|| 2006 exclusives ||
Does
Transamerica transcend its problems?
A trans woman
finds much that’s wrong with the Felicity Huffman
film that’s now available on DVD: Its science
is inaccurate, its wardrobe outdated, and its
stereotyping frequent. But for all that, there’s
still something about the movie that touches the
heart.
By Rachel C. Thompson
|
Confessions of a
Madonna fan
The announcement
of her new tour sets off a whole new wave of frenzy for
this devoted acolyte of Esther
By Steve Gdula
|
Why pride matters
In the current
print issue of The Advocate, Hollywood
publicist Michael Levine argues that pride festivals are bad
PR. His fellow Hollywood publicist respectfully--and
strongly--disagrees.
By Howard Bragman
|
Too much sex
Pride month is
upon us, which means more images than ever of white,
shirtless, ripped young men. This white young gay male has
had quite enough.
By Tully Satre
|
Love, loss, and
lots of walking
Within sight of
her goal of walking up the California coastline to San
Francisco, our stalwart lesbian mom scares a pothead, loses
her beloved dog, and finds old friends and new.
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
Out of one closet
and into another
Many transgender
people choose to live “stealth”—never
admitting to being transgender—because of
safety concerns, societal stigma, and prejudice. Part
5 of The Advocate’s ongoing transgender
series.
By Joanne Herman
|
A moment like
this
The Ghost of
Kelly Clarkson Past comes to haunt the debut singles from
Hicks and McPhee. He wins, of course.
By Dave White
|
The other
code
While the
Catholic Church denounces The Da Vinci Code’s
central conceit, that Jesus was married, other secrets
about the homoerotic aspects of Jesus’ life are
also worth exploring.
By the Reverend Irene Monroe
|
Power walk
Continuing her
walk from San Diego to San Francisco, this Southern
California soccer mom and lesbian connects with an old
friend, an Adopt-a-Highway sign, and two out of three
women at an ice cream store. A seventh weekly dispatch
from the road.
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
Why can't the
Democrats be Democrats?
This TV writer is
mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. What’s
the matter with the party he has supported so long?
What’s so difficult about standing up for
what’s right? Like, for example, marriage equality.
An open letter calling for the ABCs of politics: action,
backbone, and clarity.
By Jack Kenny
|
I'm out. Aren't
I?
What does it mean
to be out? It’s one thing to be interviewed by the
local and national press as a publicly gay person.
It’s quite another to be face-to-face with one
near stranger who makes the wrong assumptions about
your life.
By Tully Satre
|
Eurovision
rocked!
Break-dancers,
heavy metal, Norwegian elves, and Will and Grace
look-alikes—this is how you put on a televised music
competition.
By Steve Holyer and John Egan
|
Out in Kentucky
Gay Democratic
state legislator Ernesto Scorsone talks with The
Advocate about Kentucky’s funding of an antigay
private college and the governor’s abandonment
of employment protections for LGBT people.
By Dan Avery
|
See you next
Tuesday
Simon finally
applauds Taylor Hicks, and Elliott takes his Donny Hathaway
CD collection home.
By Dave White
|
The best film
festival I ever ate
The recent Miami
Gay and Lesbian Film Festival offered a tasty menu of
international cinema. But those festival-sponsored dinners
at South Beach restaurants were delicious too. Another
festival diary by the Advocate’s arts
and entertainment editor.
By Alonso Duralde
|
The gayest show
on earth
Think American
Idol is as schmaltzy as televised singing
competitions get? Check out what our neighbors across the
pond are doing on Eurovision.
By John Egan and Steve Holyer
|
As the homophobia
turns
When GLAAD and
CBS joined forces to run a public service announcement
about tolerance alongside a teen coming-out story line on
As the World Turns, the haters turned up
the heat
By Damon Romine
|
Howard Dean says
he's sorry
In an exclusive
interview with The Advocate, the chairman of the
Democratic National Committee says that his mistake on
The 700 Club should not blind LGBT voters
to his party’s ongoing, hands-on work for
equality. Does he support marriage equality himself? Sort
of.
By Bruce C. Steele
|
Almost halfway
there!
Support comes
from surprising places as this Southern California soccer
mom and lesbian continues walking from San Diego to San
Francisco to raise LGBT visibility. A sixth weekly
dispatch from the road.
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
Dear Pat
Robertson
After five gay
men met the notoriously antigay preacher at brunch in
Virginia—and posed with him for a photo featured in
the current issue of The Advocate—one of
them wrote this letter to send along with a copy of
the photo.
By Andrew Brewer
|
Spreading the
word
Passing out
fliers for his Virginia LGBT activist group at a local
street festival, our teen diarist is met with
rejection and outright hostility—but he does
manage to get through to one individual.
By Tully Satre
|
Revenge of the
nerds
Alpha males have
left the building: Daughtry and Ace are gone, Hicks and
Yamin live on.
By Dave White
|
We are family
Mother's Day is
the perfect time to show appreciation for out and proud
gay-parented families.
By Jennifer Chrisler
|
There are more of
us than you think
The "official
count" of the country's transgender population
dramatically underestimates its size and composition. Part 4
of The Advocate's ongoing transgender series.
By Joanne Herman
|
The hero inside
yourself
Ranting against
gay pride excess is so last season. There’s plenty to
be proud about, starting with the people in your own
backyard.
By Karel
|
The DNC's new gay
voice
Longtime
Democratic activist Brian Bond is the party’s new gay
outreach adviser. And he’s not worried by that
fact that his predecessor was fired shortly after that
man’s boyfriend criticized the DNC.
By Christopher Lisotta
|
Climb every
mountain
Continuing her
walk from San Diego to San Francisco, this Southern
California soccer mom and lesbian connects with a suburban
gay couple, finds solidarity with two immigrant
construction workers, and conquers her biggest
obstacle yet. A fifth weekly dispatch from the road.
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
You take the
good, you take the bad
The release of
the first two seasons of The Facts of Life on DVD
remind us that before the show was good-bad it was mostly
just bad-bad
By Christian McLaughlin
|
It’s
ba-a-ck! How to fight the FMA
Be afraid: The
proposed amendment to enshrine marriage discrimination in
the U.S. Constitution has returned, courtesy of Bill Frist
and Rick Santorum. Here’s what you can do to
join the fight for equality now
By Joe Solmonese, president, Human Rights Campaign
|
Get down to the
ground
Simply singing is
for the unimaginative. This week it's all about Taylor
Hicks and Katharine McPhee flopping around on the floor.
By Dave White
|
Two days in the
Coachella Valley
What’s it
all about? The adventures of a gay Coachella virgin in
search of meaning, misters, and Madonna in the
scorching heat of the desert music festival
By Neal Broverman
|
The good
Christian
A week of harsh
encounters with intolerant Christians leaves our teen
diarist disappointed, worried, and yet confident: If true
Christianity is defined by love, then he remains a
good Christian, whatever others might say.
By Tully Satre
|
We are all like
immigrants
As this Southern
California soccer mom and lesbian continues her walk
from San Diego to San Francisco, an encounter at a Mexican
restaurant reminds her that visibility is
everything—to immigrant rights as well as LGBT
rights. A fourth weekly dispatch from the road.
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
In defense of Jay
Leno
As one comedy
writer to another, Advocate contributor Jim David
asks Avenue Q creator Jeff Whitty whether his letter
complaining about Jay Leno’s gay jokes was
really warranted. Making someone the butt of a joke
isn’t the same as bashing them
By Jim David
|
Unhinged Melody
The greatest love
songs of all time—and one by Bryan Adams
too—go through the Idol blender. And the blond
takes her calamari home in a “To Go”
box…
By Dave White
|
The surgery you
never wanted
Born somewhere
between male and female, intersex people face unique
gender identity issues, especially if
“normalizing” surgeries were imposed on
them at a young age. Part 3 of The Advocate’s
ongoing transgender series
By Joanne Herman
|
Stop the antigay
Iraqi killings now!
LGBT Iraqis are
being slaughtered with the blessing of Islamic religious
leaders. How can you help? Start by speaking up—in
particular, by demanding that U.S. politicians do
their duty to protect the people of Iraq
By Scott Rose
|
One-fifth of the
way there!
Encountering more
cheerleaders than she expected, this Southern
California soccer mom and lesbian continues walking the
coastline from San Diego to San Francisco to raise
LGBT visibility. This is the third of her dispatches
from the road
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
My way out
The author of a
compelling new book for gay men, The Way Out,
relates his own journey from the closet to the party scene
to despair to enlightenment—and invites you to
join him on his path to affirming the true self.
By Christopher Lee Nutter
|
Silent for 10
years
For 10 years,
high school students across the nation have been taking
part in the Day of Silence. They hold their tongues to raise
awareness about the struggles faced by gays and
lesbians, and they learn a little something about
their fellow students.
By Jessie Liberatore
|
Silence is part
of speaking up
The author of the
gay teen novel Geography Club and a resident of
Tacoma, Wash., hails Wednesday’s Day of
Silence—and questions whether all the talking
expected on the Christian right’s “Day of
Truth” on Thursday can really counter the power
of silence to support equality for LGBT students
By Brent Hartinger
|
Stereotypes at
the Rite Aid
On the first
summery day of the year, our teen diarist goes to buy a soda
and finds a wealth of stereotypes washing over him. Is it
something he wore?
By Tully Satre
|
Standing up for
immigration reform
In struggling for
a way to move forward on the issue of immigrant rights,
the African-American community should reflect on the
compassionate words of civil rights pioneer Bayard
Rustin, who was both black and gay
By the Reverend Irene Monroe
|
The last word on
Brokeback vs. Crash
What was it like
to be right there, backstage at the Oscars, when the
2006 Best Picture award went to Crash? Now that
Brokeback Mountain is out on DVD, veteran
Oscar scribe Bruce Vilanch revisits Oscar
night—and the conspiracy theories gay moviegoers have
lived with ever since
By Bruce Vilanch
|
"A Sophisticated
Affair"
At least until
Rod Stewart shows up and Kellie Pickler sings
“Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered” on
this week’s American Idol
By Dave White
|
"Stop this
unbridled extremism"
Kentucky
Republicans are returning to antigay politics in advance of
their reelection campaigns. This strategy is not only
reprehensible, it’s bad for business
By Jimmy LaSalvia, president of the Log Cabin Republican
Chapter of Kentucky
|
Look, Ma! I'm
blending in
Of course gay and
lesbian moms and dads should have been a part of the
White House Easter Egg roll—haven’t they
always been? If we want to be treated like everyone
else, why make a big deal out of it?
By Karel
|
Step by step to
Laguna Beach
Crossing into
conservative Orange County, this Southern California soccer
mom and lesbian continues walking the coastline from San
Diego to San Francisco to raise LGBT visibility. This
is the second of her dispatches from the road
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
Rolling eggs
together
Gay families who
showed up en masse with their children at the annual
White House Easter Egg Roll on Monday were greeted with one
loud bullhorn and hundreds of welcoming smiles
By Emily Heil
|
Chance encounter
in Va.
Our young
activist diarist learns something from an unexpected
encounter outside a Panera Bread eatery in Warrenton,
Va.
By Tully Satre
|
Dying at BYU
A symbolic die-in
to honor the many gay Mormons who have committed
suicide gets two dozen Equality Ride protesters arrested on
the campus of Brigham Young University. It also sends
an important message.
By Haven Herrin
|
Attacked in St.
Martin
Gay CBS
Evening News producer Dick Jefferson talks with
The Advocate about being gay-bashed on the
Caribbean island of St. Martin and how he is going
back to tell authorities how he feels about it
By Dan Avery
|
Freddie's dead
And if he
weren’t already, Ace’s singing “We Will
Rock You” on this week’s American
Idol would have done the trick
By Dave White
|
What's in a trans
name?
Transsexual?
Cross-dresser? Gender-queer? Under the
“transgender” umbrella are a range of
people who deal with gender identity and gender
expression in nontraditional ways. A primer on who’s
who. Part 2 of The Advocate’s ongoing
transgender series
By Joanne Herman
|
The GOP's antigay
pitch to blacks
The Republican
Party is reaching out to African-American voters with a
pitch that hones in on their presumed homophobia. The
party’s blatantly antigay
“misinformation campaign” is detailed in a new
report from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
By the Reverend Irene Monroe
|
Outed at 13,
activist at 16
In the first of a
series written exclusively for The Advocate, a
16-year-old gay activist from Virginia describes how a
cruel shove out of the closet turned into a mobilizing
kick in the pants
By Tully Satre
|
The first seven
out of 569 miles
This Southern
California soccer mom and lesbian is now on the road,
walking the coastline from San Diego to San Francisco to
raise LGBT visibility. This is the first of her
dispatches from the road.
By Jennifer Schumaker
|
We 55
respectfully disagree
In an
“open letter” to The Advocate and to
LGBT people everywhere, more than four dozen prominent
activists of color take issue with Jasmyne
Cannick’s commentary calling for LGBT equality to
take priority over rights for illegal immigrants.
Quoting Audre Lorde, they remind us, “There is
no hierarchy of oppression.”
By 55 LGBT activists
|
Dining with the
Corps at Texas A&M
The Equality Ride
visits Texas A&M University in College Station,
Texas, not to protest college policies but to confront the
largest ROTC program at any nonmilitary school. The
result is productive dialogue on “don’t
ask, don’t tell” and religion.
By Jarrett Lucas
|
Immigration is an
LGBT issue
Christine Chavez, former UFW California political
director and granddaughter of the late civil rights
leader Cesar Chavez, says gays and lesbians everywhere
stand to gain by working together for the rights of
immigrants
|
Country crock
Kenny Rogers
tries to scare up sales for his new CD by coaching on
AI and just scares America in the process
By Dave White
|
Feingold comes
out for gay couples
Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold has joined the handful of
U.S. senators who have expressed their unequivocal
support for marriage equality. And he’s a
serious contender for the White House in 2008. The
Advocate’s Sean Kennedy talks to the
Democratic firebrand
|
Mandisa breaks
her silence
A day after
getting booted from American Idol, Mandisa
talks exclusively to The Advocate about the gay
controversy that may have done her in and explains why
you'll never see her belting at the White Party.
By Neal Broverman
|
Kinder, gentler
homophobia
What was up with
60 Minutes’ bizarrely unbalanced report on
the origins of sexuality? In part the answer is
disgraced “scientist” J. Michael Bailey,
who thinks gay men tend to be girly and bisexuals
don’t exist
By David Ehrenstein
|
Dinah! Dinah!
Dinah!
The Advocate’s executive editor grabs the
sunscreen and ventures into the world’s hottest
sea of women at Dinah Shore Weekend
By Anne Stockwell
|
Gays first, then
illegals
Yes, immigration
reform is vitally important. But if Congress wants to
debate the extension of equal civil rights to U.S.
residents, let’s start with gays and lesbians
who are already citizens
By Jasmyne Cannick
|
We got nothin'
but beans
Brokeback Mountain debuts on DVD with a fairly
bare-bones release. If you can’t fix it, you
gotta stand it—but let’s hope for a more
deluxe edition in the future
By Alonso Duralde
|
The gospel
according to...Mandisa?
“Jesus
Take the Wheel,” as Carrie Underwood would
sing—because on this week’s American
Idol there were some serious wrong turns. Part 6
of Dave White’s continuing AI wrap-up
By Dave White
|
Close your legs
and go home
The misguided
sequel Basic Instinct 2 does little more than remind
you how good the protested-by-gay-activists original was
By Alonso Duralde
|
Transamerica gets real
In this first
installment of The Advocate’s exclusive
new series, the author talks about how her wife, her gay
male friends, and the movie Transamerica
inspired her to reach out to you, our readers, to
answer all your questions about being transgender,
whether you were afraid to ask or not
By Joanne Herman
|
Frodo gets lost
The
three-and-a-half-hour stage version of The Lord of the
Rings, now running in Toronto, has Elvish music,
lots of armpit stabbing, guys on stilts, and a
too-short wizard. It’s quite a sight to see, but
don’t expect to be moved
By a Friend in Toronto
|
Invisible at Oral
Roberts
A stop at the
notoriously antigay university in Tulsa, Okla., results in
a few arrests and some off-campus dialogue. But Oral Roberts
did such a thorough job of closing itself off, this
rider fears some local folks didn’t even get a
chance to make up their own minds.
By Rachel Powell
|
A senator faces
off with Gen Q
A teen activist
braves an antigay crowd at a Virginia town hall meeting
with a conservative would-be presidential candidate, U.S.
senator George Allen—and engages the senator in
a debate on the Constitution and equality
By Tully Satre
|
Peggy Sue got
buried
Week 5 of
Advocate contributor Dave White’s American
Idol recap: This week’s installment was
more fun than watching the Fonz jump over a big tank
of sharks. Just not much more…
By Dave White
|
Ken's new look
Reinventing
Barbie’s beau as a misunderstood metrosexual may not
be the best way to keep this plastic couple in the
public eye
By Jill Jacobs
|
Forget blue.
Think red
In an open letter
to the leaders of LGBT organizations, a Birmingham,
Ala., resident urges a new strategy for equality: Remember
the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and take the
fight to the places that most need to be
educated—the South and the Midwest
By Joe Openshaw
|
South by
Southwest: the madness continues
Neither rain nor
bad sound mixes nor St. Patrick’s Day drunks keeps
our Austin correspondent from catching one show after
another at the fabled music fest
By Jane Herren
|
Brokeback's Czech debut
Deep in the heart
of Prague, far away from the cattle ranches of Wyoming,
Zkroncena Hora (Brokeback Mountain)
continues to move audiences
By Chris Ott
|
Dialogue without
judgment
The Equality
Ride’s visit to “Christ-centered” Lee
University in Tennessee leaves this
rider inspired. What LGBTQ students on antigay
campuses need more than anything, she learns, is support for
where they are right now, not snap judgments about how
their lives or their school must change.
By Jamie St. Ledger
|
Why I chose to be
arrested
The codirector of
the Equality Ride writes about her decision to be
handcuffed and booked at the ride’s second stop:
“I chose to walk onto campus to tell gay and
lesbian students at Regent University that the God of
their faith does indeed claim them, even if their church
does not.”
By Haven Herrin
|
Songs in the Key
of Whatever
Week 4 of
Advocate contributor Dave White’s American
Idol recap: Idol’s dullest week this season
makes our man in the armchair reach for his remote
By Dave White
|
Gone to Austin,
looking for Elijah
Our South by
Southwest correspondent crams a lot of live music and Red
Bull into two days, although music fan Elijah Wood remains
elusive
By Jane Herren
|
The sanest man in
reality TV
Forget Chloe,
Santino, Daniel V.—the real breakout star of the
second season of Project Runway was the droll,
sage, and sexy Tim Gunn
By Dennis Hensley
|
Crash course with Kathleen Bird York
The
Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter talks about her road to
Crash, reflects on the emotional roots of her music,
and pays tribute to her gay filmmaker brother
By Peter Galvin
|
Making the
"necessary trouble" on campus
In the first of
The Advocate’s series of dispatches from
the Equality Ride to antigay colleges, the young
co-organizer connects his activism to the civil rights
leaders who inspired him—and describes what
happened when the riders showed up on Jerry Falwell’s
doorstep
By Jake Reitan
|
And then there
were 12
Week 3 of
Advocate contributor Dave White’s American
Idol recap: Paris wrestles with
“Conga,” Mandisa’s gay-pride-float
future, Bucky Covington’s evil twin, and the
return of Bo Bice
By Dave White
|
Above all, awful
Asia
Argento’s adaptation of JT LeRoy’s The
Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things was
already a wallow in the muck; now that we know
LeRoy’s a phony, the movie is flat-out reprehensible
By Alonso Duralde
|
Homophobia?
Hogwash!
Who
isn’t bummed that Brokeback
didn’t mosey away with the Best Picture Oscar?
But if fingers must be pointed, blame the loss on gays
for not standing up to endless parodies and jokes about the
film
By Karel
|
Bear chasers
A mixed bag of
queer films pursued the prestigious Teddy Awards at the
2006 Berlin Film Festival
By Lawrence Ferber
|
Brokeback backlash in full force
The Academy
Awards may have marked a “maverick year,” but
Oscar voters still felt more comfy with a movie about
racism than with one depicting gay sex. So maybe
they’re not so “out of touch” with
mainstream America after all
By Lewis Whittington
|
The dark side of
Brokeback Mountain
While
Brokeback has certainly exposed mainstream America to
the emotional truth of gay romantic love, the torrent
of media coverage surrounding the film reveals a
deeply rooted repugnancy toward homosexuality
By John Morgan Wilson
|
The race is over
Gay pals John and
Scott reminisce about their too-short stay on The
Amazing Race 9 after getting eliminated on the first
episode
By Dennis Hensley
|
"We got a hot one
tonight!"
Week 2 of
Advocate contributor Dave White’s American
Idol recap: Mandisa’s arm fat,
Taylor’s toboggan, Kellie meets calamari, and
bye bye Brenna
By Dave White
|
The rocky
political trail that led to Brokeback
The Brokeback
Mountain phenomenon didn’t happen by
accident—it comes after decades of gay
activism, political progress, and gradual changes in
the media’s coverage of homosexuality
By John Morgan Wilson
|
Black America's
infatuation with butch men in heels
Images of black
men dressed as women have become a popular part of black
American culture, but does the success of films like
Madea’s Family Reunion depend on
Tyler Perry’s real-life heterosexism?
By Jasmyne A. Cannick
|
The boy who loved
too much
An interview with
author Mack Friedman about his debut novel, Setting
the Lawn on Fire, a powerful coming-of-age tale
about adolescent queer desire
By Alistair McCartney
|
Sing it, sister!
The first
installment of Advocate contributor Dave
White’s weekly recap of who ruled, who stank, and who
cried on Fox’s current season of American Idol
By Dave White
|
Sasha settles for
silver
Finito! Now that the figure skating competition is
over, our Olympics correspondent tallies up the medals
and dissects the tragic flaws in last night’s
ladies free skate program
By Jon Jackson
|
United against
hate
When Fred Phelps
showed up in Fort Campbell, Ky., to blame the gays for
Iraq War casualties, the region's gay community found
instant solidarity among Army wives and soldiers
By David W. Shelton
|
Fighting HIV
ignorance
Some users of
Facebook.com, an online community for college students, are
breeding fear and hatred about HIV infection and gay
men—prompting the 26-year-old founder of an HIV
prevention organization to take action
By Tom Donohue
|
Ladies' night
Despite a few
tacky costumes, the ladies’ short program was a
vision of elegance, avoiding the sideshow spectacle of
this year’s other skating events
By Jon Jackson
|
Meltdown on ice
An out former
skating judge is let down by the performances in the men's
figure skating long program at Torino—but gives high
marks to the costumes and the men themselves
By Jon Jackson
|
Why gay rights
are good for China
China has more to
gain from embracing gay rights than any other country
in the world—for the sake of sheer practicality
By Andrew M. Potts
|
Hollywood's
straight jacket
Heath and Jake
deserve their Oscar noms, but where are the kudos for gay
actors playing straight roles?
By Jerome Cleary
|
In a Loving
spirit
An open letter to
the African-American community on marriage equality for
same-sex couples
By the Reverend Irene Monroe
|
Best elk hunting
movie?
A gay outdoorsman
in Missoula, Mont., starts a Brokeback Mountain
thread in a chat room for bow-hunting
conservatives—but will he find common ground?
By David Stalling
|
Idol thoughts...and rants
Singling out
homophobia on American Idol overlooks the latest
season’s most disturbing aspect—it’s
just plain mean!
By Karel
|
Sundance Diary:
The Final Countdown
On his last day
in Park City, Advocate arts and entertainment editor
Alonso Duralde has close encounters with lesbians—the
television kind and the Mississippi kind—and
amused bear icon Kevin Smith
By Alonso Duralde
|
The right to roll
Will the White
House find a way to stop over 100 gay- and lesbian-led
families from participating in its annual Easter Egg Roll?
By John Crabtree-Ireland
|
The state of
our unions
The president
mentioned gay and lesbian Americans in his State of the
Union speech—for about eight seconds—but if
you don’t have anything nice to say, Mr.
President, please don’t say it at all!
By Karel
|
Momentum in the
movement
With more than
100 congressional cosponsors, the bill that will overturn
the military's "don't ask, don't tell" is closer than ever
to passing. Here's how that will happen
By C. Dixon Osburn
|
What a character!
Leslie Jordan
takes a break from Will & Grace to reprise his
juicy roles in Sordid Lives and Southern Baptist
Sissies, part of a yearlong Del Shores repertory
in Los Angeles
By Darren Frei
|
Covered Mountain
The author of
Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights
sees the gay rights movement as a history of weakening
demands for assimilation. So where does
Brokeback fit in?
By Kenji Yoshino
|
My hero from
Georgia
The man who
founded the country’s first national gay-straight
alliance group says Kerry Pacer is a remarkable young
woman who shines as an example for gay youths
everywhere
By Kevin Jennings
|
Al Sharpton, the
Black Church, and gays
A host of
religious leaders at an Atlanta conference denounced the
Republican Party for targeting GLBT Americans and ignoring
the real issues
By Matthew Cardinale
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Carnal knowledge
In his new book,
Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay
Men, psychotherapist Robert Weiss, MSW, explores why
such a disproportionately high number of gay men
engage in sexually compulsive behavior and how they
can be helped
By Neal Broverman
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Articles of faith
The religious
right’s high-profile moral and ethical failures could
be a direct result of repressive religion
By Rev. Steven Baines
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Celebrating
King's legacy
It’s time
to think deeply about racism and its roots—to think
about what it would take to make a meaningful
restitution to those affected by slavery
By Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum
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Sundance, part
deux
Weathering the
Queer Brunch crowd with John Waters, moderating a panel
with Armistead Maupin, and getting the scoop on
Lifetime’s upcoming Gwen Araujo movie
By Alonso Duralde
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The queer side of
Sundance
In this first of
three installments, The Advocate’s arts and
entertainment editor takes us along on his whirlwind trip to
the Sundance Film Festival. It’s all about the
movies, yes—and who you meet at brunch, or in
the men’s room.
By Alonso Duralde
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Fear of flying
solo
The uproarious
and honest stage experience known as The Break Up
Notebook: The Lesbian Musical is deservedly packing
the house in L.A.
By Neal Broverman
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Pro-Bush,
pro-equality
Wisconsin
resident and former Massachusetts lawmaker Bob Hall is a
conservative Republican who wants everyone to know that the
only people who threaten traditional marriage are
straight couples.
By Bob Hall
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Frey's gay
pal—or not
Author James Frey
has admitted to embellishing certain sections of A
Million Little Pieces, his best-selling memoir of
recovery. His second book, My Friend Leonard,
is worth a look for its gay-themed plot. Just take it
with a grain of salt
By Chad Graham
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My time on
Brokeback Mountain
One of the two
co-screenwriters of the critically acclaimed “gay
cowboy” movie responds to the Advocate.com
commentary by Karel about the film
By Diana Ossana
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Flicka can sing,
Dead Can Dance
and many other
revelations have marked the recent adventures of our Los
Angeles opera critic, including productions of The
Grand Duchess,
Pagliacci, and Parsifal, a Cecilia Bartoli
recital, and—gasp!—a rock concert.
By Fred Goss
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Gene Shalit on
his gay son
In 1997, NBC
movie reviewer Gene Shalit wrote an article for The
Advocate titled “For the Love of Pete,”
about his adult gay son. The opinions he expressed in
that piece, reprinted here, don’t seem to
correspond to his “sexual predator” slur
against Brokeback Mountain.
By Gene Shalit
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Our queer year
African-American
LGBTQ people pushed through 2005’s culture wars with
creative genius and collective strength. Here’s a
recap as we enter 2006.
By Rev. Irene Monroe
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A plea to the
world
It’s time
to turn our attention to the plight of our LGBT brothers and
sisters in other countries and demand an end of human rights
violations.
By Dan Baker and Chuck Wolfe
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