Stories Collection

  1. CALIFORNIA RECALL Candidates debate Pro-gay California governor Gray Davis [see p...
  2. After a summer of pundits jamming the airwaves with debates on the pros and cons of g...
  3. "I was trying to get the book Finished while I was doped up on ets," laughs Ian Falco...
  4. It was with great dismay that I read James Kirchick's My Perspective column ["The Fol...
  5. The United Nations is stepping out in support of gay rights. In late August the U.N.'...
  6. As this issue shows, the corporate world has come a long way in its treatment and acc...
  7. In high school, Alex Sanchez says, he was "closeted and shut down." But he found comf...
  8. The three men accused of beating openly gay actor Trey Broudy last year pleaded guilt...
  9. BACK TO SCHOOL means new teachers, new notebooks ... a new honesty about your sexuali...
  10. Christopher Sieber has scrambled a lot of gaydars. A big blond Minnesota boy who coul...
  11. GLBTQ: The survival guide for queer & questioning teens * Kelly Huegel * Free Spiri...
  12. First, I would like to applaud you for launching your new space for young queer voice...
  13. Outraged by the stabbing death of 15-year-old lesbian Sakia Gunn in Newark, N.J., las...
  14. PAPARAZZI PHOTOS of Brad Pitt as Achilles in the currently shooting epic Troy are beg...
  15. Seattle, Memorial Day, 2002--Flew up today to offer support, love, and encouragement ...
  16. The dashing special agent is about to hurl himself into eternal oblivion when he's pu...
  17. If there is such a thing as a gay revolution happening on TV, it could not have occur...
  18. Two Southern states are continuing to enforce sodomy laws despite the U.S. Supreme Co...
  19. In The Advocate's first major story about the death of Matthew Shepard, Jon Barrett l...
  20. "When Qeer as folk came on the air, only gay groups complained, saying that it painte...
  21. I've often heard that if the gay community wants to adore its Michelangelos, it has t...
  22. foot rest "San Diego" olive suede sandal with sleek heel design and Nike Air comfor...
  23. With two thirds of the populace French-speaking, Montreal is rightly dubbed the "Litt...
  24. Your "Backlash Fever" story [At Issue, September 2] doesn't really explain the curren...
  25. Sebastapol, Calif. The Boy Scouts of America in August revoked the charter of a loc...
  26. PRESIDENT BUSH may be dead-set against equal rights for same-sex couples, but CBS jus...
  27. Don't believe the old saw that you can't be out and still be a mover and shaker in Ho...
  28. Dear Subscriber, The world is changing for gay people. The Supreme Court recently r...
  29. Edited by Lynda Hall Terrace/University of Wisconsin, $26.95 "After a messy ending,...
  30. Just as my gay guidebook to Europe promised, the ramparts and towers of England's War...
  31. Though the Napa Valley is barely a two-hour drive from my San Francisco home, I succu...
  32. In what German activists are hailing as a victory, Hamburg mayor Ole von Beust fired ...
  33. ADMIT IT--when you go to a movie, you wish you'd been consulted on some of the detail...
  34. "Our neighbors said they heard a lot of screaming at 6 in the morning," recalls lesbi...
  35. As often as I can. I drive to the Berkshire Mountains of Massachusetts from my home n...
  36. By Swan Adamson Kensington, $12.95 Twenty-five-year-old Venus Gilroy is about to ma...
  37. Washington, D.C. The Monocle, 107 D St., N.E., (202) 546-4488 When there is a vot...
  38. Kelli O'Donnell stands at the front door of her upstate New York home with a sunny gr...
  39. How could Paris Barclay possibly make a list of 12 TV shows that portrayed gay role m...
  40. A long-standing battle between the University of Michigan and the state's infamous an...
  41. Timed as it was, the decision by the Cathedral of Hope in Dallas to break from the Un...
  42. "It's about the impact of style on a person," says Henry Roth, "and whether they are ...
  43. Just as brides and grooms seek recommendations for dresses and tuxes, so do they need...
  44. Frommer's, $24.99 Had it with gay guides that steer you to long deserted bathhouses...
  45. MARGARET, LOOKS LIKE WE CAUGHT YOU ON A RARE DAY OFF. This is one of the few days I...
  46. There is a brief, lovely moment every evening when the white-hot desert sky turns a b...
  47. Riki Wilchins has her facts wrong [Last Word, September 2]. She asserts that transgen...
  48. If you're wondering how you're going to live out your golden years in a gay-friendly ...
  49. When Michael Jason Tiner came out as a Navy submariner on the gay reality show Boy Me...
  50. NEW SHOWS Cambridge Spies--True stow of four British spies betraying their country ...
  51. Once upon a time, a New York chorus girl called Lucille LeSueur went to Hollywood and...
  52. Photographs by Veronique Vial powerhouse, $45 In Ray Bradbury's iconic novel Fahren...
  53. q. I'm 63, and my partner's 64. We're fit, active, and don't like to sit in our hotel...
  54. ARIES March 21-April 20 You have actually started to enjoy being a workaholic drudg...
  55. At 4 A.M. I was startled awake by a loud pounding on my front door. My first instinct...
  56. Discredited among his fellow antiabortion crusades by divorce and bankruptcy in the l...
  57. "I have an HRC event in Minneapolis, the University of Kentucky, University of South ...
  58. Actors find little pleasure in being upstaged. So pity Luke Kirby, star of Mambo Ital...
  59. () www.clubskirts.com/dinahshore/dinah.html The Dinah Shore Weekend has been called...
  60. Looking for a winter getaway that's more than simple fun and sun? From January 16-23,...
  61. The first time visited Pompeii, as a 13-year-old. I was impressed for two reasons. Mo...
  62. "The other day I got a turkey baster from a lady in Charlotte. I still don't know why...
  63. The corporate closet could become a thing of the past in the United Kingdom. Prompted...
  64. When Moises Kaufman went to Wyoming to interview subjects for his play The Laramie Pr...
  65. As Sandra Oh has discovered, it's easy to forget who you are in Hollywood. Sure, she ...
  66. You stumble off a long flight, catch a glimpse of your mug in the mirror, and--egad!-...
  67. Transgendered travel writer jan Morris roams the world but makes few public appearanc...
  68. So what if it was my first time in Paris and my knowledge of French is about as subst...
  69. John Geoghan never identified as gay. But because someone thought he was, he has been...
  70. DIED: Thomas Gehling, 59, co-founder of n well-known Colorado Springs gay bar and the...
  71. From Cheyenne, Wyo., to Washington, the immediate political response to Matthew Shepa...
  72. You may have heard of 22-year-old author J.T. LeRoy. He's the gender-bending ex-truck...
  73. Boy George has worn one. So has David Bowie (above). Mel Gibson prefers a mid-calf ta...
  74. You might call Grace Newman a pioneer. After all, her 19-room Highlands Inn is in pio...
  75. "You're not gay, are you?" asked the cowboy in the Oak Room Lounge at the Oklahoma Ci...
  76. The night after residents in Washington, D.C., gathered at a vigil to mourn the Augus...
  77. Growing up in the suburbs with an activist-feminist mother and two older gay brothers...
  78. To paraphrase the old Sara Lee ad, nobody doesn't like Gina Gershon. She turns everyo...
  79. Yossi & Jagger * Starring Ohad Knoller and Yehuda Levi * Written by Avner Bernheime...
  80. Utah Gay and Lesbian Ski Week (January 7-11) in Park City has fast become one of the ...
  81. Kilts are not required--but certainly appropriate--for the 10th annual Glasgay arts f...
  82. despite its chaste white steeples, wrought-iron gates guarding secret gardens, and ho...
  83. While the country awaits a Massachusetts court ruling in a challenge brought by seven...
  84. HISTORIC Q & A Sister Sleaze lives! The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence were chal...
  85. They called the summer of 2003 the Summer of Gays. I don't know who "they" are, but h...
  86. Welcome to the Los Angeles apartment of John Rechy, where the author has long punctua...
  87. Deborah Stanton, chef and coowner of her namesake restaurant in Greenwich Village wit...
  88. tune-in Wearable digital audio key ring, $99-$149, by Philips [ILLUSTRATION OMITT...
  89. Patti's backside was inches from my helmet as she struggled to find her footing on th...
  90. Your August 19 article "Like a Virgin" left me wondering why the subjects of the arti...
  91. Sodomy laws may be a thing of the past in the United States, but for openly gay Uzbek...
  92. Five years ago The Advocate investigated how the sodomy laws still in effect in about...
  93. "I'm a simple girl with a simple look," says James St. James. "At an early screening ...
  94. As a 49-year-old American trans-man living in Toronto, I could not have been more imp...
  95. One of America's most determined foes of gay rights could become one of the cause's m...
  96. At an August benefit for Los Angeles's Project Angel Food, auctioneer Sharon Stone (r...
  97. He brought guy-on-guy anilingus into people's living rooms with the original U.K. Que...
  98. Before I came out of the closet, my younger brother made homophobic comments on a reg...
  99. Finding sperm isn't the only obstacle many lesbians may encounter when it comes to ge...
  100. BEN AFFLECK has his bat in hand and he's ready to come out of the closet in one of tw...
  101. Even in the midst of the current tidal wave of queers in mainstream consciousness, Jo...
  102. "Oh, what's the difference, Liz. They're just a couple of fags!" New York socialite...
  103. "I'VE HAD IT with all these straight actors and their closed-mouth kissing, trying to...
  104. Bad things happen to little girls in Ann-Marie MacDonald's novels. Abuse is a core na...
  105. As Californians weigh the possible outcome of an October 7 gubernatorial recall elect...
  106. The fallout from a July 31 Vatican document, in which the Roman Catholic Church stron...
  107. When Erika Harold was crowned Miss America 2003, she seemed to be following the examp...
  108. Film SEPTEMBER Yossi & Jagger (Strand, September 24). Ohad Knoller and Yehuda Lev...
  109. I just finished reading the article on Scott Merritt, the now--out centerfold in Play...
  110. An act of hate perpetrated on the residents of a middle-class neighborhood in suburba...
  111. DIED: William R. Bright, 81, co-founder of the antigay college organization Campus Cr...
  112. There is a sign outside most if not all Episcopal churches that reads THE EPISCOPAL C...
  113. He is 8 now--my son--the tiny five-pound bundle that fit in the crook of my pudgy for...
  114. After the monumental Supreme Court ruling in Lawrence v. Texas affirming our rights, ...
  115. The word gay is a bit too much for residents of Charlotte, N.C.--at least that was th...
  116. The great power of television is its ability to reinforce or change people's personal...
  117. In the conference room of John Kerry's modest presidential campaign headquarters in W...
  118. Bruce Steele's humor in "Having the Last Laugh" was right on the money [Letter From t...
  119. More than 600 books in the San Francisco Public Library, almost all having gay themes...
  120. John Kerry is the latest major presidential candidate to speak directly to gay and le...
  121. "Matthew R. Limon, having been found guilty of one count of criminal sodomy ... you a...
  122. I was incredulous as I read "10 Reasons Gays Chase Straights" in your recent Sex issu...
  123. Slain gay rights pioneer Harvey Milk never would have approved of the segregation of ...
  124. Eighteen-year-old Donny has just begun his senior year of high school in the Midwest....
  125. Probably no one expected American television to get quite so gay quite so fast. Sure,...
  126. San Francisco, Calif. The state supreme court on August 4 ruled in favor of upholdi...
  127. To mark National Coming Out Day on October 11, The Advocate again invites readers to ...
  128. We're in a part of downtown Los Angeles where tourists fear to tread. At mid morning ...
  129. In our July 22 Buzz item "Meet the Gay Parents," the roster of executive producers fo...
  130. A television commercial unveiled during the July 15 episode of Bravo's Queer Eye for ...
  131. Toronto city councilor Kyle Rae had a great deal of work to do in preparation for his...
  132. Km. 0 * Written and directed by Juan Luis Iborra and Yolanda Garcia Serrano * Starrin...
  133. War Against the Animals Paul Russell * St. Martin's * $24.95 Paul Russell's smashin...
  134. When Bill and I committed to each other in 1953 we were stumbling in the dark. The wo...
  135. A June U.S. Supreme Court decision in Desert Palace v. Costa makes it easier to succe...
  136. When the Reverend Troy Perry asked the state of California to recognize stone-sex mar...
  137. For a Broadway performer, enjoying a little champagne in New York City after a triump...
  138. When it comes to conveying what major political events cost ordinary people, few thea...
  139. "I was amazed to discover that many people die each year in antigay attacks.... Bigot...
  140. The Cathedral of Hope in Dallas rocked the largest gay Christian denomination in the ...
  141. Long before Canada s alluring new options for gay and lesbian weddings hit the headli...
  142. In his nearly 40-year career as a film director, John Schlesinger was never one to fl...
  143. Straight actor Michael K. Williams has had his eyes opened to some fundamental gay is...
  144. Taking his first strong position on gay marriage, President Bush on July 30 officiall...
  145. DIED: Billy Edgar, 57, a pioneering gay actor who went by the name Sweet William in t...
  146. Aya Kamikawa's appearance reveals nothing out of the ordinary. Her serene posture and...
  147. Toby Radloff is not your average gay icon. The openly gay Cleve land file clerk who a...
  148. Series creator Ryan Murphy may be openly gay, and his work to date--such as the WB's ...
  149. How in 2003 could labeling someone gay be so damaging to a political candidate that h...
  150. BREAKING NEWS: Visit www.advocate.com for the latest news, entertainment and health h...
  151. Jim Morrison wants to be the next state senator from New Jersey's 24th legislative di...
  152. Venus Boyz * Directed by Gabriel Baur * First Run Features This nice-looking but dr...
  153. It seemed like just another, quiet dinner at T.G.I. Friday's in Laurel, Md., when "T....
  154. Thank you so much for your article on Camp, the Todd Graff movie ["Happy Campers," Ju...
  155. When Randy Heite came out of the closet in 1994, he thought his job as a kindergarten...
  156. Two new Web sites are taking the fight for gay marriage to the Internet. In July seve...
  157. After graduating from a Roman Catholic high school in Aurora, Colo., Scott Shields de...
  158. Isaac Mizrahi: fashion maven, movie star, TV talk-show host, Broadway costume designe...
  159. I am writing in response to the article about Aaron Price being found not guilty of a...
  160. In what activists are calling an attempt to allow taxpayer-funded discrimination, the...
  161. Nearly 13 years ago, in 1990, The Advocate devoted a package of five articles to the ...
  162. The college experience is laden with traditions, like fraternity parties and late-nig...
  163. Dance With My Father * Luther Vandross * J Records The Essential Luther Vandross * ...
  164. I've never actually been moved to write a letter to a magazine until just now when I ...
  165. Moorhead, Minn. The city council on July 21 unanimously voted to add protections fo...
  166. SPECULATION on what led to the demise of Liza Minnelli's 16-month marriage has been r...
  167. Twenty-five years after San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk was assassinated, New Yo...
  168. Kate Remembered * A. Scott Berg * Putnam * $25.95 "I kept wondering why this virtua...
  169. Child-protection advocates are screaming about a Swedish ad campaign to promote the i...
  170. CINEMA STUD Seann William Scott can't make a move--much less a movie--without scoring...
  171. Have you ever wondered what it's like to live in a whirlwind? Just spend the afternoo...
  172. "Who is Bayard Rustin?" That's the first question posed by acclaimed gay historian Jo...
  173. With Boy Meets Boy, TV has produced yet another Find Your Mr./Ms. Right reality show ...
  174. After ABC News reporter Jeffrey Kofman contributed to a story about the sinking moral...
  175. THE SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER issue of Bride's magazine is 704 pages long, but it's the singl...
  176. The media's hyperventilation over Queer Eye for the Straight Guy tickles me to no end...
  177. Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin * Edited by Devon W. Car...
  178. The photos of Chrissy and Dick Gephardt and Chrissy's partner, Amy Loder, that appear...
  179. The flight attendant winked as he handed me the seat-belt extension. "Going in for th...
  180. What do celebrities think about gay sex? Here's what they've said in The Advocate "...
  181. America may be obsessed with sex--been watching Paradise Hotel?--but as a nation we'r...
  182. Firts-time sexual experiences are unique to each person's life. But what's shared by ...
  183. Come on. You know you want it. There's really no shame in it. It's summer. What bette...
  184. In 36 years, this is the first issue of The Advocate produced in a country in which g...
  185. When President Reagan nominated Anthony Kennedy to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1987, th...
  186. THE MEN 1 Colin Farell AGE: 27 BEST KNOWN FOR: Spending an entire move in a Phone...
  187. "Honestly, as far as I know, I'm the only gay virgin in Buffalo," says Mich...
  188. I loved your story on Bravo channel's new reality show Boy Meets Boy ["The Dating Gam...
  189. The backlash has begun. Shortly after the Supreme Court swept sodomy laws off the boo...
  190. It's easy to liken the queer-charged notoriety buzzing around the Russian female duo ...
  191. 1 EVERYONE IS STRAIGHT To paraphrase Harvey Fierstein in Torch Song Trilogy, we live ...
  192. I find it very difficult to feel sorry for Mary Cheney and the "tremendous heartache"...