Stories Collection

  1. When it comes to gay and lesbian stories, one is never enough. These anthologies will...
  2. California could be the next battleground in the same-sex marriage wars. State senato...
  3. DIED: Roger Vivier, 90, in Toulouse, France, October 2. Vivier, who created shoes for...
  4. Twenty years after his assassination, Harvey Milk still has a lot to offer to gay lif...
  5. In Velvet Goldmine Todd Haynes takes an affectionate look at the glam-rock era--when ...
  6. Lesion Nation, in its own words, is "pure madness brought to you by insane lesbians w...
  7. Sen. Dianne Feinstein recalls Milk's death and reflects on the current state of gay p...
  8. Velvet Goldmine (original sound-track album) * Various artists * London Records Wha...
  9. James Hormel should can any plans to become U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg: It's just ...
  10. It's time again to get a jump on your shopping for friends and, of course, family. Co...
  11. It's not always easy being straight. No sense of style. No sense of camp. And then to...
  12. Glam performer Jobriath was being groomed for success as the American David Bowie. Th...
  13. AIDS deaths dropped a whopping 47% in the United States last year. But the same gover...
  14. Political junkies eager for the skinny on their favorite gay or lesbian candidates sh...
  15. How do you love them? Let them count the words. Herewith, an assorted sampler of gift...
  16. In this excerpt from the new book Rolling Stone: The '70s, New York Daily News pop-mu...
  17. With the release of her new album, Bathhouse Betty, the last few people on the planet...
  18. With fare ranging from family angst to Dr. Frank-N-Furter, this year's crop of holida...
  19. Billed as the first-ever gay and lesbian lounge music compilation, Fruit Cocktail (St...
  20. Saying that it would be discriminatory to do otherwise, the U.K. Department of Health...
  21. Clenched precariously in the mouth of an elephant, Miss Florida conducted herself wit...
  22. The holidays demand that you give the right gifts. But unless you've been shopping al...
  23. Up * REM * Warner Bros. Drummer Bill Berry did the right thing by leaving. After re...
  24. The growing influence of gay and lesbian voters will be showcased in the November 3 n...
  25. What a queer year it's been for off-Broadway theater! Outside the Broadway belt, wher...
  26. Just as more openly gay and lesbian candidates are running for public office than eve...
  27. In a program note pinpointing the genesis of Culture of Desire, director Anne Bogart'...
  28. When two men walked into the woods off Route 146 in Rhode Island in September 1997 to...
  29. Perhaps the residents of Hollywoods densely populated closet know what they're doing....
  30. Robin Shahar says she's happy working as a senior assistant city attorney in Atlanta ...
  31. Perhaps the residents of Hollywoods densely populated closet know what they're doing....
  32. Sodomy statutes generally prohibit oral and anal sex, even between consenting adults....
  33. Stephen Sondheim may have been right after all. Tennessee Williams's haunting 1947 tr...
  34. As Election Day '98 approaches, gay and lesbian Americans can expect to read and hear...
  35. Chances are, you have some Sara Lee in your music collection and you don't even know ...
  36. The country now knows what some of us have asserted for several years now: that, what...
  37. The archetypal queen that your mama would (and did!) love, Wladziu Valentino Liberace...
  38. Why didn't anyone warn me about the perils of home ownership? A lifelong renter with ...
  39. Shimon Attie's photographs and public installations engage a surprisingly poignant fo...
  40. Six years after candidate Bill Clinton spoke those now-famous words about us and went...
  41. Thirty-seven years ago a young member of Leningrad's touring Kirov Ballet announced t...
  42. Even now, as the details of the Starr report and its circuslike aftermath seem to hav...
  43. With President Clinton facing the possibility of impeachment proceedings, gay and les...
  44. Start with an all-male corps of hunky swans. Set them in a time-warp dreamscape oozin...
  45. COMING-OUT INTERVIEWS TODAY ARE BIG BUSINESS FOR THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA--GREG LOUGANIS ...
  46. Derek Jacobi seems `amazed at how much he looks like Francis Bacon, the lamed 20th-ce...
  47. ONCE USED ONLY BY ACTIVISTS, OUTING IS GROWING POPULAR WITH MAINSTREAM REPORTERS T...
  48. John C. Russell's Stupid Kids takes most of its plot and its atmosphere of hormonal o...
  49. A NEW BOOK ON ELEANOR ROOSEVELT AND THE WOMAN SHE LOVED CAPS A LIST OF BIOS THAT TELL...
  50. "I'll always trying to escape from myself," says a young Judy Garland during the cour...
  51. TO SAVE THEIR CAREERS, GAY AND LESBIAN CELEBRITIES STAYED MUM TO THE END. BUT IN THE ...
  52. After nearly five decades of writing fiction, James Purdy talks about friends, foes, ...
  53. A NEW HARRIS POLL SUGGESTS THAT KNOWING PEOPLE WHO ARE GAY MAKES LITTLE DIFFERENCE IN...
  54. My companion and I were sitting in an Amsterdam cafe recently when I picked up a news...
  55. The American health care system is in need of intensive care, and if you're concerned...
  56. FOR ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS, G0RE VIDAL, THE WHOLE IDEA OF COMING OUT IS RIDICULO...
  57. Gay genes, abortion, and breast cancer punctuate a gathering of the Gay and Lesbian M...
  58. This will come as a shock to some of you, but many years ago there was another Donny ...
  59. As Congress debates the Clinton scandal, activists try to gauge how the president's p...
  60. What's your favorite gay filmmaker or TV producer up to these days? We've polled some...
  61. Last year at this time the same president of the United States who is currently losin...
  62. Those of us who cannot afford to buy art take endless pleasure in entertainments that...
  63. IT'S BEEN SAID THAT HARD TIMES MAKE YOU GROW UP FAST, BETWEEN HER FATHER'S UNEXPECTED...
  64. British filmmaker John Maybury talks to The Advocate about Francis Bacon, gay politic...
  65. At religious colleges, gay men and lesbians hide to avoid harassment and expulsion ...
  66. Directed by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato * Premiering September 30 on Bravo Who...
  67. In this excerpt from Out on Fraternity Row, a closeted gay fraternity brother meets a...
  68. Hole * DGC There are as many reasons to hate Courtney Love as there are to adore h...
  69. It's popular on campus, but queer studies is under attack from both the Right and Lef...
  70. Various artists * Antilles After matching today's performers to classic tunesmiths...
  71. When I was 8, my dad died unexpectedly of a heart attack. As the youngest of five sib...
  72. A grown-up Andrew Tobias talks about money, men, and moguls 25 years after coming out...
  73. Snowpony * Radioactive Records It's clearer than ever that queers rule rock's avan...
  74. Gay issues have risen to the top level of debate among politicians this fall, and as ...
  75. In 1973, when Andrew Tobias wrote his coming-out stow, The Best Little Boy in the Wor...
  76. James Wilcox * Little, Brown * $24 If you are one of those people who love a good ...
  77. Veteran gay activist Jim Kepner reported that the U.S. court of appeals for the Distr...
  78. As Y2K approaches, the urge to merge is upon the land. It's not just for lesbians any...
  79. Sarah Schulman * Avon * $23 If you are one of those people who love a good comic n...
  80. When A. Cornelius Baker joined Kaiser Permanente's managed care health maintenance pl...
  81. Written and directed by John Waters * Starring Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Marth...
  82. Leslie Feinberg * Beacon Press * $20 "Men are not from Mars and women are not from...
  83. One death and three overdoses lead some to ask if GMHC should scrap its place on the ...
  84. "Christina Ricci and I sat around between takes swapping stories about our sexual adv...
  85. Men's titles 1. California Screaming by Doug Guinan (Simon and Schuster, $24) 2. The ...
  86. While the drug du jour causes controversy for GMHC, it cost one writer a friend I ...
  87. In an exclusive interview, two filmmakers tell why they were drawn to the murder of B...
  88. When I was 22, my father asked me why I was a lesbian, and I replied, "Because I've n...
  89. In an exclusive interview, filmmakers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey talk about the ...
  90. Battle lines were drawn in Colorado, where the rightwing group Colorado for Family Va...
  91. Ever since she was a kid, Sandra Bernhard had dreamed of being on Broadway--but not a...
  92. The new Hollywood Squares, premiering in syndication this month, promises to become a...
  93. Comic Lea DeLaria dons a dress and stands Broadway on its ear "I was over at Sandy...
  94. Nominated to be ambassador to Luxembourg James C. Hormel endures Personal attacks by ...
  95. If two's company and three's a crowd, is four pandemonium? Not if you ask the Kronos ...
  96. Amsterdam officials can't hurdle tradition; Gay Games V proves a financial fiasco too...
  97. Absurd Pop Song Romance (Lookout) * Performed by Pansy Division It's not good en...
  98. Autumn! The nip in the air! Glamorous women clutching fur collars about their swanlik...
  99. As literary passions go, Michael Cunningham's crush on Virginia Woolf is a whopper. I...
  100. NBC'S WILL & GRACE IS ONE OF THE SEASON'S MOST ANTICIPATED NEW SITCOMS, AND, BELIEVE ...
  101. Felice Picano suspects that he's lived before, but don't ask him about his past lives...
  102. YEP, WE LOST ELLEN MORGAN, BUT PLENTY OF TV CHARACTERS REMAIN, SPIN CITPS MICHAEL BOA...
  103. The ex-gay movement arouses among many gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered peop...
  104. WILL & GRACE ISN'T THE ONLY PROGRAM TO BENEFIT FROM A GAY HAND AT THE HELM, THE ADVOC...
  105. Every culture gets the scandals it deserves, and we have the media extravaganza over ...
  106. By conventional moviemaking standards the upcoming film Velvet Goldmine promises to b...
  107. When President Clinton spent a highly publicized weekend in the tony Hamptons in Augu...
  108. When the pooh-bahs of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation convene to brai...
  109. * Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater, New York City * Written by Willia...
  110. When I first ran for Congress in 1980, the Communists were still America's enemy. Ami...
  111. * Performed by Psychotica * Eva Trout (Trauma) * Performed by Eva Trout Queer musi...
  112. First it was American Airlines. Now it's United. Will the religions right end up havi...
  113. Eva Trout belongs to a heritage of another sort--the all-American band that hails fro...
  114. A new conservative campaign to "heal" gay men and lesbians could backfire in November...
  115. * Edited by Holly Hughes and David Roman * Published by Grove Press, $17.50 What m...
  116. Like most of the 25-year-olds we've spoken to, Rufus Wainwright has a mind of his own...
  117. I am not a big fan of reading on the beach, believing that the interplay of sand and ...
  118. Every generation makes its mark on history, even as it is influenced by the past. Wha...
  119. Sean Patrick Williams is being watched. He's really not doing anything special, stati...
  120. One of my favorite memories as a child was the first day of school. It meant that the...
  121. Jane Anderson didn't just write The Baby Dance. She lived it--at least her screenplay...
  122. * Directed by Jeff Dupre * Written by Michelle Ferrari * Narrated by Linda Hunt; voic...
  123. Finally, after 17 years of dodging the subject in print, Billie Jean King comes all t...
  124. The gay and lesbian capital of Europe, Amsterdam has a long history of tolerance. At ...
  125. The first pro football player to come out is surprised that 23 years later, few have ...
  126. The earliest form of gaydar--that sissy sixth sense that tells you another of your br...
  127. Being a lesbian is just part of this mountain-bike champion's radical appeal Like ...
  128. Author Peter Lefcourt's 1992 gay baseball romance, The Dreyfus Affair, is still selli...
  129. The acclaimed author of Breaking the Surface remembers the first time he met the divi...
  130. In 1982's Personal Best Hollywood Actor Mariel Hemingway and Olympic athlete Patrice ...
  131. From the ancient Olympics to modern professional sports, gay men and lesbians have sh...
  132. Blazing the trail in women's pro golf, she proved sponsors will stick by an out-and-o...
  133. So what if they play positions like "tight end" and "wide receiver," grunt a lot, and...
  134. Before April 5, basketball had been very good to Sherry' Winn. After graduating as an...
  135. The openly gay national champion diver can't break free from a fight with his former ...
  136. In Jocks journalist Dan Woog talks to gay players and coaches who compete in America'...
  137. For the respected sports columnist of a Southern newspaper, the decision to stay in t...
  138. The former Mr. Universe shares his thoughts in an exclusive essay for The Advocate ...
  139. If we're not entirely out in the sports world, then a gym bag full of old and new boo...
  140. When JC Cummings came out at 28 in 1984, he thought he would never again play soccer,...
  141. A former umpire has hit the road with his story of being gay in major-league baseball...
  142. Years ago I told a friend of mine who was serving a stint as the rock music critic at...
  143. Every time the "AIDS holocaust" sapped Steve Kovacev's will to live, he mined to mara...
  144. The former national champion excels in a sport he says is 98% straight (believe it or...
  145. It's been 24 years since author PATRICIA NELL WARREN wrote her classic novel The Fron...
  146. The following pages feature 100 gay and lesbian athletes participating in this summer...
  147. The lives of two men neighboring Southern cities illustrate the news--good and bad--f...
  148. The Alley Theater in Houston has scored the theater coup of the year by coproducing w...
  149. The Democrats are offering a full assortment of pro-gay presidential candidates for 2...
  150. Sanford Sylvan is a walking, vocalizing mass of contradictions. Esteemed as one of th...
  151. Before AIDS and after Stonewall, we celebrated our sexual freedom alongside everyone ...
  152. Showtime is nipping at HBO's heels. With two controversial, high-profile broadcasts t...
  153. When the mainstream media and a failing music industry eager for a scapegoat conspire...
  154. When Tommy O'Haver asked Paul Barrel to appear in his romantic comedy, Billy's Hollyw...
  155. 54 director Mark Christopher talks about his first feature film--and its gay content ...
  156. Isn't it terrific that there are so out lesbian filmmakers that it is possible to dev...
  157. If you don't remember these, you weren't really there. If you do remember these, you ...
  158. Short take: Rose Troche's "try anything" method of moviemaking has a sympathetic prac...
  159. A former New Yorker recalls the true birth of an era Before Studio 54, before the Sai...
  160. Recently, when a fellow member of an on-line gay politics discussion group raised the...
  161. The few times I saw Truman Capote on the dance floor of Studio 54, I don't remember t...
  162. Studio Steve Rubell-was always center stage--and, for most of his life, in the closet...
  163. There is good news and bad news in the quest for an AIDS vaccine. The federal governm...
  164. Warning to all baby dykes afraid of growing old and to all gay guys with a dread of o...
  165. As the top researchers met in Geneva Earlier this month, an AIDS-weary world Again tu...
  166. LEIGH BOWERY DIDN'T LIVE LONG ENOUGH to become famous in America. But before he died ...
  167. * Written by Zhang Yuan and Wang Xiabo * Directed by Mang Yuan * Starring Si Han and ...
  168. The defining moment in Ypsilanti, Mich.'s sweeping defeat of an antigay initiative in...
  169. When Disney's Mulan gallops off to join the army as a man, millions of little girls g...
  170. When former U.S. senator Barry Goldwater, who died at his home in Paradise Valley, Ar...
  171. * Written by Craig Lucas * Directed by Mark Brokaw * Starring Tim Hooper, Tony Goldwy...
  172. ABC may be scared to feature a lead character who's gay, but NBC is not. And come thi...
  173. * "Bernstein: Composer and Champion," conducted by Kurt Masur * "Literally: Bernstein...
  174. The unlikely team of a radical San Francisco activist and a conservative Republican c...
  175. * Written by Dennis Hensley * Published by William Morrow, $24 I generally avoid a...
  176. AIDS has been my concern since 1981, first as chairman of the board of the AIDS Medic...
  177. * Written by Doug Guinan * Published by Simon and Schuster, $23 I generally avoid ...
  178. Republican presidential hopefuls can't avoid getting into bed with the religious righ...
  179. I tend to remember moments of my life as snapshots," says Mark Senak, discussing his ...
  180. What's the Catholic League got against Priest, Nothing Sacred, and now Terrence McNal...
  181. Viagra, Pfizer Inc.'s new miracle drug to treat male impotence, has only been out a m...
  182. Gay pride's bustin' out all over. By the time you read this, there will have been lav...
  183. According to Merriam Webster's dictionary, "mo.nog.a.my" is the condition or practice...
  184. The Queen of Whale Cay: The Eccentric Story of "Joe" Carstairs, Fastest Woman on Wate...
  185. With proper planning you can program a gay TV festival at home Ellen may be off th...
  186. India's spiritual guru, Deepak Chopra, has some surprising words of wisdom for gay an...
  187. Exclusive: Clive Barker talks about his ambitious new novel An epic novel centerin...
  188. What causes homosexuality?" asks Mr. Charles, settling himself on the, throne of his ...
  189. An insightful new book shows commitment is a hot-button issue Author Eric Marcus has ...
  190. On the eve Culture Club's comeback tour, Boy George talks about his band's troubled h...
  191. MUCH OF WHAT'S BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT FRANK SINATRA smacks of the sexism with which the s...
  192. Whether you're in a monogamous relationships or not, you soon may be able to make it ...
  193. There are few bands as singular, as specifically American, and yet as downright homo ...
  194. Just when you thought it was to be lulled into the romantic notion of monogamy, EDMUN...
  195. As the world gears up for the centenary (in 2000) of Kurt Weill's birth, it seems rem...
  196. DICTIONARIES DEFINE MONOGAMY AS "THE CUSTOM OF BEING married to only one person at a ...
  197. Viagra's glory story may be tainted--the potency pill doesn't mix well with protease ...
  198. As the world gears up for the centenary (in 2000) of Kurt Weill's birth, it seems rem...
  199. John F. Kerry was furious. A May 13 wire report had quoted the Democratic senator fro...