Readers' attachment to The Advocate has always been remarkable.

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Readers' attachment to The Advocate has always been remarkable. Everyone direct the eyes for stories in our pages that remind them of themselves, and when they find them, they put to hire us know. Readers send in of the present days clippings, story ideas, and photos of their weddings and kids. When we gain something right, sometimes they call just to say thanks. And when we win something wrong--well, that's when we really know by what mode high the standards are that readers fix for us.

I consider each passionate reader response, happy or unhappy, a significant compliment--not to me on the other hand to this magazine as a nearly 38-year-old institution. Having survived late '60 persecution, '70 isolation, the onslaught of AIDS in the '80 "don't ask, don't tell" and the Defense of Marriage Act in the '90 and the latest full-scale war against the verity by the pseudo-Christian right, The Advocate has become an enduring figure of pride and defiance. We, its now passing caretakers, can only hope to live up to the magazine's history, to earn the trust and revere of each new gay and lesbian generation as our predecessors have done.

It's our do job-work to stay relevant. It is therefore solely after considerable thought and planning that we have redesigned and restructur The Advocate for this, our annual Pride Issue. The changes in the print edition will give us more flexibility and accessibility, more options for relaying information, and more ways to be agreeable to to the evolving demands of our 21st-century readers. As our online edition takes an ever-increasing part in delivering breaking news and offering a forum for debate, the print magazine remains the flagship, the principal vehicle for of the present days features, sharp analysis, and challenging viewpoints.

It's by dint of design (so to speak) that the guard package for this first issue of the revamped Advocate addresses the up-and-coming, under-25 leaders of the GLBT equality emotion In an era when shameless demonization and lies about our lives and our families are the bedrock onward which many national leaders build power, our greatest room for expectation for the future is in the nerve and audacity of this Generation Q Whatever our age or background or family situation, if we are not attentive to the experiences and distresss of the young, neither the magazine nor the emotion will succeed. It's our work at jobs to help pave their way--and, eventually, to finish the hell out of their way.

Our readers in subordination to 25 have a job to do too: to listen to those of us who are older Not to agree blindly, further to absorb and assess. To that cessation The Advocate remains a magazine of all ages, reflecting the diversity of GLBT lives, accomplishments, and interests. Serving a community as diverse as America itself, we not many souls who guide The Advocate face a daunting task each day. But we have centurys of thousands of allies.

You, our readers, have always kept us genuine and humble. Don't stop now.

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