Stories Collection

  1. Two deeply personal tales of gay parenting are now being told exclusively on Advocate...
  2. For the past 3 1/2 years, Stephen Van Kuiken, pastor at Cincinnati's Mount Auburn Pre...
  3. * Joe Babcock * Closet Case * $15.95 When a gay teen coming-of-age story--by a gay ...
  4. This is not your grandfather's memoir. Kate Lake's snappy little book--a collection o...
  5. For a singer who describes his career as "trial and error," Mark Weigle has attracted...
  6. I understand that one of the purposes of journalism is to give a platform to all voic...
  7. Joining the growing list of professional sports teams engaged in damage control with ...
  8. Buenos Aires, the only Latin American city to recognize same-sex relationships, remai...
  9. * Erica Jong * Norton * $24.95 Jong's novel Fear of Flying helped liberate sex-sham...
  10. "I wanted Jesus." It's the opening line of Vampire Vow, Michael Schiefelbein's pulpy ...
  11. Mysterious Skin * Adapted by Prince Gomolvilas * Directed by Arturo Catricala * Starr...
  12. "Buried Alive in Egypt" [May 13] was a disturbing article. I am not surprised that Am...
  13. Gay-friendly lawmakers and government officials from across California turned out Apr...
  14. At a time when gay parenting was still a radical idea, reporter Kevin McKinney wrote ...
  15. When Cheri Goldstein and Holly Perdue asked officials in Mississippi to recognize the...
  16. * Richard Chamberlain * ReganBooks * $25.95 Hats off to Chamberlain, the dreamy lea...
  17. It may be our community's toughest challenge: We really don't know one another, nor d...
  18. I want children, and so does my boyfriend. We're lucky to have figured this out. I di...
  19. I was thrilled to read about Klaus Wowereit and his promotion of gay tourism in his c...
  20. Now that courts in three of the country's 10 provinces have declared that the federal...
  21. Who needs pop-up advertisements when you have a push-up bra? That's what Toni Frisina...
  22. Sand castle building contests. Movie nights. Bonfires. Cookouts. It sounds like the i...
  23. * William J. Mann * Kensington * $24 This sequel to The Men From the Boys serves up...
  24. OK, first Eminem wins the Oscar. I was standing backstage when it happened, wondering...
  25. X2's character Mystique, played by Rebecca Romijn-Stamos, has more relevance to gays ...
  26. "Ex-gay" poster boy John Paulk, who has led a campaign to "cure" gay people of their ...
  27. On Wednesday, April 9, 16-year-old Caitlin Meuse participated in the Day of Silence c...
  28. "We used to have stars," says an excited DJ Larry Tee. "We had Grace Jones; we had Di...
  29. I was kicked out of the Air Force on December 27, 1990, for being gay, just weeks bef...
  30. DIED: John Daverio, 49, gay music professor at Boston University, of drowning, Daveri...
  31. One Thursday morning in December 2001, Los Angeles artist Jeff Griggs got a call from...
  32. Wearing more hats than Bella Abzug, LD Beghtol pays the rent doing design for clients...
  33. "People ask, are we gay? Absolutely not. We have to be straight, or we wouldn't enjoy...
  34. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health ...
  35. It's a sultry summer evening on the Toronto set of Soldier's Girl, and the film's sta...
  36. Ashley MacIsaac * Ashley MacIsaac * Decca/Universal Classics In the landscape of ou...
  37. Severe acute respiratory syndrome is raging through parts of Asia and in Toronto, wit...
  38. Want to send photos to a military friend serving overseas? Now you have a new way to ...
  39. May [A] THE MATRIX RELOADED (Warner Bros.) WHEN May 15 WHO Keanu Reeves, Lauren...
  40. Playwright Doug Wright relates to stories of rule breakers: Witness Quills, his drama...
  41. The reaction was fast and furious. After Rick Santorum, the third-ranking Republican ...
  42. Hank Donat used to be an advertising executive--a job that required extensive travel....
  43. Ask Daniel Orlandi for dirt on Renee Zellweger, and you get nothing. When questioned ...
  44. Many gay and lesbian police officers have exercised the right to remain silent about ...
  45. People in Salinas, Calif., may soon be asking themselves, What constitutes a hate cri...
  46. The new film A Soldier's Girl tells the painful story of transgendered performer Calp...
  47. On_Line is a cinematic first, according to actor Eric Millegan. Because of its tantal...
  48. She wasn't exactly a role model. Patricia Highsmith may have written one of the first...
  49. Finally the news story I've been craving comes out ["Family Life During Wartime," Apr...
  50. Colorado Springs, Colo The city council on April 22 withdrew benefits extended to t...
  51. AUSTRALIAN HOTTIE Hugh Jackman will be making hearts and keyboards sizzle on Broadway...
  52. Maybe you didn't ask for it, but you're getting it anyway. Charlie's Angels: Full Thr...
  53. "I actually sound very much like a woman on the phone," says Simon Doonan. "[I spend ...
  54. Andrew Sullivan's attempt to make us feel guilty for opposing the war in Iraq by sugg...
  55. The Egyptian parliament's speaker accused the European parliament of unwarranted medd...
  56. BUILDING ON HER REPUTATION as the most civil of gay civil-rights pioneers, Melissa Et...
  57. "We were always dysfunctional," Howard Friedman quietly imparts as he describes his o...
  58. Man About Town * Mark Merlis * Fourth Estate/HarperCollins * $24.95 Mark Merlis's l...
  59. Ever since Nizah Morris died on Christmas Eve, gay and lesbian activists in Philadelp...
  60. YOU CAN'T ACCUSE TATU of not being wise to the ways of media manipulation. The Russia...
  61. With the star-studded summer movie season in full throttle, it's time for a game of w...
  62. So Michael Moore and Eminem won Oscars because the art they make is pure yellow. None...
  63. In your April 29 issue [The Buzz], you describe the taping of Rupert Everett's new sh...
  64. Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, HIV testing has been a critical way to enc...
  65. Gay rights activists come in all shapes, sizes, genders, and colors. They can also be...
  66. Before ACT UP, before Gay Men's Health Crisis, before The Destiny of Me and The Norma...
  67. Upon the announcement that Matt Foreman had been appointed as the new executive direc...
  68. Want to know what team your favorite pop star bats for? You're not alone. The sexual ...
  69. Germany may fall into the category of "old Europe" in Donald Rumsfeld's view of the w...
  70. Pamela Fletcher and Susan Murphy don't take their vacations like most other couples d...
  71. I must comment on "The Queer Report" [April 15] regarding "masculine homosexuals." I ...
  72. Utah law requires that teachers be moral models for their students, but the Utah supr...
  73. Taking Internet activism to a new level, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamat...
  74. At a time when the public wants--in fact, demands--its pop stars in tidy, clearly def...
  75. Slight of stature and nebbishy in appearance, beloved character actor Michael Jeter f...
  76. The rainbow flag has become the de facto antiwar protest emblem in Switzerland. By th...
  77. Is hip-hop ready for a gay rap superstar? That's a big question, and here's a bigger ...
  78. Known affectionately as "Gorgor," Leslie Cheung, 46, committed suicide on April 1 by ...
  79. When are we going to start helping ourselves and stop harping on the neoconservatives...
  80. Grand Junction, Colo. A sixth-grader was suspended from middle school for two days ...
  81. "LAST SUNDAY the clocks changed. The next day time changed for me," says Nilo Cruz, w...
  82. To see Kelly Clarkson greet her American Idol classmate Jim Verraros is like watching...
  83. At first, Disney's decision to hire out director Jim Fall to helm The Lizzie McGuire ...
  84. Has Norah Vincent actually seen an issue of On Our Backs recently [Last Word, April 1...
  85. David Kloss was named International Mr. Leather in 1979 before a crowd of about 400 w...
  86. LOOK, UNDER THE MIRROR BALL! It's a bird, it's a butterfly, it's Mariah Carey! Gay Lo...
  87. When fuchsia-haired Midleresque spitfire Vanessa Olivarez, 21, became the first Ameri...
  88. When Kate Moira Ryan was 18, she came out to her parents and announced her arrival as...
  89. Four years ago, when the time came for me to lead my first concert as artistic direct...
  90. Lesbians may love women's sports, but the affection hasn't always been mutual. So whe...
  91. When his Marine reserve unit was called to active duty in February, 21-year-old Lance...
  92. If you've been making music for as long as singer-songwriter Laura Love has, releasin...
  93. All Seth Rudetsky has held on to longer than his grudge against a homophobic humiliat...
  94. "I'm sorry that I wasn't here sooner. Seriously." --Rosie O'Donnell, upon accepting...
  95. Harry. Flynn, the Catholic archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis, has taken a stand ...
  96. In touting the benefits of a military victory over Saddam Hussein's regime, President...
  97. The music Industry's free fall continues. CD sales in the United States were down mer...
  98. The evidence that Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky was gay has long been recognized among musi...
  99. Call it the politics of "family values." In early April, well-known Anne Klein design...
  100. APPOINTED: Alan Van Capelle, as executive director of New York's Empire State Pride A...
  101. When Army Reserves sergeant Scott A. Osborn, a native of Herndon, Va., came out of th...
  102. First, a few disclaimers: I love my country. I hate what's happening. I'm for peace. ...
  103. "I could have just tumbled out of bed, my hair's a mess, and I've hardly brushed my t...
  104. He argued in favor of Colorado's anti-gay Amendment 2 before the U.S. Supreme Court, ...
  105. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health ...
  106. For four months a dank Cairo cell measuring just 8 by 14 feet has been home to Wissam...
  107. Thanks to the unfortunate Oscar Wilde, we know plenty about gay male life in late-Vic...
  108. A 14-year-old gay student in Little Rock, Ark., says a teacher called him "abnormal" ...
  109. April 7, 1976 As the cover article in this issue shows, Robbie Williams courts gay ...
  110. It took Klaus Wowereit 47 years to come out of the closet. But now he wants all the w...
  111. For any writer, the prospect of having a book adapted for television is terrifically ...
  112. The Advocate proudly proclaims "As governor of Vermont, Howard Dean signed a law givi...
  113. It's celebration when any state legislature passes a gay rights bill. But how about w...
  114. Two days before the first missiles hit Baghdad on March 19, PlanetOut Partners, the c...
  115. There's this producer out here who has got to be pushing 80. He's got six ex-wives, r...
  116. What's your worst political nightmare? Here's one to ponder. By some awful turn of ev...
  117. I am happy to read that Charles Kaiser is alive and well and living in Paris, where h...
  118. In the latest volley in what is proving to be an extended back-and-forth on gay issue...
  119. Who is Salam Pax? According to his "blog," or Web diary, the pseudonymous Pax is a ga...
  120. When X2--the sequel to the blockbuster hit X-Men--launches in May, queer fans will be...
  121. Life partners Carrie Stone and Elisia Ross ceremoniously dipped their toes in icy Atl...
  122. WE ASSUME YOU ALREADY THINK Gina Gershon is hot. But wait till you see her in the upc...
  123. Friends and Family * Starring Tony Lo Bianco, Greg Lauren, Christopher Gartin, Tovah ...
  124. Thanks for addressing the misconceptions and delusions regarding AIDS ["The 10 Bigges...
  125. Eugene, Ore. Maddy Melton, an out lesbian candidate for University of Oregon studen...
  126. THIS COULD BE THE START of a new mentoring program: Superstars Supporting Prematurely...
  127. After more than two tortured years spent drinking from the well of loneliness, life i...
  128. Has GLAAD seen Oliver Beene? the over-the-top, stereotypical, poodle-carrying 11-year...
  129. As the poster boy for the Boy Scouts of America, an aide to a former governor of Flor...
  130. THE BUZZ COULDN'T WAIT to find out about Mr. Ambassador, the new NBC sitcom starring ...
  131. In midtown Manhattan, HBO is taping the third season of Russell Simmons Presents Def ...
  132. There were no gays in the Navy when I joined in 1947. We had queers. Oh, the officers...
  133. There's a direct link to gay men's use of Viagra and infection rates for sexually tra...
  134. Friends and family detect a difference in Kyle Skyock. They say the teenager has chan...
  135. West Side Story * Starring Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Rita Moreno, and George Chak...
  136. "But really, kids, it ain't exactly a cover story for The Advocate." --Liz Smith, i...
  137. Hope and frustration marked the Food and Drug Administration's March 13 approval of F...
  138. The illness appearing among Mark Davis's friends can't begin to compare with what he ...
  139. The Chicago theater scene contains a lot of remarkable personalities, but even so, Al...
  140. Not long into the March 26 oral arguments in Lawrence v. Texas, Justice Ruth Bader Gi...
  141. DIED: Javier Gaitan, 57, a New York City AIDS activist, in a car accident in Ohio, Ma...
  142. Long-haul trucker Norm Flowers Nashville Growing up on his family's farm near Fra...
  143. "I've always felt like I've been on the outside," muses playwright Edwin Sanchez--or ...
  144. Even if all your exes are in Texas, don't count on being able to get a divorce there....
  145. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment, and health ...
  146. Around Valentine's Day, the 82nd Airborne was deployed to Kuwait from Fort Bragg, N.C...
  147. The Smell of Our Own * The Hidden Cameras * Rough Trade How big a niche market migh...
  148. The first-ever openly gay member of the U.S. House of Representatives is thinking abo...
  149. Throughout his 1992 campaign and the first days of his presidency, Bill Clinton pledg...
  150. It was a military casualty, but in a time of peace. As 21-year-old Pfc. Barry Winchel...
  151. Rough Amusements: The True Story of A'Lelia Walker, Patroness of the Harlem Renaissan...
  152. I read with gratitude Dan Woog's column "Gay Youth Revolution" [My Perspective, March...
  153. Now that the case against Florida's ban on adoption by gays has reached the 11th circ...
  154. COMMENTARY Bush's other war How important is President Bush's promise to fight AI...
  155. As April 15 approaches, many gays and lesbians are happily filing tax returns that cl...
  156. American Life * Madonna * Maverick Madonna has accomplished the near-impossible: Fo...
  157. Once again The Advocate has chosen to show only one side of the argument ["Taking to ...
  158. It was bad enough when Minnesota state representative Arlon Lindner introduced a bill...
  159. Hope for the most promising AIDS vaccine to date--AIDSVAX--was all but dashed in late...
  160. It's a slate-gray, icy Sunday afternoon in Toronto, and light outside is obscure. Rob...
  161. Uncle Andy's is a colorful children's picture book that doubles as an affectionate po...
  162. Thanks for pointing out that Bush's newly discovered interest in spending billions gl...
  163. As the U.S. Census Bureau released its March 13 report detailing the 594,691 same-sex...
  164. Straight girls have more fun--especially if they have gay boyfriends. That's accordin...
  165. The Advocate: If there has been one overriding theme to the show, what has it been, i...
  166. A.L.T. * Andre Leon Talley * Villard * $24.95 Don't turn to Andre Leon Talley for b...
  167. Mason, Mich., and Klein, Tex. After legal battles with their high schools, Jason Br...
  168. Frustrated by the limited--and often scattered--availability of facts and information...
  169. "Why do gay people love Cher?" asked my best friend from college. He's straight, so n...
  170. I can't explain it. I know it's sappy, boilerplate, impossibly soapy, and woefully la...
  171. Your interview with Sen. Gordon Smith shows yet again that you can't teach a Grand Ol...
  172. After more than four decades as the official dressmaker for Queen Elizabeth II, Sir H...
  173. THE BUZZ CAN'T GET ENOUGH of the continuing success of out producer Christine Vachon....
  174. After every performance of the new musical Radiant Baby at the Public Theater in New ...
  175. Time and time again I am amazed at the writing in The Advocate. You continually prove...
  176. Becky Thompson and Pamala Stone, two Dallas-area teachers, found inspiration in a tro...
  177. FOR GAY MOVIEGOERS with fond memories of Cuba Gooding Jr.'s take-no-crap gay characte...
  178. Our Lady of 121st Street * Written by Stephen Adly Guirgis * Directed by Philip Seymo...
  179. Maybe it started in my 20s with the feminism class I took at City College of San Fran...
  180. The Reverend Randy Duncan and the Reverend Dan Wright say they're following a calling...
  181. Lorri Jean once worked for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, where she coordin...
  182. Reno: Rebel Without a Pause * Written and performed by Reno * Directed by Nancy Sav...
  183. "I had this horrible perm. I went and saw A Star Is Born with Barbra Streisand ... an...
  184. Abraham Lincoln may be an icon of tolerance, but some conservative activists say a vi...
  185. Its foremost pundit declared AIDS "God's punishment." Another proclaimed that "Hitler...
  186. Joshua Malina has a penchant for playing the new guy on the block--with parts from th...
  187. Divorce is seldom a cause for celebration, but a case in Beaumont, Tex., has turned o...
  188. Three years ago Mark Moreau, a young gay New York actor, saw an ad seeking volunteers...
  189. From the smile on her face and the good cheer in her voice, you'd never know that dir...
  190. Chicago and The Hours are by far the top contenders for awards this season ["Gay Guid...
  191. As Massachusetts's top court decides if the state will be the first in the nation to ...
  192. DIED: John Edwards, 53, sole heir of openly gay painter Francis Bacon and model for a...
  193. When Daniel and Ian Chesir-Teran of South Orange, N.J., were married in a Jewish cere...