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  1. John Duran, mayor of West Hollywood, Calif., as the president of the board of directo...
  2. Wonderfalls: The Complete Viewer Collection * Fox Home Entertainment * $39.95 Criti...
  3. We erroneously labeled Christine Mansfield's photo in "The World's Great Gay Che...
  4. There's a little town on Spain's sunny Mediterranean coast that most American homosex...
  5. To understand Peter Sarsgaard's attitude about sex on the screen, look no further tha...
  6. Move over, Tinky Winky and SpongeBob. There's a new threat to American schoolchildren...
  7. Pssst. Abraham Lincoln was almost certainly gay. Did you know that? No, we have no st...
  8. I've never thought of myself as a trekker. Trekkers, I've 'always assumed, are peop...
  9. Allan Gurganus should use discretion when accusing others of moral cowardice ["N...
  10. Do the lesbians on The L Word and Queer Eye for the Straight Girl remind you more of ...
  11. I applaud you for covering the spiritual side of the human person in "Retreat Yo...
  12. The Washington, D.C. City Council recently voted to build a new baseball stadium in t...
  13. TAURUS April 21-May 21 That brief journey back to the closet in early March may make ...
  14. A THOUGHTLESS Madonna, South Park creators in drag, and sexual innuendo courtesy of C...
  15. I recently heard that in Bali tourists are sold tickets to funerals. As soon as someo...
  16. I first heard of the Dinah Shore golf tournament in the early 1980s from filmmaker Do...
  17. How refreshing to see The Advocate use the words lover ["Decorating as Fast as H...
  18. Bonnie Bleskachek likes to say the "universe has taken care of me all these year...
  19. How does a young gay man find a peer group? Former Amazing Race contestant Andrew Hyd...
  20. One of your articles [Travel Queeries] in the january/February 2005 issue states that...
  21. I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly w...
  22. October 2004--Tianzhi Shu was floating down the Seine when he snapped this shot of th...
  23. Q My partner and I (58 and 65) are thinking about emigrating, from the United States ...
  24. I was a season 1 watcher of The L Word ["Welcome Back to L World," February...
  25. The article "Raising the Profile of Depression" (February 1) incorrectly de...
  26. Ending months of speculation about whether Viacom's planned all-gay basic-cable chann...
  27. Want to know what queer indie movies to look forward to in 2005? Get the scoop on Mys...
  28. I just wanted to thank T. Cole Rachel for his wonderful piece about Oklahoma ['Privat...
  29. 1. Desert Master, with city listings around face and blue crocodile band, $950, by Zo...
  30. I joined the Air Force at age 19, right after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. When I sign...
  31. When Edward Walsh lost his South Boston beach in 1978, he never imagined his future h...
  32. Istanbul (Gay Night Tour; 011-90-536-541-9492) Tour guide Mustafa K. takes visitors o...
  33. I am a FedEx Ground driver in Phoenix. It does not surprise me that FedEx discriminat...
  34. Shortly before U.S. senator Wayne Allard said in January that he would reintroduce a ...
  35. Legal marriage is a reality for thousands of gay and lesbian couples living in Massac...
  36. "I'm drowning in serious questions," says a laughing Tori Amos, the innovat...
  37. Nice january/February 2005 issue. However, I was sadly disappointed in your cover cho...
  38. "Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything," said ...
  39. I love Larry Kramer. More to the point, I respect him and am enormously grateful to h...
  40. Until the repeal of the United Kingdom's Section 28 law in 2003, taxpayer money could...
  41. Back when Stacy Codikow was a production assistant on Cagney & Lacey, she was alr...
  42. "If SpongeBob is gay, we want him to know he's not alone. The L.A. Gay and Lesbi...
  43. Boise, Idaho The gay rights group Your Family, Friends, and Neighbors on January 20...
  44. Stephanie Lloyd--formerly Keith Hull--has founded what is now affectionately known in...
  45. I congratulate you on the excellent My Perspective by John Corvino in your February 1...
  46. In 2003, Wal-Mart, the nation's largest private employer, was praised by gay rights g...
  47. With innumerable articles and e-mails assessing what our next steps should be after t...
  48. I am very pleased with your magazine. it provides rich history and intellectual stimu...
  49. (1) Brumisateur mineral water spray heLps relieve dry skin in high altitudes, $15 (se...
  50. Faggot. Queer. Homo. White walls stained Fred with ink--the words were everywhere. I ...
  51. This year's Hollywood issue isn't the first time Peter Sarsgaard and Hilary Swank, wh...
  52. It begins as love always does. A casual glance, a smile on the edge of the mouth, tha...
  53. Next time your mind is adrift in a travel dead zone--security lines, waiting lounges,...
  54. Thank you for running the article "One Church's Crusade," about the United ...
  55. At the Museum of Creation, opening soon in northern Kentucky, visitors will not only ...
  56. John Logan, a genial 43-year-old with a face like the map of Ireland, may not look ga...
  57. I just finished reading the piece on gay travel to Japan and could not be a greater w...
  58. Judging from global displays of hetero male-male affection, at times it may seem to t...
  59. WHEN Law & Order's assistant district attorney Serena Southerlyn (Elisabeth Rohm)...
  60. The slim moon slides over the horizon, and as we pull away from the bright lights of ...
  61. Congratulations to Andrew Chirls on his appointment as chancellor of Philadelphia's b...
  62. Joan Garry, executive director of the flay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, e...
  63. Few industry watchers remember, but before Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese fixe...
  64. Lucy Jane Bledsoe's article on Antarctica [January/February 2005] was romantic poetry...
  65. The Quince Seed Potion By Morteza Baharloo Bridge Works, $23.95 "Travel is fat...
  66. As Washington lawmakers ready to hash out the country's budget for 2006, the Bush adm...
  67. With both chambers of Congress and the White "House firmly in conservative Repub...
  68. "Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or mo...
  69. When Hilary Swank was preparing for her role in Million Dollar Baby--the award-winnin...
  70. Confessor: Christopher Allegra Location: Las Vegas Favorite industry films: Casino, V...
  71. Props to Alec Mapa for his column "Standing My Gay Ground" [Minority Retort...
  72. Jody Michael Huckaby, former head of New Mexico AIDS Services, as executive director ...
  73. While gay auteurs Bill Condon (Kinsey) and Pedro Almodovar (Bad Education) find thems...
  74. The commentary next to a beach scene in your "Latino Travels" piece [Januar...
  75. Two years ago, Krista Nicolls's middle child, Steven, walked into her bedroom in the ...
  76. He has been dead for over 20 years, but Klaus Nomi may turn out to be the hottest gay...
  77. Small Mediums at Large * Terry Iacuzzo * Putnam * $22.95 In her adolescence Terry I...
  78. Michigan did not erase DP benefits for state employees [Letter From the Editor in Chi...
  79. Now that antigay forces have gained momentum in banning same-sex marriage in states a...
  80. RESIGNED: Renee Gilinger, 30, as cochair of Philadelphia's Liberty City Lesbian and G...
  81. When Washington attorney and political activist Bob Kabel was elected chair of the D....
  82. UNTIL YOU and your partner can legally say "I do," the Human Rights Campaig...
  83. International relief worker Kelly Darnell, an out lesbian from Santa Barbara, Calif.,...
  84. During a trip to Memphis, Tenn., last year with some friends from our home city of Al...
  85. "I have far more in common with Tevye than with Edna. I'm not a heterosexual wom...
  86. After more than a decade together my partner, Jamie, and I are still spontaneous peop...
  87. The Vatican says gay and lesbian relationships defy church teachings, so that logic m...
  88. When NYPD Blue comes to an end on March 1 after 12 seasons, Bill Brochtrup will end h...
  89. Bruce Steele's editorial refers to a crisis in the "Human Rights Campaign--our b...
  90. What do a crocodile, teenagers, and gay fathers have in common? They're all part of a...
  91. Has the gay bookstore industry become a victim of its own success? Citing increased c...
  92. My parents couldn't believe it when the principal of Trinity Christian Academy told t...
  93. The sweetest sourpuss we know, Bill Maher has often used his HBO political joust-and-...
  94. In December the Oklahoma Gay Rodeo Association's Christmas banquet was getting under ...
  95. I really enjoy reading your magazine; however, your January 18 issue has an error. Th...
  96. At a time when the federal government is being accused of distributing misinformation...
  97. SKECHERS MAY BE giving Birkenstocks a run for their money in the lesbian market, judg...
  98. Hoping to capitalize on the momentum from voters' passage last year of 13 state const...
  99. Quoting Martin Luther King and Susan B. Anthony, Cheryl Jacques argues that the curre...
  100. It's 11 P.M. at the Paradise Complex, a large cluster of gay venues and hotels in Pat...
  101. Every year when those chalky heart candies pop up at cash registers, where most peopl...
  102. Same-sex marriage reaches another milestone February 20 when The Simpsons (Fox) prese...
  103. My son was discharged from the Marine Corps for being HIV-positive. I myself am retir...
  104. With increasing financial support, the development of retirement housing for the coun...
  105. In July 2001, Capt. Monica Hill was just another Air Force physician on reserve duty....
  106. The divorce is final, and it's too late for reconciliation. The Federation of Gay Gam...
  107. APPOINTED: Toni Broaddus, a longtime gay activist from California, as the first execu...
  108. San Francisco, Calif. Mayor Gavin Newsom, who launched a high-profile crusade to is...
  109. "At long last," writes North Carolina's Ian Palmquist, cochair of the natio...
  110. Bored by the Grammys? Mortified by the American Music Awards? Then try doling out you...
  111. Recently I bought the debut album by the Scottish band Franz Ferdinand. Due solely to...
  112. Residents of Virginia might get to declare their opposition to same-sex marriage not ...
  113. Think that all of those controversial Internet outing, campaigns that rocked Washingt...
  114. Picture a 13-year-old kid washing dishes in the kitchen on a Sunday night in June. Su...
  115. For years I've been operating under the assumption that the Republicans are our enemy...
  116. APPOINTED: Michael Viola, a family law attorney, as cochair of the Pennsylvania Bar A...
  117. Israel's supreme court justices cautioned that their January 10 decision allowing a l...
  118. Long before they were generally referred to as "red states," the rural part...
  119. When I was first asked to write a piece for The Advocate about being a bisexual jocke...
  120. "The first time was really uncomfortable," admits Colton Ford. "You fe...
  121. The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln * C.A. Tripp * Free Press * $27 Was Lincoln g...
  122. Hoping to bring optimism to a gay rights movement still reeling from the results of s...
  123. REELECTED: Dan Baker, an openly gay Long Beach city councilman, as president of the I...
  124. OPINIONATED Web columnist and occasional Advocate contributor Anderson Jones (at left...
  125. Andrew's story In the middle of my life, I am surprised to discover that I am the b...
  126. You are so right, Bruce Steele. Ellen DeGeneres is making the world laugh, and yes, h...
  127. I was pleased to read your article about the national GLBT hotline ["A Phone Cal...
  128. Among those places hardest hit by the devastating tsunami caused by a massive earthqu...
  129. The L Word's out lesbian cast member, Leisha Halley, gave The Advocate her only press...
  130. In May a small group of friends and family gathered in Cambridge, Mass., to watch Joh...
  131. Harold and Maude--the cult classic 1971 film starring 70something Ruth Gordon and 20-...
  132. Despite the rejection of its pro-gay TV ad by networks CBS and NBC in late November, ...
  133. While the United States bans same-sex marriage state by state, the Canadian supreme c...
  134. I am not moving to Canada. Believe me, I thought about it. One of my best friends in ...
  135. When your first novel defines an entire generation, it's tricky, to say the least, to...
  136. It started off as a pleasant evening. I was visiting Austin while working on some wri...
  137. When they were teenagers, Olympic diver Greg Louganis and actor Chad Allen each lived...
  138. Long before The Advocate covered the hit Showtime series The L Word and long before t...
  139. Of all the unforgettable scenes during the first season of Showtime's The L Word--not...
  140. Listening to Shania Twain's Greatest Hits CD--complete with four new tracks--is like ...
  141. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: "My hairdresser and makeup artist got a little...
  142. A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed an alarm...
  143. IT'S UP, UP, and away to the queer-friendly Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah...
  144. You know it's a hit when the really cool names start clamoring to get into the credit...
  145. In the 10 years since classical guitarist Sharon Isbin came out publicly, she has won...
  146. Described by many as the "year of gay marriage" in the United States, 2004 ...
  147. It's all in a name. At least that was the case for a gay student group at New York Me...
  148. A consolation in the George W. Bush era: Roseanne Barr has cooked up a new stand-up s...
  149. No matter how you argue it, American TV fans are seeing a wider slice of lesbian life...
  150. Like all adolescents, gay or straight, Drew Daniel spent his teens establishing his i...
  151. Pvt. Federico Merida of the U.S. P National Guard was assigned to protect his fellow ...
  152. DIED: Joseph Hansen, 81, a mystery novelist known for creating fictional character Da...
  153. There are some things a woman doesn't want to talk about with a man, even her gay bes...
  154. The liner notes provide the first indication that Dayclear & First Dark, the seco...
  155. Los Angeles police sergeant Robert Duncan is getting more than $200,000 from the city...
  156. APPOINTED: Andrew A. Chiris, a Philadelphia attorney, as chancellor of the city's bar...
  157. Leroy "Roy" Aarons lived a distinguished journalism career--a journey that ...
  158. Planted firmly in the center of Lackawanna Blues--the film debut of preeminent theate...
  159. Until now, the gay African-American painter Beauford Delaney (1901-1979) may have bee...
  160. Jason Atwood was told he would have to ask his parents if he could bring his boyfrien...
  161. RESIGNED: Dave Noble, from his post as executive director for the gay political group...
  162. As one of the nation's first prominent gay conservatives, Boston radio talk-show host...
  163. Take 12 amateur clothing designers challenge them to create stunning catwalk-worthy f...
  164. With handsome cinematography and an intelligent script, this debut feature by Sascha ...
  165. Hooray that The Advocate decided to include New Paltz mayor Jason West, a Green Party...
  166. The Bush administration and Republican Senate majority leader Bill Frist have recentl...
  167. As a 21st-century openly gay teen, I Am like to think of myself as sophisticated. I e...
  168. Writer Susan Sontag died December 28 at age 71 after a long battle with cancer. She l...
  169. When Bryan Batt proclaims "I'm a firm believer in and, not or," he ain't ki...
  170. "Two and two are four." "Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. ...
  171. I was extremely disheartened to read Abner Mason's apologia for President Bush ["...
  172. In a scheduling snafu that angered many parents, a group of children arriving for an ...
  173. President Bush has promised to continue his battle against marriage equality and in f...
  174. A late-November episode of the ABC News program 20/20 about the killing of gay colleg...
  175. OPEN NOW CAROLINE, OR CHANGE San Francisco, Curran Theatre, January 14-February 2...
  176. "Every time the world gets in this shape, I do another show," quips Whoopi ...
  177. I knew it had to be a big boat. It had to have a strong engine to take us where we wa...
  178. Out actor Myles Herman was happy to appear in a TV ad for the United Church of Christ...
  179. (1) Caroline, or Change (pictured) and Only We Who Guard the Mystery Shall Be Unhappy...
  180. Not only did Survivor: Vanuatu include the show's first two out lesbians--sly, sexy A...
  181. (1) The Line of Beauty by Alan Hollinghurst. Called "almost perfectly written&qu...
  182. Two new films making the rounds of film festivals focus on often overlooked communiti...
  183. JANUARY 1--The Canadian edition of Time magazine picks Michael Stark and Michael Le...
  184. I am disappointed that The Advocate would publish an article that so roundly condemns...
  185. As the debate over same-sex unions engulfed the country this summer, Mary Bonauto sto...
  186. Can a little movie musical about real estate agents (including out actor Anthony Rapp...
  187. Bravo for your "Now What?" issue [December 7]. It saddens me to know that p...
  188. We're 15 minutes out from the start of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and the studio audie...
  189. "Rude vile pigs! Do you know what that means? Rude vile pigs--that's what all of...
  190. In the first two days of December, this was the news: Michigan erased all domestic-pa...
  191. I read the article on Europe and how easy it is to be gay in Europe, suggesting that ...
  192. Dry your eyes, Erasure, Village People, and Pansy Division fans, and fork over that c...
  193. Badrah, Iraq, May 20, 2003 I stand atop my vehicle with my weapon at the ready, balan...
  194. As a lesbian former Army officer, I have to say that Christopher Lisotta's November 2...