Stories Collection

  1. You're logged on to an Internet chat room for gay men. You jump into the conversation...
  2. I was in San Francisco this past Halloween. I was curious to see how it felt to be th...
  3. While Ellen Morgan made prune time history on television this year, daytime TV broke ...
  4. If the early 1990s sparked the "gayby" boom, 1997 shot back with a resounding echo of...
  5. Did healthy homoeroticism make inroads on the American dance scene in 1997? In fact, ...
  6. Political rallies in the nation's capital are often defined by fiery rhetoric and fer...
  7. Take a dark comedy about female coming-of-age complicated by incest, add one middle-a...
  8. January Benefits by the bay: San Francisco mayor Willie Brown says he will not back d...
  9. Two of Gianni Versace's favorite buzzwords were quality and future, so after the 50-y...
  10. How is this queer year unlike any other? Is the world 365 days safer for gay people? ...
  11. We asked readers who visit the Advocate Web site what they considered the top five su...
  12. By the time he wrote Junky in the early 1950s, William S. Burroughs was well past his...
  13. Whew! the year's almost over, and to hear some people tell it, it didn't end a moment...
  14. Thanks, fellow film lover, for clicking on the "me" link and not just hurrying along,...
  15. I've been rereading Allen Ginsberg's early poems. Despite their unflagging energy, lo...
  16. Who would have guessed that playing the gay best friend could make you the hottest ac...
  17. When singer-songwriter Laura Nyro died of ovarian cancer on April 8, the statement is...
  18. Some activists say President Clinton hasn't delivered on his promises to gay men and ...
  19. Last January the ratings of the ABC sitcom Ellen were way down, and the critics were ...
  20. When Martin Markowitz joined the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center in New York City ...
  21. When I saw Fire for the first time, I cried before anything sad actually happened. It...
  22. In Tony Valenzuela's world, freedom means having a lot of sex. He has sex for money a...
  23. Nobody congratulates you when you come out," blurts Ellen Morgan in the April 30 epis...
  24. THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS IN AIDS Care wants your immune system. Th...
  25. How's this for the plot of a Broadway show: First of all, it's about two women who ar...
  26. During a panel discussion at the White House Conference on Hate Crimes, Sheila James ...
  27. The December 4 opening of James Lapine's new Broadway production of the 1955 award-wi...
  28. The year was 1991, and talk shows were on the rise. There was Geraldo, The Oprah Winf...
  29. There are so many divas these days that the term has lost its meaning. A diva cannot ...
  30. When James L. Brooks was casting the gay role of Simon Nye in As Good As It Gets, he ...
  31. Lou Harrison, the country's senior gay composer, could not have ordered up a more sum...
  32. A small container of wilted flowers leans against the fence post near the cabin, a re...
  33. Despite rumors to the contrary, genuine stars are made. not born. And no star of rece...
  34. It's your best friend's 40th birthday. Even though you have a big presentation at the...
  35. If the latest biography of Truman Capote downplays the legendary author's literary co...
  36. When Mark Misrok first heard about AIDS in the early 1980s, he figured his life would...
  37. IN & OUT, THE MOST RECENT OF THE RECENT CROP OF HOMO-friendly box-office hits (and th...
  38. Christina was volunteering at a women's health clinic when a young lesbian came in co...
  39. IT MUST HAVE BEEN A LATE-CENTURY CASE OF P.T.E.S.S. (a.k.a. post-traumatic Ellen stre...
  40. If there are any Nobel prize-winning physiologists who subscribe to The Advocate, per...
  41. A right-wing radio host railing against the Walt Disney Co. for being pro-gay. Alveda...
  42. It's no coincidence that the narrator of Robert Dessaix's new novel is a bookish Aust...
  43. We certainly don't want to harm homosexuals or any group we disagree with," says Rabb...
  44. There's an unfortunate trend Tin contemporary literature: Young gay authors are deliv...
  45. Dana walked into the only battered women's shelter in her Midwestern city with a bloo...
  46. With such books as the award-winning Autobiography of My Mother, the West Indian-born...
  47. Given the controversy over the recently released gospel single by Angie and Debbie Wi...
  48. In June 1996 Tracey St. Pierre was sitting at her desk in the office of Rep. Charles ...
  49. These days I walk around muttering a typical New Yorker. I feel like the guy who leap...
  50. I want this to be a country where every child and every person who is responsible eno...
  51. They're hooting, they're hollering, they're yelling at the refs. They're styling with...
  52. He didn't come right out and say it, but President Clinton's message to gay Americans...
  53. RADIO IN LOS ANGELES IS FAIRLY PREDICTABLE. THE BIGGEST stations broadcast in Spanish...
  54. On the October 29 episode of Ellen, Ellen Morgan met Laurie, her first love. And unde...
  55. The exchange of presents isn't the only way to celebrate the Christmas season. Each y...
  56. It's 1997, and a female folksinger who runs her own label according to her own free-s...
  57. San Diego has made it to the Super Bowl. No, not the Chargers. We're talking about th...
  58. Don't try to put Ani DiFranco in a box. It just won't work. Whether in her music or h...
  59. The week before Bent began to circulate in media screening rooms, a dissonant chorus ...
  60. When President Clinton stepped up to his bully pulpit and said that a diverse society...
  61. Don't believe the hype about Kristine Peterson's romantic comedy Slaves tb the Underg...
  62. Will Hawaii be ringing its wedding bells for gay marriages this year? Last year Ha...
  63. The first entry in the chronology of staged performances listed in David Vaughan's sm...
  64. When former professional surfer Robbins Thompson went on NBC's Dateline to talk about...
  65. What is black, white, pink, and read all over? What is the hottest, most outrageous, ...
  66. President Clinton's conference on hate crimes has America talking about the violence ...
  67. In his groundbreaking first novel, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Allan G...
  68. Newly appointed Guam supreme court justice Benjamin Cruz may be the nation's highest-...
  69. MY FAVORITE UNCLE, AN ERUDITE CATHOLIC PRIEST, USED to define Unitarians as "atheists...
  70. OUR STORY SO FAR: MR. LESBIAN (MY SPOUSE, PATRICIA, CHRISTENED thus by Howard Stem af...
  71. AS WE MOVE THROUGH THE SECOND DECADE OF THE HIV epidemic, rates of risky sex among ga...
  72. There's a simple reason our most familiar images of drag have been parodies of global...
  73. After taking on the military when it tried to throw her out for being a lesbian, Marg...
  74. I once saw Jim Bailey perform in Las Vegas. The audience was from a plumbers' convent...
  75. Singers Angie and Debbie Winans share the sweet gospel sound of their older siblings ...
  76. What does it say about the new Hollywood that a gay character dying of AIDS complicat...
  77. While some argue that it isn't worth risking human lives for research, other say it's...
  78. Those who think the current spate of gay or lesbian movies paints an inaccurate pictu...
  79. When Joseph Oncale filed a sexual-harassment suit against his employer in 1994, the h...
  80. It's now official: The pop world is obsessed with us gay, lesbian, bisexual, and tran...
  81. Since 1991 six gay men last seen leaving New York City gay bars have been killed and ...
  82. In his introduction to The Gay Metropolis: 1940-1996, Charles Kaiser quotes academic ...
  83. In the past San Franciscans who engaged in unprotected sex had little choice but to w...
  84. I was disgusted at the start of this decade when young lesbians and gays began to cal...
  85. When Cheryl Chase was born, doctors told her parents she was a boy. Eighteen months l...
  86. Camille's voice fills with rage and pain when she talks about her childhood. "My puni...
  87. "If only you would dress and act more like a girl," Daphne Scholinski's doctors told ...
  88. FOR HALF A CENTURY THE SEPARATIST IMPULSE HAS SHAPED GAY life. It has been the motor ...
  89. What happened at the hotel Honolulu will not go down in the history books. It won't h...
  90. The success of In & Out proves that America is ready to see gay characters on-screen ...
  91. Your gay gift list gets longer every holiday season. Friends. Lovers. Ex-lovers. Adop...
  92. Say it out loud: "Clint Eastwood." You think of that granite face, the .44 Magnum, th...
  93. If Vito Russo were around to update his landmark study The Celluloid Closet, he might...
  94. It's a fact. Everybody who reads Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, John Berend...
  95. When Rhino expanded its retail business into a record label during the 1980s, it spec...
  96. When veteran lesbian activist Virginia Apuzzo was named a senior White House aide, sh...
  97. When Rhino expanded its retail business into a record label during the 1980s, it spec...
  98. NONPROFITS A condom with your latte You'd think Seattle would've been the first ...
  99. With the rise of gay films and (surprise!) believable gay characters in Hollywood, th...
  100. In the gay press the practice of outing--revealing without permission that someone is...
  101. This project marks the dubious transition from CNN opera to National Enquirer opera. ...
  102. Gay and lesbian children growing up in a homophobic world face challenges other kids ...
  103. Like many gay men, Nahum Zenil finds conflicts with Catholicism and with living openl...
  104. What's ironic to me about being on the cover of this magazine is that I have never ac...
  105. By Gus Van Sant (Nan A. Talese, $21.95) Reviewed by Robert L. Pela Occasionally, f...
  106. I grew up in a commune, isolated from the rest of the world. After I left, at age 12,...
  107. MEN 1. Reclaiming Your Life: The Gay Man's Guide to Love, Self-Acceptance, and Trust ...
  108. A raging rebellion called Stonewall sounded the first cries of gay liberation in the ...
  109. Known for helping parents learn to embrace their gay children, the organization is ex...
  110. Written and directed by Andrew Niccol (Columbia) Reviewed by Jan Stuart A lab tech...
  111. When the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care started its vaccine ini...
  112. Betty DeGeneres, Ellen's mom, agrees to serve as spokeswoman for HRC's coming-out pro...
  113. Cowritten and directed by Wendy Lobel (Lifetime, premieres October 22; check local li...
  114. WASHINGTON STATE Taking gay rights to the people Election Day is fast approachin...
  115. Last issue, The Advocate looked at hate crimes motivated by blatant homophobia. In th...
  116. Was a male transvestite the reason sportscaster Marv Albert copped a plea September 2...
  117. In this excerpt from his memoir, Footnotes* Tommy Tune describes the homophobic envir...
  118. Pat Robertson thought he was preaching to the choir. In fact, he was preaching to a t...
  119. WHAT DO YOU CALL THE ONE YOU LOVE DARLING? SWEETHEART? Partner? This lesbian-gay nome...
  120. President Clinton wants to get tough on perpetrators of hate crimes. Gay activist say...
  121. Science is the engine of queer history. That's true first in a purely technical sense...
  122. When I was a high school history teacher, one of my favorite lessons was to take pred...
  123. Directed by Basil Dearden (Janus/Home Vision) Reviewed by Jan Stuart It's a little...
  124. The nation's only gay fraternity celebrates its tenth anniversary this year, while it...
  125. The most important development in science in the next 30 years will be the sequencing...
  126. It is Still not clear whether lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) studies ...
  127. Cowritten and directed by Manuel Gomez Pereira (Miramax) Reviewed by Bob Satuloff ...
  128. Whoever has traveled through Oregon must remember the beautiful city of Portland. It ...
  129. Now that the false word is dangerously being spread that AIDS, the deadliest assault ...
  130. Thirty years from now I'll be old, arthritic, and just as annoyed at still having to ...
  131. By Rita Mae Brown (Bantam, $23.95) Robert L. Pela is the Phoenix correspondent for Na...
  132. The next 30 years will bring enormous change in the military. There is relative peace...
  133. Time heals all wounds, and the battle over bisexuality, so fierce in the late 20th ce...
  134. I'm imagining gay fashion three decades from now not as gay-autonomous or gay per se ...
  135. By Tim Miller (Alyson, $12.95) Reviewed by Robert L. Pela Tim Miller's name will p...
  136. The election in 2000 will be the first in which gay, lesbian, and bisexual voters can...
  137. What if being a lesbian or a gay man turned out to mean you are imbued with special p...
  138. Where is the future of gay and lesbian music headed? Who knows. The future does not e...
  139. In Elsinore, Robert Lepage's hypnotic one-man deconstruction of Hamlet to be performe...
  140. Star date: September 2027. Well, The Advocate is turning 60, and I have been asked...
  141. Nowadays, in 2027, we look back on the lesbian and gay civil rights movement of the 1...
  142. With some reluctance I accepted the assignment of projecting into the future a descri...
  143. Whatever its shortcomings, there is no overestimating the impact of the gay press on ...
  144. After decades in fashion exile, Birkenstocks are back--and mine are quite the collect...
  145. The press will determine how gay men and lesbians fit into society in the year 2027. ...
  146. For the past several weeks, I have been trying to imagine the world of lesbian and ga...
  147. There's no such thing as progress in the arts. Let's get that myth out of the way rig...
  148. The future of women's health and lesbian health looks hopeful. We finally have studie...
  149. Money equals power--at least in a capitalistic, free-market democracy. Given the curr...
  150. I don't want to write about the future. I want to write about the past. We're forg...
  151. It took her death for people to realize exactly what she had accomplished. The tragic...
  152. Gay health? The terms won't struggle with each other 30 years from now, the tired old...
  153. The key to the next 30 years of gay America? Keep your eye on the churches. For so...
  154. A person could turn cadaver-blue waiting for commercial moviemakers to elevate gay fo...
  155. In this tragedy set in Brooklyn, three gay Latino youths struggle with an irreconcila...
  156. When I look ahead 30 years, my instincts tell me that gay literature as a category wi...
  157. My favorite Janis Ian moment was seeing a drag performer--Dini Lamot as Musty Chiffon...
  158. Having someone assume you're heterosexual can be annoying, frustrating, and alienatin...
  159. Surely there must be something someone can do to shake up poor Morrissey. Every few y...
  160. Genetic testing and an ongoing debate over mammograms proved hot topics at the Gay an...
  161. Jason Dallin "has a problem." The central character of Christian McLaughlin's hilario...
  162. At this summer's annual conference of the National Lesbian and Gay Health Association...
  163. Despite a rather routine story and a cast of mostly mundane characters, Paula Martina...
  164. "Following legalization of same-sex marrige and a couple of other things," Andrew Sul...
  165. Gay men have always been open about discussing sex--with other gay men, at least. Whe...
  166. "I've been writing sitcoms for ten years," says television writer-producer Maxine Lap...
  167. Is there a place for gay men in Promise Keepers, the nation's biggest right-wing evan...
  168. Remember the Sex Wars? Back in the Late '70s and early '80s, gay men and lesbians eng...
  169. When Larry Kramer offered Yale University $5 million to endow a gay-studies program e...
  170. As the gay coming-out comedy In & Out storms America's multiplexes, Hollywood is doin...
  171. Greetings from Provicetown, Mass.--The Original Area 51! What do they do there? And w...
  172. "It hasn't been a conscious idea," says Jim Nicola, artistic director of the New York...
  173. "Gay men and lesbians--a forced marriage if ever there was one," finds lesbian activi...
  174. The 1970s Revival In pop culture contains a curious omission: any mention of lesbian-...
  175. Directed by David Furnish (Cinemax, premieres September 3, check local listings) D...
  176. With If Only for One Nite, author James Earl Hardy moves from the speedy hip-hop sens...
  177. Each time I drive by a cemetery, I Think not just of the people who died but also of ...
  178. SCHULMAN: The title of your novel The Farewell Symphony [Knopf, $25] and its catalogi...
  179. As a career spokesman, Navy captain Michael John is used to having his name in the ne...
  180. Maybe it's the sultriness. The urgency in the gentlest whisper, the subtlety in her b...
  181. For most gay people, coming out of the closet is hardly what would be called a funny ...
  182. Phranc can't seem to get Neil Diamond off her back--or, more precisely, off her chest...
  183. Seventeen-year-old Scott Sears can't wait to return to school this fall. His senior y...
  184. When they were English schoolboys in the 1970s, it was always Paul who fearlessly def...
  185. Last issue The Advocate explained why protease inhibitors don't work for everybody. I...
  186. Growing up gay in Canada, John Greyson had a "dirty little secret" that he kept from ...
  187. A new group called Sex Panic! is mobilizing against what it believes is the latest ba...
  188. "My work is always about community," says photographer Catherine Opie. "But do I have...
  189. IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN TO PROVINCETOWN, MASS., AND YOU CALL yourself a homosexual (or ot...
  190. Paul Monette's novel Halfway Home is narrated by a flamboyant performance artist suff...
  191. Woe is the soul who trudges though the shallow, sometimes-toxic waters of New York's ...
  192. IN MIAMI BEACH, FLA., HOMEMADE TRIBUTES FILLED THE steps of Casa Casuarina, the grand...
  193. THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, MUCH LAST YEAR SPENT ABOUT $99 million on the arts, has just ...
  194. When Michael Jeter hosted an April HIV/AIDS symposium at the Academy of Television Ar...
  195. Hours after Miami Police identified Andrew Cunanan's body, ABC's Ellen received five ...
  196. What's behind a seemingly harmless gay social club's desire for secrecy? As the ne...
  197. A mostly lesbian delegation has a touchy-feely meeting with Clinton and delivers a cl...
  198. Interviewing Bob Hattoy and David Mixner as part of the ongoing probe raises question...