Stories Collection

  1. It was already dark outside at 6 P.M. January 12, 1982, when six friends huddled over...
  2. Since the mid 1990s, America Online has led the Internet revolution that has opened v...
  3. Everything that seemed frivolous and self-indulgent about MTV's kids-in-a-fishbowl se...
  4. It was early on the morning of June 30, 1986, when my friend Roz Richter (formerly ma...
  5. There are certain works of art that define an epoch, that show us how we live and pos...
  6. The last chapter in the story of one of the few known female serial killers ended wit...
  7. If there's one thing that members of America Online's Golden Gals have learned, it's ...
  8. The best day of the 20th century for every lesbian and gay man in America was Decembe...
  9. In the fall of 1981, as Wisconsin lawmakers were debating a historic bill to ban bias...
  10. When news came in early 1999 that Paramount Domestic Television had made radio talk-s...
  11. "Everybody knows they can come to Dear Abby for an honest answer," says Jeanne Philli...
  12. It mattered little to Daniel James White that Monday, November 27, 1978, dawned foggy...
  13. January 1970 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] April 23, 1975 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Apr...
  14. Twenty-six years ago, when I became a born again Christian, my family welcomed me, ne...
  15. After eluding authorities for nearly a year and a half, North Carolina accountant and...
  16. When The Advocate celebrated its 10th anniversary 25 years ago, editor Robert I. McQu...
  17. Part of the legend of Pink Flamingos is that those of us in front of the camera were ...
  18. Susan Raymond: The first time we met Lance we turned on the cameras, walked into the ...
  19. Rock Hudson had AIDS! What a concept. I knew Rock long before this happened and becam...
  20. What I remember most about the making of Longtime Companion is not the struggle we ha...
  21. News of the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision supporting the Boy Scouts of America's polic...
  22. For a long time one mystery about HIV transmission was just that: a mystery. Could so...
  23. The history of the B'nai B'rith building in Washington, D.C., might have been enough ...
  24. DENIZENS OF FASHION WEEK IN NEW YORK may have been a bit confused about where fantasy...
  25. Young, angry, and in your face, the Gay Liberation Front was born just a week after t...
  26. When Elaine Noble decided to run for the Massachusetts legislature in 1974, only one ...
  27. On December 21, 1990, Jeff Schmalz, an assistant national editor at The New York Time...
  28. In December 1999 the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that gay and lesbian couples deserve...
  29. "I will never forget that summer," says Cathy Renna, news media director for the Gay ...
  30. In an otherwise well-written article about religious conservatives and the California...
  31. Yale University is known as one of the gay-friendliest schools in the country, a repu...
  32. BRYAN FULLER, SCREENWRITER of the upcoming TV movie adaptation of Carrie, spent a lot...
  33. Had Nora Ephron not fallen ill on March 10, 1987, it's safe to say that the course of...
  34. Ten years ago, as two of my closest friends battled the AIDS virus, they asked if I k...
  35. For me, the moment came at 8:52 P.M. on November 8, 1997, when President Bill Clinton...
  36. Like most gay men, I grew up at the movies. In the `60s that meant being battered by ...
  37. On November 27,1985, my friends and I marched along Market Street in San Francisco to...
  38. I'm looking forward to reading Zoe Valdes's novel Dear First Love, but I am not sure ...
  39. A recent discovery in AIDS research may shed some light on why some people with HIV d...
  40. EUROPOP superstar Robbie Williams recently made global headlines by signing a megadea...
  41. k.d. lang's journey to coming out as a lesbian actually began in June 1990, when she ...
  42. Soon after I came out in 1980, I went with my girlfriend to something called the Mich...
  43. In the 1992 presidential race, Bill Clinton's openness in recognizing gay and lesbian...
  44. Lesbian movie fans still talk about Personal Best for its gloriously frank sex scene ...
  45. Air Force technical sergeant Leonard Matlovich was the best-known gay man in America ...
  46. In her Last Word column [October 15], Riki Wilchins addresses the tragedy of teenage ...
  47. Is the Bush administration unhealthy for gay health groups? That's what many health a...
  48. For Trev Broudy, 33, and Edward Ulett, 22, the night of September I passed innocuousl...
  49. I've never fully understood the scientific intricacies of HIV infection and AIDS. But...
  50. Thirty-five is a number of particular significance to me because for 35 years I was a...
  51. In March 1990, I edited an OutWeek cover story titled "The Secret Gay Life of Malcolm...
  52. Although he had written Maurice in 1913 and 1914 (and dedicated it "to a happier year...
  53. Released theatrically in August of 1991, Jennie Livingston's groundbreaking explorati...
  54. Whenever I've casually mentioned to anyone that The Advocate is 35 years old this yea...
  55. Men who try to judge how well,endowed a prospective date might be by asking his shoe ...
  56. Thirty-five years ago a gay cruise meant a stroll through the rotting docks on the Hu...
  57. Gays and lesbians everywhere know that Melissa Etheridge came out at the Triangle Bal...
  58. THE OPENING OF A NEW DISCO IN NEW YORK CITY SETS A GLITTERING STAGE FOR THE ASCENDANC...
  59. Do you remember the first time you saw two people of the same sex dancing with each o...
  60. I actually read about Anita Bryant's Save Our Children campaign to overturn Miami's g...
  61. In response to your story "Hoops and Kisses" [October 1], I am totally confused by th...
  62. Voters in Zurich, Switzerland's most populous canton, demonstrated an avalanche of su...
  63. While Todd Haynes's new film, Far From Heaven, may be the latest melodrama about gay ...
  64. I spent the summer far away from my wildlife-free San Francisco neighborhood in Toron...
  65. Recently I went to three activities that made me marvel at the intersections of age, ...
  66. In our October 1 Nation item "Jeb's Jog to the Right," a photo of NFL commissioner Pa...
  67. The Jewish new year officially started in early September, but November heralds a new...
  68. The gossip forum on gay site the Data Lounge is known for being the place in cyberspa...
  69. Catherine Deneuve smiles as she opens the door to her hotel suite, and there's just n...
  70. When I was growing up, my father was the ultimate ladies' man. After my parents divor...
  71. Last year Jack Jackson Jr. successfully lobbied his father, a Democratic member of th...
  72. MARIEL HEMINGWAY IS at it again, folks--playing a lesbian on TV. The Personal Best ic...
  73. Paul Schrader's Auto Focus begins with Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) landing the lead role...
  74. "I've never understood ... why people are so adamant about proving their heterosexual...
  75. A lawsuit brought by the former owners of gay newspapers The Washington Blade and New...
  76. AS THOUGH REBECCA ROMIJN-STAMOS didn't already have the lesbians going mad for her af...
  77. Good luck trying to pigeonhole Eddie Izzard, the 40-year-old British comedian, actor,...
  78. Four years after his murder, it isn't just gay people who remember Matthew Shepard. T...
  79. Two out of five gay people report being harassed at work, according to the results of...
  80. In his capacity as a senior adviser to President Clinton, Rahm Emanuel tangled repeat...
  81. Ever since Showtime premiered boy-a-licious Queer as Folk, gay girls have been asking...
  82. "Though he has yet to make his bid for the presidency official, departing Vermont gov...
  83. Since moving to Jerry Falwell's home turf in Lynchburg, Va., in September, openly gay...
  84. With the war on terrorism and a looming conflict in Iraq, it might seem that gay and ...
  85. Gay men are no strangers to reality programs such as Survivor and The Real World, but...
  86. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I cannot begin to tell you how happy I was to see ER...
  87. Should a man be judged on specific incidents or his overall conduct? That's the quest...
  88. OVERTURNED: An Oklahoma City ordinance that banned the posting of Gay History Month b...
  89. Near the end of rousing speech to a gay political group shortly after last year's ter...
  90. Few people can say with certainty that their ancestors had immunity to the black deat...
  91. You really wasted space on The Real World's Steven ["The Real World Goes Straight," O...
  92. For Rosie O'Donnell, the constant struggle for editorial control of her namesake maga...
  93. When gay issues emerge in national, state, and local elections, The Advocate's Web si...
  94. By any standard, 2002 has been a challenging year. The nation is still recovering fro...
  95. Claire of the Moon * Written and directed by Nicole Conn * Starring Trisha Todd, Kare...
  96. I can't help but be saddened by the demise of Pallotta TeamWorks ["End of the Road fo...
  97. First it was an openly gay man who admitted guilt in the Enron scandal; now it turns ...
  98. Find out what the director of Claire of the Moon [see page 63] watches when she's hom...
  99. When Allan Gilmour, the retired vice chairman of Ford Motor Co., came out six years a...
  100. Marc Almond blushes slightly when he thinks back three years to the first time he pho...
  101. San Francisco resident John Perkyns has been barred from all of the city's public lib...
  102. Join Mubarak Dahir for a culturally enlightening tour of the bars--and the bears--of ...
  103. Some studio mogul or other once said that Clark Gable was a star because he was a man...
  104. He was a very big guy--somewhere around 6 foot 6, and in some of his outfits nearly 7...
  105. After reading the excerpt from Jon Barrett's book Hero of Flight 93: Mark Bingham ["W...
  106. Citizens breathed a collective sigh of relief September 10 when word came that Trev B...
  107. IT'S ANNOYING ENOUGH WHEN CELEBRITY lesbians go hetero, but that's nothing compared t...
  108. Trance, house, and techno have had their moment, but now the percolating, super gay-f...
  109. As another school year is getting under way, I want to propose a lesson plan for teac...
  110. Being a student of Alexander the Great, I read Mike Goodridge's article with interest...
  111. The last time anyone saw Wan Yanhai, one of China's best-known AIDS activists, was wh...
  112. LET'S FACE IT, DJ Kimberly S. is one charming lesbian. So she fits right in as a gues...
  113. When San Francisco-based singer-songwriter Deborah Pardes visited an adult literacy p...
  114. As a student of dance (and a gay male artist), I appreciated Joseph Carman's article ...
  115. Since making the list of semifinalist candidates for the job of Los Angeles police ch...
  116. THE BUZZ CAN'T WAIT to tune in to the third season of the CBS reality game show The A...
  117. The Rules of Attraction * Written and directed by Roger Avary * Starring James Van De...
  118. Timing is everything when you come out to your parents. I found that out the hard way...
  119. A new study of more than 150,000 women may shed some light on one reason lesbians may...
  120. He made his fortune by operating on the sidelines--familiar territory for this gay ma...
  121. Take Me Out * Written by Richard Greenberg * Directed by Joe Mantello * Starring Dani...
  122. "I was young, frivolous, and full of abandon--a hippie with long hair down to my shou...
  123. AIDS experts have long warned that a person could become infected with more than one ...
  124. When Carla Grayson and Adrianne Neff filed a lawsuit last winter demanding that the M...
  125. In the newly released "Real World at the White Party" documentary When Boys Fly (TLA ...
  126. While Republican leaders at the national level are increasingly reaching out to--or a...
  127. A growing number of conservative Episcopalians who consider the denomination too libe...
  128. Transgendered people have been featured in several network TV shows and have been the...
  129. In 1994 Ben Patrick Johnson--boasting solid professional experience and heart-flutter...
  130. It's all over but the shouting: Gay rights advocates were ecstatic when voters in Mia...
  131. APPOINTED: Sgt. Nancy Vitone, as Connecticut state police department liaison to gays ...
  132. Coming out gets people's attention; it transforms a faceless "issue" into an undeniab...
  133. Visit artist Barton Lidice Benes's apartment in New York City's West Village and you ...
  134. I just wanted to applaud Queer as Folk's Randy Harrison for enriching the all-too-sma...
  135. It was a cultural milestone when The New York Times, the largest and arguably most in...
  136. COMING OUT Know your options In addition to offering intimate full-length stateme...
  137. That barking sound you hear is the chorus of new TV shows the networks are unleashing...
  138. "To identify as gay or lesbian in Cuba," according to Zoe Valdes, a Cuban novelist an...
  139. I was totally astonished by the interview with Bill O'Reilly ["Bill O'Reilly Really L...
  140. Who says lesbians have no sense of humor? A quartet of out California lawmakers donne...
  141. It's the battle of the Bays: gay and lesbian auction site AlternaBay and Internet gia...
  142. "At age 45, I believed that I was a vessel made for destruction and that God was goin...
  143. Middlesex * By Jeffrey Eugenides * Farrar, Straus, and Giroux * $27 Jeffrey Eugenid...
  144. Students at Boston Academy, an exclusive secondary school under Boston University, en...
  145. As this issue's cover story reminds us, you don't have to be a celebrity in order to ...
  146. Should Matt Zarley's recently released CD--the aptly named Debut--take off and make t...
  147. Don't Kill Anyone, I Love You * By Gojmir Polajnar, translated by Aaron Gillies * Spu...
  148. Your article "The Rite of Refusal" [September 3] paints a picture of gays in the Isra...
  149. After more than a decade of being barred, military recruiters will be marching back i...
  150. WORD AT THE concession stand is that cinematic sex is going back to being fun again. ...
  151. The debacle of Encore! Encore! well behind him (winning a Tony will do that for you),...
  152. "Hello, gay switchboards," greets the British voice on the telephone. Yet it's not re...
  153. The organizers of Sydney's troubled lesbian and gay Mardi Gras celebration could be i...
  154. EVER WONDER WHAT it would be like if John F. Kennedy were raised by two dads and went...
  155. A few seasons ago you couldn't swing a small yappy dog without hitting a regular or r...
  156. Still in the pilot stage, one of the year's most talked-about shows is this sexy new ...
  157. Eternal Youth * Future Bible Heroes * Instinct Records Who says long-distance relat...
  158. I was happy to see the article on the transgendered Alberta Harem [Behind the Headlin...
  159. Ten years ago Linda Kaufman adopted a 5-year-old boy who lived in the District of Col...
  160. FORGET THE RATINGS AND ITS PLUM POSITION on NBC's "Must-See Thursday" lineup. The rea...
  161. Oprah Winfrey's favorite relationship guru gets his own talk show this fall, courtesy...
  162. A stylish preadolescent Judy Garland groupie (played by Taylor Emerson) is part of th...
  163. Fagatron * Fagatron * Agitprop! Records When you name your band Fagatron, it's a ne...
  164. When I was ordained an elder in the United Methodist Church in 1994 in Spokane, Wash....
  165. Any AIDS organization that receives money from the government had better mind its man...
  166. Several months before Joe Quenqua and Art Smith journeyed to Burlington, Vt., last ye...
  167. Has the cancellation of Xena left you starved for kick-ass women in tight outfits? Th...
  168. The gritty, terrifying, and always homoerotic prison drama kicks off its final season...
  169. Billy Ingram's conservative Christian fans sign their E-mails with Bible verses. Gay ...
  170. "There are a lot of gays among the women surfers. We share rental cars, hotel rooms, ...
  171. About 20 lesbians and gay men whose partners were killed in the September 11 terroris...
  172. Early this year, Chicago marketing consultant Ben McConnell studied Pallotta TeamWork...
  173. ABC adds to the multitude of medical shows with this cleverly titled series set in Sa...
  174. eVeRYBODY LOVeS RaYMOND'S BROTHeR BRaD GaRReTT PLaYS THe BIG SWeeTGUY THaT eVeRYBOD...
  175. Straight * Written and performed by David Schmader * Directed by Chay Yew * Stage Dir...
  176. The news out of Harrisburg, Pa., on August 20 was groundbreaking: The state supreme c...
  177. Domino's Pizza, founded by Tom Monaghan, may still be going strong, but one of the no...
  178. Lesbian fans of the WNBA's New York Liberty want a little respect. After all, they ma...
  179. While this show's powers that be are notoriously tight-lipped about what's in store, ...
  180. If art has the power to heal, then an astonishing public sculpture by a gay artist co...
  181. New York City: three of the grandest words ever welded together in the English langua...
  182. Throughout his reelection campaign, Florida governor Jeb Bush has presented himself a...
  183. CHARGED: Devin Scott Angus, 21, with seven counts of battery evidencing prejudice, in...
  184. It is still almost incomprehensible to me that there is such a thing as the WNBA. I c...
  185. The ever-codependent Jack (Kerr Smith) finished off last season forfeiting his trip t...
  186. Turkish-born film director Ferzan Ozpetek has turned crossing cultures into a signatu...
  187. The first person to plead guilty in the Enron scandal is openly gay former executive ...
  188. FIRST-PERSON Kicked out for being gay "Paul," 17, was to be a senior at a private...
  189. "Whenever I'm talking about this stuff, I always feel a little strange because I'm no...
  190. Laura Innes returns as lesbian doc Kerry Weaver, and the venerable dramatic series pr...
  191. 8 Women * Written and directed by Francois Ozon * Starring Catherine Deneuve, Fanny A...
  192. I just wanted to thank you for including me in the Gay Games issue of The Advocate ["...
  193. You almost want to give officials of the Milwaukee County Council of the Boy Scouts a...
  194. The recent flak between lesbian sports fans and the WNBA--just months after New York ...