Stories Collection

  1. Fans of this long-running series wonder: Will this finally be the year that Bill Broc...
  2. In the movie Sweet Home Alabama, Reese Witherspoon plays a New York fashionism who re...
  3. Australia does indeed have a vibrant and dynamic gay and lesbian community, situated ...
  4. Republican congressman Bob Barr, the architect of the infamous Defense of Marriage Ac...
  5. Cliff Klein and Kelly Last had wanted to announce their November 2001 Vermont civil u...
  6. The Real World Las Vegas cast member Steven got his best career tip from a gay man: "...
  7. Don't rush out to buy baby booties for the titular couple--word is that new recurring...
  8. Hairspray * Book by Mark O'Donnell and Thomas Meehan * Music by Marc Shaiman * Lyrics...
  9. I'm sure there will be readers who will say that Robert Gant's coming-out interview w...
  10. That thunderous roar in central California on August 13 wasn't an earthquake--it was ...
  11. AIDS service organizations around the country will get a boost this fall from the com...
  12. John Winter is a little nervous about an upcoming visit with the sister of his late l...
  13. The Fluffer * Written by Wash West * Directed by West and Richard Glatzer * Starring ...
  14. September Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Apt. 3W by Gabriel Brownstein. A stunnin...
  15. The word ephebophilia is not "newly invented," as Richard Goldstein claims ["The Doub...
  16. An increasing number of courtrooms across the country are tackling the issue of gay p...
  17. San Francisco's Stop AIDS Project, known for its provocative HIV prevention workshops...
  18. Will this meeting of the Gay Mafia please come to order? Thank you. As the minutes of...
  19. Last Call at Maud's * Directed by Paris Poirier * Produced by Karen Kiss Water Bearer...
  20. Tommy's Tale, the debut novel of actor Alan Cumming, is the story of a child-man caug...
  21. Thank you for your article "Daring to Be Bears" [August 20]. I'm 6 foot 2, 195 pounds...
  22. The August 12 announcement from a Providence, R.I., gay group that it is endorsing a ...
  23. Ten things gay men and lesbians should discuss with their doctors, according to a Jul...
  24. You might never notice him on the street, and Randy Harrison likes it that way. Walki...
  25. September Claire of the Moon. Love it or hate it, there's no denying the impact thi...
  26. As I watched the news coverage of the 14th International AIDS Conference in Barcelona...
  27. I was disappointed with Andy Mangels's article "Lesbian Sex = Death?" [August 20]. He...
  28. It's hard enough for most people to understand why Boston physician David Arndt left ...
  29. Though "don't ask, don't tell" is still in effect, veterans will soon be able to ask ...
  30. As the stereotype goes, queer men aren't supposed to play or follow competitive sport...
  31. For the operatic heroines that Patricia Racette portrays onstage, love is always a te...
  32. The Canadian Blood Services' ban on donations from sexually active gay men has at lea...
  33. DIED: Robert Barnes, 42, of complications from Guillain-Barre syndrome, a neurologica...
  34. Bill O'Reilly is a brash, aggressive man who, at 6 foot 4, towers over everyone aroun...
  35. CLASSICAL September Arias for Farinelli. Newcomer and mezzo-soprano Vivica Genaux...
  36. I enjoyed Norah Vincent's column [Last Word, August 20], but there was a minor error....
  37. Q&A Queer as Folk face-to-face Once you've read Randy Harrison's Q&A, check out o...
  38. IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY TO TALK Oscars, especially with an A-list project like the long-...
  39. At 6 foot 1 with close-cropped hair, Kelli Simpkins has what she calls "a masculine p...
  40. Like many New Yorkers, choreographer Stephen Petronio was left feeling raw after what...
  41. When I was 12, I passed a young mother on the street who was pushing a stroller with ...
  42. Out former major league baseball player Billy Bean sent gay sports fans running for h...
  43. WHY IS IT THAT ANY FILM with Madonna on the marquee has to run the gauntlet of ugly r...
  44. September Beyond Therapy by Christopher Durang. San Diego enjoys a welcome revival ...
  45. September John Kelly. The dancer and performance artist known for channeling Joni M...
  46. "The new gay icon? Whatever makes people happy, mate. I don't care." --Calvin Klein...
  47. As current cover boy Randy Harrison ponders the next step in his career, he might loo...
  48. ANY REMAINING DOUBT about the sexual orientation of narcissistic Julian Kaye, the tit...
  49. We've seen Hollywood studios compete to produce two movies about volcanic eruptions, ...
  50. Over the years, comic book superheroes have confronted and done battle with numerous ...
  51. When thousands of Americans lost their lives in the terrorist attacks last year, it d...
  52. Safer-sex education gets a fun digital twist with Catch the Sperm 2, a computer game ...
  53. Stephanie Thomas may have been born a male, but she always acted like a lady. Named W...
  54. September 8 Women. A who's who of French divas--including Catherine Deneuve, Isabel...
  55. September Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art From the Broad Collection...
  56. Not long before August 13, when the gay group Human Rights Campaign released its rati...
  57. When Andy Allison, a manager of Bread Winners Cafe and Bakery in Dallas, saw John Roc...
  58. It wasn't exactly a scientific poll. When Quebec justice minister Paul Begin huddled ...
  59. Igby Goes Down * Written and directed by Burr Steers * Starring Kieran Culkin, Claire...
  60. The word hero has been tossed around casually since September 11, applied to everyone...
  61. Your article "The Dangerous Lives of Gay Priests" [July 23] is a sad statement on the...
  62. Known for her battles for gun control and gay adoption, Rosie O'Donnell may be pickin...
  63. Guerrilla Queer Bar is the latest online gay group to tussle with its Internet servic...
  64. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: Ben Carrillo SPORT: Water polo; his first Gay Gam...
  65. Amber loves to be surrounded by her "boys," standing center stage in a crowded gay cl...
  66. Beneficiaries called it quits for yet another AIDS Ride on July 26. This time it was ...
  67. Gay Games VI hopes to have a record number of participants in Sydney this fall, but n...
  68. Sydney is about to join the shortlist of aggressively gay-friendly cities that have h...
  69. It's 9 o'clock in the morning in Los Angeles the day after the release party for Kris...
  70. People can't honestly believe that if it weren't for Father Paul Shanley's raping of ...
  71. Joseph Mesa Jr. will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing two of his form...
  72. IS IT POSSIBLE FOR AN AMERICAN IDOL to be gay? When it comes to Fox's red-hot talent ...
  73. Where did the games come from? The Gay Games, founded by the late Olympic decathlet...
  74. Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape * Peter Manso * Scribner * $25 Land's ...
  75. Massachusetts candidate for governor Robert Reich should be applauded for his support...
  76. Although the superior court in Ontario, Canada, ruled on July 12 that the province mu...
  77. IT WAS A REAL-LIFE GAY-ON-GAY crime of passion: In a San Diego gay bar, Thomas Mayta ...
  78. Producing a financially solvent Gay Games has long proved a monumental--if not imposs...
  79. Gay men are nasty, filthy child molesters, right? Well, actually, way, way wrong. But...
  80. In 1993 I was in my second year of working my way through college as a deputy sheriff...
  81. Alan Duncan has become the first Conservative member of the British parliament to com...
  82. AS FAR AS REALITY TV goes, cockroach eating and skydiving pale in comparison to the w...
  83. So there I was in London, thumbing through the June issue of Gay Times, the closest t...
  84. "I change my mind so much, I need two boyfriends and a girl. I need an East Coast guy...
  85. By the time Alberta Hamm had enrolled in Pennsylvania's Harrisburg Area Community Col...
  86. The year was 1977, the place South Florida's Dade County. The world's attention was f...
  87. "The reason that I announced my sexuality was that I felt that as a creator at that, ...
  88. Since their three sons and daughter were born in Lexington, Ky., on July 26, partners...
  89. U.S. senator Mark Dayton, a Minnesota Democrat, presented a practical argument for do...
  90. When President Bush tapped Scott Evertz to lead his the Office of National AIDS Polic...
  91. Possession * Written by Neil LaBute, David Henry Hwang, and Laura Jones * Directed by...
  92. It took a joint session of the Massachusetts legislature, but on July 17 lawmakers ki...
  93. Gay men have always had a reputation for being preoccupied with improving their looks...
  94. During the 3 1/2 years he served in the Israel Defense Forces, beginning at age 18, E...
  95. Modesty Blaise * Directed by Joseph Losey * Starring Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, and...
  96. Just 11 days after the Arkansas supreme court overturned that state's same-sex sodomy...
  97. When word got out that Big Brothers Big Sisters of America was officially welcoming g...
  98. As millions of students head back to colleges across the country this month, official...
  99. To hear Edie Falco tell it, her rapid Sopranos-fueled rise to fame has been just a bi...
  100. Glen Rosengarten and Peter Downes had their relationship legally recognized in Vermon...
  101. DIED: Robert Giard, 62, gay photographer known for taking portraits of famous gay and...
  102. Applying for college is stressful enough without having to worry about whether you ca...
  103. Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally) * Various artists * Rhino Records ...
  104. I read Christian McLaughlin's "Sex, Sin, and Sand" [July 9] with relish. There are, h...
  105. Among the documents on display at New York City's new Museum of Sex is a World War II...
  106. In our July 9 Money item "Mad About Montreal," Bill Philbrick's quote should have bee...
  107. If you've been following the scandals involving priests and boys, no doubt you've hea...
  108. Standing in a sand pit in a playground off Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, Rob...
  109. If you've gotten this far back in this issue of the magazine, you're probably wonderi...
  110. Every summer The Advocate publishes a special double issue with a theme. We've been d...
  111. In more than five years on TV, Buffy the Vampire Slayer has endured more than a few b...
  112. Just got my new issue of The Advocate with Chastity Bono on the cover ["Chastity: Wri...
  113. He may play ballistics expert Bobby Dawson on the hit TV drama CSI, but the gun that ...
  114. Thank you for your article about gay and lesbian seniors in America ["Where Will They...
  115. Star-crossed romance An Internet date becomes a lesson in how to hook up without conn...
  116. No one talks about it much, but one of the benefits of having movies that tell gay an...
  117. In his eulogy for Pim Fortuyn, Andrew Sullivan does his usual forceful job of knockin...
  118. It was a story that seemed more likely to come out of the Middle East than the Americ...
  119. When Halle Berry needed the perfect gift for her sister-girlfriend, Oprah Winfrey, sh...
  120. NEWS UPDATES Extra! Extra! While waiting for your next issue of The Advocate to a...
  121. Most gay men and lesbians consider sodomy laws relics from an era long gone---and for...
  122. A generic hotel lobby, filled with dowdy couples in matching golf attire, is the last...
  123. Andrew Tobias's My Perspective [July 9] is illogical. Americans more and more are spl...
  124. Mike Occhipinti smiles when he recalls the first time he heard another man seek his a...
  125. Sex. Good word. We should use it more often. Not just when we're referring to the act...
  126. Is it just me, or do Barney Frank [My Perspective, July 9] and Dick Armey [At Issue] ...
  127. "I think there's a lot to be gained by breaking gender up and making it a not-so-stri...
  128. I happen to be one of those gay devout Catholics whom Kate Clinton seems to enjoy ins...
  129. About 2,500 people marched in Jerusalem's first gay pride parade on June 7, over fier...
  130. WILL ONCE AND AGAIN'S Billy Campbell live happily ever after with Dr. Quinn Medicine ...
  131. At a recent Manhattan party in a deluxe apartment overlooking Central Park, Meredith ...
  132. On the cover of our June 25 issue, Melissa Ferrick's photo should have been credited ...
  133. It was a choreographed coming-out scenario worthy of a politician. Mark French, 43, p...
  134. IT APPEARS THAT EMINEM has found other fish to fry. After rapping enough controversia...
  135. Often billed as "America's number 1 female DJ," Los Angeles-based Irene Gutierrez pre...
  136. We didn't know what to expect as my boyfriend, Adam, and I crossed the gangway to the...
  137. It may seem drastic, but women with a family history of breast or ovarian cancer may ...
  138. Stephen Herbits wasn't surprised to hear his old friend Donald Rumsfeld on the other ...
  139. In January, Peter Spears's short film Ernest & Bertram was the talk of the Sundance F...
  140. "All my dolls would get it on together. Even the Barbies would &,et it on with other ...
  141. Protection from employment discrimination just got a little shakier for people with H...
  142. Two years ago, in the South-western United States, a newcomer joined a secret support...
  143. Hell House * Directed by George Ratliff * Seventh Art Releasing Hell is in the eye ...
  144. It's not unusual for politicians to woo gay voters with appearances at pride events, ...
  145. Uncircumcised men may be at a higher risk for HIV infection than their circumcised pe...
  146. It's not often that the Roman Catholic Church finds common ground with the gay and le...
  147. "I like to bring together lowlifes and highlifes," says drag artist Dr. Vaginal "Crea...
  148. I don't think sexualizing gay youth, as you have done with Matt Beierschmitt's photos...
  149. Massachusetts's largest Boy Scout council, the Boston Minutemen, took another stand f...
  150. DIED: Rogers Albritton, 78, philosopher, of pneumonia, in Los Angeles, May 21, Albrit...
  151. So much ink gets spilled about the prejudice and trauma lesbians and gays experience ...
  152. When the new special Joan Crawford: The Ultimate Movie Star premieres on Turner Class...
  153. I was moved and inspired by John Gallagher's article about gay survivors of clergy se...
  154. A bill that would make crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, or disability ...
  155. Q&A John Saul's new gay spin Million-selling thriller novelist John Saul (left) a...
  156. Show: Adrift in Macao, book and lyrics by Christopher Durang, music by Peter Melnick ...
  157. Irish author Jamie O'Neill keeps making headlines. His rapturously received new novel...
  158. Re your story "A Rip in the AIDS Quilt" [June 25]: If 213 Names Project chapters are ...
  159. Adolph Coors Co. is no stranger to controversy when it comes to gay and lesbian issue...
  160. The movie Hedwig and the Angry Inch brought a transgendered character into the mainst...
  161. Not long ago Brad Oscar was just another loveless schlump on Broadway earning bad rev...
  162. Bear Me Safely Over * By Sheri Joseph * Atlantic Monthly Press * $23 In her engross...
  163. Superior court judge James Warren stunned court observers June 17 by overturning the ...
  164. While numerous gay plays have transitioned to the big screen over the years, few were...
  165. Harvey Fierstein is not having any questions about Divine. Because he is playing Edna...
  166. The cameras watch me as I walk across Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village. So...
  167. Danny Pintauro's My Perspective column in the June 25 issue illustrates the condescen...
  168. Ask a government employee whether the Bush administration supports gay pride and the ...
  169. Gay-owned media and entertainment company GSociety reached a milestone in mid May whe...
  170. "Liberace was my friend, and out of the blue he would send me jewelry." These are the...
  171. Norah Vincent unwittingly stumbled upon the subtle connections among gender, eros, ae...
  172. The Swedes are known for their style, their snow, and now their inclusion of gay righ...
  173. Three federal judges on May 31 threw out the Children's Internet Protection Act, whic...
  174. Judy Garland: The Day-by-Day Chronicle of a Legend by Scott Schechter (Cooper Square ...
  175. Joan Crawford. Judy Garland. Greta Garbo. Katharine Hepburn. Norma Shearer. MGM may h...
  176. It is 1966, you haven't even been born yet (I'm not bitter, just a little wistful), a...
  177. New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark has lashed out at opponents she says are claim...
  178. WHICH COMIC-BOOK COVER BOY first appeared in bondage, sitting underneath a tightly cl...
  179. John Gielgud: The Authorized Biography by Sheridan Morley (Simon & Shuster, $30) Th...
  180. She's not some really glamorous lipstick-type lesbian," says actress Sonja Sohn of na...
  181. "I told Biggs, `Listen, dude, I've done this before, OK? I don't need the practice.' ...
  182. Mari Billington, a lesbian stay-at-home mom, articulated the frustrations of gay and ...
  183. SCOOBY DOO PARAMOURS Sarah Michelle Gellar and Freddie Prinze Jr. have been very hush...
  184. What Would Betty Do? How to Succeed at the Expense of Others in This World and the Ne...
  185. I would like to build a house with my films," Rainer Werner Fassbinder once remarked....
  186. The cleanup and recovery effort at the World Trade Center site has drawn to a close, ...
  187. A proposal to expand ExxonMobil Corp.'s employment policy to ban discrimination based...
  188. THE BUZZ WAS ALL EARS when veteran film director Sidney Lumet (Dog Day Afternoon, Dea...
  189. In French pas de chance means unlucky. For Toronto bookbinder Ian Phillips, however, ...
  190. Cookie: The Anthropological Mixtape * Meshell Ndegeoceilo * Maverick Most artists i...
  191. Could Connecticut become the second state in the nation to legalize unions between sa...
  192. Cities that lost their bids to host the 2006 Gay Games are crying foul over a check f...
  193. San Francisco has long been a mecca for gay men and lesbians. That certainly has been...
  194. It's 1984, and you're packing your beach bag--Bain de Soleil, Wayfarers, Little Playm...