Stories Collection

  1. I want to echo the unpleasant experience described by a reader [Postcards, March/Apri...
  2. Advocate news features editor Chad Graham has an idea on how to help you track the wo...
  3. Romania's antidiscrimination board ruled that TAROM, the country's state-owned airlin...
  4. Doubt * Written by John Patrick Shanley Directed by Claudia Weill (Pasadena); Doug Hu...
  5. American Medical Association president John Nelson caused a stir in February by defen...
  6. Bombay is the city of dreams, goes the commonly tossed line that was probably coined ...
  7. Moby is a tough guy to label. Culturally, says the heterosexual born-again Christian,...
  8. Being gay is illegal in Saudi Arabia, but it won't get you beheaded. Killing someone ...
  9. For the last several years we've traveled the world looking for an ideal retirement l...
  10. LOOK OUT, Jack and Carson, there's a new kind of queer on the tube--the gay tough guy...
  11. After a coterie of queers crashed Walt Disney World in 1991, a red-T-shirt-wearing cr...
  12. Isherwood: A Life Revealed By Peter Parker Random House, $39.95 Weighing in at 2 po...
  13. I took my boyfriend to New Orleans for the first time during Southern Decadence, a La...
  14. On Tegan and Sara's latest album, So Jealous (Vapor/ Sanctuary), the Quin twins have ...
  15. There's a scene in Eating Out, a sweetly raunchy indie gay sex comedy currently worki...
  16. What courage! What dedication! What love! Tammy Lynn Michaels's interview was touchin...
  17. REINTRODUCED: The Federal Marriage Amendment, as the Defense of Marriage Amendment, a...
  18. Your Editor's Letter ["The End of Exploitation," March/April 2005] was the ...
  19. Q I've just started learning Spanish and I want to go abroad to Spain or a arm Americ...
  20. In March of 1962 reigning boxing champ Emile Griffith was set for a rematch with Benn...
  21. Lesbians have never flocked to gay men's--Style bathhouses, but North American dykes ...
  22. Forget what you think you know about self-conscious straight women who keep track of ...
  23. Los Angeles, Calif. After 67 years in existence as one of the nation's oldest conti...
  24. When teenage Maia Sharp wanted to practice saxophone licks, she'd cue up an album by ...
  25. Thank you for your recent profile of the Human Rights Campaign by correspondent Sarah...
  26. RESIGNED: Ella LaPointe, as executive director of Project Inform, a San Francisco-bas...
  27. In Goods to Go in the March/April issue, the price of the Zodiac Desert Master watch ...
  28. Why men of a certain frame and body-hair count are coming out of hibernation: Bear Pr...
  29. APPOINTED: Judith Appel, an attorney and longtime activist, as executive director of ...
  30. INVITED to perform by an AIDS fund-raiser, pop duo and offstage couple Jason & de...
  31. "I hate breaking the law," moans New York-based writer Craig Lucas about ta...
  32. "You don't go to a Caribbean island for a gay vacation." Period. So warns t...
  33. In Mike Hudson's article "Gay Marriage Inc." [March 29] he writes, "Ga...
  34. SENTENCED: Guadalupe Camarena, 34, a transgender woman from Houston, to five years in...
  35. "There is absolutely nothing half so worth doing as simply messing about in boat...
  36. When Lt. Col. Allen Bishop went to a symposium on the military's "don't ask, don...
  37. Hans Christian Andersen didn't just invent the postmodern fairy tale (that starts out...
  38. In a recent episode of the NBC drama series The West Wing, characters portrayed by Ma...
  39. In your March 29 sidebar "To Give Is Better" in the "Debt & Taxes&...
  40. I've always been the lovesick boy who just wanted someone to show affection for. And ...
  41. Forget the Castro, Chelsea and WeHo. Certified gay enclaves (we won't call them ghett...
  42. 1) DVD-L300 comes equipped with a letterbox eliminator, picture CD viewer, and 10-inc...
  43. "As for the stories of boyfriends at hair salons, Tommy Mottola management deals...
  44. Jake Shears, the 26-year-old lead singer of Scissor Sisters, whose hometown is Seattl...
  45. "Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belong...
  46. I'm glad someone finally put into words what I've been thinking ever since I became a...
  47. Los Angeles activist Vallerie D. Wagner knew veteran GLBT leader Wanda Alston (left) ...
  48. To paraphrase queer bard Walt Whitman, "After exhausting what there is in busine...
  49. It's sinful enough that local gays and lesbians march in an annual gay pride parade t...
  50. My mom always taught me to be honest, especially with myself. So by my junior year at...
  51. I Am a Bird Now * Antony and the Johnsons * Secretly Canadian The new album by perf...
  52. In the Rants & Raves section of the March 15 issue, you attributed the quote &quo...
  53. Gay men are responsible for two of the best shows running in Las Vegas: Elton John, f...
  54. Many of today's AIDS activists are taking on the role of "sex police," as r...
  55. With AIDS diagnoses on the rise, more gay men having unsafe sex, and a potentially ne...
  56. Double Standards * Lea DeLaria * Telarc It's no secret by now that Lea DeLaria, the...
  57. I love Bruce Vilanch's columns, but he's missed an important aspect of the "lesb...
  58. At press time, John Travolta was rumored to be the lead candidate to play Edna Turnbl...
  59. Santa Fe, N.M., has long been considered one of the nation s safest places for gays a...
  60. OSCAR watchers who found this year's ceremony a little snoozy should have been backst...
  61. Gender may have a lot more to do with the inside of your brain than the outside of yo...
  62. I admired Beautiful Boxer ["Man Enough to Be a Woman," March 15]. Ekachai U...
  63. We already loved Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry for her talent, beauty, and philan...
  64. BY JUNE you'll find a RuPaul Doll on a shelf right next to Barbie and G.I. Joe, stand...
  65. When Guadalupe Benitez had trouble getting pregnant, she and her partner, Joanne Clar...
  66. Girl Play * Starring Robin Greenspan and Lacie Harmon * Based on Real Girls by Greens...
  67. The truth behind the likes of Lou Sheldon, Pat Robertson, and others is to make thems...
  68. The revival of Steel Magnolias at New York's Lyceum Theater promises a welcome contra...
  69. I want to adopt a child, an Indian girl. Having been one myself, I feel uniquely posi...
  70. San Diego, Calif. The San Diego County Office of Education on March 2 announced the...
  71. Struggling with his gay sexual orientation several years ago, Aaron Cloward sought he...
  72. Romance * Written by David Mamet * Directed by Neil Pepe * Starring Bob Balaban, Larr...
  73. "She's a Pottery Barn lesbian." --Boy George on Rosie O'Donnell, in his n...
  74. A Pro-gay radio ad campaign currently airing in 15 Mexican cities is part of a govern...
  75. From the liberal cocoon of Washington, D.C., while sipping cocktails on the terrace o...
  76. Struggling with his gay sexual orientation several years ago, Aaron Cloward sought he...
  77. Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives have touted their February passage of ...
  78. Altar Boyz * Conceived by Marc Kessler and Ken Davenport * Score by Gary Adler and Mi...
  79. Can you imagine being made the face of homophobia? That's what happened to Rick Rayme...
  80. I was 14 when I first saw Michael Hutchence's buns slide across the screen in INXS's ...
  81. Imagine it's 1998 and Bill Clinton is still our president. A White House "report...
  82. I won't hold it against Marcia Cross for being straight ["Marcia Cross: Desperat...
  83. On April 11, longtime Washington insider Joe Solmonese takes over as president of the...
  84. When was the official birth of the modern gay rights movement? Some say it came with ...
  85. The long and heated battle between homophobic reggae artists and gay activists appear...
  86. Thank you for your article "Invisible No More" [March 15]. For the record I...
  87. DIED: Richard Mitchell Trelease Jr., 83, a retired bishop for New Mexico's Episcopal ...
  88. Even in the hometown of the nation's most notorious antigay crusader, people support ...
  89. For 32 years Michael Levine considered himself lucky. The gay radio systems manager w...
  90. Walt Whitman's message needs to be heard," says out jazz pianist and composer Fr...
  91. I would like to make some clarifications regarding your article "Not on Gay Road...
  92. American Julie A. Weisberg lived two years in Canada and was tempted to stay to marry...
  93. Images of naked lesbians were apparently too much for one state lawmaker in Brooklyn,...
  94. If it's OK for some campus groups to discriminate against students based on their lev...
  95. Nineteen-year-old Eagle Scout Gary Hirte admitted he murdered Glenn Kopitske, a 37-ye...
  96. If Margaret Cho is going to give me advice on our government, perhaps she'd like some...
  97. New Yorker Dougall Fraser is one of the nation's top psychic counselors, and he's als...
  98. I was fascinated by your recent article concerning Stacy Codikow and the lesbian film...
  99. A state senate committee on February 16 rejected a bill that would have required soci...
  100. A legal name change for Tom Murphy, a member of the Rapid City, S.D., city council wh...
  101. That's awesome!" says Matthew Fox, laughing, when he's informed that gay audienc...
  102. It's one of the more panic-inducing screen sequences in memory: In a hospital morgue,...
  103. "IN THE fourth grade my best friend and I decided we'd be private investigators ...
  104. A certain kind of op-ed has started to crop up in local gay magazines. The author is ...
  105. Thank you, Andrew Sullivan, for a positive discussion of C.A. Tripp's book about Abra...
  106. Democratic U.S. representative Marty Meehan of Massachusetts was to introduce on Marc...
  107. When the United Kingdom's Civil Partnerships Law takes effect at the end of this year...
  108. Mikel Wadewitz, 31, former features editor for the Los Angeles-based Frontiers Newsma...
  109. The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth thing is so last year. The latest group to rock the...
  110. "He's going to turn more straight guys gay than you can imagine." --John ...
  111. Gay couple Lynn and Alex (left) are among the sprinters in CBS's current Amazing Race...
  112. Is the Human Rights Campaign an effective advocate for gay and lesbian equality? Si...
  113. The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee * Music and lyrics by William Finn * Book ...
  114. On an unseasonably warm night in February, some of the East Coast's wealthiest gay me...
  115. Last June, Brian Williamson, a founding member of Jamaica's only gay rights organizat...
  116. Advocate.com commentator Karel (left) has uncovered the gay agenda, and it bears a re...
  117. Recent news of a new HIV "super strain" that quickly develops into AIDS bro...
  118. Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney can't stress enough how opposed he is to same-sex ...
  119. High school counselors in Indiana are ready and willing to counsel gay and lesbian te...
  120. Peter Cottontail's daughter--new a mother of 1,200--has a few words for U.S. Secretar...
  121. Were standing in the bedroom of Tammy Lynn Michaels and Melissa Etheridge. "This...
  122. Five Quarts: A Personal and Natural History of Blood * Bill Hayes * Ballantine * $2...
  123. When Corvallis, Ore., resident Lisa Wells returned from a trip to Europe and displaye...
  124. Last year The Advocate provided some encouragement to lesbians with a report on the d...
  125. In this issue The Advocate begins a series of in-depth reports on national gay rights...
  126. Beautiful Inez * Bart Schneider * Shaye Areheart * $24 Inez Roseman was a child p...
  127. I was hanging out with my friend Carl a few weeks ago. He was on the phone with a new...
  128. For a growing segment of GLBT bears and bulls, the cost of investing in a company the...
  129. The First Amendment protects the right of people to distribute literature. But that d...
  130. Doctors have long warned that gay men are at higher risk of contracting hepatitis are...
  131. The owner of a company called Progressive Ventures stopped the presses on Reichen Leh...
  132. Boys and girls, prepare to discard any preconceived notions about "lesbian film&...
  133. On the surface it seems like a good idea. Gay couples want legal benefits--and can't ...
  134. If more men, straight and gay, thought like Peter Sarsgaard, the world would be a muc...
  135. As president of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary in New Jersey, the Reverend No...
  136. Defending the right of gays to be who they are doesn't stop at the gates to the wild ...
  137. Can a gay antiwar activist feel sympathy for 22-year-old Cameron, "bound for Bag...
  138. When Maryland transgender inmate Deirdre "Dee" Farmer was raped in a federa...
  139. Maria Plasenda, 46, a former National Stonewall Democrats board member and longtime g...
  140. Maybe Eytan Fox's shrink should get a story credit for the gay Israeli director's lat...
  141. The day I came out started like any other day: I was waiting for the bus that would t...
  142. Whoopee! Gals, do not worry if you get an IRS audit! Just plead the "Summers Rat...
  143. As an out lesbian fire chief of a small-town volunteer fire department, I was pleased...
  144. The University of Wisconsin board of regents on February 10 added "gender identi...
  145. Officials at Rutgers University ordered popular food trucks on its College Avenue cam...
  146. AT FEBRUARY'S Berlin Film Festival, George Michael finally came clean about his past'...
  147. If singer-songwriter Mary Gauthier ever tires of malting music, she can always sell h...
  148. After 23 years together, New York City couple Jo-Ann Shain and May Jo Kennedy say it'...
  149. On the same day last month, New York mayor Michael Bloomberg said he would appeal a c...
  150. "I'm the type, if I see something, I tackle it," says classical musician An...
  151. Student Sabrina Audrey Jess's play Offsides had a modest two-day run at Stone Bridge ...
  152. PFLAG has launched a lab ad campaign featuring celebs including Ben Affleck, Cyndi La...
  153. THE O.C. used to be one of The Buzz's fave shows. The first season reinvented the tee...
  154. Recently a group of black pastors held a press conference in Los Angeles to kick off ...
  155. Thank you for your story "Gay in the Red States" [February 15]. Like many o...
  156. Apparently gay doesn't play in Peoria. In nearby Marquette Heights, Ill., residents w...
  157. In a world where being part of the "liberal left-wing media" is sometimes p...
  158. Is this the end to a high-profile battle against homophobic reggae stars like Beenie ...
  159. Cinema historians will be thrilled to know there is finally an exit line to top Orson...
  160. I was in fifth grade. Dad was preparing lunch, and I was in the living room, flipping...
  161. My soul collapsed into tears as I tried three limes to finish Andrew NiCastro's and P...
  162. One year after mayors Jason West of New Paltz, N.Y., and Gavin Newsom of San Francisc...
  163. Last summer Alan Keyes, the far-right Republican known for his particularly harsh bra...
  164. Boise, Idaho A proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage and civil unions wa...
  165. Thai filmmaker Ekachai Uekrongtham says that if he had invented the story of world fa...
  166. A little objective research would have informed writer Todd Henneman that it was Mont...
  167. Many health care professionals have argued that a recent spike in syphilis is the res...
  168. What do you get when you cross screwball comedy with philosophy? David O. Russell's c...
  169. While Andy Wong has gotten over what he calls "the biggest mistake of my life&qu...
  170. A recent national survey provided a rare look at the attitudes and experiences teenag...
  171. Scott Elliott, the gay artistic director of the New Group, specializes in staging sma...
  172. Fighting for a communist Philippines apparently means fighting for the rights of ever...
  173. Harry Starks is your typical successful gangster in '60s London--smart about business...
  174. There may have been a national backlash against the Massachusetts supreme judicial co...
  175. Regarding Moriegh Wolf's disillusionment with the Peace Corps ["No Queers Need V...
  176. DIED: Harley Baldwin, 59, a gay real estate developer and art dealer who helped trans...
  177. Troubled gay youths seeking support from their local crisis hotline may discover that...
  178. If you're a theater maven worth your salt, you're always after the scoop on which tic...
  179. GAY CORPORATE LEADERS From coming out to frisky clients, to attracting gay consumer...
  180. With respect to your article supporting the assertion that Abraham Lincoln was gay [&...
  181. Name: Kyle Drewes Age: 15 Home state: California As a ninth-grade student at my...
  182. While we look at the struggles faced by gay Asian-Americans in the current issue of T...
  183. SPECIAL BONUS: The part of the posting that was true! In case you were confused by ...
  184. At the December board meeting of the Liberty City Democratic Club, the directors acce...
  185. When ABC's Wife Swap put a mean-spirited conservative Christian mom into a lesbian-le...
  186. HERE'S a reality: Scripted TV is back, and gay writers are making it happen. Or so sa...
  187. When Focus on the Family founder James Dobson raised a ruckus in January about Sponge...
  188. "I'm pregnant with her baby!" --Kristin Davis, while walking the red carp...
  189. The Advocate's online diarist, high school junior Paige Palmer, finally achieved one ...
  190. In 1851 the famed diva Jenny Lind, known as the Swedish Nightingale, sang at the Acad...
  191. Fiddler on the Roof * Book by Joseph Stein * Music by Jerry Bock * Lyrics by Sheldo...
  192. Gay Mayor: John Shields Town: Nyack, N.Y. Why Bother? Rosie O'Donnell lives here ...