host Peter Marshall: Paul, why do Heirs Angels wear leather?. Paul Lynde: Because c...
  27. When we fell head over heels for pioneering female singer-songwriter Laura Nyro in th...
  28. I really connected with Andrew Sullivan's "Adventures in Baby-sitting" [Last Word, Ap...
  29. The fathers of five foster children, Steven Lofton and Roger Croteau had been fightin...
  30. For the Roman Catholic Church, these are tough times. A burgeoning scandal over the h...
  31. Toshi Reagon says she's feeling "blissed out" these days, and she has every reason to...
  32. As Rosie O'Donnell stepped out into millions of American homes, Iris and I were regul...
  33. Some recent studies concerning gay men and sexually transmitted diseases suggest that...
  34. In February, G&L Internet Bank, a Web-only bank head-quartered in Pensacola, Fla., an...
  35. Damon Wayans has a new therapist, and he's gay. On the hit series My Wife and Kids, n...
  36. "In my early 20s I wondered if I was interested in women, and so I kind of, well ... ...
  37. Because of the potential for enormous savings, demand for drugs from Canadian online ...
  38. When American Air-lines flight attendant Jeff Collman died at e World Trade Center Se...
  39. An annual radio series of real-life stories from the American gay community, Outright...
  40. Your article "A Beautiful Minefield" [April 2] was outstanding. I think the film goes...
  41. With Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel now awaiting their May 10 sentencing for the in...
  42. A "broadly effective" AIDS vaccine is at least 10 years away, according to reports fr...
  43. After several weeks of dating Kurt, a school-teacher from Minneapolis, Chris Beckman,...
  44. What I like about most Southern men is the baroque nature of their past," says noveli...
  45. Kudos to Riki Wilchins for once again pointing out what should be obvious but is so o...
  46. As the first gay liaison to the mayor of Providence, R.I., W. Fitzgerald Himmelsbach ...
  47. Living didn't come easily to Clinton Risetter. People who knew him say the 37-year-ol...
  48. "The easiest way to describe it is a cross between Hee Haw and Sonny and Cher," notes...
  49. I thought I knew what it was like to be on the outside. Most of us gay and lesbian pe...
  50. Fund-raising company Pallotta TeamWorks, best known for its AIDS Rides, hit another b...
  51. MAKING A MARK AT MICROSOFT Ben Waldman uses his position as the company's first ope...
  52. Cooties--those imaginary bugs that infest icky people--normally don't survive grammar...
  53. Thank you for your cover story on HBO's Six Feet Under ["Our Siblings, Our Secrets," ...
  54. "You know what I think the Army's actually afraid of? A thousand gay guys with M16s g...
  55. The end of one thing is the beginning of another, as the adage goes. After 22 years i...
  56. Growing up in the middle-class Boston suburb of Melrose, Mass., Patrick Guerriero fea...
  57. * Written by Carlos Cuaron * Directed by Alfonso Cuaron * Starring Gael Garcia Bernal...
  58. Bravo, Cyndi Lauper [My Perspective, March 19]! Sticking by your sister when others p...
  59. Mainstream America finally got a good look at a gay parent March 14 when Rosie O'Donn...
  60. Recent pedophilia scandals in the Roman Catholic Church in Boston and elsewhere have ...
  61. As one of only four openly gay men appointed to a federal office by President Bush, D...
  62. Sleek, sexy, and decidedly dangerous, Aud (rhymes with "shroud") Torvingen is everyth...
  63. After reading the article "Look Ma, No Heteros" in the March 19 issue, I have serious...
  64. The six-month anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks found the surviving s...
  65. DIED: Paul Reed, 45, author of Facing It, considered to be one of the first AIDS nove...
  66. On a recent business trip to Seattle, I was put up in the W hotel. Fabulous! Whatever...
  67. Welfare reform is not an urgent, conscious priority for most gay people I know. Nor h...
  68. It will be interesting to see how the Tauzin congressional committee deals with the M...
  69. Times of crisis bring out the best in some people and the worst in others. The New Yo...
  70. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertaiment, and headline...
  71. Unlike many actors on the verge of stardom, Kyle Hall never considered heading for th...
  72. Broward County, Fla.'s teacher of the year, Connie Hines, has a new lesson for her ei...
  73. Prompted in large part by Rosie O'Donnell s coming out as a gay parent in an intervie...
  74. * Written by Edward Albee * Directed by David Esbjrnson * Starring Bill Pullman and M...
  75. I had no idea David Brock was partially responsible for the unnecessary impeachment o...
  76. The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center opened Mar...
  77. Media attention on gay Republicans peaked during the 1996 election--especially when t...
  78. * Written by Richard Greenberg * Directed by David Warren * Starring Peter Frechette,...
  79. After reading Joseph Carman's article on New York City Ballet's Christopher Wheeldon ...
  80. The number of people kicked out of the military for being gay is the highest it's bee...
  81. AH, POP STARS--sometimes we think we've got them figured out, sometimes we just don't...
  82. * Directed by George C. Wolfe * Constructed by John Lahr * Reconstructed and performe...
  83. I found your review of the book This Place Called Absence by Kera Bolonik very poor [...
  84. March was not a good month for gay people in Africa First, upon accepting an award on...
  85. CAN YOU TELL the difference between a queer indie movie and a gay porn video? It woul...
  86. Milestones in lesbian and queer-identified music are being marked faster than a Susan...
  87. "With our show, if you're homophobic, the ray bashing is built into the show-you don'...
  88. Queen Elizabeth II arrived for a royal tour of New Zealand on February 22 and was gre...
  89. [ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] Caption: Teddy winners Walking on Water (top, left) and All...
  90. * Directed by Peter Sheridan * Written by Sheridan and Nye Heron, based on the book b...
  91. * Ann Rower * Serpent's Tail * $14 Lee & Elaine has its roots in the 1970s flowerin...
  92. The recent deaths of two figures in the gay civil rights movement are a striking remi...
  93. Ovarian cancer is called "the silent killer" because women typically experience no sy...
  94. APRIL SEES THE DEBUT of the Pet Shop Boys' new CD Release, which concentrates on slyl...
  95. "If it weren't for Go Fish, I wouldn't have a career," Rose Troche muses into her cel...
  96. My little niece and nephew, I'm proud to say, have become one of the sustaining joys ...
  97. Penguin keeper Stephanie Mitchell had her suspicions all along. While the sex of peng...
  98. Is the Food and Drug Administration trying to prevent gay men from fathering children...
  99. When Noel Freeman walked into the lounge where members of the Corps of Cadets hang ou...
  100. Is Baz Luhrmann the gayest straight man alive? "Well, I'm not sure how straight I am,...
  101. Thanks so much for the cover story on the outspoken Benjamin Bratt ["Unspoiled Bratt,...
  102. In a move that could signal former vice president Al Gore's interest in another run f...
  103. Better late than never? Retiring senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.) told a group of Christi...
  104. If a picture is worth a thousand words, imagine thousands of chatty teenagers in as m...
  105. Leapin' Botox! We're going to have our own gay channel! All over town Fantasy Gay TV ...
  106. What an incredible article on the NCAA in your March 5 issue ["The College Sports Clo...
  107. After hours of emotional testimony, it took a Tampa, Fla., pension board only minutes...
  108. The battle over gay clergy may be lost in the Presbyterian Church (USA), say gay righ...
  109. Let's start with the obvious. Director Ron Howard's blockbuster A Beautiful Mind is a...
  110. It's easy to spot the two National Magazine Awards on Joe Holtzman's coffee table: Th...
  111. A gay man dies alone in an unfamiliar hospital while his longtime partner tries fruit...
  112. DIED: Barbara Cameron, founder of the Gay American Indian Movement, in San Francisco,...
  113. A Beautiful Mind Why It's Here It's considered a front-runner in many top categorie...
  114. Amid the tidal wave of Australian talent sweeping American film, it's bracing to real...
  115. I have never been inspired to write and thank a publication before. But after reading...
  116. Students at the University of California, Berkeley, got a whole new kind of "hands-on...
  117. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health ...
  118. Quick: Who won Best Supporting Actress the year before last? You may have no idea, bu...
  119. "It was like a childhood fantasy come true," says three-time Tony Award-winner Audra ...
  120. Although like many Canadians I enjoy reading The Advocate, I am often distressed by y...
  121. Separation of church and state is right there in the very first amendment to the U.S....
  122. Being an attorney, Carrie Stone knows about being practical. So when she and her part...
  123. Morris Weissman--the Charlie Chan producer with a soft spot for his young valet (Ryan...
  124. * Indigo Girls * Epic Records There's something about the "we're just like you" att...
  125. Thanks for the article "Amazing Grace and Resolve" in the February 19 issue. While I ...
  126. The long-awaited Employment Non-Discrimination Act on February 27 received its first ...
  127. The debate over omitting gay sex from John Forbes Nash Jr.'s life in A Beautiful Mind...
  128. "Was he the real?" That's the question after seeing Robert Altman's Best Picture-nomi...
  129. There are a thousand words for loneliness, and out writer-director Christopher Munch ...
  130. Joe and I met in 1983 and have been together since that first night. As we talked abo...
  131. Even though the Iron Curtain was supposed to have been dismantled along with the Unio...
  132. Teddy winners Walking on Water(top, left) and All About My Father(above); Guardian of...
  133. Shawn Hatosy endeared himself to both gay and straight audiences as high schooler Jac...
  134. A man stands stiffly in a vintage Mao uniform, mirrored glasses masking his face, the...
  135. Last year gay activists were fighting conservatives in their attempt to get the New Y...
  136. For the 10th year in a row, the orgnizers of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Day parade are...
  137. In a universe that gives us Mysteries & Scandals, Queer as Folk, the Westminster Kenn...
  138. This Place Called Absence * Lydia Kwa * Kensington * $23 Canadian writer Lydia Kwa'...
  139. An early-morning arson attack that drove a Missoula, Mont., lesbian couple and their ...
  140. When scientists went looking for a genetic link to homosexuality they started with st...
  141. Before they met Valarie Rae Miller, creator James Cameron and his producing team on F...
  142. Over the last few months we've been inundated by a sea of troubling new images. None ...
  143. Seven months after being charged with the beating death of transgendered teenager Fre...
  144. THE FOURTH SEASON OF SURVIVOR is under way, and once again The Buzz combed through fi...
  145. Heather Juergensen and Jennifer Westfeldt are sitting in a Los Angeles cafe gesticula...
  146. The nation's largest teachers union is urging school districts across the country to ...
  147. ABC NEWS'S DIANE SAWYER adds to her gay-friendly track record with an hour-long look ...
  148. At the age of 27, Christopher Wheeldon abruptly abandoned his burgeoning career as a ...
  149. Mickie Mashburn's My Perspective [February 19] points out something that too many of ...
  150. In a case of what might be called "don't ask, don't tell, I'm not listening, I can't ...
  151. PRODUCER JIM SCALEM says PBS's The Legendary Liberace is "a celebration of his perfor...
  152. For most of us, there is a terrible helplessness in thinking about what happened to M...
  153. DIED: Scott Forbes, 57, a West Hollywood, Calif., businessman and activist, of compli...
  154. Imagine a conference room somewhere in Washington, D.C. Thirty-five presidential appo...
  155. It's one thing for a mature actor to play gay in TV or film; it's another for an adol...
  156. So Sheila Kuehl thinks it's great that gay lieutenant-gubernatorial candidate and for...
  157. Two men on a February 8 American Airlines flight from London to New York caused some ...
  158. David Brock doesn't fit the part of political firebrand. Over lunch at a busy Washing...
  159. My exposure to TV as a child was limited, therefore I love the special magic of made-...
  160. In our February 19 story "Trailer Queen," Jenni Olson should have been credited as be...
  161. The first priest in Spanish history to acknowledge His homosexuality has vowed to fig...
  162. When Michael Kantams, who was born Margo, found out he could have sex-reassignment su...
  163. The Execution of Wanda Jean * Directed by Liz Garbus * Debuting March 17 on HBO; enco...
  164. I grew up in an Italian-American family in Queens where everyone lived at the top of ...
  165. When Ken Haller graduated from medical school in 1980, he decided to become a pediatr...
  166. When Joanna Matthews hears people crooning over a baby, declaring that "he has his mo...
  167. "I've had a lot of fun writing," says Lou Harrison, the current dean of American symp...
  168. "She was bisexual. She loved men and she loved women ... but she didn't do anything i...
  169. In the procession of top Enron executives invoking the Fifth Amendment rather than un...
  170. David and Nate Fisher, the 30-something mortician heroes of HBO's Six Feet Under, ent...
  171. Doria Roberts has made a life out of risky decisions. Raised on R&B, she took up acou...
  172. For the first time since the creation of civil unions in Vermont in 2000, the legalit...
  173. Every year more than 2 million American women find themselves in medical purgatory. T...
  174. "I'm a member of the gay and lesbian community, and I'm also one of the best consumer...
  175. Patrick Goodwin is rubbing the sleep from his eyes. On this afternoon in San Francisc...
  176. Gale Harold is beautiful, talented, and sexy as hell ["Gale Force," February 5]! His ...
  177. It's hard to imagine what Mark Bingham would have thought about all the media attenti...
  178. You can't judge a congregation by its building--or maybe you can. Congregation Kol Am...
  179. In 1996 Jeanne LaFrantz, then a manager at a home health agency, decided to treat her...
  180. Within the grassroots area of the music business, there are few reliable sources of b...
  181. The criteria that filtering software companies use to determine which Internet sites ...
  182. Mike Tyson knows how to give it to men until they love him. He said so himself, grabb...
  183. DIED: Norman Aaron, 83, Florida gay rights activist, of natural causes, January 14. ...
  184. "It was an old-fashioned grand tour, like a Henry Miller heroine," gushes actor Danny...
  185. Cassia Eller, the lesbian Brazilian rock singer sometimes called the "South American ...
  186. Like Steve Gunderson, I'm a white middle-aged professional, but I can't quite relate ...
  187. According to a Zogby/GLCensus Partners online poll released January 24, two thirds of...
  188. It's no wonder Sydney was chosen as the site for the next Gay Games: A little Web sur...
  189. Sure, the actor Benjamin Bratt is familiar to American audiences as a TV cop (he play...
  190. Under Rug Swept * Alanis Morissette * Maverick Isn't it ironic that the heterosexua...
  191. Openly gay Texan Mike McKay has been named deputy director of AmeriCorps, the nationa...
  192. Travel trends come and go, but some popular gay destinations are classics. A look bac...