Stories Collection

  1. A restaurateur whose Swedish restaurants are known for decadent cinnamon rolls is exp...
  2. Gay cowboys may be nothing new to the members of the International Gay Rodeo Associat...
  3. The Hours * Written by David Hare, from the novel by Michael Cunningham * Directed by...
  4. I was recently speaking with a power couple from Los Angeles who I was hoping would d...
  5. Anchorage, Alaska The Alaska supreme court on December 16 began hearing arguments a...
  6. Paramount's Star Trek franchise is going boldly into the AIDS pandemic, as first offi...
  7. If your significant other is also your filmmaking partner, how do you separate labor ...
  8. I cannot tell you how moved I was to read about the students at Kentucky's Boyd Count...
  9. After years of pressure from gay rights groups led by Anjaree, Thailand's leading les...
  10. Cheryl Summerville still remembers the day in 1991 when Cracker Barrel Old Country St...
  11. For film composer Miriam Cutler, the decision to score Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe's ...
  12. I applaud Michelangelo Signorile on another informative article ["Sick Again," Decemb...
  13. With soldiers and health care workers receiving smallpox inoculations under President...
  14. One of the biggest deterrents to coming out of the closet for gay and lesbian youth h...
  15. The first time I met Shirley MacLaine, she was Mary Kay Ash. While visiting my friend...
  16. My father, Stan, was an artist and professor who first discovered his voice in 1960s ...
  17. An antibullying program designed for West Virginia public schools will no longer incl...
  18. As recently as four months ago, Amy Pridgen, a lifelong Texan, had no plans to ring i...
  19. Hollywood releases its most unwatchable movies early in the year; TV is a disarray of...
  20. "You kiss an actor, and you don't know what they are going to smell like. But you kis...
  21. DIED: Richard Fasenmeyer, gay activist and philanthropist, of undisclosed causes, in ...
  22. Gaydatecam.com If you prefer to see what someone looks like before you ask them out...
  23. Urban gay audiences may find comfort in the familiarity of the story line of Steve Ga...
  24. January Three Saudi Arabian men are beheaded for homosexuality. According to a gove...
  25. Magazines love to make lists. Top 10 gynecologists in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, th...
  26. If the newest warnings of a calamitous attack by al-Qaeda come true, you can blame th...
  27. The debate over homophobia in sports in 2002 moved beyond merely condemning new John ...
  28. Say what you want about American Idol's Jim Verraros--he's living a gay teenager's dr...
  29. The first thing Harry Hay ever told me was to pull off my ugly green frog skin of het...
  30. 1 Saturday Night Live With Sir Ian McKellen. That mad kiss with Jimmy Fallon had us...
  31. People keep telling Frank Kameny that he ought to write a book--a best-selling bombsh...
  32. In which we prove that the composer and co-lyricist of Hairspray is only steps away f...
  33. The Church of England has just apppointed a new archbishop of Canterbury--the ceremon...
  34. 1 Hairspray We always knew John Waters would conquer the world. We just didn't know...
  35. It's hard to know which came first: people's passion for huge, multiday AIDS fund-rai...
  36. "They make their arguments as if they were a housewife in Denver, and they're probabl...
  37. I was diagnosed as HIV-positive in October 1996. My immediate reaction was to be afra...
  38. This year was Queen's jubilee--and we're not just talking about Queen Elizabeth II. I...
  39. Imagine you have trained for 22 months to run your first marathon (that's 26.2 miles)...
  40. 1 Linda Perry in concert at the Knitting Factory, Los Angeles Perry and Pink and Ms...
  41. First of all, are not two Rosies. She was never the "Queen of Nice," and she's not th...
  42. "I've been to Middle America," says T Cooper with faux gravity, as if she'd just retu...
  43. In the summer of 1996, there was upheaval in the offices of The Advocate. Unfortunate...
  44. If you read Daniel O'Donnell's campaign literature, he seems like a gay politician wi...
  45. 1 Fingersmith Sarah Waters Lesbian love in the gutters of Victorian London--a world...
  46. While gay people may now be singing the praises of Juan Timberlake, in 1998 it was al...
  47. Days (Giorni) * Starring Thomas Trabacchi and Riccardo Salerno * Directed by Laura Mu...
  48. According to At Issue [November 26], the fear behind the issue of Maj. Gen. Robert Cl...
  49. Thank you for the article on Ira Glass and This American Life ["The Host With the Mos...
  50. A new exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., is ...
  51. Archaeologists in mid November excavated what may be a monument to a same-sex relatio...
  52. DIED: Glen Rosengarten, 54, the plaintiff in a pending Connecticut supreme court civi...
  53. The aborted trial of a former palace butler has plunged the British royal family into...
  54. Two years of Mr. Bush's America evidently haven't yet reactivated Tracy Chapman's soc...
  55. Find more dish from The Advocate' s conversations with George Clooney, Pedro Almodova...
  56. "I CAN DEFINITELY RELATE to doing crazy stuff for love," muses Antonio Sabato Jr. on ...
  57. John Rechy's autobiographical novel City of Night, about a lonely hustler drifting ac...
  58. How many of us stand in utter boredom in the checkout line looking for something--any...
  59. Morehouse College in Atlanta is famous for being the nation's only African-American a...
  60. Before being elected sheriff of Vermont's Windham County on November 5, Sheila Prue s...
  61. Gifts that matter Here's how to assuage your guilt about waiting until the last min...
  62. Most of my gay and lesbian friends are Democrats. I admit it, and I still like them. ...
  63. While it was too early at press time to say how successful a financial venture the Ga...
  64. Justin Timberlake HE'S BARELY OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE. BUT HE'S WISE ENOUGH TO IGNORE GA...
  65. The title of your November 26 Behind the Headlines piece on Israeli professor Uzi Eve...
  66. "I got a lot of satisfaction when I discovered clothes and makeup. As I walked down t...
  67. With the GOP's power at its zenith, now may seem like an odd time for Rich Tafel to l...
  68. When a gay man takes a job dressing up in a jolly red suit at a leading department st...
  69. MR. AND MR. NASH has become one of the most talked-about new TV shows of the year, an...
  70. The other day I was talking to John Ashcroft. Well, I was talking; he was listening. ...
  71. Our team scored big-time with your open and honest interview with Esera Tuaolo ["Tack...
  72. Key West, Fla., has always been proud of its gay heritage, and now it's showing visit...
  73. Whether inside a pyramid or at a Nile-side cafe, a gay American tourist in Egypt need...
  74. There seems to be the unfortunate idea that once you've won an Oscar, you're supposed...
  75. I have just read Paris Barclay's parable "Little George Goes to War" [Final Cut, Nove...
  76. Democrats may have had a rough Election Day in November, but for many gay rights advo...
  77. In what appears to be one of their first acts after the November 5 election, nine Rep...
  78. HEY, KIEFER SUTHERLAND! You've just saved the life of a presidential candidate on Fox...
  79. The film version of Chicago, due in theaters on December 27, has already earned indus...
  80. In the space of just a few weeks, openly gay elementary school teacher Bill Rugh foun...
  81. Sometimes the best stories come from the least celebrated of storytellers. That's cer...
  82. In the early 1950s, Tommy Tune was called a queer by some bullies at his junior high ...
  83. The November 26 Nation item regarding Harry Hay's death had an important error. Write...
  84. Margaret Coble's review of Melissa Etheridge's Live ... and Alone DVD was right on th...
  85. An avowed white supremacist set to stand trial for killing a gay couple in Northern C...
  86. Dueling harassment suits between two founding members of POWER UP, a networking organ...
  87. David Cicilline remembers being at the headquarters for his Providence, R.I., mayoral...
  88. Brother Outsider:. The Life of Bayard Rustin * Directed by Nancy Kates and Bennett Si...
  89. The man pictured in our November 12 Health & Science story "Protein Power" was incorr...
  90. Advocacy work has started early for Brad Clark, the openly gay 21-year-old student bo...
  91. A MUSEUM EXHIBIT about disco? Don't be surprised. "Disco almost never took a bad phot...
  92. Hi, Mom and/or Dad! Thank you for picking up this pamphlet, A Parent's Guide to Preve...
  93. Watching my parents movies while growing up, I got an early sense of what it's like s...
  94. Syphilis infections are increasing in the United States for the first time in more th...
  95. IS THERE A CINEMATIC CURSE on the cast and crew of The Next Best Thing? Since making ...
  96. O Fantasma * Starring Ricardo Meneses, Beatriz Torcato, Andre Barbosa * Written by Jo...
  97. "I didn't I was so gay! I thought was more like Steve McQueen, but Seth [Green] is fl...
  98. * Syphilis is transmitted through direct contact with bacteria via unprotected sex. ...
  99. HAVING WOOED GAY MALE subscribers with two sex-drenched seasons of Queer as Folk, Sho...
  100. Even a season working on Temptation Island could not prepare director Katherine Brook...
  101. Ever since gay-straight alliances first started to meet on high school campuses in th...
  102. The Vatican has confirmed that it is drafting new guidelines for accepting candidates...
  103. Noted lesbian psychotherapist and author Betty Berzon, Ph.D., was momentarily jarred ...
  104. Everywhere you went in 1993, the question was "What's Up?" Radios blared the song's c...
  105. Can sheep shed light on the roots of homosexuality among humans? That's what scientis...
  106. DIED: Philip Brett, 64, musicologist, of cancer, in Los Angeles, October 16. DIED: ...
  107. Medina Rene was looking forward to starting his new job at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las...
  108. Flower Drum Song * Book by David Henry Hwang * Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Os...
  109. The St. Louis Department of Health in November canceled the remainder of a $96,000 gr...
  110. As part of our celebration of The Advocate's 35th birthday, we asked artists to offer...
  111. On the surface at least, Rich Tafel would seem to have little in common with Michael ...
  112. Growing up in Pilsen, a Mexican-American enclave on Chicago's south side, Jorge Valdi...
  113. Happy 35th anniversary to The Advocate, and congratulations on one of the most inform...
  114. A Judge in Washington State has granted a lesbian couple what amounts to a divorce, e...
  115. When gay contestants on reality TV talk, they talk to Advocate.com. Find our juicy Q&...
  116. During his first tenure as Senate majority leader, Trent Lott publicly compared homos...
  117. With his new novel, Michael Lowenthal is shaking off the confines of contemporary gay...
  118. I found your recent issue highlighting 50 milestones in 35 years to be incredibly inf...
  119. Police in Denver say a man held since August in connection with the murder of one man...
  120. The charms of both Montreal and Quebec City (left) afford opportunities to enjoy la v...
  121. You've got the high thread-count sheets, and you've got the sterling silverware nestl...
  122. I have lived in New York City for nearly nine years, and now I am leaving it. There i...
  123. The Rice University football team is having mixed results this season, but head coach...
  124. Gay couples such as Team Guido on CBS's The Amazing Race last year and the cast of th...
  125. Singing standards isn't just for Liza Minnelli (and the men who look like her) anymor...
  126. Andrew Sullivan's personal issues of facing his sexuality and HIV-positive status app...
  127. If you are a biological male who chooses to dress in women's clothes, you could get a...
  128. A major step forward in gay and lesbian workers' struggle for equal employment rights...
  129. Appearances being what they are, you might mistake Salma Hayek for your basic gorgeou...
  130. In your story "Ballot Battlegrounds" [October 29], you mention that Arizona's Jim Kol...
  131. When word came in mid October that Army major general Robert Clark could be promoted ...
  132. Vikings tackle Esera Tuaolo [see page 30] wasn't the only one living in the NFL close...
  133. It's National Coming Out Day, and Esera Tuaolo is wearing his Atlanta Falcons footbal...
  134. Joel Soler didn't specifically mean for his excoriating documentary portrait of Iraqi...
  135. Thank you for your article on gay-friendly businesses ["In Good Comparties," October ...
  136. Seventeen-year-old Gwen Araujo never returned home from a party in Newark, Calif., Oc...
  137. News of Sen. Paul Wellstone's death broke as The Advocate was going to press. Read a ...
  138. Once upon a time (actually, 1969), in a quiet suburb of Chicago called Harvey, two 13...
  139. Even cowgirls get the blues--but on the Learning Channel they also get new window tre...
  140. Alan Winkler's dream of a rural gay utopia ended abruptly October 7, when he arrived ...
  141. Six years ago Advocate editors Anne Stockwell and J.V. McAuley explored the issue of ...
  142. Good scents With this festive fragrances in the air, can almost smell the holidays ...
  143. Burning Blue * Written by D.M.W. Greer * Directed by John Hickok * Starring Mike Doyl...
  144. Thanks for the excellent article on the delightful Catherine Deneuve ["Belle Toujours...
  145. He was a founder of the Mattachine Society and the Radical Faeries. He organized the ...
  146. If Internet fan sites are like social clubs, then The Kitten, the Witches, and the Ba...
  147. With Family Fundamentals, his new documentary about conservative religious families w...
  148. I still get an occasional E-mail from a listener who is mad at me for being in the cl...
  149. Thank you for your article and fantastic pictures of actor, comic, and "action transv...
  150. One can only imagine what Prince Charles and Prince William thought when Scotland Yar...
  151. "SHE'S FRANCY KULP, the carbon-copy daughter of [The Beverly Hillbillies'] Nancy Kulp...
  152. Hashiguchi Ryosuke describes the Tokyo bar scene with a laugh: "The gay bars are tiny...
  153. Beyond Paradise: The Life of Ramon Novarro * Andre Soares * St. Martin's Press * $27....
  154. Let me be the first to thank Michael Kopper for showing the straight community that w...
  155. When Uzi Even was sworn into office November 4, he became the first openly gay member...
  156. WITH BAD COMPANY out last summer and Phone Booth and Veronica Guerin due before the e...
  157. Food of Love * Written and directed by Ventura Pons * Starring Juliet Stevenson, Paul...
  158. Ridiculous! The Theatrical Life and Times of Charles Ludlam * By David Kaufman * ...
  159. I truly hope that Carla Grayson and Adrianne Neff reconsider their plans to return to...
  160. Sales are still humming along at Good Vibrations, the San Francisco-based female-owne...
  161. NICOLAS CAGE AS A BIZARRE GAY PIMP? The Oscar-winning actor will play just that in a ...
  162. Sinead O'Connor electrified the MTV generation when she entered our consciousness, be...
  163. Thank heaven for short stories--they provide all the pleasures of a novel, but you ca...
  164. In our October 29 story "In Good Companies," Hewlett-Packard's nondiscrimination poli...
  165. And you thought your boss was tough. Professional pianist Donna Merritt said she was ...
  166. When Thang Nguyen, a U.S. Navy ensign, came out to his commanding officer in a letter...
  167. It wasn't practice that got opera star David Daniels to Carnegie Hall, at least not t...
  168. He was astonishingly beautiful as a youth and remained astonishing his entire life, b...
  169. Never be out! It's a common theme in baseball, principle to which even umpires adhere...
  170. The holidays are a time of giving, and for many gay people, donating money or volunte...
  171. He was one of thousands of promising young people who venture to New York City after ...
  172. Live ... and Alone * Melissa Etheridge * UME/Island Records Melissa Etheridge has m...
  173. Your interview with Dennis Quaid ["A Man's Man," October 29] is the nearest thing to ...
  174. "SpongeBob [is] the biggest children's phenomenon to capture the imagination of gay m...
  175. DIED: bines W. Wickliff, 74, gay activist, of complications from cardiovascular disea...
  176. Nobody ever called John Silber dull. Outspoken and combative, the longtime Boston Uni...
  177. "I grew up in Orange Country [Calif.] and used to watch it on a black-and-white TV wh...
  178. "I can't believe they're all gay." --Christina Aguilera, commenting on all the musc...
  179. The U.S. Senate gave a goodbye party of sorts to re tiring senator Jesse Helms of Nor...
  180. The Advocate marks its 35th birthday with this issue, but it's not all about us. We k...
  181. In 1975 the Bell System was the largest nongovernment employer in the United States, ...
  182. THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY OF STONEWALL SEES THE BIGGEST GAY ATHLETIC EVENT EVER AND GIVES ...
  183. Sometimes defeat leads to victory. Perhaps that's the lesson derived from the fierce ...
  184. To call the past two years of my life complicated would be an understatement. Not onl...
  185. Ron Cowen: I would have to say that [as the screenwriters of An Early Frost] we knew ...
  186. "I want Paris to take risks," the city's openly gay mayor, Bertrand Delanoe, said on ...
  187. DIED: Alexander John "Bear" Goodrum, 41, transgender activist, by suicide, in Tucson,...
  188. "After the young people rioted, Allen Ginsberg walked amid the rubble, inspecting the...
  189. Reaction to my coming-out helped me grasp two important points. First, most Americans...
  190. As a young man facing constant and brutal harassment at my high school, I remember th...
  191. The next day the story was reprinted or quoted in nearly every major newspaper in the...
  192. It has been four years since Matt died--sometimes it seems like it has been four life...
  193. Harvey Fierstein's Torch Song Trilogy was a theatrical phenomenon that defied all odd...
  194. The third time has proved to be the charm for an openly gay butler seeking to sue his...
  195. DEFINING MOMENTS George the first In this issue, leading voices recall 50 momento...