The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) articles from April 2006

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) archives from April 2006

Kevin Fenton.(director of National Center for HIV)(Interview)
April 11, 2006... As the new director for the National Center for HIV. STD, and TB Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Kevin Fenton brings not only nearly 15 years of experience as a physician working in public health in his...

Affirmation and vilification.(gays and sex work)(Editorial)
April 11, 2006... Hal had been an escort while a struggling actor in New York City. The money had been good, and the affirmation he got from his clients had been even better. The skinny gay kid who had been the bullies' target in school was now a gym-sculpted...

Celebrity gay sex scandals.(Chronology)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... 1895 Oscar Wilde is found guilty of "gross indecent' after an ill-advised libel suit against his boyfriend's father led to public scrutiny of the authors own life. 1936 Openly gay movie star William Haines and boyfriend Jimmy Shields face...

An epidemic appears.(ARCHIVES: (03.18.82))
April 11, 2006... T his year marks the 25th anniversary of the II AIDS epidemic in the United States, which was first reported in July 1981, though no one knew what it really was. The Advocate's first cover story on the disease appeared about seven months later....

Playing against each other.(Letter to the editor)
April 11, 2006... I was glad to see you touch on the issues that have caused a division in the international GLBT athletic community and the creation of two different games--the Out-games in Montreal and the Gay Games in Chicago ["Different Games, Familiar...

The games experience.(Letter to the editor)
April 11, 2006... I take this opportunity to comment on the exceptional example of research-free editorial displayed under Bruce C. Steele's byline in the opening pages of the March 14 issue [From the Editor in Chief]. It is a remarkable display of smugness and...

Pro (and con) choice.(Letter to the editor)
April 11, 2006... Robert Epstein ["Is Gay a Choice?" March 14] is misusing "science" to support ex-gay propaganda, just as Christians are misusing "intelligent design." Anecdotal evidence of "selfoproclaimed ex-gays" doesn't prove his claim that some gays can...

For the good of all.(Letter to the editor)
April 11, 2006... Thank you for your article about gay corporate leaders ["Breaking the Mold," March 14], but I think your readers would also find it interesting to read about gay and lesbian leaders in the nonprofit field. There are many of us "out" there who...

Gays and Christianity.(Letter to the editor)
April 11, 2006... Thank you so much for the attention and thoughtful consideration you've been giving to the boundaries and overlap between the gay community and communities of faith. In the March 14 issue, there is coverage of the Soulforce Equality Ride, Chad...

Time capsule.(=)(Letter to the editor)
April 11, 2006... Your March 14 issue touches on so many different aspects of gay life in 2006 that it could be included in a meaningful and revealing time capsule. Not that other issues might not also qualify. I like the appearance of some gray hairs in The...

The Advocate poll.(Letter to the editor)
April 11, 2006... Q: Is the gradual winning-over of religious fundamentalists a better strategy than confrontation and anger? * It's a winning strategy only if you're a Log Cabin Republican. I don't think anger is necessary, but the only way to prevent the...

Jim Crow goes gay in Idaho.(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... How can you convince people in the bright red state of Idaho to vote against an amendment banning same-sex marriage, civil unions, and domestic partnerships? Give them an American history lesson, says a new group of gay and lesbian activists,...

Wieder moves on.(Judy Wieder leaves LPI Media)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Judy Wieder, the driving force behind editorial content and vision at LPI Media, left her position as corporate editorial director on March 22. A division of PlanetOut, LPI owns The Advocate, Out, and other publications. Wieder, a prominent...

Pizza man delivers inclusive village.(Thomas S. Monaghan's Ave Maria)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Backtracking from comments he made last year, Domino's Pizza founder and Catholic stalwart Thomas S. Monaghan said March 3 that the town of Ave Maria, which he is bankrolling in southwest Florida, would now allow pornography and birth...

Winning the restroom fight.( Helena Stone arrested for using women's restroom )(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... A transgender Rosa Parks? That's how 70-year-old transgender woman Helena Stone says one supporter described her at a February 28 rally protesting her arrest for using the women's restroom in New York City's Grand Central Station. "I had no...

Recruitment allowed, but so is protest.(gays in military)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Despite their disappointment over a March 6 U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding the Solomon Amendment--which, despite the military's antigay stance, says college campuses that receive federal funding must allow military recruiters--those who...

Cross country.(Bill Galvano's bill ending 30-year ban on adoption by gays)(paratroopers arrested for pornography)(Catholic Charities ceases adoption assistance program)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... 1 LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Honor PAC, the first-ever LGBT Latino political action committee established in California, was launched on February 24 to elect gay-friendly Latino candidates and raise awareness about gay Latino issues. 2...

Blogging from the bus.(Soulforce Equality Ride-pretest at colleges that bar gay and lesbian students)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Get a front-row seat as a group of 32 college students, ages 19-26, take a six-week bus trip around the United States to pretest at colleges that bar gay and lesbian students. Modeled after the Civil Rights--era Freedom Ride of 1961, the...

Homophobia? Hogwash!(Brokeback Mountain's failure to snatch the Best Picture Oscar )(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... With a wag of his finger, our ever-opinionated Advocate.com columnist Karel argues that Brokeback Mountain's failure to snatch the Best Picture Oscar had more to do with Brokeback burnout among gays than with an antigay plot among Academy...

"Plastic" surgery.(Orlando Bloom's new look)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... With a nip here and a tuck there, Matte! has given Ken an Orlando Bloom hairstyle and a more sculpted jawline. But humorist Jill Jacobs says that reinventing Barbie's beau as a misunderstood metrosexual may not be the best way to keep the...

Guns or gay rights in Israel.(teenagers can contribute to the community and the state through national service with Association of Gays, Lesbians, Bisexuals, and Transgenders)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... In Israel teenagers can either carry a gun or carry a pride flag. Both will satisfy a national law that they serve their country. Israeli teenagers are allowed to seek an exemption from military service for various reasons and sign up for a...

A Presbyterian victory.(Jane Spahr blesses lesbian couples)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... It took nearly 30 years of protest and advocacy in the Presbyterian Church, but on March 3 lesbian minister Jane Spahr of San Rafael, Calif., finally got some of the official support she was seeking. Spahr, 63, the first in her denomination to...

Youths the target of "ex-gays".(religion-based groups' programs)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Florida resident Justin Flippen wants everyone to know about the damaging effects of religion-based groups that offer a "repair" for homosexuality. And he should know. He's a survivor of an "ex-gay" program. "The psychological damage such...

States give, IRS takes away.(Internal Revenue Service)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... If you're a gay or lesbian couple living in California, tax time could bring a reminder of the equality your state has afforded you in law, including joint property and state tax rights. But the Internal Revenue Service wants you to know that...

Q's founder axed.(Q Television Network )(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... The latest casualty at the financially troubled Q Television Network was its founder, chair, and CEO, Frank Olsen--as well as all officers and board members at QTN and its parent holding company, Triangle Multi-Media. All resigned on March 7 to...

JT! JT! Come back, JT!(JT LeRoy to hit big screens)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... JT LeRoy, the literary sensation and fictional transgender teen invented by musician Laura Alpert, is coming to the big screen. A film version of Alpert's scam--which included three books and a female JT stand-in--is being developed from Warren...

Oscar who?(Ultimate Brokeback Mountain Forum to buy ad picture)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Disappointed that Crash won the Academy Award for Best Picture, more than 600 fans from the online "Ultimate Brokeback Mountain Forum" raised more than $24,000 to buy an ad (pictured) in the March 10 Daily Variety. Their message to...

Rants raves.
April 11, 2006... "I was in a rubber suit I had rubber nipples, I could have played [Batman] straight but I didn't. I made him gay. --GEORGE CLOONEY on Barbara Waiters' Oscar Special on ABC-TV, March 5 "Better... a fascist than a faggot" ...

HIV as thread, not fabric: first person: John Morgan Wilson.
April 11, 2006... HIV was still a killer when I learned I was infected in early 1995, roughly a year before the medicinal "AIDS cocktail" started replacing death and despair with health and hope. I'd lost a longtime lover to AIDS in 1987, seeing him die a slow...

Strengthening the two-spirit legacy.(SHORT ANSWERS)(Interview)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Working in Minneapolis for the past 20 years as a community organizer for LGBT Native Americans, Richard LaFortune, 45, had amassed a substantial collection of what he calls "movement ephemera"--newsletters, posters, T-shirts from the first...

Trans teacher back to school.(Eagleswood Elementary School )(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Lily McBeth says being a teacher "is not something I got into just as a whim." That's why she wanted to continue substitute teaching at Eagleswood Elementary School in West Creek, NJ., even though she had gone through a sex change in 2005 and...

Friend or Foe?(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... FOE GONZAGA UNIVERSITY BASKETBALL TEAM FANS, who yelled "Brokeback Mountain!" as an antigay insult directed at an opposing team. Reminds me of the time I yelled "Valley of the Dolls!" at a circuit party. FRIEND Actor SIR IAN McKELLEN, for...

Octavia Butler.(lesbian science fiction novelist )(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... OCTAVIA BUTLER, 58, a reportedly lesbian science fiction novelist whose many popular books, including Kindred and Parable of the Talents, often tackled important social issues, after a fall at her home in Lake Forest Park Wash., February 24.

Robert J. Sandoval.(superior court judge )(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... ROBERT J. SANDOVAL, 56, a Los Angeles superior court judge and one of the first openly gay prosecutors in the city, of a massive heart attack at City of Hope National Medical Center in Duarte, Calif., February 28. Sandoval is survived by his...

Leon Allen.(gay rights activist )(Obituary)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... LEON ALLEN, 71, a longtime gay rights activist in Atlanta who organized that city's first Human Rights Campaign fund-raiser in 1988, of Parkinson's disease at his Atlanta home on February 16. Allen is survived by his partner of 42 years,...

AIDS Action Committee.(Rebecca Haag)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... REBECCA HAAG, executive director of the AIDS Action Committee in Massachusetts, to also serve as executive director for AIDS Action in Washington, D.C., March 1.

Church of the Presidents.(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... A request by the historic CHURCH OF THE PRESIDENTS in Quincy, Mass., to hang a large banner in support of same-sex marriage on the front of the church, by the city's Historic District Commission, February 27.

New York Court of Appeals.(FILED)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... A brief with the NEW YORK COURT OF APPEALS, the state's highest court, asking it to strike down a law barring gay and lesbian couples from getting married, March 3.

The battle over GSAs.
April 11, 2006... Aidan Grennell, a 17-year-old former president and current member of the gay-straight alliance at James River High School in Richmond, Va., says her group has no agenda other than to foster tolerance for gay students and give them a safe place...

Midwest student conference.(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Are you an LGBT college student in the Midwest? Then you may be pleased to discover that for the last 14 years LGBT students have gathered at the Midwest Bisexual, Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, and Ally College Conference. The 2006 event, held...

Talking to the gov.(Emily Frerichs-lesbian student)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Emily Frerichs, 18, was looking forward to speaking with Iowa governor Tom Vilsack so she could tell him what it was like to come out at her high school in Orange City. "I was restricted from using the girls' locker room for three months," she...

The Advocate Gen Q poll.
April 11, 2006... Are you or anyone you know a member of a GSA? Sign on to The Advocate's Web site before April 4 to cast your vote and leave your comments. Results will appear in the May 9 issue. Powered by Socratic Technologies www.advocategenqpoll.com ...

Outspoken: Zachary Mack.(sharing room with gay)
April 11, 2006... I had arrived at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, excited and enthused about my new independence and all the good times coming my way, After four torturous years of high school, I was now in my dorm room unpacking. Then...

Hood College.(lesbian student Jennifer Jones is homecoming king )(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Lesbian student Jennifer Jones, 21, says her election as homecoming king at Hood College February 18 was a great leap forward for her school. She beat three men for the crown. "It's cool that Hood allows people to be themselves," Jones told The...

Tori Spelling.(actor)(Interview)
April 11, 2006... Tori Spelling's had quite a morning. Before chatting with us about her VH1 series, so noTORIous, based on her real life, the former 90210-er shot a scene opposite Charo. "We got her to play the guitar and go 'Coochie-coochie-coo,'" boasts the...

Ads against intolerancel: can a multimillion-dollar media campaign based on Christian values break down antigay prejudice? Furniture king Mitchell Gold and some surprising allies are targeting the heartland with an unprecedented ad onslaught.
April 11, 2006... Brent Childers wants to wipe out homophobia because he believes that's the Christian thing to do. Raised as a Southern Baptist, he long believed that God "despised" gay men and lesbians. "I would be quick to condemn this wicked group of people...

The hypocritical oath: come out to your doctor, and you may be told to go elsewhere. Now some lawmakers want to legalize religious discrimination.
April 11, 2006... When Jamie Beiler went to a Florida doctor's office seeking treatment for bronchitis last year, she never imagined the staff would also try to cure her homosexuality. After she was examined by a physician's assistant, Beiler, 36, was handed a...

Death by HIV discrimination?(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... When Claude Green stiffened, swerved, and collapsed due to a heart attack in the seat of his pickup truck while driving down a street in Welch, W. Va., last June, his friend Billy Snead managed to pull the vehicle over from the passenger seat...

Life in the T zone: with the aid of testosterone, biological women are expanding the old ideas of male and female. But being gender-queer can involve health risks.
April 11, 2006... Renata Razza was born female and came out as a lesbian at 15. It was a declaration that took few by surprise. She'd always looked gender-ambiguous. But as time went on, Razza became more convinced that her internal self and her physical body...

Affirming transgender care.(Callen-Lorde Community Health Center )(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Transgender people hoping to begin their physical transition are often denied hormone therapy until they endure a lengthy psychological evaluation that proves they suffer from gender identity disorder. The process alienates some trans people,...

Homosexuality's "X" factor.(origins of homosexuality)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Being gay could be all about your mother. New research suggests the genetics of mothers with multiple gay sons are different from those of other women, adding to the ongoing debate over the origins of homosexuality. The findings, released...

Anticipating the once-a-day pill: a new daily anti-HIV pill is likely to become available later this year. Some patients can't wait, some are happy to stick with what they've got, and many won't have an option.
April 11, 2006... Since being diagnosed with HIV in the early 1990s, Robin--who declined to give his last name--has been on several different anti-HIV drug regimens. They've saved his life, but it hasn't been easy. Some involved multiple pills--most with...

Gellin' against herpes and HIV.(HEALTH)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Angel that blocks both herpes and HIV? It might seem too good to be true, but that's exactly what a recent study suggests the crobicide PRO 2000, developed by Indevus Pharmaceuticals, can do. The research, published in the Journal of...

HIV a hard life.(NEED TO KNOW)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Will a once-a-day HIV pill lead to an increase in unprotected sex among people who see it as further evidence that HIV is a treatable disease? "I worry that people will think, HIV is so easy. What's the big deal about taking one pill a day?'...

Hustle and grow: Texas gay candidate Tom Malin was undone by the revelation of his past as an escort. Why do so many young gay men turn to hustling? And why does sex work remain the unforgivable sin?(Cover story)
April 11, 2006... Few people knew about Tom Malin's past as an escort until the morning of February 17. Then there it was, on the front page of The Dallas Morning News, above the fold: CANDIDATE WORKED AS PROSTITUTE. The revelation derailed Malin's thriving...

Chemistry lesson: in Adam & Steve, Craig Chester and Malcolm gets explore a screen romance grounded in the chemistry of two actual gay actors! Hollywood, are you getting this?(Discussion)
April 11, 2006... If you like your laughs broad and your endings happy, you'll get a kick out of the new romantic comedy Adam & Steve, now in theaters from Funny Boy Films. Known for starring in some of the darkest films of New Queer Cine ma--remember...

Erin Daniels on life after The L Word: fans are mourning Dana Fairbanks--but we still have Erin Daniels, the actress who made The L Word's Dana come alive. An Advocate exclusive interview.(TV)(Interview)
April 11, 2006... From the moment she first exchanged sardonic quips with Alice and Shane in the Planet, tennis player Dana Fairbanks emerged as one of the most beloved characters on The L Word, in no small part due to the courage, intelligence, and impeccable...

Aaron Harberts.(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... "Gay characters are still so shoved into the 'best friend' territory. We've seen it; we've done that." So, says Pepper Dennis gay cocreator Aaron Harberts, don't expect many queer characters on the WB comedy, premiering April 4. Rebecca Romijn...

A touch of the poet: as she portrays famed lesbian poet Elizabeth Bishop onstage, Amy Irving reflects on freedom, sexuality, and the beauty of knowing oneself.
April 11, 2006... As an actor and a woman, Amy Irving has long outgrown her beginnings as that nice girl who avoided the psychokinetic bloodshed in Carrie and who nabbed an Oscar nomination for marrying a cross-dressing Barbra Streisand in Yentl. Irving,...

Leigh Silverman.(lesbian playwrights )
April 11, 2006... When did you last see a lesbian playwrights name up in lights on Broadway? That's reason enough to cheer the opening of Lisa Kron's Well at New York's Longacre Theater, opening March 30. Equally unusual is the Broadway debut of Leigh Silverman,...

I'd like to thank.
April 11, 2006... As we take a breather between the Oscars and the Daytime Emmys, I for one am exhausted. One of my life's greatest ironies is that I've always dreamed of experiencing the glamour of the red carpet, and now that I'm actually receiving invites to...

Marga Gomez.(playwright)(Interview)
April 11, 2006... "There were only a handful of us in the '80s, and a lot of girls to sleep with," recalls Marga Gomez, talking about doing stand-up in the "B.E." (Before Ellen) era. "Honestly, we didn't even have to be that good," recalls the out Latina...

Oh, relax already: shhhh ... take a load off and take it easy with these soothing new products.(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Doctors and other official types have A said that a good night's sleep is critical for a healthy life, so get a natural one-up on your bedtime with Badger Sleep Balm ($8), a lotion with a calming scent to help you get your z's. ...

Cargiver.(Pontiac Torrent)(Product/service evaluation)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... What good gay Jewish grandson wouldn't love a sporty SUV that's also comfy enough to drive grandma to dinner for her birthday? That's the story on the five-passenger Pontiac Torrent. I was impressed with the Torrent--essentially the same as the...

Boys Life 5.(Brief article)(Video recording review)
April 11, 2006... * Directed by Michael Burke, Eytan Fox, David Ottenhouse, and Adam Sulky and David Brind * Strand Releasing Home Video While breaking no new cinematic ground, Boys Life 5 delivers what fans of the series expect--doe-eyed, full-lipped,...

Z for yourself.(Liza With a "Z")(Television program review)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... Liza With a "Z" * Starring Liza Minnelli * Premiering April 1 on Showtime (8 P.M. Eastern; check local listings) Mama may have and Papa may have, but God bless Liza. First aired in 1972 soon after her turn in Cabaret, which would...

Fire? Not so much.("In Her Line of Fire")(Television program review)(Brief article)
April 11, 2006... In Her Line of Fire * Starring Mariel Hemingway, David Keith, and Jill Bennett * Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith * Regent Films/Here TV Mariel Hemingway has played a Secret Service agent twice and a lesbian three times. In Her...

Garden of Edies.("Grey Gardens")(Theater review)
April 11, 2006... Grey Gardens * Book by Doug Wright, music by Scott Frankel, lyrics by Michael Korie * Musical staging by Jeff Calhoun * Directed by Michael Greif * Starring Christine Ebersole, Mary Louise Wilson * Playwrights Horizons, New York City...

Hot picks.(Movie review)(Television program review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 11, 2006... TV Footballers Wive$ Sundays (BBC America) Gay soccer players are just the icing on the scone for this deliciously tawdry British soap that's like Dynasty with cleats. Wonder Showzen Returns March 31 (MTV2) Shocking,...

World war on gays.
April 11, 2006... Here's a scenario to send chills up your spine: Let's say there's a plan to hold a gay pride march in a major U.S. city. Months before the event, one of the nation's leading Muslim clerics warns that if gays march, their physical safety could...

Nuggets & bites.
April 11, 2006... "I know... what I must continue to do. I must seek out God's grace in the arms of those I love, in the men, women, the undecided and the in-between, fulfilling the sacraments that resound within me.... I must continue to pray, for strength,...

Billie Jean King.(Q&A)(Interview)
April 25, 2006... Tennis legend Billie Jean King is serving up two new projects: On April 20 in Beverly Hills the Women's Sports Foundation (founded by King in 1974) holds the first annual Billie awards program. And King has an endorsement with RainbowVision...

Out to change the world.(FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF)(Editorial)
April 25, 2006... Judy Wieder has led many lives. In her office next office next to mine at LPI Media, where she was editorial director until March 22, as this issue went to press, she had a bulletin board of photos of herself with gay newsmakers from Gore Vidal...

Queer music labels, '64-'96.(TIME LINE)(Brief article)
April 25, 2006... 1964-65: Camp Records, based in Hollywood, issues 10 singles and two LPs of parody songs ("Stanley the Manly Transvestite," "I'd Rather Swish Than Fight") in sleeves with photos of beefcake models, rough trade, and cross-dressers. 1973:...

King comes out.((08.18.98) Archives)(Brief article)
April 25, 2006... Most gays and lesbians know tennis legend Billie Jean King--interviewed in this issue on page 4--as a pioneer for women in sports and an outspoken champion of lesbian and gay causes. But until eight years ago King was better known for being...

Making waves.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... As bogus "family values" issues are used more and more by the Right to drive a wedge through the country, I'm even happier to have taken my little boy on an R Family cruise ["Ro, Ro, Ro Their Boat!" March 28]. The conversations it sparked...

Nate, we hardly knew ye.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... I write this in response to your article on Nathan Christoffersen ["What Would Nathan Do?" March 28]. My father and Al Christoffersen are business partners in Madera [Calif.]. I knew of Nathan through my dad in passing conversation. I never met...

Second largest?(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... Imagine my surprise to read that the 13-year-old Dinah Shore Weekend is "the world's largest and best-known annual lesbian gathering" ["The Dinah Divide," March 28]. With all due respect to Dinah, this year the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival...

Boomer bashing.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... Anya Kamenetz cites three reasons young gays today are financially stretched ["Indebted Youth," March 28], and one of those reasons is the cost of paying pensions to the generation of baby boomers now retiring. It's true to say that our...

Deathmongers.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... In the brief but inspiring article "Biking to Block Phelps" [Report, March 28], Fred Phelps is alleged to have stated that soldiers (both gay and straight, remember!) are dying in Iraq because America accepts homosexuality. The truth is that...

The little GSA that could.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... Thank you for your coverage of the Los Altos [Calif.] High School gay-straight alliance [Cross Country, March 28]. Our GSA's plight, however, is not done. For the last three years, we have gone before the city council to ask for a Pride Day...

Present gay hero.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... I appreciate that every issue of The Advocate devotes a page to the contributions made by GenQers, although I'm disturbed by the heading "Future Gay Hero." Aren't they being recognized for the achievements they've already made? Isn't the point...

Untold stories.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... I was grateful for your GenQ article on Queers on Wheels I "On Wheels Together," March 28]. I had the pleasure of meeting Eva Sweeney last year and found her to be an extraordinary young woman of great insight, courage, and good humor. ...

A friend of mine?(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
April 25, 2006... I am one of those gay men who found Brokeback Mountain and the soundtrack to be profound, beautiful, and sad beyond words. Willie Nelson's cover of "Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" [Big Gay Following, March 28] contains,...