Stories Collection

  1. Two generations of world-class divers come together in this unexpectedly provocative ...
  2. A historical look back at the great gay and lesbian prodigies in the arts Gertrude...
  3. NOT SO MANY YEARS AGO, DECIDING WHETHER SOMEONE was gay took only a split second: a s...
  4. MOST PEOPLE WHO CAME OUT MORE THAN TEN YEARS AGO assume that things are easier for ga...
  5. In the past three decades a new generation of gay men and lesbians has grown up. And ...
  6. When someone under 30 wins an election, it's big new story. Political savvy usually t...
  7. Makeup, cosmetic surgery, full-body workouts, hormone injections--the age-old tools o...
  8. You've just been jilted. Suddenly half your record collection--the perky half--is out...
  9. Can the success of gay rights legislation in New England be repeated elsewhere? Wh...
  10. If critics and queer Los Angeles rockers were the universe, the Geraldine Fibbers wou...
  11. As the legislative session in high-profile California sputtered toward summer break, ...
  12. The new arrivals on New York's gay theater scene--My Night With Reg by Kevin Elyot an...
  13. Few things in American life are more strongly held than faith in God. And few things ...
  14. The new arrivals on New York's gay theater scene--My Night With Reg by Kevin Elyot an...
  15. Bishops Otis Charles of San Francisco and Walter Righter of New Hampshire are both ch...
  16. Whenever I see Gary Indiana's byline in Artforum, The Village Voice, or Bomb magazine...
  17. When Cardinal Bernard Law, the archbishop of Boston, broke ground May 18 for McBride ...
  18. When Singapore-bom, Los Angeles-bred playwright Chay Yew staged his play A Language o...
  19. Imagine that you are a member of a minority that has been persecuted for centuries, s...
  20. When Virgil Thomson died in 1989 at 93, he left behind a career as one of America's m...
  21. Quick test: If you can swallow the possibility that there is any grown man who lives ...
  22. I DON'T MIND ALL THE STUPID MOVES THAT ARE AROUND THIS summer. I actually liked The F...
  23. WHEN ASKED TO SUM UP BUDDHA'S TEACHING IN ONE WORD, the great 20th-century teacher th...
  24. When Judi Dench sang "Send In the Clowns" in A Little Night Music last year at London...
  25. AT THE AGE OF 9, GENE Kuffel watched his first Miss USA pageant on television and dec...
  26. As the integration of gay and lesbian characters into mainstream movies continues, au...
  27. Chris was amused. "Great," He said upon being told that I'd been asked to participate...
  28. Reviewed by Allan Ulrich The second installment of music by gay composers that CRI...
  29. In the time it took to pull apart a Marquis Hotel ballpoint pen and use it to snort a...
  30. Reviewed by Barry Walters It seems any style of music can become hip again if only...
  31. While HIV is the most serious danger facing gay men who have unprotected sex, it is f...
  32. Francis Bacon is an artist whom viewers have strong feelings about: His work is love-...
  33. Amid persistent gay rumors, Brad Davis rode drugs and sex to an early death from AIDS...
  34. Reviewed by Glen Helfand Keith Haring made art for the public and instantly won it...
  35. When the Boy Scouts of America found out in 1992 that police officer and scout leader...
  36. Now we know whom to blame for all those coffee-table books of male erotica. You've se...
  37. Every week at happy hour, Mildred watches the bleached-blond woman at her senior resi...
  38. Born in Flames by director Lizzie Borden is guerrilla filmmaking at its best. Now ava...
  39. As an openly gay mother raising three children in suburban New Jersey, Joan Garry kno...
  40. With every passing day, America in 1997 is looking more and more like a far-left gay ...
  41. The only good thing that came out of Laura Nyro's passing in April was that her obitu...
  42. Reviewed by Allan Ulrich Five years after his death, composer John Cage remains an...
  43. Hollywood is interested in gay and lesbian film festivals, but the festivals are more...
  44. Among gay and lesbian titles that have been banned, censored, and suppressed, these t...
  45. What is the genuine spark between two people in a relationship? Does soul bonding tak...
  46. Reading one of Ethan Mordden's Buddies books is a lot like visiting an old friend wit...
  47. With straights falling for gays, lesbians dating men, and gay men in love with women,...
  48. Jeanette Winterson published her first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, in 1985...
  49. Could a gay playboy from San Diego have left a bloody trail of bodies on a cross-coun...
  50. Scott Heim is freaking out. Despite his cool demeanor, the 30-year-old writer admits ...
  51. Gay politicians are finding that local voters care about leadership, not sexual orien...
  52. E. Lynn Harris--he of The New York Times best-seller list and the 800,000-plus book s...
  53. Kevin Snow is on his knees, "rolling quarters," as he puts it, to come up with enough...
  54. It's fairly inflammatory for a smooth-voiced singer to do a concept album about cigar...
  55. Gay life in Hong Kong has never been so dazzling. Chinese boys belt out Cantonese pop...
  56. Whatever your opinion of outing now, it was definitely not a good idea in 1907. Three...
  57. Hefty cash awards in recent bias cases could be a sign that juries are looking beyond...
  58. It's a truism that we all have at least one book in us--our own stories that just nee...
  59. Spring this year was a gay social whirl--and not just for me, not even just for "my k...
  60. Is the gay and lesbian movement reactionary? By that I mean, do we spend most of our ...
  61. As gay men and lesbians prepare to take part in annual gay pride events, antiviolence...
  62. Lanky, low-key, 40-ish, and single, Dinah Groshardt (Connie Nelson) teaches geometry ...
  63. ENDA's battles in Congress mirror the struggles gays and lesbians are facing on the j...
  64. No gay opera nut will come away hungry from The Art of Singing: Golden Voices of the ...
  65. BECAUSE MY CLOSET DOOR HAS ALWAYS BEEN AJAR, THE clothes I keep in it, from jockstrap...
  66. Homosexual behavior may have a civilizing influence among the apes, if not among huma...
  67. Accurately billed as "the first Canadian, country-western, drag queen movie musical,"...
  68. Did the threat of an estranged gay lover's public confession cause Air Force pilot Cr...
  69. Reading this book gave me much the same feeling as watching Ellen DeGeneres's charact...
  70. Few industries are seen as gayer than fashion. Stereotypes aside, the world of coutur...
  71. Paula Vogel might not be a name you know, though her 1992 Obie award-winning play, Th...
  72. What George Balanchine was to American dance, Frederick Ashton (1904-1988) was to dan...
  73. To observe that gay men and lesbians dominate the fashion business may seem about as ...
  74. Not since Risky Business has a young man in underwear delighted audiences as much as ...
  75. This book gives us selected readings from a dizzying variety of lesbian and gay spiri...
  76. "There's definitely a suburban thing to what I do. But like men to dress lot sexier t...
  77. Oscar Wilde may have been the first person to link homosexuality with wit in the publ...
  78. In late April, while the media buzzed over the coming-out of Ellen DeGeneres, the ann...
  79. "I don't base anything in my life on sexuality," says Trisha Alkaitis. Along with for...
  80. It's not get the chance to hear conventional Yiddish music with a contemporary sensib...
  81. Big companies that try to avoid controversy by staying away from gay topic are findin...
  82. It seems half the alternative-rock bands these days want to sound like late-'80s Fait...
  83. "I'm in recovery. I'm a recovering homophobe," Raul Gonzalez says. He made his transf...
  84. R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck must have a thing for sensitive guys. While taking a brea...
  85. Having wowed Broadway, Rent begins its national tour. Will the road version cause the...
  86. Director-writer-editor Gregg Araki ends his "Teen Apocalypse" trilogy (which began wi...
  87. August 22, 1989, is like a birthday to me. That was the day a doctor told me I had fu...
  88. ELLEN IS STARING AT ME FROM THE COVER OF TIME, DRESSED just a little bit like a Heave...
  89. Directed by Angela Pope (Cinepix) Reviewed by Bob Satuloff This British stew of a ...
  90. Scientists are almost certain genetics plays a n,4 or role in homosexuality. One day ...
  91. Celebrity biographies penned by family members invariably include a foreword explaini...
  92. In a recent song by the Bloodhound Gang, a singer reasons that if he were gay, he'd h...
  93. The success of antiviral drug therapies is having unexpected and threathening consequ...
  94. In a recent song by the Bloodhound Gang, a singer reasons that if he were gay, he'd h...
  95. Darnell McGee defined the cliche "Live fast, die young." From 1992, when he tested po...
  96. By Simon LeVay (Richard Kasak, $20.95) Reviewed by R.L. Pela After wowing us with ...
  97. The Smithsonian Collection is back with another of its superb starter sets of the gre...
  98. They're living longer; but many people with AIDS are strapped for cash--and taking dr...
  99. By Frankie Hucklenbroich (Firebrand; $26.95, cloth; $12.95, paper) Reviewd by R.L. Pe...
  100. IN FEBRUARY, TOM STODDARD, FOUNDER OF LAMBDA LEGAL Defense and Education Fund and the...
  101. The move to push Medicaid recipients into managed-care programs has AIDS activists up...
  102. By Meredith Maran (Bantam, $22.95) Reviewed by R.L. Pela San Francisco Bay-area me...
  103. President Clinton has promised the new AIDS czar more access than her predecessors ha...
  104. If all you know of Craig Lucas is his screenplay for 1990's Longtime Companion, you'l...
  105. For the first time in years, LARRY KRAMER, America's angriest and most powerful criti...
  106. Written by Wendy Wasserstein, directed by Daniel Sullivan (Cort Theatre, New York Cit...
  107. Just a few short weeks ago gay and lesbian activists in Hawaii were rejoicing in anti...
  108. Written by Lanford Wilson, directed by Marshall W. Mason (Second Stage Theatre, New Y...
  109. With lesbian performers and athletes leading the way out of the closet in the enterta...
  110. By Paul Hampton Crockett (Crown, $12.95) Nearly 1 million Americans are HIV-positi...
  111. Despite what you've read in the papers, the link between cult behavior and homosexual...
  112. Murder, betrayal, honor, pasta--Mario Puzo's The Last Don serves up all the Mafia the...
  113. Everybody's got to work for a living Among the rights lesbians and gay men are fighti...
  114. Just as the post-Mommie Dearest perception of Joan Crawford turns her films into meta...
  115. As Congress considers a federal workplace nondiscrimination bill, states with similar...
  116. WHEN IT COMES TO THE MOVIES REFLECTING REAL LIFE, CRITIC Pauline Kael once wrote that...
  117. The booming world of on-line gay erotica is being buffeted by regulations that may ne...
  118. So what's your favorite gay diva up to these days? Here's a peek at how k.d., Elton, ...
  119. While most of their synth-pop contemporaries shed their skin to fit each passing seas...
  120. Since his days with the seminal punk group Black Flag, Henry Rollins has been one of ...
  121. Where are the men? How ironic that I, the first female editor in chief in the 30-year...
  122. Somewhere along the line, Barbra Streisand became an institution Her identity as a ga...
  123. Tchaikovsky is probably too busy hoisting the rainbow flag to turn over in his grave....
  124. By Lyn R. Frumkin, MD, and John M. Leonard, MD (Health Information Press, $12.95) Rev...
  125. Mashall Herff Applewhite, leader of the Heaven's' Gate cult, preached that individual...
  126. It's impossible to resist the comparisons--Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa in the wanin...
  127. SHOCK WAVES PASS THROUGH SOME ENCLAVES OF THE LESBIAN community every time it happens...
  128. For the first time since he came out to a stunned business world, former Ford vice-ch...
  129. He was 37, unmarried, unathletic, and very close to his mother. He roomed with a youn...
  130. In allowing Ellen Morgan to come out, Disney cautiously moves toward public support o...
  131. The last time I worked "in business," I was 22, the lowliest vice president of an out...
  132. "I could never hate you. I'm your dog." Only a best friend could say this after you'v...
  133. It's impossible to resist the comparisons--Tchaikovsky and Marius Petipa in the wanin...
  134. For the first time since he came out to a stunned business world, former Ford vice-ch...
  135. The four accomplished films of Boys Life 2 demonstrate that gay shorts have matured r...
  136. Jack Pierson's art makes glamour out of emotional disappointment. His is a melodramat...
  137. Jane Moyer had her picture in Xerox Business Services' annual report last year. Since...
  138. Here's where the music industry's race for the gay dollar gets respectable. This four...
  139. While Ellen DeGeneres and ABC are being lauded for their courage in letting Ellen out...
  140. Ani DiFranco's Living in Clip is easily the best of her rune solo albums. The recordi...
  141. With the stock market booming and individual investing growing along with it, everyon...
  142. B.D.O by Glen Seator ("1997 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New...
  143. For gay and lesbian brokers, life on the Street is a constant battle When a gay em...
  144. Almost anyone will tell you that many gay men worship Joan Crawford. But the great my...
  145. I REALLY THOUGHT I HAD DONE EVERY AWARDS SHOW IN captivity, either as a writer, loser...
  146. By Gabriel Rotello (Dutton, $24.95) Reviewed by Bruce Wright Gabriel Rotello's boo...
  147. The last time I worked "in business," I was 22, the lowliest vice president of an out...
  148. Three years into "don't ask, don't tell," the policy is in a shambles--and no one car...
  149. Jill Sobule, (Lava/Atlantic) Reviewed by Barry Walters In this era of instrumental...
  150. "I'm always accused of saying that I'm not a gay playwright, " Terrence McNally insis...
  151. Reviewed by David Drake Howard Crabtree may become the only costume designer in hi...
  152. It's being called the modern-day scarlet letter: Sex-offender registration laws--init...
  153. Picture yourself on a horse with a woman. It's Halloween, and both of you are dressed...
  154. For years Randolfe Wicker, a founder of the Mattachine Society, an early gay rights g...
  155. Edited by Andrew Sullivan (Vintage, $14) Reviewed by R.L. Pela Andrew Sullivan's S...
  156. by Felice Picano (Faber & Faber, $24.95) Reviewed by the Rev. Malcolm Boyd Set in ...
  157. It's hard to imagine that there could be more of Pink Flamingos. Yet for Fine Line Fe...
  158. IN MIAMI ON BUSINESS LAST WINTER, I GOT A GLIMPSE OF THE South Beach haut monde--a su...
  159. written and directed by Arthur Dong (DeepFocus) Reviewed by Mark J. Huisman Gay ba...
  160. cowritten and directed by Emma-Kate Croghan (Fox Searchlight) Reviewed by Guinevere T...
  161. It's no surprise that Stanley is a hit on Broadway. Earlier this year the British pro...
  162. The first thing to understand--contrary to the claims of some gay activists--is that ...
  163. written by Charles Busch and Rusty Magee, directed by Kenneth Elliott (Variety Arts T...
  164. The Birdcage may be the one obviously gay film that's up for an Academy Award this ye...
  165. For the past 35 years vibraphonist Gary Burton has been admired in the jazz mainstrea...
  166. So much attention has been paid to eminent gay author David Leavitt's early success a...
  167. When a backpack full of explosives spewed nails into a crowded lesbian bar February 2...
  168. If you've never heard the rock anthems of the all-female East Coast band Sexpod, the ...
  169. Can you actually be a lesbian and not think Suzanne Westenhoefer is hilarious? I doub...
  170. The case is over, but Orville Bigelow still awaits psychic closure. Just the other ni...
  171. Brazilian soul is the translated title of this record, but the music immediately appe...
  172. IT HAS LONG BEEN A STAPLE OF PSYCH 101 THAT THE THING YOU hate most in other people i...
  173. As protests go, it wasn't much: four guys standing outside a Washington, D.C., nightc...
  174. We all know the movie tradition about hetero-homo love. When a gay character falls fo...
  175. "It's like opening up a free-beer place next to where an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting...
  176. Early in David Cronenberg's shocking new film, Crash, James Ballard (James Spader) li...
  177. Once again the National Endowment for the Arts is under attack. And once again it is ...
  178. It's a challenge to adapt a nonfiction book about sex into a fiction al film. Lesbian...
  179. IN THE ANNALS OF UNLIKELY COUPLES WE HAVE SUCH PRIME specimens as Ethel Merman and Er...
  180. IT HAS LONG BEEN A STAPLE OF PSYCH 101 THAT THE THING YOU hate most in other people i...
  181. So much attention has been paid to eminent gay author David Leavitt's early success a...
  182. Let's face it: Leaders in our community are often about as popular as Phyllis Schafle...
  183. Genetic engineering is scary stuff. Imagine, if you will, a world in which parents "d...
  184. If you've seen me as Ted Casablanca on E! Entertainment Television's Gossip Show, you...
  185. If you've seen me as Ted Casablanca on E! Entertainment Television's Gossip Show, you...
  186. If you're expecting Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story to be the male vers...
  187. Gay themes again become the focus of a pitched battle over federal funding of the art...
  188. You'd think alternative rock would naturally deal with alternative lifestyles. Compla...
  189. It hardly seems possible that a city ordinance could persuade the world's largest air...
  190. You'd think alternative rock would naturally deal with alternative lifestyles. Compla...
  191. The first resignation came at the Log Cabin Republicans' national convention in Augus...
  192. You'd think alternative rock would naturally deal with alternative lifestyles. Compla...
  193. Despite the progress in keeping HIV at bay, eradication of the virus remains maddenin...
  194. Cheatin' songs are nothing new. And being-cheated-on songs are the basis of the blues...
  195. Two jazz singers reveal how being gay gives them an edge "Until recently, gay and ...
  196. Why would classical pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet record an album of songs composed and...
  197. Lesbians in college basketball have been pressured to play in the closet, but that co...
  198. Once upon a time listening to audio on the Web was like trying to tune in to broadcas...
  199. If satire were a more revered literary tradition David Sedaris would be considered an...