Stories Collection

  1. Photographer Jamie Griffiths's work explores spirituality, gender, and sex from a que...
  2. With as little as 6,5 cents of every AIDS-ride dollar going to charity, some pedal pu...
  3. Guerrilla filmmaker Michael Moore exposes hate and breaks sodomy laws for his new ser...
  4. Frontiers * Michael Jensen * Pocket Books * $24 As legend would have it, Johnny App...
  5. A telephone help line set up for military personnel with health questions is catching...
  6. So you fancy yourself a scribe? Check out Q*ink!, an online stomping ground for write...
  7. Gay MBA students are changing the face of their schools and the future of the workpla...
  8. Melissa Ferrick returns with an indie record of brutal honesty and tap-your-feet tune...
  9. "Why are you in Amsterdam?" I've been asked that question frequently in recent months...
  10. Great Britain will offer citizenship to residents in its remaining colonies and will,...
  11. Gay cartoonist Howard Cruse is best known for his comic strip "Wendel," which was onc...
  12. SHE GAVE HERSELF COMPLETELY TO HER MUSIC AND TO THE WOMEN SHE LOVED. SHE WAS OUR DIVA...
  13. Usually, when a dance mix CD aimed at gay folk sports wall-to-wall hits, you can bet ...
  14. From the March 30 issue: Do you think the Pentagon's "dont ask, don't tell" policy re...
  15. When it comes to ROTC programs, colleges and universities have long been in the uncom...
  16. Today, lesbians run most national gay organizations, hold political offices, and have...
  17. Felicity Porter, 17, moved to New York City from Palo Alto, Calif., where she may wel...
  18. Homosexuality and American Public Life * Edited by Christopher Wolfe * Spence * $29.9...
  19. ARGENTINA Seeking princely favors A crowd of Argentine gays and transvestites mob...
  20. BAREBACKING COULD TARNISH GAY MEN'S IMAGE AMONG STRAIGHT PEOPLE-WITH DISASTROUS RESUL...
  21. * Written and directed by Deepa Mehta * New Yorker Video When Fire premiered in Ind...
  22. ADVERTISING Press dollars ad up The boom economy has helped mainstream publicatio...
  23. 11 LESBIANS SOUND OFF ON THE CONTROVERSIAL PRACTICE OF BAREBACK SEX It isn't just m...
  24. * Directed by Jeff Bleckner * Written by Alison Cross * Starring Glenn Close * Columb...
  25. Pop icon and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Dusty Springfield died March ...
  26. Ruling offers hope to gay Presbyterians A gay elder's election to the governing boa...
  27. WHEN RISK TAKING SEEMS SEXY AND BEING HIV-POSITIVE LOOKS BREEZY AND FUN, MAYBE IT'S T...
  28. * Written and directed by Monte Bramer * First Run Features When our best and brigh...
  29. DIED: Jeffrey Mason, 44, Washington, D.C., activist with the Metropolitan Community C...
  30. "This is Bob Dole for erectile dysfunction." Sort of writes its own punch line, doesn...
  31. An all-star cast preview's the songs for Elton John and Disney's next musical Consi...
  32. The striking frailty of the Roman pontiff on his recent visit to America made us all ...
  33. NOW on the Net The National Organization for Women Web site is a must-see for activ...
  34. While more mainstream movies like My Best Friend's Wedding and the new Go offer gay ...
  35. Judy Duets/Judy at the Palace * Judy Garland * BCD/MSL Partners Performers are ofte...
  36. "My rationale is that an ass is an ass--and that's one thing everyone has. But it's g...
  37. February 17, 1983: Prevention versus promiscuity Men's choosing to have unprotected...
  38. Go * Written by John August * Directed by Doug Liman * Starring Scott Wolf, Jay Mohr,...
  39. Judy Duets/Judy at the Palace * Judy Garland * BCD/MSL Partners Performers are ofte...
  40. The never-ending 1970s revival seems to have taken hold of politics as a new law prot...
  41. Scully likes girls Gillian Anderson, a.k. The X-Files' Agent Dana Scully, drew chee...
  42. Actor David Marshall Grant debuts as a playwright with the gratifyingly complex Snake...
  43. Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story * By Gary Indiana * Cliff Street/ HarperC...
  44. CRIME All in the family With his conviction for the dragging death of a black man...
  45. Even in the malevolent history of gay bashings, the slaying of Billy Jack Gaither sta...
  46. "Gay theater has become more diverse in terms of aesthetics and stories," says playwr...
  47. Vulgar Favors: Andrew Cunanan, Gianni Versace, and the Largest Failed Manhunt in U.S....
  48. Creating community About a year ago four Atlanta women chatting around a dining roo...
  49. Gay students and teachers lace a new outburst of violence and intolerance In Februa...
  50. 1 Dance With Angels Madonna, Sting, Taylor Dayne, et al. (Centaur, $17.99) 2 Circui...
  51. Anyone interested in the complexities of characters dealing with relationships and re...
  52. COURT Honoring Blackmun When Harry Blackmun died March 4 at the age of 90, he was...
  53. BAREBACKING CELEBRATES UNPROTECTED SEX AND RAISES DIFFICULT ISSUES ABOUT AIDS PREVENT...
  54. Men's 1 Worship: Muscle Fantasies, Vol. 1 (Sidmoore Shepherd, $2.9.95) 2 Naked in...
  55. There's a vandalized statue of Karl Marx in Moscow on which in 1991 some sage and mor...
  56. So they asked me to be treasurer of the Democratic Party, and my first reaction was, ...
  57. Call them the Promise Breakers. The antigay evangelical men's group Promise Keepers a...
  58. POWER IS THE ABILITY TO CHANGE THINGS, AND THESE MOVERS AND SHAKERS--FROM STUDIO BIGW...
  59. In a new HBO documentary, two dozen men (and one transsexual woman) talk about their ...
  60. Despite GMHC's laudable decision to close what it could not clean up, the Morning Par...
  61. Hate-filled rhetoric and the impeachment trial help line gay organizations' pockets ...
  62. DIED: Paul Schmidt, 65, an openly gay poet and translator of Chekhov and Rimbaud, of ...
  63. NINE FILMMAKER GET READY TO HIT THE BIGTIME LISA CHOLODENKO High Art, writer-dire...
  64. The Mineola Twins * Roundabout Theatre, New York City (through May 2) * Written by Pa...
  65. Government funding of the arts is back on track in Mecklenburg County, N.C., after co...
  66. Fallen victim to Academy Awards fever? Why not put some of that big-screen obsession ...
  67. The off-Broadway production of Beautiful Thing is less lively than the 1996 film adap...
  68. As publisher of Between The Lines, a statewide gay newspaper in Michigan, Susan Horow...
  69. Whoopi Goldberg is all over Hollywood this spring. She hosts the Academy Awards on Ma...
  70. FROM AFFLICTION TO ZORRO, THE ADVOCATE FINDS ALL THE HIDDEN AND NOT-SO-HIDDEN REASONS...
  71. One of Todd Haynes's Velvet Goldmine stars creates a new fusion of glitter and electr...
  72. Ted Regan, 35, is preparing to paddle the length of the Eastern seaboard on a seven-m...
  73. "I'm so proud they've entrusted me to portray a realistic, multidimensional, positive...
  74. When LARRY KRAMER earned a 1970 Academy Award nomination for his screenplay adaptatio...
  75. Gay writer and literary agent Robert Drake, 36, could be a character from one of his ...
  76. Wynonna isn't exactly the first woman you would expect to see at the Dinah Shore Week...
  77. I'm not a doctor; I don't even play one on TV. I did play doctor when I was 8 with my...
  78. A Vatican report on last year's murder of a Swiss Guard commander and his wife by a j...
  79. Two years ago The Advocate officially dubbed the Oscars the "Gay Super Bowl." Now Com...
  80. Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin * Alice Echols * Metropol...
  81. Sylvia Hotel * Cheryl Wheeler * Philo/Rounder Sometimes complicated talents attract...
  82. The religious right has long advocated excluding openly gay Republicans from the GOP....
  83. Jerry Falwell's homophobic rants push his gay cousin out of the closet Televangelis...
  84. The Essential Gore Vidal * Edited by Fred Kaplan * Random House * $39.95 If the gay...
  85. In the Street * Village People * Chronicles Consider the Village People the gay can...
  86. Tanqueray's Texas AIDS Ride has attracted some publicity but not the kind organizers ...
  87. The human wreckage from "don't ask, don't tell" grows with each passing year Jill S...
  88. Men's titles 1 Just As I Am by E, Lynn Harris (Anchor, $11,95) 2 Alec Baldwin Doe...
  89. Renaissance * Village People * Chronicles Consider the Village People the gay canar...
  90. A microscopic change in breast tissue can help doctors predict whether a woman whose ...
  91. E! NEWS DAILY'S ACE COANCHOR LIFTS THE CURTAIN ON HIS (GAY) LIFE IN BROADCASTING HO...
  92. The School of Flesh * Written by Jacques Fieschi * Directed by Benoit Jacquot * Starr...
  93. Sex Over the Phone * Village People * Chronicles Consider the Village People the ga...
  94. BUSINESS Briefly speaking Don't expect any Marky Mark-style ad campaigns or semip...
  95. Coming soon from Miramax--me. You know Miramax, the folks who brought you Gwyneth Pal...
  96. Trumpet * Jackie Kay Pantheon * $23 Even in this jaded here and now, when nearly ev...
  97. GERMANY Remembering gay Holocaust victims More than 300 people gathered January 2...
  98. A regional Presbyterian Church board that represents about 95 churches and 11,000 par...
  99. WHAT INSPIRED DAWSON'S CREEK TO TACKLE A GAY TEEN STORY LINE? CREDIT SERIES CREATOR K...
  100. Prepare for Saints: Gertrude Stein, Virgil Thomson, and the Mainstreaming of American...
  101. Don't ask, don't tell? I am bitterly disappointed in your decision to splash Capt. ...
  102. DIED: Rod Sorge, 30, former executive director of the Harm Reduction Coalition--a pri...
  103. An updating of Dangerous Liaisons adds gay teenagers to the mix--including Dawson's C...
  104. In the late-1970s era of New Wave music, a singer named Lene Lovich wrote a song call...
  105. Reader comments from www.advocate.com * "What makes you think that just because som...
  106. Trouble in paradise The first two weeks of February were rife with embarrassment fo...
  107. Rock Hudson: Acting the Part * A&E's Biography * Premiering March 7, 8 p.m. EST (chec...
  108. Just about a year ago, a small percentage of Maine voters succeeded in repealing our ...
  109. December 3, 1975: Are gays mere likely to be attacked than straights? As the first ...
  110. Hedwig and the Angry Inch * Original cast recording * Atlantic It's been well over ...
  111. "Bruce Willis always behaves in these films like a lesbian would behave. He's so supe...
  112. Following in his brother's pump prints It's amazing to sit in the audience of the n...
  113. What's so thrilling about Sleater-Kinney is the way these unlikely lesbian heroes ris...
  114. While most of the news about HIV these days is sunny, there were some dark rumblings ...
  115. Judy Shepard talks about her son Matthew, his legacy, and her own newfound activism ...
  116. HATE CRIMES Rocky Mountain lows After the grisly slaying of University of Wyoming...
  117. Recalling her own son's murder, Dorothy Hajdys-Holman reflects on the Shepard killing...
  118. Correct Me If I'm Right * Written and performed by Kate Clinton Kate Clinton is one...
  119. About 100 Notre Dame students went on a hunger strike February 3-5 to urge the South ...
  120. Activists debate whether the death penalty in the Shepard case would be justice or re...
  121. The Eros Trilogy * Written by Nicky Silver * Directed by David Warren * Starring Bett...
  122. Although AIDS experts have expressed concern about an apparent surge of new HIV infec...
  123. Activists plan demonstrations in 50 states to fight for basic human rights Matthew ...
  124. He chews gum hard and heedlessly, like a bobby-soxer. He snows journalists with phony...
  125. Computer games have never been known for their subtlety, but Deer Avenger, from Simon...
  126. Laura Ashley Holdings recently turned to television evangelist and Christian Coalitio...
  127. FORGET STREET DEMONSTRATIONS--THE INTERNET IS THE NEWEST AVENUE FOR ORBANIZIN8 AND PR...
  128. House/Lights: An Adaptation of Gertrude Stein's Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights * The...
  129. When educators Alice Cozad and Jill Vaughan sat down two years ago for a screening of...
  130. DIED: H. Evelyn Kotch, 59, of Philadelphia, national gay Republican leader, of lung c...
  131. GAY GROUPS AND AIDS GROUPS BELIEVE COMPUTER DISRUPTIONS WILL BE MINIMAL COME JANUARY ...
  132. We Are Michael Field * Emma Donoghue * Absolute Press * $9.95 If you're my age, you...
  133. Chalk it up as another one for the history books. On January 19, Bill Clinton became ...
  134. What a time it's been online for the word gay. First America Online pulled a thesauru...
  135. THERE'S LOTS OF G00D WORK TO BE DONE AND A LOT OF GREAT FANTASIES TO BE HAD IN THE WO...
  136. Arthur Rimbaud * Benjamin Ivry * Absolute Press * $9.95 If you're my age, you doubt...
  137. IMPEACH THE GOP Longtime gay rights activist Bob Kunst is leading members of his Mi...
  138. In its ongoing campaign to recognize the stamps of the century, the U.S. Postal Servi...
  139. February is Black History Month, and as usual I have mixed emotions. Why? Maybe it's ...
  140. Marcel Proust * Edmund White * Lipper/Viking * $19.95 If you're my age, you doubtle...
  141. In a sign of just how far the national Democratic Party has come on gay issues, a gay...
  142. James T. Sears, the author of such books as Growing Up Gay in the South and Lonely Hu...
  143. In a stirring new documentary, an HIV-positive crew competes in a famed yacht race ...
  144. The hottest new star in tennis is French, 19 years old--and a lesbian. Amelie Mauresm...
  145. In these days of cyberdating, online interactive porn, and special-interest Web sites...
  146. Blessed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Queen Elizabeth, Dusty Springfield is r...
  147. Ferocious Romance: What My Encounters With the Right Taught Me About Sex, God, and Fu...
  148. Jeanne Barnett, 68, and Ellie Charlton, 63, did a lot more than redefine "public disp...
  149. Canada, facing a slew of court challenges by gay rights activists, plans sweeping cha...
  150. Armed only with a piano, Elton John is hitting the road without a band for the first ...
  151. With his first CD and his upcoming debut at the Metropolitan Opera, countertenor Davi...
  152. On Sunset Boulevard: The Life and Times of Billy Wilder * Ed Sikov * Hyperion * $35...
  153. "My idea of gambling was walking through Central Park, whistling a show tune." --To...
  154. Scientists have long wondered where HIV originated. Now they know: a subspecies of ch...
  155. Charlie Brown gay? No way, says Anthony Rapp, the actor who's playing him on Broadway...
  156. Lady Bunny takes on the artistry and legend of Deborah Harry and Blondie in typically...
  157. Allan Stein * Matthew Stadler * Grove Press * $22 Voices like Matthew Stadler's a...
  158. GOP presidential hopefuls scramble to appeal to the party's most antigay factions I...
  159. Gay men in Los Angeles are as reluctant to have their prostates examined as straight ...
  160. Sure, Xena has puckered up to Gabrielle, but the closest you'll get to queer on Hercu...
  161. David Marshall Grant talks about the road from acting in Angels in America to writing...
  162. In many gay and lesbian households, the pressing issue for the end of 1999 is not "Wi...
  163. Pushing aside the strong objections of a group of activists, the Gay and Lesbian Alli...
  164. Following complaints from listeners, two Seattle radio stations in January dropped a ...
  165. LUCY LAWLESS, TV'S XENA, TELLS HOW IT FEELS TO BE THE ULTIMATE FANTASY OF LESBIANS ON...
  166. Deep in the heart of Texas, two queer collaborators discuss their new theatrical take...
  167. What does it mean to be black? I seriously wanted to know the answer to this question...
  168. A long-awaited study of lesbian health has uncovered a problem: Doctors know very lit...
  169. Theater's drag diva Charles Busch is gowned again in his latest camp confection, Shan...
  170. Men's 1 Kiss Me, Guido (Paramount, $14.95) 2 The Pool: Shooting With Tom Bianchi ...
  171. "An essential part of the Boy Scout message is to be morally straight.... The view th...
  172. Targeting HIV in hard-to-reach lymph nodes, researchers for the first time have curbe...
  173. A gay police officer's suicide leaves activists and city officials wondering what wen...
  174. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (February 14-May 9) Over the past ten years, sculpto...
  175. Can he endure another round of bigotry and bickering? Just when James C. Hormel's n...
  176. To be gay and Muslim in many countries of the world puts one at risk of a barbaric de...
  177. An officer in the Marines, a gay man, and a porn star--the three faces of Rich Merrit...
  178. The Trio * Written by Horst Scerba, Volker Einrauch, and Hermine Huntgeburth * Direct...
  179. While most gay men and lesbians claim nothing but disdain for the men accused of kill...
  180. DIED: Shara Beckman, 43, Washington, D.C., office manager at the Mary-Helen Mautner P...
  181. By compartmentalizing their sexuality, men often lose control in dangerous ways Pre...
  182. Jawbreaker * Written and directed by Darren Stein * Starring Rose McGowan, Rebecca Ga...
  183. In a tragic turn of events, the head of Alabama's best-known gay rights group committ...
  184. With Valentine's Day only a heartbeat away, The Kiss.com is a must for all lovers and...
  185. Rep. Tammy Baldwin and her girlfriend add a new spin to the Washington political and ...
  186. Bruce Bagemihl talks about his new book--Biological Exuberance--and how it proves tha...
  187. For most of the year the AIDS memorial quilt remains carefully folded in a warehouse....
  188. While Gay. Net used to be little more than an online pickup bar, it's recently been r...
  189. Graduation day, and the dean of Ohio State University is handing out diplomas. We wer...
  190. In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz * Edited by Amy...
  191. Dozens of activists, many spurred on by Matthew Shepard's murder, descended on Washin...
  192. Has your bar chatter been lackluster as of late? Check out Independent Gay Forum, an ...
  193. William Hoffman talks about the road from his AIDS drama As Is to his new play, Riga ...
  194. Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz * Edited by Amy Scholder * Rizzoli * $35 An ill...
  195. The Supreme Court once again left intact the military's "don't ask, don't tell" polic...