Stories Collection

  1. Protests and the promise of future unrest are not enough to push the church to change...
  2. With the Matthew Shepard and Brandon Teena murders, the recent media portrait of rura...
  3. A SPECIAL ADVOCATE REPORT For most gays and lesbians, small-town America--whether i...
  4. A Bike City Called Greasy * The Haggard * Mr. Lady Records If you like queer politi...
  5. The Married Man * Edmund White * Knopf * $25 Edmund White is such a good writer and...
  6. About two years ago I hatched a dream with Bill Leopold--manager extraordinaire to ro...
  7. Here a kiss ... DAWSON'S CREEK'S NEXT-TO-LAST SHOWS of the season on May 17 offered...
  8. (Artisan Entertainment; August 11) The maker: John Waters, director and writer Th...
  9. (Sony Classics; June 16) The maker: Greg Harrison, director and writer The stars:...
  10. Gladiator is the perfect appetizer for the summer season, and for Roman camp follower...
  11. Golden Men: The Power of Gay Midlife * Harold Kooden with Charles Flowers * Avon * $1...
  12. "I wanted people to knew that I'd been with a woman. I spoke about it because I'd dis...
  13. With the Millenium March behind them, gays and lesbians take its message to their hom...
  14. (Lions Gate; July 7) The makers: Jamie Babbit, director; Brian Wayne Peterson, writ...
  15. (Miramax; June 9) The makers: Love: Kenneth Branagh, director; William Shakespeare ...
  16. (20th Century Fox; July 14) The maker: Bryan Singer, director The stars: Ian McKe...
  17. Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago * James Conrad * Thomas Dunne Books * $25.9...
  18. The far right launches a campaign to repeal the civil unions law by threatening to un...
  19. Activists can't agree on how many people actually attended the march There's never be...
  20. (Strand Releasing; July 23) The maker: Francois Ozon, director and writer The sta...
  21. (20th Century Fox; June 16) The makers: Love: Kenneth Branagh, director; William Sh...
  22. As some of you know, I have, been slow to catch " the same-sex wedding wave. It s not...
  23. In recent weeks several writers have argued that when it comes to understanding men a...
  24. BOY SCOUTS James Dale's day in court Justice Stephen G. Breyer wanted to know if ...
  25. Echoing through three decades of gay male circle-of-friends movies--from The Boys in ...
  26. (Zeitgeist; July 12 in New York; nationwide in the fall) The maker: Francois Ozon, ...
  27. Your local gay and lesbian test has its own set of hot summer movie premieres If ga...
  28. Chutney Popcorn director-star Nisha Ganatra gets honest about filmmaking, love scenes...
  29. ACTIVISM When Elizabeth Toledo was named executive director of the National Gay and...
  30. Dean Cain and Timothy Olyphant make a wish as gay pals on-screen--and bickering buddi...
  31. (Fine Line Features; July 28) The makers: Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, director...
  32. (Kino International; June 16) The makers: Paul Ruiz, director; Gilles Taurand, writ...
  33. As Fox's trendsetting series airs its final episode, out Beverly Hills, 90210 writer ...
  34. FINANCE Banking on Vermont Many have predicted that Vermont's passage of the civi...
  35. Forget friendship circles--the classic lesbian story focuses on one woman finding her...
  36. (Artisan Entertainment; late July) The makers: Miguel Arteta, director; Michael Whi...
  37. (Strand; August 4) The makers: Robert Lee King, director; Charles Busch, writer (ba...
  38. Out artists Malcolm Gets and Mark Lamos bring England's gay king Edward II to life in...
  39. The death of Cardinal John O'Connor, the head of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Ne...
  40. (Zeitgeist; August 11 in New York, Los Angeles; nationwide thereafter) The makers: ...
  41. (Touchstone; June 9) The makers: Dominic Sena, director; Scott Rosenberg, writer ...
  42. (DreamWorks SKG; in release) The makers: Todd Phillips, director; Phillips and Scot...
  43. Dirty Blonde * Written by Claudia Shear * Directed by James Lapine * Starring Claudia...
  44. DIED: George Buse, 75, Chicago gay activist and World War II veteran, April 20, DIE...
  45. (20th Century Fox; August 11) The Makers: Harold Ramis, director; Larry Gelbart, Pe...
  46. (Disney; July 7) The makers: Jun Turtletaub, director; Audrey Wells, writer The s...
  47. (Unapix Films, August) The makers: Jon Shear, director; Shear and Daniel Reitz, wri...
  48. Singer-songerwriter Susan Hyatt attacks sexual hypocrisy from all sides "I'm a very...
  49. The boys in the bands Thank you so much for your piece on boy bands ["The Boys on t...
  50. Out at the ball game Outsports.com finally puts sports and gay men on the same play...
  51. (USA Films; August) The Maker: Andre Techine, director and writer The Stars: Juli...
  52. (Cowboy Booking International; August 21) The makers: Lane Janger, director; Janger...
  53. (MGM; August) The maker: Rodrigo Garcia, director and writer The stars: Glenn Clo...
  54. Conductor Jonathan Sheffer's Eos Orchestra breaks the rules of the stuffy classical m...
  55. From the May 9 issue: Do you think the Reform Judaism resolution will affect the wa...
  56. May 8, 1990: Longtime Companion fights to break new ground It's almost commonplace ...
  57. (20th Century Fox; August 11) The Makers: Peyton Reed, director; Jessica Bendinger,...
  58. (Fine Line Features; July 14 in New York and Los Angeles; nationwide thereafter) Th...
  59. (Fox Searchlight; July 21) The makers: Fina Torres, director; Vera Biasi, writer ...
  60. The Most Beautiful Woman in the World: The obsessions, Passions, and Courage of Eliza...
  61. CANADA Northern equality Canada really is turning into a country to look up to. T...
  62. Patients with HIV flirt with a pause in their treatment, but at what cost to their he...
  63. The bittersweet folk-pop of Alabama-born Marcus Hutcheson recounts the journeys of hi...
  64. With exhibitions on both coasts and a place in a bold new lesbian art anthology, Jane...
  65. Two numbers furnished by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force jumped out at me whe...
  66. WELL-BEING Gay Bodies 101 For decades lesbians have turned to the book Our Bodies...
  67. Experts fear a recent rash syphilis cases may signal an impending wave of HIV transmi...
  68. * Driver Quartet * Comma Records Filtered through a hungover film noir sensibility ...
  69. Italian ballroom champion Luka Fanni struts his stuff in the spectacular stage show B...
  70. Reed between the Windows One of Microsoft Corporation's latest hires has not only r...
  71. Pallotta TeamWorks turns to more profitable breast cancer walks as interest and funds...
  72. All Hands on the Bad One * Sleater-Kinney * Kill Rock Stars It ain't easy being ind...
  73. Off-Broadway throws a sizzling bash, but the Great While Way delivers a theatrical ha...
  74. AWARDED: The George Polk Award, to New York Daily News editorial writer and Advocate ...
  75. Working out is truly a drag at one Manhattan gym HIS MAGENTA WIG is teased out so m...
  76. Quebec's Lea Pool, director of the sexual awakening movie Set Me Free, is the best le...
  77. Two decades after the success of his gay Holocaust drama Bent, playwright Martin Sher...
  78. Suddenly Brooke Bravo to Guinevere Turner and Brooke Shields for a wonderfully writ...
  79. Roads scholar The recent Vermont supreme court decision recognizing same-sex relati...
  80. The fierce battle in Vermont to recognize gay relationships will have a ripple effect...
  81. Set Me Free * Written and directed by Lea Pool * Starring Karine Vanasse, Nancy Husto...
  82. Tom of Finland Clothing meets Absolut marketing. Oh, boy ... When Tom of Finland cl...
  83. From the April 25 issue: Have you stopped partronizing your local gay and lesbian bus...
  84. It is astounding to realize that the widespread use of protease inhibitors began only...
  85. Domestic-partner benefits are slowly changing the way businesses--and the country--vi...
  86. Black and White * Written and directed by James Toback * Starring Brooke Shields, Rob...
  87. The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave * Edited by Michael Lassell ...
  88. My life changed forever Friday, March 3, when my life partner of four years, Rob Pier...
  89. JUST WHEN WE'D GIVEN UP HOPE of seeing Mouse, Mary Ann, and the other residents of 28...
  90. When it comes to your pocketbook, marriage makes all the difference Should gay peop...
  91. Love is the Devil * Written and directed by John Maybury * Starring Derek Jacobi, Dan...
  92. The Boy He Left Behind: A Man's Search for His Lost Father * By Mark Matousek * River...
  93. "I was what people now call artistic, but when you're a kid they call it weird and sa...
  94. OK, KIDS, TIME TO PLAY "WHERE'S THE HOMO?" Press materials for Columbia Pictures' d...
  95. Hey, did I tell you I was interviewed to be a contestant on that new game show Who Wa...
  96. Pierre et Gilles: Love Stories * Directed by Mark Hoy * Water Bearer Oh, to be insi...
  97. War Boy * By Kief Hillsbery * William Morrow * $24 This first novel wins a tentativ...
  98. Governor Bush may cover all his bases by asking openly gay representative Jim Kolbe t...
  99. "I missed out on being Glenn Close's girlfriend," reveals Stockard Channing, whose sc...
  100. Brian Graden, MTV's openly gay president of programming, fulfills his youthful dream ...
  101. Affinity * Sarah Waters * Riverhead Books * $24.95 Sarah Waters's terrific first no...
  102. ADOPTION Mississippi banning A vote by the Mississippi state senate on April 19 a...
  103. Anxious about their sexuality, young lesbians sometimes turn to self-mutilation AIM...
  104. * Executive-produced and directed by Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey * Part 1 of 4 de...
  105. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut * Directed by Trey Parker * Written by Matt Stone,...
  106. A Double Life * Frederic Raphael * Catbird Press * $24 In an age when fiction fairl...
  107. About 25 years ago, when I was in law school, I fell in love with a woman who gave me...
  108. As "boy bands" once more explode on the pop music scene, they're discovering out yout...
  109. You've probably forgotten about the Oscars by now, but Hollywood hasn't, our enemies ...
  110. Gay studies courses have almost become so common that they are no longer controversia...
  111. There's new evidence at hand--literally--about the biological cause of homosexuality....
  112. Richard Move achieves the sublime and the ridiculous with his uncanny reincarnation o...
  113. When the directors of The Celluloid Closet headed back to the Berlin International Fi...
  114. WE ALREADY KNOW AND LOVE most of the nominees for Best Dance Single at this year's Ga...
  115. Tired of meat-and-potatoes music? Try Fruit, an eclectic, energetic, band from Austra...
  116. With forgettable songs and a rejiggered plot, the new Aida can't live up to the talen...
  117. He may be a prince, but he also enjoys queens. During a karaoke night at a British ho...
  118. Six lesbian and gay talents you should know--and their picks for that one CD that wou...
  119. A Moon for the Misbegotten * Walter Kerr Theatre, New York City (through June 18) * B...
  120. When composer John Corigliano heard his name announced as the Oscar winner for Best O...
  121. It's possible that 35-year-old openly hetero talk-show host Rob Nelson may be even mo...
  122. As a teen I was tormented by a dim awareness that I was different from my friends. I ...
  123. Five days in the mountains did little to help the 135 Episcopal bishops in the United...
  124. From street theater to fasts, activists keep finding Fresh ways to promote gay rights...
  125. god & the fbi * Janis Ian * Windham Hill Janis Ian has always fought the good fight...
  126. Writer-director Arthur Laurents talks to The Advocate about his amazing life, from Gy...
  127. Coors Brewing Co. may have, thought that substituting a gay male couple for the well-...
  128. Forever Dusty: Homage to an Icon * Various artists * Produced by Rebekah Radisch * R&...
  129. Dennis Cooper says his latest book is the fifth and final of his gay-teens-and-homici...
  130. A winner at more than tennis, she has raised $1 million for gay causes with the Rainb...
  131. One-hundred-year-old Ruth Ellis speaks her mind on her lesbian life in the last centu...
  132. From JANE ANDERSON, the award-winning writer of the first segment of If These Walls C...
  133. Actor-writer-director ANNE HECHE reveals her own fragile birth into the gay movement ...
  134. Fired from his government job for writing about his love of men, the great gay poet w...
  135. Renowned photographer CATHERINE OPIE goes on the road to document lesbian families wh...
  136. Present and past gay members of Congress talk about the changing state of gay politic...
  137. Our Miss Chatelaine practically invented lesbian chic when she came out in 1992. Sinc...
  138. The Advocate was founded in 1967, two years before the Stonewall riots, generally bel...
  139. Profiles of couplehood in a defense-of-marriage world Without a legal definition fo...
  140. What are the events that shape our lives, make us strong, or break us apart? Songwrit...
  141. The Pet Shop Boys may not write music just for a gay following, but they've certainly...
  142. The signs and symbols of our recent history recall the moments and movements that gav...
  143. A portrait of the gender rainbow, along with nine answers to the question "How do you...
  144. Country music's top seller has been part of our family ever since he publicly declare...
  145. Past marches have been the birthplace of gay organizations When thousands of like-m...
  146. Advocate columnists answer the question JONATHAN CAPEHART March for those who fee...
  147. DENNIS SHEPARD reflects on his son's life, the year and a half since Matthew's death,...
  148. Whether she's playing cross-gender alien Sally Solomon in 3rd Rock From the Sun or Wi...
  149. San Diego activist Nicole Murray-Ramirez is the only person to help organize all four...
  150. Is it getting any easier for gay youth to come out? Yes and no, teen If you attende...
  151. When this former All American Girl hit mainstream TV, she didn't leave her queer fans...
  152. Organizers plan to make a list of potential voters to help local causes April may s...
  153. Envisioning a future without hate: DAVID CROSBY tells why he helped Melissa Etheridge...
  154. While her name may mean "delicate and sensitive" in Arabic, Queen Latifah likes to ca...
  155. Past marchers tell why 1979, 1987, and 1993 are years they will never forget Pam Bo...
  156. The Equality Rocks headliner talks about closeted gay music stars, U.S. vs. British g...
  157. Even if the bulk of his career has been straight ... forward roles like Nathan Detroi...
  158. The monolith of "gay liberation" has broken into countless separate activist movement...
  159. The lesbian mom and Equality Rocket's long history with The Advocate is less-about se...
  160. The hottest comedy writer in show business, Bruce Vilanch juggles such clients as Rob...
  161. The invisibility all gay people once experienced remains in effect for most of our el...
  162. * "Republicans are philosophically unable to change. Intolerance, fear, and hatred of...
  163. Even by the nefarious standards of white supremacists, Benjamin Matthew Williams and ...
  164. BRITISH PERFORMANCE ARTIST LEIGH BOWERY was the toast of London's art, music, fashion...
  165. Five years after Jill Sobule's hit "I Kissed a Girl," the chipper bisexual singer has...
  166. I, Carmelita Tropicana * Alina Troyano * Beacon Press * $17 Do yourself a big favor...
  167. As the former chief engineer for Dr. Laura Schlessinger's radio show, I must clarify ...
  168. A recent syphilis outbreak among gay men in Los Angeles has provided further justific...
  169. Isadora Duncan, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo--Hollywood writer Mercedes de Acosta cl...
  170. I stopped buying Elton John albums when Bernie Taupin stopped writing the lyrics. Tha...
  171. Signals * Joel Rothschild * New World Library * $17.95 "You know it's me, don't you...
  172. "It must be a trend with the Hollywood cuties: They turn on the gay men in film, and ...
  173. It could easily be fodder for Ripley's Believe It or Not!--"The far right says studen...
  174. "I've always heard women complain about their boyfriends wanting them to have three-w...
  175. American Psycho proves its chilly point American Psycho * Written by Guinevere Turn...
  176. God bless Bill Bradley. He ran a flawed campaign that went from terrific to terrible ...
  177. Census 2000 is expected to yield a much broader picture of gay and lesbian America ...
  178. Gay men might be nearly twice as likely to use protection during sex if it meant appl...
  179. Barry Winchell's mom begs other mothers to not let their gay sons join the military ...
  180. Russell T. Davies's gay series Queer as Folk took British TV by storm. But the show i...
  181. With the current conservative composition of the U.S. Supreme Court, its not very oft...
  182. Looking to buy a fertility monitor with complete anonymity? Check out GayPharmacy.com...
  183. After years of fighting the U.K.'s ban on gay soldiers, British activists celebrate i...
  184. Crowd-pleaser and misanthrope Nicky Silver skewers do-gooders in his latest play No...
  185. The Vermont house of representatives' passing of legislation March 16 that would lega...
  186. DIED: Russell King, deputy news editor at The New York Times and an active member of ...
  187. Marc Fest had a problem. How he solved it may make him a fortune from the Internet ...
  188. * Manhattan Theatre Club, New York City (through April 16) * Written by Charles Busch...
  189. Several hundred protesters demonstrate outside Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles Marc...
  190. Since 1978 Log Cabin Republicans has existed to "work within the Republican Party for...
  191. The openly gay chief of Cahners publishing house tells the secrets of his success "...
  192. * Lincoln Center, New York City (through May 7) * Written by Arthur Laurents * Direct...
  193. Los Angeles-based Liberation Publications Inc., publisher of The Advocate and Alyson ...
  194. Size queens will be thrilled with the pdQ Smartphone--it weighs almost the same as th...
  195. Competition from the Internet and forward-thinking chains are making it tough for gay...
  196. Bil Wright's own personal experiences imbue the characters in his first novel, a comi...
  197. To John Fiore, the history-making element of his mayoral victory in Wilton Manors, Fl...
  198. If you know how to turn on a computer and you're a woman who loves women, then you're...