Stories Collection

  1. Pennsylvania prosecutor say a high school freshman beat his 18-year-old brother to de...
  2. Antigay preacher Fred Phelps and congregants of his Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka...
  3. There is a loud click as Chastity Bono's beloved hairless cat, Stinky Butt, drags my ...
  4. London is lousy with Americans right now. Even I get stopped on the street (by other ...
  5. If you blinked, you might have missed it. On May 6 the most significant assassination...
  6. You gave me a wonderful surprise with your story "Love and Kisses, and Your Mama Too!...
  7. Just months after the original sponsors of the California AIDS Ride left the Pallotta...
  8. DIED: Alan P. Bell, 70, of a stroke, in Bloomington, Ind., May 13. Bell was a Kinsey ...
  9. Noel Alumit has two things he wants to get out of the way. "Yes, my parents are alive...
  10. You've heard the rumor: Everyone in Disney's feature animation department is really g...
  11. Thanks, Michael Taeckens, for your reflections on either becoming a priest or being d...
  12. A gay death-row inmate whose lawyer slept through portions of his murder trial will n...
  13. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health ...
  14. Booty: Girl Pirates on the High Seas by Sara Lorimer Illustrations by Susan Synarski ...
  15. Dahmer * Written and directed by David Jacobson * Starring Jeremy Rennet, Bruce Davis...
  16. Gay activist Jim Maynard got the shock of his life June 2. He was protesting outside ...
  17. Ten years ago The Advocate's summer reading issue celebrated a groundbreaking season ...
  18. How I Learned to Snap by Kirk Read (Hill Street Press, $22.95) By turns hilarious a...
  19. While it has been eight years since Stephen Sondheim delivered a new musical--the 72-...
  20. As a judge in Cortez, Colo., sentenced 19-year-old Shaun Murphy to 40 years in prison...
  21. Since his death at the World Trade Center on September 11, gay New York Fire Departme...
  22. The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman (Riverhead, $24.95) A beautiful woman fl...
  23. We Will Rock You * Written by Ben Elton * Directed by Christopher Renshaw * Starring ...
  24. The issues surrounding Sharon Duchesneau and Candace McCullough's decision to improve...
  25. Ford Motor Co. announced May 20 that former executive Allan Gilmour is coming out of ...
  26. It's a Web site that might be described as "the old school meets the new cool": Queer...
  27. Knowing the difficulties that today's gay and lesbian youth still face inspires many ...
  28. The Smith Family * Directed by Tasha Oldham * Premiering June 25 on PBS (check local ...
  29. Columnist Charles Kaiser decries the fact that "thousands of decent priests are now l...
  30. Tony Vanchieri, who appeared on Fox television's Temptation Island 2 as one of the "t...
  31. Today, support services for gay, bisexual, and transgendered youth exist in many comm...
  32. I don't know about you, but this year at the gay pride parade, I can't wait to see th...
  33. Dustin Lance Black, the director and one of the subjects of the documentary On the Bu...
  34. In our April 30 time line "30 Years of Realness," we inadvertently ran a photo of Ton...
  35. On May 20, just over a month after G&L Bank closed its doors for good, founder Steven...
  36. AIDS AWARENESS HITS THE SOAPS June 21, when several daytime dramas observe the annual...
  37. Chris Bates revels in the image of men and men, and women and women, out together dan...
  38. Big Eden * Written and directed by Thomas Bezucha * Starring Arye Gross, Eric Schweig...
  39. My boyfriend, Mark, and I live in New York, and I work in the entertainment industry,...
  40. German lawmakers on May 17 officially pardoned about 50,000 gay men sent to concentra...
  41. THIS MONTH, out novelist Christian McLaughlin (Sex Toys of the Gods) brings to the Lo...
  42. Picture brawny, ripped men, scantily costumed as Indian warriors, Greek gods, and Oly...
  43. Oliver Button Is a Star * Directed by John Scagliotti and Dan Hunt * PBS (check local...
  44. "I'm not [gay] It's amazing how much people will speculate if they haven't actual inf...
  45. It took three years, but Indiana resident Joshua Runnels finally got justice on May 1...
  46. NEW YORK CITY club promoter Michael Alig strove for fabulousness, so he's no doubt th...
  47. It's a scene so familiar, you can run it like a film reel in your head. The 11 o'cloc...
  48. Fogi Is a Bastard * Directed by Marcel Gisler * Starring Frederic Andrau, Vincent Bra...
  49. When one of the New York Post's gossip columns ran an item in late May suggesting tha...
  50. Pennsylvania's oldest gay health and AIDS service organization, Philadelphia Communit...
  51. Police raids on Guatemala City gay bars are a normal occurrence. Everyone knows the r...
  52. Listen Hard * Melissa Ferrick * Right On Records Seven years after her brief allian...
  53. "I wanted to give people a chance to have a voice, to speak and be heard, even just a...
  54. The Employment Non-Discrimination Act has more congressional support now than at any ...
  55. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is for the first time recommending tha...
  56. For many San Franciscans who have supported the AIDS Memorial Quilt since its birth i...
  57. Private Lives * Written by Noel Coward * Directed by Howard Davies * Starring Alan Ri...
  58. The next time you're packed into a sweaty dance club, gyrating with hundreds of men--...
  59. For the, second consecutive year, conservative group Alliance for Marriage has propos...
  60. An independent Baptist church in Raleigh, N.C., in April named lesbian Nancy Petty as...
  61. Mark London grew up with 10 brothers and sisters in what he calls a "very Catholic fa...
  62. The Cockettes * Directed by David Weissman and Bill Weber * Strand Releasing Oh, to...
  63. As a feminist, I felt compelled to speak up on the obstacles facing gay and lesbian c...
  64. It's no longer illegal to flirt with your same-sex crush in Ohio. The state supreme c...
  65. DIED: Tom Glider, 57, of natural causes, May 13. The San Francisco resident was parti...
  66. On a breezy Saturday last June, 32 years after rioting at New York's Stonewall Inn nu...
  67. The fact that Kelly lost her head and started kissing Toni Tassio at their union cere...
  68. Mark Bingham's love of rugby was legendary, and now many of his fellow players are sh...
  69. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health ...
  70. Instead of coming out to his parents, Matt Beierschmitt acted out. The sinewy, 6-foot...
  71. Remember those old Judy Garland--Mickey Rooney movies in which the youngsters would i...
  72. I've always loved reading Bruce Vilanch's column, but never before has he zeroed in o...
  73. The peace-loving Netherlands was rocked May 6 by the assassination of 53-year-old ope...
  74. NOW THAT THE PRODUCERS IS OUT OF THE running, this year there may actually be an inte...
  75. I first met Kevyn Aucoin in his hometown of Lafayette, La. I was there to interview h...
  76. After September 11 everyone was talking about masculinity, mostly because any heteros...
  77. The national organization that Steve Gunderson calls for in his column [Last Word, Ma...
  78. It's no secret that the brotherly spirit of college fraternities rarely extends to ga...
  79. IN CANADA, SIMON AND Milo--a kooky pop duo who just happen to be animated--are multip...
  80. It is cruelly typical: Suicide will probably bring Heather Lewis (House Rules, The Se...
  81. Throughout Catholic grade school, I was obsessed with having to make a crucial decisi...
  82. Bank One is launching an investment marketing campaign aimed at helping gay people pr...
  83. Election Day is always tense in Guatemala, one of the world's poorest countries, know...
  84. "To pretend it's not the good life would be lying--it is the good life," divulges fas...
  85. The article about Erin Hamilton was amazing and is the reason I love reading The Advo...
  86. "I should try to work the mojo on [getting free drinks at gay bars], but I'm not a bi...
  87. More workplaces than ever are offering domestic-partner health insurance benefits, ac...
  88. Coming from the state's top jurist, the words of Alabama supreme court chief justice ...
  89. Fox's edgy sitcom Titus is based on the real life of its star, Christopher Titus. So ...
  90. California governor Gray Davis uses the false argument against marriage for gay coupl...
  91. The recent arrests of three South Dakota men on charges of intentionally spreading HI...
  92. It looks like openly gay Methodist minister Mark Edward Williams won't have to hang u...
  93. Frisky 17-year-old best friends Julio and Tenoch are seething cauldrons of testostero...
  94. Even if the current U.S. president won't make it official, June is Gay Pride Month--e...
  95. I do not share your optimism concerning John Ashcroft's proposed enforcement of hate-...
  96. It was a fitting gift from a man who co-owns a company called DreamWorks. Openly gay ...
  97. DIED: Corbett Reynolds, 58, of a heart attack, in Savannah, Ga., May 1, Reynolds was ...
  98. "No gay films from Hollywood this summer? Well, that's really not the time for gay fi...
  99. Release * Pet Shop Boys * Sanctuary "It's not as easy as it was/ Or as difficult as...
  100. New York gay newspaper LGNY has gotten a major makeover. The free newspaper, which ha...
  101. FIRST-PERSON The king comes out Shawn Hildebrand overcompensated for being gay by...
  102. After turning over every rock possible, we bring you our assessment of this summer's ...
  103. As we all remember, childhood can be god-awful if you're different, meaning gay. But ...
  104. As a high school teacher I am always fascinated to see that the youth of our nation d...
  105. There won't be a June wedding this year for seven gay and lesbian couples who hoped t...
  106. There's a storm brewing over the placid desert community of Palm Springs, Calif., and...
  107. Few of us have the kind of job in which we watch a year's worth of work fly away in l...
  108. When Carol Anshaw settles into a chair at the Kopi Cafe, in the Chicago neighborhood ...
  109. In The Buzz in your May 14 issue, Shari Springer Berman, in referring to Hollywood Fo...
  110. Transgendered people often feel that their fight for civil rights is overshadowed by ...
  111. While only a handful of summer movies this year have gay characters, just four years ...
  112. From directing to costume design, gays and lesbians are everywhere behind the scenes ...
  113. Close-up on Sunset Boulevard * Sam Staggs * St. Martin's * $24.95 If you're merely ...
  114. It was a bad scene that only got worse. Florida resident Nancy Browning was shot in t...
  115. ROSIE O'DONNELL HAS made lesbian moms the media topic of the moment. What perfect tim...
  116. There's a great old Gypsy curse--not from the musical, from an actual Gypsy--that, si...
  117. Dress Codes: Of Three Girlhood--My Mother's, My Father's, and Mine * Noelle Howey *...
  118. It was a simple profile on one family, but The Washington Post Magazine's March 31 fe...
  119. Two recent developments in breast cancer research can help lesbians, who, studies hav...
  120. Gay men have long subscribed to an AIDS prevention strategy that can be summed up in ...
  121. The numbers keep rolling in: 12 priests in Southern California have been forced to re...
  122. I was uplifted to read about Chris Beckman and Brandon Quinton in Erik Meers's cover ...
  123. A Senate panel on April 24 voted to send the Employment Non-Discrimination Act, which...
  124. Continuing the grand tradition of such right-wing boycott campaigns as those against ...
  125. "For every Liberace or Nureyev or Michael Bennett," says Joseph Dalton, "there are do...
  126. I remember Dan Renzi from The Real World. Very handsome, sexy, and engaging, but not ...
  127. Since Dick Cheney was elected vice president last year, his lesbian daughter, Mary Ch...
  128. DIED: Artist Frank C. Moore II, 48, of complications from AIDS, in New York, April 21...
  129. "Hold on a second, I need to just send my kid away here," says Sean Kershaw, who has ...
  130. It makes me angry for the Catholic Church and the media to issue statements that use,...
  131. The mid April Vatican summit of U.S. cardinals called to discuss the sexual abuse sca...
  132. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health,...
  133. It's often been said that the sexiest accessory on any man at a Hollywood supermarket...
  134. Los Angeles-based AIDS fund-raising company Pallotta TeamWorks is in the hot seat ove...
  135. Most arguments about online privacy center on the rights of Internet users, but a nas...
  136. CQ * Written and directed by Roman Coppola * Starring Jeremy Davies, Angela Lindvall,...
  137. While I recognize and appreciate the major contribution made to both the California l...
  138. Oh, those wacky frat boys. Three student senators and the student body president at t...
  139. The complexities of reproduction, adoption, and custody have long been a concern for ...
  140. Like his work, Ping Chong defies easy classification. And that suits him fine. "I don...
  141. I read your article "Join the Club" [April 16]--it's refreshing to know I'm not the o...
  142. Two Manhattan gay men who lost their partners in separate tragedies last year joined ...
  143. JENNIFER LOPEZ WANTS TO reach out and touch someone--queers! "I feel like I've been e...
  144. "My goal is to create noticeable action," says out choreographer Elizabeth Streb. Her...
  145. The name of writer Steven Housman, who conducted the Erin Hamilton interview that app...
  146. The streets were a little bit safer for gay men and lesbians in 2001, according to th...
  147. "I'VE BEEN HAVING THOUGHTS and feelings," Ellen DeGeneres told packed crowds at small...
  148. When the Toilet Boys' video for their single "Another Day in the Life" first cracked ...
  149. Sometime soon, one of my sons will throw me a baseball, and I'll dislocate my arm try...
  150. Allentown, Pa., is known as a hard-scrabble conservative steel town of 105,000, so it...
  151. WHILE THE BUZZ WAITS PATIENTLY for Viacom to launch its promised all-gay cable channe...
  152. Richard Morel is about as out as a gay man can be. He's out to his neighbors--for the...
  153. "It's hard to explain; it's a Mexican idiosyncrasy, but you're more macho if you fuck...
  154. An ad campaign aiming to prevent the spread of HIV by targeting people who already ha...
  155. There's nothing more frustrating for Philippe Chiliade, MD, than watching his HIV-pos...
  156. There are only a few things in 43-year-old Lynn Breedlove's semi-autobiographical fir...
  157. "I get super offended because ... people always ask if I'm a lesbian." --Hawaii-bas...
  158. The corporate glass ceiling developed another crack when the Human Rights Campaign, a...
  159. SHOWBIZ HOLDS FEW MYSTERIES FOR ERIN HAMILTON. Growing up as the daughter of TV legen...
  160. Time Regained (Le Temps Retrouve) * Written by Raoul Ruiz and Gilles Taurand, from th...
  161. It took six years, but the families of two female hikers who were killed because they...
  162. Recent scandals in the Catholic Church have underscored the church's confusion over t...
  163. Richard Melville Hall is very comfortable describing his "feelings of inadequacy and ...
  164. Tom Donaghy has a way with words. And often that's a problem. "When people talk about...
  165. As fight-knit as the American gay populace appears to be, there has long been a gap b...
  166. DIED: Susan Vasbinder, 49, longtime Philadelphia gay rights activist, of an intention...
  167. Imperial Teen is about to become, as they say in showbiz, "big in Japan"--at least, a...
  168. Betty Berzon almost wasn't the pioneering lesbian psychologist and author we know tod...
  169. Do gay conservatives like Patrick Guerriero honestly believe gay civil rights are "la...
  170. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health ...
  171. Recently inducted into The Austin Chronicle's Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame, Gretc...
  172. One of the more memorable moments in my family's gay rights journey came late in 1998...
  173. Poor Tammy Bruce laments the fact that liberals are using an epithet like "conservati...
  174. Openly gay Republican Patrick Guerriero's bid for Massachusetts lieutenant governor l...
  175. Joanna Rood knew her lesbian daughter was fiery but she never expected her to needle ...
  176. Call it an Almost Famous moment. A few months back, a Savannah, Ga., rock station ask...
  177. THE ADVOCATE POLL In the April 16 issue, readers were asked: Do you think right-l...
  178. Since Vermont's civil unions law went into effect, two thirds of the unions have been...
  179. With songs such as "YMCA" and "Macho Man" booming at frat parties and sports events, ...
  180. Twenty-five years ago, gay pop culture gained a sextet of new icons: the Village Peop...
  181. I was very offended by the fact that a company that tries to help many charities and ...
  182. For the first time, a major U.S. city could get an openly gay police chief. On the sh...
  183. "I WANT TO BE THE MARTHA STEWART of the death industry," Tyler Cassity says with a sn...
  184. Can't Stop the Musk * Written by Bronte Woodard and Allan Carr * Directed by Nancy Wa...
  185. Midway through Kate Clinton's ode to w's [Don't Get Me Started, April 16], I found my...
  186. Marc Hall wants what every high school senior wants--to spend his senior prom with th...
  187. HERE'S ONE TO FILE UNDER "Can't Touch This": After the film Don't Ask, Don't Tell was...
  188. Who didn't know that Rosie O'Donnell was gay? Nobody staring at this page. Nobody who...
  189. Imagine my disgust and rage at reading Kate Clinton's slanderous slur of David Pellet...
  190. Two decades ago colleges and universities played a major role in encouraging U.S. cor...
  191. California governor Gray Davis is often described as the incarnation of his first nam...
  192. Walloping webslingers, Spider-Man has gay hands! Out comic book artist Phil Jimenez, ...