Stories Collection

  1. Been putting off your workouts or been unsuccessful in sticking to your healthy diet ...
  2. Would you be willing to distribute a course of antibiotics to your sex partners if yo...
  3. It can be, difficult, to appreciate just how much of a feat it is that 25-year-old Jo...
  4. Make sure your voice is heard by joining one million attendees in NYC to demand our e...
  5. 50 Ways to Support Lesbian and Gay Equality * By Meredith Maran with Angela Watrous...
  6. Are you considering getting a bit of "work" done? You're not alone. Demand ...
  7. When I came out almost 15 years ago the closest thing you could find to regular cover...
  8. Kerry Lofy thought it would be funny when he put on a black spaghetti-strap dress and...
  9. Readers' attachment to The Advocate has always been remarkable. Everyone looks for st...
  10. The long-stalled biopic on Harvey Milk (above), based on Randy Shilts's book The Mayo...
  11. Tracing roots back to the Stonewall riots of 1969, the gay pride observance has becom...
  12. In the 1960s I had to sneak out of Brooklyn to come to the Nobody at home knew I was ...
  13. Are you pushing your muscles beyond exhaustion to extreme soreness by trying to show ...
  14. 8 Guys Out! So you've tried everything to meet the man of your dreams--online service...
  15. Most professional swimmers train from six to eight hours a day, but that much is not ...
  16. In addition to negotiating great deals with cruise ships and hotels, TRAVELOCITY offe...
  17. * Book and lyrics by Bill Dyer * Music by Dick DeBenedictis * Directed by Pamela Hall...
  18. New laser vision-correction technology offers hope for people who hate wearing their ...
  19. "I had a vision of myself lying on a big floor pillow in a big apartment," ...
  20. Stress is a fact of life. Everyone deals with it at some point, some even every day. ...
  21. Content not available due to copyright restrictions. COPYRIGHT 2005 Liberation Publ...
  22. The clean-cut cocaptain of his high school football team and Tommy Hilfiger--handsome...
  23. Gay people's differing reactions to the unexpected outings of former New Jersey gover...
  24. If Jack McFarland of NBC's Will & Grace saw the phrase "parasocial contact h...
  25. In its first gay pride celebration ever, Lincoln Center is pulling out all the stops,...
  26. Tired of being blamed for asking for too much when all you want is equality? So is Na...
  27. Searching for an identity is my form of activism. I have long wanted to understand my...
  28. In a world where Entertainment Tonight's Jann Carl and the New York Post's Cindy Adam...
  29. Bowing to pressure from gay activists, Microsoft Corp. on May 6 said that it would su...
  30. Beck Where He Started by Jay Quinn (Alyson, $24.95): Dumped by his husband--for a you...
  31. Actress Michelle Krusiec loves a challenge, so she was eager to be cast as Wilhelmina...
  32. Continental Airlines has long offered travel and health benefits to the partners of c...
  33. To most interview questions, Meshell Ndegeocello gives polite but ultraconcise answer...
  34. An appeals panel of the United Methodist Church on April 29 reversed a lower church c...
  35. When religious and political leaders publicly denounce gays and lesbians and push law...
  36. DIED: Alvin Novick, 79, a gay Yale University biologist, early political advocate aga...
  37. Denver, Colo. On a 6-5 party-line committee vote, Democratic state lawmakers on May...
  38. "I've been waiting all year to do that." --Desperate Housewives star Feli...
  39. APPOINTED: Carolyn Carlburg, an attorney and longtime AIDS advocate, as executive dir...
  40. Openly gay Jerusalem city council member Sa'ar-Ran Nathaniel can't be certain that a ...
  41. Minutes after stepping outside to get some cash from a nearby ATM, Marvin Miller said...
  42. When Michael Jackson was indicted, something in my gut told me he was probably guilty...
  43. FORMED: ProtectMarriage.com, a new coalition of antigay groups pushing for a Californ...
  44. Nearly 20 years after iconic gay midst Keith Haring opened his highly acclaimed Pop S...
  45. HIS CRITICALLY lauded album Peachtree Road may have withered on the sales-chart vine,...
  46. IF YOU grew up attuned to Wonder Woman or Bewitched's Uncle Arthur, you're not alone....
  47. In an interview with The Advocate's Bob Adams, psychologist Warren Throckmorton--crea...
  48. Are you a gay couple with a hankering to see the country together? If so, a national ...
  49. When Kate Kendell became executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights...
  50. When I perform on cruises I usually mingle with the guests, but on one recent cruise ...
  51. Jen Christensen's e-mail interview of Jeff Gannon (a.k.a. James Guckert) ["Jeff ...
  52. This year's National Black Lesbian Conference in Dallas brought together women from a...
  53. My sexuality has never been an issue for my fraternity brothers at the University of ...
  54. When I arrive in Krakow, the city is still in mourning for the pope. His hunched, wri...
  55. Being a gay teenager in 1982 really, really sucked. Until I reached college, I didn't...
  56. As the person who put together the GLAAD stats that Richard Goldstein refers to in hi...
  57. The Book of Liz, a new play from David and Amy Sedaris, a.k.a. the Talent Family, is ...
  58. LOOKING FOR this summer's Mean Girls? Sharpen your claws on the San Francisco stage p...
  59. Chris Crain thought he'd be safe walking hand in hand with his boyfriend in gay-frien...
  60. For a long time, therapist and family counselor Jeff Lutes was satisfied with just he...
  61. Raised in poverty, religious fanaticism, and intolerance, Jeanette Winterson left hom...
  62. The Youth Pride College Fair did not occur in Washington, D.C., on April 23, as repor...
  63. Lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova continues to be an outspoken advocate for equ...
  64. Economist Richard Florida caused a stir in 2002 when he argued that acceptance of gay...
  65. "I try to model myself on artists most heroic to me," says Michael Cunningh...
  66. "Everyone wants to love," says 35-year-old filmmaker Alice Wu. Her debut fe...
  67. You know it's messy when no one will talk. "I don't want to get into that,"...
  68. When you're the lone Republican voting against an antigay measure in a Midwestern sta...
  69. Before she was a fabulous comedy chameleon, Tracey Ullman was a teen dancer touring w...
  70. BULGING MUSCLES. Fabulous outfits. Perfect hair. Comic book readers finally ask the o...
  71. "Mona and Tamsin do fall in love, and love is a big word," declares 23-year...
  72. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation is an amazing organization, and we ar...
  73. Among a string of bomb attacks killing two people and injuring more than 120 in Alaba...
  74. In 1992 at the age of 19, I was not naive enough to believe that voting for Bill Clin...
  75. Now playing or opening soon The Holy Girl (now playing, limited): When a man who br...
  76. Daniel Lippold used to defend his hometown of Atwood, Kan., and its nearly 1,300 citi...
  77. Gresham, Ore. A federal jury in April ruled that Kevin Turner, a gay former employe...
  78. Microsoft Corp. has enjoyed a reputation as a leader in corporate equality for gay an...
  79. What would be worse: if your girlfriend left you for a man or for a woman? Ever since...
  80. In January 2003, Wissam Abyad, an openly gay man in Egypt, arranged an in-person meet...
  81. Mysterious Skin * Directed by Gregg Araki * Written by Araki, based on the novel by S...
  82. Officials at one national lesbian health organization are betting most lesbians would...
  83. 9,500 Estimated number of gay and lesbian soldiers discharged under "don't ask, ...
  84. "Justice Scalia has no pity for the millions of gay Americans on whom sodomy law...
  85. By the night in May 2004 that would forever alter Sgt. Robert Stout's life, he had be...
  86. Probably the gayest thing to come out of Tennessee is Dolly Parton. This may be sayin...
  87. For the first time in the history of the AIDS epidemic a drug company is halting prod...
  88. Sara Thompson's sister came out to her, and that was cool. Then their fundamentalist ...
  89. Austin Rooke Age: 34 Military job: Army intelligence officer Stationed in: Fort...
  90. Our Fathers * Directed by Dan Curtis * Written by Thomas Michael Donnelly, based on t...
  91. Hundreds of thousands of gay and straight students at high schools and colleges acros...
  92. Outrageous party planner Steve Kemble (left) is just one of the larger-than-life figu...
  93. Maj. Jeffrey McGowan loved the Army, saw combat in the Gulf War, and requalified as a...
  94. Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World * Directed by John Scagliotti * ...
  95. DIED: Andrea Dworkin, 58, a lesbian and self-proclaimed radical feminist once describ...
  96. Maybe we should start by dispensing with the slurs. Benedict XVI is not a former Nazi...
  97. The GLBT pay-per-view channel called Here and Viacom's upcoming gay basic-cable netwo...
  98. James Marsden is holding on to a few secrets about his new film Heights: "I don'...
  99. Left Lane: On the Road With Folk Poet Alix Olson * Directed by Samamtha Fariella * St...
  100. As an attorney who practices in the birthplace of the Constitution, I am keenly aware...
  101. Gay rights activists in Connecticut initially pushed lawmakers there to legalize marr...
  102. HIRED: Lee Swislow, a nonprofit executive and longtime gay activist, as executive dir...
  103. Just over three years into the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, The Advocate...
  104. Never underestimate the power of girls in little plaid skirts. While Angela Robinson'...
  105. It takes a big man to wear a little black dress. Especially when he's straight. Just ...
  106. In his My Perspective essay "The Beauty of Coming Out" [April 26], Dave Koz...
  107. Those familiar with the case of lesbian teens Holly Harvey and Sandy Ketchum, who wer...
  108. RESIGNED: Torie Osborn, after eight years as executive director for the Liberty Hill ...
  109. MOVE OVER, Ray: The new biopic in town belongs to Dusty Springfield. Broadway star Kr...
  110. Tommy O'Haver Gay breakthrough: Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss Teen flicks: Get Over...
  111. When did you know you were gay? That's the question Los Angeles-based writer, filmmak...
  112. I was with Michael Seneco, following his well-written column [Last Word, April 26], l...
  113. Your cover photo with the cast of Eating Out was outstanding--way to go, Ryan Carries...
  114. Name: Bri Brewer Age: 17 Hometown: Brookhaven, Miss. I attend Mississippi Schoo...
  115. HOW DO YOU juice up a popular gay soap where many of the characters have paired off?....
  116. My Summer of Love * Directed by Paul Pavlikovsky * Written by Pavlikovsky, based on...
  117. Starstruck * Michael Joseph Gross * Bloomsbury * $23.95 Patric and Harrell, a gay c...
  118. Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov wants to build a golf course in a picturesque corner of the...
  119. Dutch gay couples, like Jos (left) and Jarko De Witte van Leeuwen, in 2001 were grant...
  120. We know. We know. It can seem like most gay men can recite entire lines from memory f...
  121. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? * Written by Edward Albee * Directed by Anthony Page ...
  122. The late pope helped defeat communism and brought many youths into the church, But so...
  123. Reading the intriguing biography Charlotte (Henry Holt, $27.50) by Kathryn Shevelow, ...
  124. The phrase "log cabin gays no longer need refer only to Republicans. North Carol...
  125. The Glass Menagerie * Written by Tennessee Williams * Directed by David Leveaux * Sta...
  126. IT'S ALREADY been a book and a movie that garnered an Oscar nomination for Javier Bar...
  127. Astro Turf: The Private Life of Rocket Science * M.G. Lord * Walker & Co. * $24 ...
  128. Fighting Tommy Riley * Written by J.P. Davis * Directed by Eddie O'Flaherty * Starrin...
  129. When I was a kid my mother never told me a lot of things about her family or childhoo...
  130. SpongeBob SquarePants is not the only victim of right-wing hysteria over queer conten...
  131. While reading your story on how boyfriends Stephen Shroy and Aaron Cloward and others...
  132. "Now that I've. become a lesbian, I don't wear any of those [designer shoes].&qu...
  133. I have a crush on Betty. I'm not alone. The 20-year-old band--comprising sisters Amy ...
  134. So gay historians and activists are arguing over where and when the U.S. gay tights m...
  135. Conservative Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders held a press conference in Jerusal...
  136. Publisher Simon and Schuster has inked a $1 million book deal with Mary Cheney, 36, t...
  137. "Restrooms are among the most contested sites for transgender people," says...
  138. Distraught over the Roman Catholic Church's treatment of gay people, 40-year-old Sici...
  139. Christopher Rice's discussion of open relationships in his piece "Monogamy and M...
  140. DIED: Sanford Lowe, 69, a politically active gay rabbi who taught at Santa Rosa Junio...
  141. On most mornings, over a cup of coffee, John Aravosis sits alone in his studio apartm...
  142. Kansas gays and lesbians suffered a one-two punch on April 5 when Topeka voters ouste...
  143. Karen Thompson couldn't help but feel deep sympathy as she watched Michael Schiavo's ...
  144. In five years as coach of the Bloomburg High School Lady Wildcats basketball team in ...
  145. LaStaysha Myers, a straight 15-year-old Missouri student, was just standing up for a ...
  146. Another business now recognizes gay families: Travel Guard International--which sells...
  147. Life changed dramatically for Kansas City, Mo., couple Dan Dye and Mark Beckloff afte...
  148. Less than a year after three gay rights groups were given unprecedented government re...
  149. Prom Queen: The Marc Hall Story * Written by Kent Staines * Directed by John L'Ecuyer...
  150. The Connecticut senate on April 6 approved pro-gay legislation that would make the st...
  151. On her first visit to the weekend-long lesbian party in Palm Springs, Calif., writer ...
  152. Sometimes even I wonder what we're complaining about. Heterosexuals tell us we've got...
  153. Lesbian pastor Jo Hudson was "awed" to be selected as leader of the nation'...
  154. Advise and Consent * Directed by Otto Preminger * Starring Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeo...
  155. The Campaign for California Families is arguing that the state's sweeping domestic-pa...
  156. When a panel of conservative religious leaders convened to oppose a pride celebration...
  157. Christopher Sieber has been in hit musicals like Thoroughly Modern Millie and Beauty ...
  158. Name: Jeremy Koss Age: 19 Hometown: Washington, D.C. Picture a white male, 5 fo...
  159. In one corner stands song doctor Linda Perry, handmaiden to megahits by Pink and Chri...
  160. New Ipswich, N.H. High school teacher Penny Culliton, who was fired a decade ago fo...
  161. When The Night Listener came out in 2000, Armistead Maupin made no secret of the nove...
  162. Monty Python's Spamalot * Book and lyrics by Eric Idle; music by Idle and John Du Pre...
  163. Long before Web loggers took the lead in exposing White House correspondent Jeff Gann...
  164. Prom * Amy Ray * Daemon Records Solo albums from members of well-known bands rarely...
  165. Same-sex marriage is legal in Massachusetts, but a proposal passed by the legislature...
  166. When a sixth-grade teacher dares to answer a student's question about whether he's ga...
  167. The Bremerhaven Zoo in northern Germany tried unsuccessfully to break up gay penguin ...
  168. IT WAS Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve ... until this month's hip Tribeca Film Festi...
  169. GEMINI May 21-June 20 Bleeding from April's IRS-timates? Blowing a refund that would ...
  170. Well, it's been a year. And everything in life seems somehow sweeter. I've been doing...
  171. Tote it all in this medium red messenger bag with green trim and handle, $155, by Lac...
  172. On a recent Sunday night of television, on Fox, Homer Simpson became a minister and m...
  173. Lars Clausen is famous for setting a world record by unicycling through all 50 states...
  174. If there's an upside to the homophobia coming from state legislatures, the Vatican, a...
  175. "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational t...
  176. Wanda Alston touched D.C. In March she was cut down years before her time, allegedly ...
  177. I'll admit it--I harbored some trepidation about setting sail with my 7-year-old son,...
  178. October 2004--Built under Soviet authority to jam radio signals in the '80s, the Zizk...
  179. Sometimes good things conic in waves. That's the case with a batch of independent que...
  180. Confessor: Bryan Herb of the Travel Channel's Vacation Challenge Location: Chicago Fa...
  181. Louise Bizzari, a registered nurse from Utica, N.Y., is not just fighting for pride, ...
  182. Tennis star Martina Navratilova has had difficulty attracting endorsements as an out ...
  183. I loved your photo spread titled "San Francisco: Chasing Visions of Vertigo"...
  184. As the debate about Social Security reform heats up and the biggest wave of retiremen...
  185. Olivia Cruises has partnered with the Pink Bracelet Fund to raise money for breast ca...
  186. "So let me get this straight. Are you proposing to de?" My boyfriend, a sex...
  187. It's early 2005, and I accept an invitation for an on-the-house drink at the Flying H...
  188. The great gay poet Wystan Auden--a.k.a. W.H. Auden--used to tell people that he was d...
  189. In 2003 sensitive, dramatic songwriter Rufus Wainwright hit bottom, went to rehab, an...
  190. I'm at a brew pub in Moab, Utah, with 30 other queer cycling enthusiasts--probably th...