Stories Collection

  1. Texas governor George W. Bush has billed himself as a "compassionate conservative' in...
  2. In 1979 activist Bruce Voeller wrote an Advocate essay celebrating the accomplishment...
  3. THERE DECADES AFTER STONEWALL, MILLENNIUM MARCH ORGANIZERS CAN ATTEST THAT THE MOVEME...
  4. When it comes to presenting gay and lesbian parenting, TV's tubes have been a little ...
  5. THE BLUE LAWN by William Taylor (Alyson, $9.95) Set in New Zealand, this young-adult ...
  6. FINDING THE BOYFRIEND WITHIN by Brad Gooch (Simon and Schuster, $21) The acclaimed no...
  7. If lesbians had any feel for the absurd, they'd see how ludicrous it is that so many ...
  8. First it was Tinky Winky; now the Rev. Jerry Fallwell is taking on Bud Light for havi...
  9. Among teens represented in a new study, those who are gay, lesbian, or bisexual were ...
  10. GAY PARENTING "IS THIS WHAT WE ALL DIED IN THE STREETS FOR? SO THAT YOU CAN ALL DRO...
  11. Viewers are gaga over Tara Sandler and Jennifer Davidson's cable show A Baby Story ...
  12. MR. DALLOWAY by Robin Lippincott (Sarabande, $13.95) Thanks to Michael Cunningham's T...
  13. GIRLFRIEND: MEN, WOMEN, AND DRAG by Holly Brubach; photographs by Michael James O'Bri...
  14. When you adopt a surname like Sissyfag, it tends to follow you everywhere. That's the...
  15. Although drug therapies have put a hold on lily in many patients, new research has fo...
  16. PARENTING IS MAKING GAYS AND LESBIANS CONFRONT THE HEART OF SOCIETY--AND THEMSELVES ...
  17. The producer of MTV's gay-inclusive hit series breaks new ground as one of a newborn'...
  18. BRUISED FRUIT by Anna Livia (Firebrand, $13.95) This comic novel's strong suit is its...
  19. THE ULTIMATE GUIDE TO PREGNANCY FOR LESBIANS by Rachel Pepper (Cleis, $14.95) At last...
  20. Pat Robertson, beware. Even a majority of religious conservative voters--64%--are wil...
  21. Balking at what it calls discrimination, the Unitarian Universalist Association vowed...
  22. FOUR YEARS AGO JESSE GREEN EXITED THE SINGLE GUYS' FAST LANE IN FAVOR OF DIAPERS AND ...
  23. A new exhibit recalls the time and people captured by Kenneth Paul Block's lush fashi...
  24. THE UMBRELLA COUNTRY by Bino A. Realuyo (Ballantine, $12.95) An extraordinary first n...
  25. GAY PARENTS/ STRAIGHT SCHOOLS by Virginia Casper and Steven B. Schultz (Teachers Coll...
  26. It was one of those rants that typifies opposition to gay rights. In a May 10 meeting...
  27. DIED: John Foster, 56, New Orleans optometrist and AIDS activist, of AIDS-related com...
  28. OPEN-MINDED AND WELL-ADJUSTED, CHILDREN WITH GAY PARENTS SAY THEIR FAMILIES ARE A GIF...
  29. This month, by special arrangement, The Advocate is first to announce the 100 Best ...
  30. KILLER IN DRAG by Ed Wood Jr. (Four Walls Eight Windows, $9.95) Get this: Glen is a h...
  31. ANOTHER LIFE by Michael Korda (Random House, $26.95) Picture the most brilliant racon...
  32. The attack occurred without warning on the balmy Friday evening of April 30, just bef...
  33. Singer-songwriter Cheryl Wheeler's antigun anthem, "If It Were Up to Me," was recorde...
  34. WILD STAR SALMA HAYEK SAYS IT WAS PASSION THAT FINALLY SOLD PEOPLE ON THE VELOCITY OF...
  35. Golden Threads * Written and directed by Lucy Winer * Produced by Lucy Winer and Kare...
  36. Writer Andrew Vachss strikes a blow against gay bashers in his latest crime novel A...
  37. Gay and AIDS rights activists are among those who charge that Intel Corp.'s Pentium I...
  38. Playwright David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross) has nudged his wife, actor Rebecca Pidge...
  39. THEY DON'T MEAN TO BE PROVOCATIVE; THEY'RE JUST DRAWN THAT WAY TARZAN JUNE 18 SOU...
  40. It was a great year for gay and lesbian theater in New York City, but much of it isn'...
  41. The Loss of Sexual Innocence * Written and directed by Mike Figgis * Starring Julia...
  42. Commercials are traditionally the time for bathroom breaks, but viewers in Washington...
  43. Governor Bush's gay colleagues hope to influence the would-be GOP presidential nomine...
  44. HOW RIDICULOUS CAN YOU GET? POWERSFULLY SILLY-YEAH, BABY AUSTIN POWERS- THE SPY WHO...
  45. In the Second City a gay theater company's original productions dominate this year's ...
  46. More than 800 lesbians, bisexual women, transendered women, queer women, and supporti...
  47. SPONSORED BY SAAB From the May 11 issue: Have you ever gone online or surfed the We...
  48. Bill Gates is pouring some of the money he is famous for toward the development of an...
  49. Will Republican moderates back-burner gay issues while they wrestle with conservative...
  50. THE KINKY THINGS THAT HETEROSEXUALS DO EYES WIDE SHUT JULY 16 TWIN FALLS IDAHO JU...
  51. Formerly half of Two Girls, Meg Hentges returns with an out and rockin' CD Brompton...
  52. Elizabeth Clare Prophet was my first diva. She tough that unrepentant homosexuals wou...
  53. DIED: Dirk Bogarde, 78, British actor who segued from comedies to dramas such as Deat...
  54. COSTARS CHRIS STAFFORD AND LEA DELARIA TRADE TALES ABOUT FOUR WEEKS OF FILMING IN OHI...
  55. HBO TAKES ON LESBIAN LOVE WITH ELLEN DEGENERES, ANNE HECHE, AND SHARON STONE Movie ...
  56. Noel Coward Sings Sail Away and Other Coward Rarities *Noel Coward *Harbinger This ...
  57. "I've been interested in women since I was 12 years old. I think I could definitely f...
  58. Most gays and lesbians of African descent identify with two minority groups and somet...
  59. RUPERT PLAYS IT STRAIGHT BUT STILL FOR LAUGHS A MIDSUMMER NIGHT DREAM IN RELEASE AN...
  60. WHEN IT COMES TO EDGY, INDEPENDENT GAY MOVIES, MARCUS HU AND TEN-YEAR-OLD STRAND RELE...
  61. Cabaret * Jonathan Pryce, Judi Dench, Fred Ebb, Gregg Edelman, and Maria Friedman * J...
  62. The Jenny Jones show's $25-million fine could change talk TV forever In the carniva...
  63. While the traditional pen-pal route of waiting months for letters sent in exotically ...
  64. OUR FAVORITE QUEENS OF CINEMA, FROM MS. STONE TO MISS PIGGY STAR WARS: EPISODE 1-TH...
  65. WITH A NEW BOOK AND A MOMA SCREENING, JAMES BIDGOOD TALKS ABOUT THE FRESH LIFE OF HIS...
  66. 1. Dance With Angels Madonna, Gloria Estefan, Taylor Dayne, et al. (Centaur, $17,99) ...
  67. Unlike when her boss was there in 1994, the subject of underwear never came up when A...
  68. Puzzled by those who think of cars as little more than a mode of transportation? Crin...
  69. FALLING IN LUST AGAIN WITH THREE ROMANTIC COMEDIES FINDING NORTH JUNE 4 TRICK JULY ...
  70. Being gay is like being a Stealth bomber. It takes many years and untold millions to ...
  71. Men's 1. The Pool: Shooting With Tom Bianchi (10% Productions, $29;95) 2. Men in ...
  72. * Edge of Seventeen * Written by Todd Stephens * Directed by David Moreton * Starring...
  73. Activists have used a variety of tactics to achieve gay rights. In their campaign to ...
  74. Log Cabin Republicans traces its beginnings to 1978 and Republican opposition to Cali...
  75. It's Elementary, Debra Chasnoff's little documentary about tolerance, beats back a gi...
  76. Moab Is My Washpot * Stephen Fry * Random House * $23 Actors Stephen Fry and Simon ...
  77. TWO OUT DIRECTORS' ALTER EGOS On the hidden side of the cameras, openly gay filmmak...
  78. It may soon be up to San Francisco voters to decide whether gay men should be able to...
  79. When the online magazine Salon ran a story on May 3 asking whether Abraham Lincoln wa...
  80. ALL ABOUT WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO QUEER PEOPLE SUMMER OF SCAM JULY 2 THE VELOCITY...
  81. A frank gay TV series ignites a fierce debate in the sexually conservative United Kin...
  82. Love Is Where It Falls: An Account of a Passionate Friendship * Simon Callow * Fromm ...
  83. Internet maven was too quick to suggest Colorado killers were gay If anyone needed ...
  84. Gay rights groups have taken aim at a partnership between Christian fundamentalist Pa...
  85. Maryland governor Parris Glendening pushed for a gay rights bill in memory of his gay...
  86. Activists hope for answers from the first federal study of lesbian transmission of HI...
  87. The import bins are an increasingly important resource for gay and lesbian music love...
  88. He was only 5 when the first Star Wars hit the big screen, but Chance Whitmire said t...
  89. DIED: Ben Corby, 87, actress who played the grandmother on the 1970s TV series The Wa...
  90. SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND GENDER ORIENTATION A SPECIAL ADVOCATE REPORT The debate ab...
  91. Surgeon General David Satcher speaks out on the same issues that sent his predecessor...
  92. Why is it that alternative-rock boys are obsessed with alternative female sexuality? ...
  93. Dion Custis, defense attorney for Matthew Shepard slaying suspect Aaron McKinney, sai...
  94. It's a guessing game we've all played: Who among our favorite politicians, poets, sta...
  95. CHICAGO ACTRESS ALEXANDRA BILLINGS DISCUSSES HER JOURNEY FROM FEMALE IMPERSONATOR TO ...
  96. In a watershed moment for gay visibility, four Pulitzer Prizes go to gay and lesbian ...
  97. The Ins and Outs of Gay Sex: A Medical Handbook for Men * Stephen E. Goldstone, MD * ...
  98. Members of the Phoenix chapter of the Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Veterans of America ...
  99. LARRY KRAMER'S ANGRY FARCE ON AIDS AND THE REAGANS GETS A NEW PRODUCTION IN CHICAGO ...
  100. Cinderella * Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles (through May 23) * Directed and choreograp...
  101. Are You Ready? The Gay Man's Guide to Thriving at Midlife * Rik Isensee * Alyson * $1...
  102. In an attempt to bolster its relationship with grassroots gay and lesbian activists, ...
  103. Fortunately, the Web is not lacking when it comes to information about lesbians and g...
  104. MEN WHO AREN'T AFRAID to call themselves "smart horny naked guys" just don't get toge...
  105. BORN AS A WOMAN, AN AWARD-WINNING PHOTOGRAPHER TELLS HOW HE BECAME THE MAN HE IS TODA...
  106. Basil Twist tells about taking his hit underwater puppet show to the West Coast Bus...
  107. Total Sex: Men's Fitness Magazine's Complete Guide to Everything Men Need to Know and...
  108. AIDS service groups, watch your backs. Three influential antigay GOP House members ha...
  109. Five years ago transgender activist Riki Anne Wilchins told Advocate reporter John Ga...
  110. TRANSGENDER ACTIVISTS SEEK ALLIES AMONG OFTEN-RELUCTANT LESBIANS AND GAY MEN It hap...
  111. The House of Lords refused April 14 to lower the sexual age of consent for gay men an...
  112. Carlos Alazraqui, the voice of Taco Bell's hot chihuahua, also spouts off in Fox TV's...
  113. WHAT DOES GENDER MEAN? A FORMER GIRLFRIEND'S NEW IDENTITY MAKES ONE LESBIAN RETHINK E...
  114. Tales of the Lavender Menace: A Memoir of Liberation * By Karla Jay * Basic Books * $...
  115. From the April 27 issue: Despite poor returns in Texas and Wisconsin, do you think AI...
  116. Tea With Mussolini * Written by John Mortimer and Franco Zeffirelli * Directed by Fra...
  117. Controversy over alleged embezzlement from an AIDS organization spilled into Al Gore'...
  118. The inimitable Roseanne sent some advice to gay bashers at the annual GLAAD Media Awa...
  119. VIOLENCE AGAINST THE TRANSGENDERED IS WIDESPREAD, BRUTAL--AND OFTEN UNNOTICED In No...
  120. Sebastian Cole is the latest in Hollywood's spotty history of sex-change story lines ...
  121. Lovesick:Modernist Plays of Same-Sex Love, 1894-1926 * Edited by Laurence Senelick * ...
  122. "One lie is worth a thousand truths," my Italian aunt recently told me. She wasn't ki...
  123. Bone marrow transplants, which can recharge an immune system ravaged by cancer, may d...
  124. The good news: Macho stars Nicolas Cage and Will Smith will reportedly star as a gay ...
  125. WITH REASSIGNMENT SURGERY EXPENSES AS HIGH AS $50,000 SOME TRANSSEXUALS MUST DECIDE B...
  126. Sundance Channel's "She Said Cinema" offers a month's worth of lesbian filmmaking T...
  127. Lena * By Jacqueline Woodson * Delacorte * $15.95 This thought-provoking, realistic...
  128. "People immediately think of Siegfried and Roy. They just assume if someone is involv...
  129. Pharmacist Sandy Fishman of Jersey City, N.J., counts capsules of the AIDS drug Agene...
  130. Former pro wrestler and now-governor Jesse Ventura goes to the mat on gay rights If...
  131. Are asteroids a shortcut or a deadly detour in the pursuit of the perfect body? In ...
  132. Iceland's groove collective Gus Gus erases boundaries in both music and love Listen...
  133. The talk around the dinner table had turned to politics, and the Texans surprised the...
  134. Call them strange bedfellows: the right-wing National Rifle Association and a leading...
  135. Thank goodness for small gestures! Playing opposite David Spade in the new romantic c...
  136. Karel and Andrew break new ground and brave the backlash on L.A.'s top talk-radio sta...
  137. Hours after NATO bombs began to rain down on Serbia in April, a news anchor appeared ...
  138. Friends recall the hate-crime victim's life as a lonely gay man in small-town Alabama...
  139. Underappreciated in his lifetime, Aaron Copland gets respect in a new biography Aar...
  140. I was so nervous, my whole body was sweating. It was 1978, and I was very newly out t...
  141. For advertisers who wonder if their marketing strategy will work, there's a new way t...
  142. WITH A NEW ALBUM AND STARRING TV ROLE DIANA ROSS PAUSES TO SAY SOME PRETTY SOULFUL TH...
  143. Maria Callas: Sacred Monster * Stelios Galatopoulos * Simon & Schuster * $35 Twen...
  144. At first glance the letter looked like a bombshell. In a "Dear Friends" mailing, Pat ...
  145. GAY AND LESBIAN ACTS CAN NOW OFFER THEIR MUSIC DIRECTLY TO LISTENERS VIA THE TECHNOLO...
  146. Closer * Music Box Theatre, New York City * Written and directed by Patrick Marber * ...
  147. When President Clinton released his hate-crimes initiatives in early April, he leaned...
  148. FEAR STILL KEEPS GAY INSTRUMENTALISTS FROM COMING OUT, EVEN AS ONE LESBIAN STAR URGES...
  149. The directors of two teen coming-out movies--one American, one British--swap behind-t...
  150. Relieved by Russell Henderson's guilty plea, activists join Matthew Shepard's friends...
  151. DIED: Mary Jane Rathbun, 77, medical marijuana activist, in San Francisco, April 10, ...
  152. MUSICIANS WHO ARE OPENLY GAY OR LEASBIAN FROM THE START FACE PARTICULAR OBSTACLES--AN...
  153. Life * Directed by Ted Demme * Written by Robert Ramsey and Matthew Stone * Starring ...
  154. Book 'em Pick up a book your friends have never heard of and support up-and-coming ...
  155. FROM THE DOORS TO BARENAKED LADIES, REPRISE RECORDS PRESIDENT HOWIE KLEIN HAS A HISTO...
  156. * Written and directed by Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau * Composed by Philip...
  157. Hillary Clinton isn't expected to make an announcement before summer regarding a pote...
  158. When it comes to divas of the MTV generation, no one even comes close to Madonna. By ...
  159. WHAT DOES THE 21ST CENTURY HOLD FOR WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVALS? AND WHY IT DOES MATTER ...
  160. J. Edgar Hoover * A&E's Biography * Premiering May 3, 8 P.M. Eastern (check local lis...
  161. Jonathan Schmitz is facing a rerun. Even as the Jenny Jones show was maintaining its ...
  162. Since even before the release of the speedy action-comedy Go, gay gossips have been g...
  163. A QUICK GUIDE TO THE BEST MUSIC ON BROADWAY, WHERE EVERYTHING NEW IS OLD--AGAIN You...
  164. 1 Best of 1998, Vol. 2 DJ Dado, The Tamperer, Cher, et al, (Perfect Beat Remix, $2,1....
  165. Gay and lesbian student groups have long been among the many recipients of mandatory ...
  166. At the third annual Gay/Lesbian American Music Awards, held April 12 in New York City...
  167. I never had to call her Miss Ross. "I've been meaning to speak to you about that," sh...
  168. Men's 1 In & Out (Paramount, $14.95) 2 Kiss Me Guido (Paramount, $14.95) 3 Worl...
  169. In a previous news stow in The Advocate, lesbian and gay organizations --including th...
  170. The only female bishop m Norway's Lutheran Church faces a revolt in her ranks after a...
  171. So Tammy Metzler, this lesbian girl, is, like, running for student council president,...
  172. Dusty Springfield may be gone, but memories linger on. And mine are not of her alone ...
  173. * Jan Clausen * Houghton Mifflin * $24 After 12 years in a lesbian marriage, Jan Cl...
  174. * "You're absolutely right. Of course we'd sleep together--why would you want to use ...
  175. Acknowledging that lesbians are an underserved population when it comes to health car...
  176. The strong-willed Lady Chablis--best known for being her larger-than-life self in bot...
  177. Aussie dancer-choreographer Stanton Welch talks about the world of ballet Down Under ...
  178. Hints of what can be expected throughout the trial of Russell Henderson, the first of...
  179. Next time you pop a Viagra, think of Lou Sheldon. The chairman of the Traditional Val...
  180. In one March weekend Bill Condon picked up the best independent feature prize for his...
  181. Ellen DeGeneres tries her hand at movie comedy and film noir in her first post-Ellen ...
  182. The Spell * Alan Hollinghurst * Viking * $24.95 Anyone who follows gay lit will cer...
  183. Ever since Sherman Houck and Bob Wilkins announced they were opening a Hollywood-them...
  184. DIED: Eugene Baker, 78, early member of Parents of Gays and of the Mattachine Society...
  185. Gay couples can face unique problems when one partner has more money than the other ...
  186. The director of a lesbian film set during World War II talks about taking risks A m...
  187. Burning Girl * Ben Neihart Rob Weisbach Books * $24 Anyone who follows gay lit will...
  188. They lobbied, they rallied, they mobilized. All across the nation, gays and lesbians ...
  189. For years drug czar Barry McCaffrey has claimed that using marijuana to treat AIDS an...
  190. More and more ads are using gay themes to capture audience attention and clinch sales...
  191. Sean Mathias talks about bringing the legend of Dietrich to the Broadway stage "Mar...
  192. A Methodist minister in Chicago who officiated at the holy union of two gay men was s...
  193. Some body fluids are apparently safer than others. According to a study published in ...
  194. Some of the most gay-friendly companies find it still makes sense to bankroll Washing...
  195. Betty's Summer Vacation * Written by Christopher Durang * Directed by Nicholas Martin...
  196. Men's titles [1] Husband Hunting Made Easy by Patrick Price St, Martin's/Griffin, $...
  197. Culture wars It is interesting that Larry Kramer thinks the idea of a postgay cultu...