Stories Collection

  1. As the world gears up for the centenary (in 2000) of Kurt Weill's birth, it seems rem...
  2. The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center pumps up its focus on community with the Villa...
  3. Gay voters showing lesbian Susan Tracy it takes more than an openly gay candidate to ...
  4. It makes perfect sense that the Red Hot AIDS Charitable Trust--the British equivalent...
  5. Tom O'Berg, who has AIDS, had forgotten what it was like to wake up with an erection....
  6. I'M NO MARGARET MEAD (ALTHOUGH ONE HALLOWEEN I CUT IN some blunt bangs, slipped on a ...
  7. The yuppies huddle just before the fade-out of Whit Stillman's The Last Days of Disco...
  8. Janis Joplin never thought much of herself when she was alive. She didn't think she ...
  9. Lucy Goes to the Country (Alyson Wonderland, $15.95) John Canemaker and Joseph Kenned...
  10. Children's television has a long and largely unspoken connection to gay sensibility. ...
  11. Gay men and lesbians in most states would feel lucky to have one statewide candidate ...
  12. Decades before alternative divas became a dime a dozen, Miss Grace Jones pioneered an...
  13. by Lorna Luff (Pocket Books, $25) The strange relationship between homosexuality a...
  14. Despite pressure from the religious right, American Airlines is staying in course wit...
  15. Benjamin Britten--Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, as he was called after Queen Elizabeth ...
  16. THE OLD PUNK BAND DEVO WAS ONE OF MY FAVORITES. FABUlous outfits, a techno-new wave s...
  17. For many religious conservatives, the end of Ellen is more than just a victory; it's ...
  18. Benjamin Britten--Baron Britten of Aldeburgh, as he was called after Queen Elizabeth ...
  19. Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss almost didn't get made. Now that it did, it may turn ou...
  20. Oscar Wilde was a pervert--a quixotic individual who, like many a great artist, was u...
  21. While Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss may succeed as a romantic comedy, critic Jan Stua...
  22. "The reason we work in the theater," says the title character of Bob, " is to ask `Wh...
  23. ON APRIL 23 PRESIDENT CLINTON ALLOWED BAD POLITICS to override good science in our ba...
  24. Writer-director Lisa Cholodenko's High Art goes beyond feel-good lesbian movies with ...
  25. More Tales of the City, the miniseries that PBS didn't want you to see--despite me fa...
  26. If the current push in the Oklahoma state legislature for a bill that would bar lesbi...
  27. In a rare interview actor Ally Sheedy tells how happiness for her meant leaving Holly...
  28. As Gay Pride Month begins, both PBS and cable's A&E network boast programming with st...
  29. The Rev. Jimmy Creech, who earlier this year won a closely watched battle over the ri...
  30. Summer means more than blockbusters; it's also the start of the gay and lesbian film ...
  31. When retired Episcopal bishop Walter Righter was about to be charged with heresy for ...
  32. Will Six Days, Seven Nights play in Peoria? Whatevr the outcome, it's not all up to H...
  33. By Caroline Paul (St. Martin's, $23.95) Caroline Paul remembers her first cock rin...
  34. Gay men and lesbians have always latched on to matinee "idols and claimed them for th...
  35. "GOOD MORNING, THIS IS THE HAYS GAYS OFFICE. WE PROTECT America's moviegoers from exc...
  36. by Diane Wood Middlebrook (Houghton Mifflin, $25) When jazz musician Billy Tipton ...
  37. Tax troubles and funding woes add fuel to the antigay campaign at Pat Robertson's Chr...
  38. EACH MORNING WHEN THE ALARM CLOCK RINGS, THOUSANDS of lesbian and gay Americans wake ...
  39. I HAD TO THINK LONG AND HARD ABOUT BECOMING A COLUMNIST. My idea of such a writer bri...
  40. Rosie's gay brother throws his name in the ring for a seat in the New York legislatur...
  41. Scott Heim and Dale Peck dish the dirt on publishing, fame, Kansas, and Peck's new bo...
  42. "I'm gay, the character's gay, that's the problem everyone has with the show. It's ju...
  43. One of the most difficult and foolhardy tasks a fiction writer can set for himself or...
  44. Whether it's an addiction or a compulsion, some people can't stop having sex--and the...
  45. Oh, for a dog's life. And the possibility of achieving immortality through one's owne...
  46. For some sex addicts, sex alone isn't enough of a high. They turn to crystal meth, a ...
  47. Think Anne Baxter in All About Eve, without the career agenda. Think Barbara Stanwyck...
  48. Following the success of his cancer centers, entrepreneur Bernard Salick is now targe...
  49. Experts yakety-yak about whether environment makes us gay, but they miss its true pow...
  50. Is homosexuality still considered a pathology? Shrinks today are all over the place w...
  51. Paula Vogel's richly deserved Pulitzer prize for How I Learned to Drive--the first ev...
  52. A sane approach to choosing the best possible therapist When Steve, a 33-year-old ...
  53. It was a couple of years late in arriving, but now that it's here it should be a matt...
  54. At first Oregon gay Republican Chuck Carpenter was targeted by gays; now he's caught ...
  55. I'M LOSING MY PATIENCE WITH CLOSETED GAY CELEBRITIES. For years I've subscribed to th...
  56. In what may be an operatic first, a lesbian love story takes center stage Think Li...
  57. The rhetoric of marriage is deliciously seductive. I savor the recent dialogue celebr...
  58. Operatic countertenor Brian Asawa shares some intriguing characteristics with his pee...
  59. Are Pentagon officials really saying that gays can't hack it in the military? Are ...
  60. Is opera really a gay thing? This is rarely asked anywhere west of Broadway and 64th ...
  61. Since his mid-'80s career peak, George Michael has witnessed a steady decline in his ...
  62. Stephen Sondheim remarks several times in this new biography that he hasn't led a ver...
  63. During oral arguments March 30 in a landmark case that will determine whether the fed...
  64. For a man who described himself as "the boy in the bubble," love was out of the quest...
  65. Caring for an aging parent presents unique challenges for gay sons and lesbian daught...
  66. Overnight sensation is a term usually applied to actors. But with his revival of Chic...
  67. Opposing Boy Scouts decisions put New Jersey and California in a legal tug-of-war ...
  68. With a stunning debut CD, Rufus Wainwright follows in his famous father's footsteps ...
  69. The last closet in show business is in Branson, Mo. "I can't wait for them to get a l...
  70. Store-bought music videos usually stink. What little there is on the shelves besides ...
  71. Sexual ambiguity is fair game in glam, disco, and even alternative rock. But never he...
  72. Family reunions would seem to be the stuff of great movies. What could be more univer...
  73. An Austin music festival embraces its lesbian and gay artists It's springtime in A...
  74. Lately I've been advising just about anyone who will listen to simply banish the word...
  75. Remember when Gary Hart dropped out of the race for the 1988 Democratic presidential ...
  76. One hundred years after his spectacular fall from the heights of British society to t...
  77. Have you checked the dance-music section of your local CD store lately? It's totally ...
  78. Billionaire David Geffen came out publicly as a gay man in 1992, announcing at AIDS P...
  79. Like Oscar Wilde himself, Stephen Fry is larger than life. Although he's less famous ...
  80. Is there any other nation besides the United States whose people are brought up learn...
  81. The Clinton administration's occasionally rocky relationship with gay men and lesbian...
  82. "I want to tell you something, and yet my shame prevents me," Sappho wrote in the six...
  83. Joe Downing was a model Mormon. As a teenager he conducted the choir for his local ch...
  84. Blame it on Willy Russell. Ever since Educating Rita, we've been smothered by titles ...
  85. Before the advent of the AIDS epidemic, public health experts were warning gay men ab...
  86. What is it about S/M that brings out the best in some filmmakers? Last year Kirby Dic...
  87. When Colorado software enterpreneur Tim Gill decided more than five years ago to be o...
  88. Whatever fond memories you have of Cabaret -- Liza! Liza! Liza! Divine decadence, dar...
  89. The catalog shows a well-heeled gay male couple from the city visiting a pair of lesb...
  90. Broadway revival of The Sound of Music produced by Hallmark sounds like it should cat...
  91. When some investment firms think about money these days, the color they see isn't gre...
  92. Mark Lamos's brilliant 1990 production of Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Sc...
  93. The scene, filmed in black and white, starts with the legs of a man clad in jeans and...
  94. There's something about unaccompanied unisex ensemble singing that the listening publ...
  95. Something's been bothering me lately, and it makes me want to talk. I want to tell a ...
  96. Believe it or not, young homosexuals, Sonny and Cher were once more than Chastity's d...
  97. I SEE THAT GOOD OL' LARRY KRAMER FIRED OFF A LETTER TO Time magazine criticizing the ...
  98. In film, the fleeting appearance of a movie theater on a city street is invariably a ...
  99. "It's a really hard time for me, because there's no closure. There's no way of saying...
  100. Call Scott Elliott the king of the ugly truths. Plunk this guy down in any landscape,...
  101. On February 16 Charley Mitchell went for a jog in Falmouth, Me. He almost didn't come...
  102. directed by George C. Wolfe (Joseph Papp Public Theater, New York City) The first ...
  103. Before I make myself irreparably unpopular, I might as well start with a concession. ...
  104. Richard Nixon earned himself an opera; so did Mahatma. Gandhi, so why not Harvey Milk...
  105. Are middle-class Americans learning to accept homosexuality? Don't bet on it "Ther...
  106. Various artists, original sound track (Universal) What is it with gay men and wome...
  107. Sitting across from James Dale, you can't help feeling you are in the presence of an ...
  108. With The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor's best-selling novel from 1983, the a...
  109. It is a myth that gay men and lesbians can always find acceptance in America's urban ...
  110. by Gore Vidal (Random House, $23) Clearly Gore Vidal remains as captivated by the ...
  111. Now that the high court has ruled same-sex sexual harassment is illegal, businesses m...
  112. DAVID WAS FREAKING OUT. IN A MOMENT COLORED IN EQUAL parts loneliness, horniness, and...
  113. Members of the clergy are coming under fire for performing same-sex commitment ceremo...
  114. "I'M SO GLAD TO BE IN NEW YORK AT THE GAY MEN'S HEALTH Crisis instead of in Washingto...
  115. When Salt Lake City was tapped to host the 2002 winter Olympics, newspapers proclaime...
  116. In 1920s Hollywood the glare of publicity was more forgiving--even for a gay star who...
  117. In 1985 then-24-year-old Jon Robin Baitz made his playwriting debut in Los Angeles wi...
  118. Citing a Minnesota anti-discrimination law, a group of straight men and women say the...
  119. A new David Leavitt novel is a literary event, and The Page Turner (Houghton Mifflin,...
  120. A Recent Media Analysis tells us that 40% of everything printed so far about the Moni...
  121. Dinah Shore weekend in Palm Springs is fast becoming the lesbian event of the year ...
  122. Writer Lawrence Chua knows this too; his Gold by the Inch (Grove, $20) positions desi...
  123. While gays are well-represented at the Oscars, they're still fighting visibility batt...
  124. With the success of his Oscar-nominated film Good Will Hunting, Gus Van Sant is hot. ...
  125. Topping a list of new gay mysteries is The Burning Plain (G.P. Putnam's Sons, $23.95)...
  126. Oscar's having a very gay year, thank you. In fact, 70th annual Academy Awards may be...
  127. Likewise Kevin Allman's Hot Shot (St. Martin's, $$22.95), the sequel to his Edgar aw...
  128. It's too early to predict next year's Oscar winners, but one movie that may wind up o...
  129. Like a Celine Dion crescendo amid a sinking ship or the everlasting lipstick of a sub...
  130. WITH STUNNING SPEED SCIENTISTS ARE UNRAVELING THE mysteries of our genetic code. Just...
  131. For producer Laurence Mark, filming The Object of My Affection was a ten-year labor o...
  132. Imagine an album full of nearly every pre-millennium musical flavor--a bed of high-te...
  133. Landmark decisions on same-sex sexual harassment and marriage side in gay's favor ...
  134. Normally I Don't Like To Share My Past New Year's Resolutions because it's bad form a...
  135. Now that John Hughes's brat packers are old and cranky and dwelling in that Hollywood...
  136. When Elizabeth Birch, the executive director of the Human Rights Campaign, put out a ...
  137. In 1930 the top box-office star in America was a gay man. But can you name him? The s...
  138. Hedwig and the Angry Inch starts off as a kind of trashy joke. Waltzing up the aisle ...
  139. Here is high-concept Shakespeare at its starkest: Four boarding-school buddies -- equ...
  140. How to get attention as an unknown young playwright: (1) Pick an outrageous title ...
  141. IT'S MONDAY MORNING. YOU'VE JUST SPENT A ROMANTIC weekend with your significant other...
  142. There are two Australias, at least to Yanks who never get out of the house. There is ...
  143. Bit by reluctant bit, the Boy Scouts' long-standing policy of discrimination against ...
  144. What's a nice director like Stephan Elliott doing behind a movie like Welcome to Woop...
  145. Dan Renzi, whose life as an aspiring gay model flashed across TV screens in 1996 on t...
  146. Let's just say that you did not see Love and Death on Long Island, as I did, the day ...
  147. Charlotte, N.C., prides itself on being the best of the New South. The nation's secon...
  148. Lesbians and gay men have always rewritten pop songs in their minds to suit their own...
  149. When U.S. representative Barney Frank heard the allegations that Bill Clinton had had...
  150. For her first novel since 1992's Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison has chosen ...
  151. The French researcher some activists credit for discovering HIV is coming to America ...
  152. IT IS ONE OF THE IRONIES OF HISTORY THAT TODAY THE mainstream of the gay, lesbian, bi...
  153. Every few months hundreds of gay men gather in Seattle for an evening of entertainmen...
  154. I was watching the super bowl with Lea DeLaria, the stand-up comic who could be mista...
  155. Editor: Toni Morrison (Library of America, $35 each) I had given up one of my life...
  156. Editor: Toni Morrison (Library of America, $35 each) I had given up one of my life...
  157. Abortion. Emotions surge at the very word--witness the shouting sprees in January at ...
  158. Director: Frank Galati; Writer: Terrence McNally Starring: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Pet...
  159. You've sequestered yourself at home for any number of reasons: to nurse a case of the...
  160. Moises Kaufman stormed the New York theater world as writer-director of the hit 1997 ...
  161. From the beat partol to the precinct house, gay and lesbian police officers are shate...
  162. There may be a few nudes on Queer Arts Resource, but this is one Web site attempting ...
  163. Timothy McVeigh isn't the only soldier to be hunted down in cyberspace Navy senior...
  164. Last year was a stellar one for Ani DiFranco. Once the best-kept secret of alternativ...
  165. One helped develop E-mail, and the other fine-tuned the PC. Americans' lives are easi...
  166. After years of embracing angst, pop culture is rebelling with the radical idea of bei...
  167. A parenting expert is out of the closet with a new book on Internet resources for chi...
  168. "The Nation's Largest Internet Service Provider announced today that in order for any...
  169. Chalk it up to Princess Diana and her AIDS work. Chalk it up to British prime ministe...
  170. Mrs. Dalloway is a day in the life of a Woman who throws a party. By the time we cras...
  171. Investigators have wondered aloud about Andrew Cunanan's obsession with fashion desig...
  172. If Thom Fitzgerald's The Hanging Garden has delighted audiences at the Toronto and Su...
  173. When the 106th Congress is sworn in next January, three lesbians hope to make history...
  174. The best way to understand what Mark Mitchell and David Leavitt have produced in thei...
  175. Hollywood insiders say ABC's religious drama Nothing Sacred may have hit its finest h...
  176. by Rhona Sacks (Slope, $14.95) This Valentine's Day, are you still pining for some...
  177. David will always remember his first love, whom he met at college: "He was sensitive ...
  178. by Orland Outland (Kensington, $6.99) This Valentine's Day, are you still pining f...
  179. Most gay men remember a time when they were just beginning to feel the stirrings of h...
  180. "The guy ain't right... He has blond hair ... He looks like a chorus girl ... He sing...
  181. AN EXCERPT Although men and women seem very different sometimes, they are, believe it...
  182. Michael Mayer is in a quandary. He's sitting in a Chelsea diner near where he lives w...
  183. Lesbianism is more the result of nurture than nature, and lesbian mothers are far lik...
  184. "It wasn't like I said to myself, Gee, I want to play for gay men," reflects DJ Susan...
  185. For minorities already distrustful of government, HIV names reporting could lead to f...
  186. At 42, pianist Fred Hersch has established himself as one of music's most accomplishe...
  187. THERE WERE NO GAY PEOPLE ON THE TITANIC. I'VE SEEN A dozen movies, a musical, an oper...
  188. WHENEVER WE SWAP COMING-OUT STORMS WITH LESBIAN OR gay friends, my partner, Phyllis, ...
  189. TOPEKA, KAN., MAYOR JOAN WAGNON CALLED TO TELL ME I was her pick to be the city's new...
  190. Programming gay film festivals should be added to the list of thankless occupations f...
  191. When the Supreme Court deemed Colorado's antigay initiative unconstitutional in 1996,...
  192. It has all the earmarks of a horrible good news-bad news joke. Just when the AIDS epi...
  193. MY FRIENDS HOLLIS SIGLER AND PATRICIA LOCKE HAVE INVITED me to their 20th-anniversary...
  194. When Pedro Almodovar titled his second feature film Labyrinth of Passion, he could no...
  195. The patron saint of gay Latino artists, visionary Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar i...
  196. One of the scattered pleasures of HBO's new movie Gia is the revelation that top fash...
  197. It's been a strange four months. In September I became Miss America 1998 and began a ...
  198. For a while there -- Ellen notwithstanding -- it looked as though technology was on t...
  199. As anyone who's fallen in love with his films knows, it's not a good thing to wait to...