Stories Collection

  1. Alcohol marketer Kobrand turns to popular cross-dressing performers to pitch its frui...
  2. A new retrospective highlights the wit and wildness of the late artist Joe Brainard ...
  3. WITH HOMOEROTICISM OFTEN DRIPPING from their brush strokes, French artists Pierre et ...
  4. The Vermont house formally passed a ban on gay marriage March 16, but senators said t...
  5. Writer James Morrison talks about crossing Oscar Wilde with Vladimir Nabokov for Brok...
  6. PAUL REUBENS, creator of America's favorite case of arrested adolescence, Pee-wee Her...
  7. The minority within I've perused your magazine from time to time, but I've never be...
  8. When President George W. Bush completed his first speech before a joint session of Co...
  9. SHARON SMITH LOST HER PARTNER, DIANE ALEXIS WHIPPLE, IN A VICIOUS DOG ATTACK. IN AN E...
  10. MANHATTAN DRAG DIVA Varla Jean Merman is taking her act The Very Worst of Varla Jean ...
  11. The City of Light added a little glimmer to the eyes of many gay men and lesbians aro...
  12. The Chinese Psychiatric Association decides that being gay is no longer a disease S...
  13. From the get-go, I wanted to be president of the United States. (My father recalls th...
  14. Ah, springtime, that time when a young man's fancy turns to love. Young women's too. ...
  15. Jeffrey Sanker on the finer points of the circuit, which he says is about much more t...
  16. Is the absence of gay people within the Bush administration a sign of homophobia or a...
  17. "I wish that there were sort of a central clearinghouse for scheduling St. Patrick's ...
  18. Twenty-eight years ago, Billie Jean King stood up for all women by crushing woman-bai...
  19. STUDY Gay sex on the rise Americans are having more gay sex than ever, according ...
  20. Are you aware that hundreds of lesbian shoppers were able to transform the Turkish ec...
  21. The out creator of the WB's The Oblongs talks about the deliciously bizarre world of ...
  22. A proposal to ban blessing rituals for same-sex couples in the Presbyterian Church (U...
  23. The downturn in the cyber economy is leading gay Internet firms to develop new strate...
  24. New York's A Different Light closes for the last time The shelves were barren at Ne...
  25. "They had three different stories about me last year. One was I was having an affair ...
  26. Rita Cline, treasurer of Shawnee County, Kan., wanted to make clear her opposition to...
  27. In looking at the state of gay and lesbians teens in 2001, it would be impossible to ...
  28. Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS * Edited by Edmund White * University of...
  29. How did this 22-year-old find his name being tossed around the White House? Even be...
  30. APPOINTED: Kathy Levinson, former president and chief operating officer of E*TRADE, a...
  31. Transgendered teens are taking control of their issues and demanding respect in schoo...
  32. Wealth and fame have always had their privileges, like, for example, misbehaving with...
  33. The dreams of a well-known lesbian couple from Provincetown, Mass., who had planned t...
  34. Planning a trip to the Pacific Northwest any time soon? Not known for its tolerance o...
  35. A lot of people don't like Queer as Folk. They're mostly gay. Straight people I know ...
  36. Leona Helmsley, who just had a messy breakup when she learned the man she hoped to ma...
  37. Queer films on their way to U.S. theaters--including the joyful trans rock musical He...
  38. Massachusetts governor Paul Cellucci and state police seem to be at odds over public ...
  39. Though the name indicates a greeting card store, AlternativeGreetingCards.com is real...
  40. About Adam * Written and directed by Gerard Stembridge * Starring Stuart Townsend, Ka...
  41. After little more than a month as senior pastor of Dallas's predominantly gay and les...
  42. Today, the landscape for gay and lesbian youth is vastly different than it was even a...
  43. Outspoken comedian Reno talks about bringing her pissed-off shtick to Bravo's new rea...
  44. GLSEN's new lesson plan helps teachers discuss antigay rhetoric in the classroom As...
  45. The big revelation in the hit movie The Mexican, as we all now know, isn't that Brad ...
  46. Gay Mole finalist Jim Morrison fought hard to the end, Now he's facing a new reality ...
  47. Friendly advice Just a note to say that after I read your wise words about the new ...
  48. For years, the Absolut vodka silhouette has shown up as part of artworks, amid ingred...
  49. In New York's new cult-hit play The Wrong Fag to Fuck With, a fictitious pop pinup ca...
  50. Surgery sounds like music to Drew Daniel and Martin Schmidt, two lovers who create th...
  51. SPONSORED BY SAAB In the March 13 issue, readers were asked: Do you think the forma...
  52. Gay men and lesbians are proving to be one of the most active online consumer groups,...
  53. Faced with shrinking attendance and a deficit, the leaders of an influential consciou...
  54. Paul Taylor company star dance Patrick Corbin has lived a complicated and very out li...
  55. I went to John Marshall High School in Los Angeles--a school where people from more t...
  56. Los Angeles's April primary has three gay candidates, including one for mayor Joel ...
  57. The Selected Letters of Tennessee Williams, Volume I: 1920-1945 * Edited by Albert J....
  58. "I'm not a lesbian, but ... you can feel attraction in so many ways." --Penelope Cr...
  59. If safer-sex messages you in the dark, check out the latest sheath to hit store shelv...
  60. As the Spanish-speaking TV audience grows exponentially, many viewers are seeing thei...
  61. Showbiz veteran and author Aleshia Brevard tells how she blazed her own trail from ma...
  62. BSA gets local government support after nonprofits reject its ban on gays Immediate...
  63. Lutherans in Northern California openly defied their denomination February 18 by orda...
  64. WITHOUT A DOUBT, Spain's Pedro Almodovar remains the pioneer and prince among filmmak...
  65. Christine Jorgensen: A Personal Autobiography * Introduction by Susan Stryker * Cleis...
  66. A 20-year-old freshman at Washington, D.C.'s Gallaudet University confessed February ...
  67. DIED: Marge Jacques, 66, pioneering Las Vegas gay activist and nightclub owner, of ca...
  68. The U.S. market for Spanish-language television is exploding, and early signs are tha...
  69. It's an epidemic of startling proportions, a dramatic die-off that threatens the futu...
  70. Once champions of the rights of same-sex couples, former E*TRADE president Kathy Levi...
  71. Cruising for couples Many of us spend tons of time looking for love online. So it's n...
  72. Founded just months ago on National Coming Out Day, this high-powered coalition of ga...
  73. In a highly unusual announcement from a royal court--even in the Netherlands--Prince ...
  74. From the Archives of The Advocate Gay Latinos are making great strides in Hollywood...
  75. Which contenders merit gay and lesbian accolades? Pickings may seem slim, but The Adv...
  76. Jim Kolbe, the only openly gay Republican in Congress, may be shifting his focus from...
  77. ONE OF THE BEST FILMS of 2001 is guaranteed not to get any Oscar nominations--because...
  78. E! preshow divas Joan and Melissa Rivers offer their own gay guide to the party I'm...
  79. After everyone from Lynne Cheney to Melissa Etheridge weighed in on the February 21 E...
  80. IN A FEBRUARY EPISODE of the Lifetime series Division, San Francisco homicide detecti...
  81. Reminders that Mary Cheney is "with her partner" make the word partner sound less dom...
  82. Judy, now and then I have been down all week with the flu and bronchitis. My dogs n...
  83. After surviving a confirmation hearing punctuated throughout by allegations of bigotr...
  84. MACKENZIE ASTIN will be popping up on First Years, the NBC mid-season dramedy (premie...
  85. Tobias Schneebaum twice left his New York home to live and love with primitive people...
  86. ADVOCATE POLL SPONSORED BY SAAB In the February 27 issue, readers were asked: D...
  87. Terry McAuliffe includes gays and lesbians in his plans to restore the Democratic Par...
  88. Republican RICH TAFEL and Democrat CINDY JORDAN discuss gay party politics during the...
  89. Film director Tommy O'Haver--whose future camp classic Get Over It has just opened--p...
  90. If you want to get along in Hollywood, first you need to believe that straight men ac...
  91. It's been dubbed the Judy Garland gene, the show tune gene, even the queen gene. What...
  92. For gays and lesbians from Latin America, coming out often means joining the sexual m...
  93. I Fell in Love With a Dead Boy EP * Antony and the Johnsons * Durtro/World Serpent Di...
  94. "Men and women rock my world. I'll let you know when I'm 90 what my decision is." -...
  95. Jeremy Marks, the leader of Courage, one of the United Kingdom's largest "ex-gay" min...
  96. There would have been a high-tech revolution without gays and lesbians, but it wouldn...
  97. The girlfriend of a woman killed by an attack dog fights back against the owners, who...
  98. ANNOUNCED: By lesbian Massachusetts state senator Cheryl Jacques, her intention to ru...
  99. Melding Will & Grace with The Odd Couple, CBS has crafted a new sitcom from the gay i...
  100. As many as 30% of young gay black men in the United States, ages 23 to 29, are HIV-po...
  101. Hot Web site WARNING Shoe International, a new lesbian community site produced in...
  102. I've just returned from a meeting of the National Association of Openly Gay Station O...
  103. Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Montreal have announced their desire to host the 2...
  104. With the March 13 DVD release of the now-classic camp British television show Absolut...
  105. When out TV talk-show host Graham Norton camps it up with the likes of Joan Collins a...
  106. Was Stanley Lingar executed because he was gay? That's what some activists think. Lin...
  107. LEE MACDOUGALL HAS STRUCK GOLD--ABBA gold. The gay Canadian actor never owned an ABBA...
  108. Kathy Najimy, the famously gay-friendly comic, talks about her own bisexuality, the c...
  109. When Alicia Pedreira started work at the Kentucky Baptist Homes for Children in 1998,...
  110. FANS OF THE MOLE, ABCs entry in the reality TV wars, might have pegged contestant Jen...
  111. The Play About the Baby * Written by Edward Albee * Directed by David Esbjornson * St...
  112. If you're puzzled about the White House policy on HIV and AIDS, you're not alone. It ...
  113. SHE MAY HAVE SMOOCHED Lucy Liu on Ally McBeal, but now Calista Flockhart has a full-o...
  114. Southern Comfort * Directed by Kate Davis * Starring Robert Eads and Lola Cola * Q-Ba...
  115. Hope springs eternal My "friend" Phil and I, who live in the heart of America, also...
  116. A gay man discusses the Air Force's efforts to make him pay over $70,000 for coming o...
  117. Will gay Republican's support for the party come at the expense of gay rights? The ...
  118. Finally, an '80s revival we can all get behind--gay Book of Love member Ted Ottaviano...
  119. SPONSORED BY SAAB From the February 13 issue: Do you think that a strategy of try...
  120. Pioneers of the new economy are leading the financial way in the search for an AIDS v...
  121. The life of Wanda Jean Allen, the first black woman executed in the U.S. since 1954, ...
  122. Paul Lussier tells how he unearthed the queer origins of the American Revolution for ...
  123. Sometimes making gay movies is like being a sexual anthropologist. While I was filmin...
  124. The nascent Triangle Television Network, formerly the Gay Television Network, appears...
  125. Lesbian Kate Hutton is the face you'll see on TV when you feel the earth move under y...
  126. I feel numb and bereft. Just like I have felt many times in the past eight years of C...
  127. After finding what they called a loophole in Canadian law, two same-sex couples--one ...
  128. Mythology and iconography go hand in hand, especially when it comes to gay men and le...
  129. The Washington establishment's appallingly passive reaction immediately after George ...
  130. Her husband says he has two left feet--he drags both of them when it comes to appoint...
  131. Ricky Martin's latest moves suggest his sexually ambiguous days may be numbered HAS...
  132. Political comic Kate Clinton has been skewering presidents for 20 years--and she's ju...
  133. A series of five stabbings in a gay cruising area in Brooklyn's Prospect Park has sen...
  134. Gay groups, used to political access, try to cope with a different political reality ...
  135. On the eve of the Grammys, writer Doug Wright (Quills) And GLAAD's Romaine Patterson ...
  136. In a family way How great to have Brooke Shields on your cover for the second year ...
  137. A former high school student in Visalia, Calif., who says he was removed from his sch...
  138. The execution of a lesbian raises tough questions about the death penalty On the ev...
  139. Reader comments from www.advocate.com * "I've raised my 15-year-old son as a single...
  140. Michelle Benecke takes a much-deserved break after seven years leading the charge aga...
  141. IN HER FIRST GAY PRESS INTERVIEW, JUDY DAVIS TALKS ABOUT CHANNELING JUDY GARLAND'S TA...
  142. The White Party 2000 DJ David Knapp Centaur Entertainment DJ mixes on CD--those non...
  143. Ten years ago this month I came out of the closet. I was a second-year student at Har...
  144. Aiming to provide better substance abuse treatment for gay patients, the federal gove...
  145. Everyone I've spoken to who has seen the film Billy Elliot has in some way been moved...
  146. Global Groove: Mask DJ Mark Macewan Centaur Entertainment DJ mixes on CD--those non...
  147. "I'm a raving Republican and a Christian.... [Today's movies are] all nudity and peop...
  148. The far right group Focus on the Family has slapped a federal lawsuit on a Florida tr...
  149. Is The Full Montya political play? According to showstopper Andre De Shields, the mus...
  150. Lazy Dog: Deep House Music * Mixed by Ben Watt and Jay Hannan * Astralwerks DJ mixe...
  151. Amid the pomp and circumstance of Inauguration Day, the vice president's low-profile ...
  152. Former Wisconsin governor Tommy Thompson is far from being one of George W. Bush's mo...
  153. Currently directing a play about Noel Coward and the closet, Urbania actor Dan Futter...
  154. Dancing in the Alvin Ailey company Was once a dream for Vernard J. Gilmore, Now he's ...
  155. When members of Dallas's predominantly gay and lesbian White Rock Community Church hi...
  156. ADDED: Gays, lesbians, and unmarried couples to the groups covered by the nondiscrimi...
  157. The Spooky Dog gang uncovers the sexual subtext of Saturday morning cartoons in their...
  158. Alice Walker's daughter, Rebecca Walker, talks about growing up as a multiracial "Mov...
  159. The Bush administration is expected to oppose federal gay rights legislation. But con...
  160. Comic relief Archie and Jughead are the latest in a string of celebrities to come o...
  161. Boycott, HBO's movie about the beginnings of the civil rights movement, also gives lo...
  162. Meet the parents Gay dad Jon Galluccio recalls his first days with son Adam and the...
  163. British theater star Bette Bourne talks about portraying the gloriously out Quentin C...
  164. Ken Burns Jazz: The Story of America's Music * Columbia/Legacy and Verve * $59.98 (5-...
  165. More than 43,000 women will die of breast cancer this year--a disproportionate number...
  166. Concern over an illegal alien she harbored in her home caused Linda Chavez to remove ...
  167. The Stately Homo: A Celebration of the Life of Quentin Crisp * Edited by Paul Bailey ...
  168. Jazz: A History of America's Music * Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns * Knopf * 490 pag...
  169. CALL IT AN UNHOLY UNION--lesbian TV pioneer Ellen DeGeneres joins Will & Grace on Feb...
  170. Brian Bennett says he is proof the president won't exclude gay people from his admini...
  171. Frasier scribe Chuck Ranberg's gay ensemble play may feature sitcom writing, but it's...
  172. Gay singer-songwriter Dave Hall talks about writing music that speaks to the whole co...
  173. DIED: Dorrwin Buck Jones, 66, member of the pioneering Mattachine Society, of heart f...
  174. The Boy Scouts of America has barred gay people from joining their troops, and now Re...
  175. A new gay coming-of-age film from Spain nails the awkwardness of adolescence just rig...
  176. The Gossip's lead singer, out punk teen Beth Ditto, talks about the band's whirlwind ...
  177. Children have always had a natural affinity for Keith Haring's quirky art and charact...
  178. MTV's decision to run a 17-hour scroll of hate crimes and their victims in place of r...
  179. A look behind the Barbi twins' glossy image finds two tomboys with a lesbian mom and ...
  180. In anticipation of the ABC-TV movie, test your knowledge about These Old Broads In ...
  181. * Composed by Aaron Copland * Performed by the Eos Orchestra, conducted by Jonathan S...
  182. Ethan Cordova has made building gay fraternities his life's work, And in a life that'...
  183. * "I fell that a majority of people are reasonable and do not want to overtly or asse...
  184. Universities--and their gay students--hit pay dirt, thanks to several philanthropy-mi...
  185. DOES JANET JACKSON LIKE GIRLS? The 34-year-old singer says she's straight--but her es...
  186. A young Kansas City, Mo., couple married their entrepreneurial spirit with a mission ...
  187. I so depend on Iris to supplement my weaknesses that I consider it a waste of time to...
  188. With George W. Bush in the White House and Republicans in control of Congress, STEVE ...
  189. OH, THAT ANTONIO Banderas--is there a hunkier straight actor in Hollywood who's more ...
  190. Despite four days of protest outside the Vatican, 24 U.S. delegates associated with t...
  191. "It was about as sexual as being in a doctor's office and turning your head and cough...
  192. Here's my contribution to an election in which the humor that's been generated may be...
  193. Even if President Bush applies "don't ask, don't tell" to all gay and lesbian issues,...
  194. In an exclusive interview, James Hormel provides a behind-the-scenes account of his f...
  195. Officials in Traverse City, Mich., hoped to show that they embrace diversity when the...
  196. A new exhibition of the late Keith Haring's works inspired by the pounding music of t...
  197. People always ask me about homophobia in Hollywood. I can tell them about homophobia ...
  198. If you're planning a commitment ceremony (or "civil union," as they're known in Vermo...