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

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

Rants & raves.(celebrities opinions)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... "I liked the idea of [Jack Sparrow] being ambiguous.... You're lonely. You have an extra ration of rum. 'Cabin boy!'" --JOHNNY DEPP, on his fey character in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies, as quoted in the July 6 issue of Roling Stone...

Second opinions.(homosexuality opinions)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... "Maybe the question for [newly elected head of the Episcopal Church] Bishop [Katharine Jefferts] Schori and her fellow heretics should be: If homosexual practice is not sin, what is?... How about applying the religious equivalent of 'open...

We like sex, and that's OK.(FROM THE EDITORS)
August 15, 2006... The religious right would like the word heterosexual to conjure up demure married couples who have sex in locked bedrooms purely for the purpose of procreation. The word homosexual, however, they'd like to associate with two nasty guys having...

Out on the street: we asked a sampling of LGBT people in Washington, D.C. ...(lesbian gays bisexual transgender)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... "What do you say when straight people ask about your sex life?" THERESA MACHESKI, 18, STUDENT "I just tell them I like to screw girls." STEVEN KIZANOWSKI, 19, RETAIL SALES "I'm open with them and go into detail." STEVEN...

Chance encounter.(Letter to the editor)
August 15, 2006... When I started watching Noah's Arc, I noticed Chance right away ["The Sexy Professor," July 4]. Who was this smart, well-spoken (and cute) black man, and where had he been my entire Queer as Folk-watching, Will & Grace-filled life? None of...

Civic pride.(Letter to the editor)
August 15, 2006... With respect to your article "The Power of Mayors" [July 4], you did not mention the openly gay mayor of Nyack, N.Y., John Shields. Since taking office, Shields has been on the forefront of gay rights and marriage equality in New York State....

Alive and kicking.(Letter to the editor)
August 15, 2006... Greg Hernandez's article about MTV's gay network celebrating its first anniversary states, "With its programming Logo has tried to reach all areas of LGBT interest, resulting in programming that basically targets everyone from 18 to 54" ["Logo...

Gender, she wrote.(Letter to the editor)
August 15, 2006... Founding Lavender Graduation is one of the pieces of my work about which I am incredibly proud ["Caps, Gowns, and Rainbows," July 4]. Our LGBT students deserve recognition for their leadership, scholarship, and for surviving experiences that...

Yes and no to Phelps.(Letter to the editor)
August 15, 2006... Thank you to the Advocate editors in the July 4 edition for providing an unbiased and realistic view of our most basic right as citizens of the United States: freedom of speech ["Yes to Phelps, No to Bush"]. Even though I deeply disagree with...

Pet project.(Letter to the editor)
August 15, 2006... I'm writing in response to Kurt B. Reighley's lame review of the new Pet Shop Boys album ["Small Pleasures," July 4]. It's difficult to find a bad review of this new masterpiece anywhere. Even the San Francisco Chronicle gave it its highest...

Sticking with the Chicks.(Letter to the editor)
August 15, 2006... I was very happy when my new Advocate arrived with an interview with the Dixie Chicks [Big Gay Following, June 20]. Unlike many of their fans, I was glad when they denounced Bush a few years back. I think it was deplorable for the right-wing...

Corrections.(Correction notice)
August 15, 2006... The "By the Numbers: Out in the Office" chart in the Report section of our July 4 issue compared statistics in 2002 with 2006, not 2004 as listed. And in our "Logo Turns 1" article from the same issue, the 20 million figure was in reference to...

Is porn an option? Some young gay men turn to sex work to pay for school. Not all of them regret it.
August 15, 2006... Tom Stephenson, 21, doesn't fit the typical image of an amateur porn star. He's a junior at Miami University of Ohio, has been on the dean's list every semester, and was president of his high school class. But doing porn was something he...

My life away from Exodus: the damage done to the minds of queer youths by "ex-gay" groups like Exodus International can be devastating. David Luc Nguyen had trouble even writing about it.(GENQ)
August 15, 2006... I remember staring at my reflection in the bathroom mirror six years ago. The hot water was running. I had a razor blade in my hand, and I was prepared to do the unthinkable. I couldn't deal with the war raging inside me any longer. For as long...

Change in 60 sec.(Brian Gonzalez's It's the Buzz )(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... When 19-year-old Brian Gonzalez, a film student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, saw a homeless man in a subway station talking about AIDS, the moment changed his life. "I felt it was my duty as an artist who cares about this...

The Advocate GenQ poll.
August 15, 2006... Q: Is it ever OK to have sex for pay? In the July 4 issue we asked: Have you ever attended a summer camp for gay youth? Results: Never: 97% One or more times with or without a friend: 3% Join the GenQ advisory board!...

Outspoken.(gays history)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... I finally left the closet at the end of last summer. For 19 years I had masqueraded as a straight girl, and I was itching to indulge my suppressed gay curiosities. I devoured gay books and became addicted to Logo TV. In all this material I saw...

At your service: curiosity compelled this L.A. resident to experiment with a : Rod Hnew personaagen, male escort. His first client's heartfelt gratitude led him to the conclusion that Rod was here to stay.
August 15, 2006... If you want to find me--or some other happy hooker--you'll have better luck pounding the keyboard than the pavement. Prostitution now booms over the Internet for the simple reason that it is needed. As Gore Vidal wrote in 1966, "If most men and...

Love at first site: we asked Advocate readers to share their true stories of Internet dating and found out that going online was a great way to meet the love of your life. That is, if he or she wasn't lying to you.
August 15, 2006... Jeanne Patton, 24 Residence: Roland, Iowa Relationship status: partnered, with Sheri I decided to put up a free personal ad on Cupid.com. I searched the ads of all the lesbians in Iowa within about two hours of where I lived, in a...

Who's the hottest? Which celebs trip our lesbian triggers these days? Chrisanne Eastwood asked six women and got some eye-opening answers. (Sorry, Angelina).
August 15, 2006... THE 18-YEAR OLD Jen Wohlner, Matthew Shepard Point Scholarship winner: Katherine Moennig (Shane of The L Word). "It's her low-slung pants, her hair, her lips, her whole fashion style. She takes androgyny to a whole new level." ...

Dumped again? Curses! Some gay men in their 20s--including this writer--are hoping to land a partner and start raising a child before hitting the big 3-0. Are we all just fooling ourselves?(RELATIONSHIPS)
August 15, 2006... This guy is different. I squeezed the thought out of my head before it could marinate in my mind; I had a habit of becoming starry-eyed whenever I began feeling comfortable with someone. Be cool, I ordered myself, as a Spanish waiter walked us...

In memoriam: Eric Rofes.(writer)(Obituary)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... When gays were still dying of AIDS complications in big numbers in the 1990s, pioneering gay activist and author Eric Rofes railed against those who suggested gay men should just "grow up" and reject public sexual culture. In the midst of a...

The book of lesbian love: with so many lesbians in Manolos and skirts, how do we find each other? Lauren Blitzer, coauthor of the hip new lesbi-guide Same Sex in the City, explains how to judge whether the hot woman you just met likes ladies too.(Viewpoint essay)
August 15, 2006... The femme-femme dance is one I have yet to master. How do you find out if the woman you are interested in is in fact gay? Previously, working at Conde Nast, I used to roam around the cafeteria assuming that all of the attractive, seemingly...

Five sex tips ... What can lesbians and gay men teach each other about great sex? Suzanne Westenhoefer and Alec Mapa let us in on a few of their secrets.
August 15, 2006... ... for gay men 1 Back off the gay porn Web sites--lesbos don't even have any!--and have regular normal hot homo sex with a partner. It lasts longer, it's cheaper, and it'll keep all that spam out of your e-mail box--slightly bad innuendo...

That's Ms. Butch to you: those old butch/femme games are so out of date ... not. Out writer-actor Guinevere Turner sizes up the varieties of lesbian identity now.(COMMENTARY)
August 15, 2006... I was talking to a random straight guy recently about a writer he loves that I knew in college, and I said, "She was just a shy butch dyke." And he said, "Really? I always heard she was really attractive." Whoa, dude--what the hell are you...

Elegant skin.(Duane Cramer photography)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... Out San Francisco--based photographer Duane Cramer shares images from "Elegant," a touring exhibit of his work. Having shot personalities from Brooke Shields to Gavin Newsom, Cramer is best known for his seductive nudes--and here you can see...

Jesse gets big: playing a gay cholo in Quinceanera, the summer's hottest gay movie, Jesse Garcia is on the path to stardom.(Interview)
August 15, 2006... Although many sexy straight actors have played gay onscreen over the years--Jake, Heath, Colin, Jude--it's hard to imagine any of them being man enough to do what newcomer Jesse Garcia did to boost morale on a particularly tense day on the set...

The gay couple in charge.(The Fluffer)(Movie review)
August 15, 2006... When codirectors and real-life partners Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland agreed to photograph their Los Angeles neighbor Leslie Campos's quinceanera (a celebration in Latino culture in honor of a girl's 15th birthday and transition into...

Seeking "straight": as many gay men know, "straight" men can be had. But straight-chasers warn that novelty isn't likely to lead to a stable relationship.(CULTURE)
August 15, 2006... Bill Roundy is a handsome guy with a shaved head. Quite the masculine ideal, the 32-year-old New York City cartoonist wears dark fingernail polish and is described by friends as "rather goth." He is secure in being gay, but that doesn't mean...

Love and sex, more or less.(Survey)
August 15, 2006... To get a snapshot of our readers' current sex lives, we posted 16 questions on Advocate.com that we'd asked in previous surveys in 1994, 1995, and 2002. The results reveal some surprisingly conservative values (82% of respondents want to get...

Hot in their trail: for partners Daniela Sea and Bitch, being sexy means being open to adventures--whether starring in The L Word, taking their music on the road, or appearing in the boldly explicit movie Shortbus.
August 15, 2006... Since her debut last season on The L Word, the sexily androgynous actress Daniela Sea and her fabulous dreadlocked girlfriend, the innovative feminist rocker Bitch, a.k.a. Capital B, have emerged as one of the hottest and most radical lesbian...

Naughty naughty: the raunchy, outrageous sex comedy Another Gay Movie pushes queer cinema into taboo-busting new territory.(Movie review)
August 15, 2006... Gays have long waited for many harbingers of equality, such as hate-crime laws, domestic-partner benefits, access to marriage, adoption rights, and a raunchy gay teen sex comedy? Indeed, writer-director Todd Stephens's Another Gay Movie...

Hustlers and flow.(Boys Briefs 4)(Movie review)
August 15, 2006... Boys Briefs 4 * Starring Salim Kechiouche * Picture This! Entertainment * In limited theatrical release The conceit of Boys Briefs 4, a collection of gay short films about hustlers, sounds potentially cheesy. But these six...

Rude boys: Brothers of the Head, about conjoined twins who get their sex on as punk rockers, is a strange, haunting, and feverishly hot new picture by life and filmmaking partners Keith Fulton and Lou Pepe.(Movie review)
August 15, 2006... Brothers of the Head, the smashing new feature from out moviemaking team Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe, is not exactly explicitly gay. But it's one of the queerest movies you'll ever see. The story centers on a set of conjoined twins, Tom and...

Time after time: playing gay in Francois Ozon's powerful new film Time to Leave was a nonissue for sexy French star Melvil Poupaud. The challenge was wasting away on-screen while facing thoughts about life and death.(FILM)(Movie review)
August 15, 2006... For Melvil Poupaud, working on films isn't just a chance to act--it's an opportunity to observe great filmmakers at work. His new film, Time to Leave, which opens July 14, pairs him with one of France's hottest young directors, Francois Ozon (8...

Awakenings: Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie's Lost Girls recasts Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Peter Pan as sexual coming-of-age stories.(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2006... On the eve of World War I, three women--who turn out to be legendary literary figures Alice, Dorothy, and Wendy--find themselves staying in a European inn. And as they give one another physical pleasure, they recount the stories of their...

Two is enough: want to be happy and gay? Try monogamy, says veteran gay therapist Richard Isay.(BOOKS)(Book review)
August 15, 2006... Psychotherapist Richard A. Isay scored two victories for the gay rights movement in the '80s: In 1985 he came out professionally, becoming the first openly gay member of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and in 1989 he published his...

World-class winner: 2006 Corvette Z06.(TOYS)(Product/service evaluation)
August 15, 2006... I admit it. I couldn't sleep the night before the Corvette Z06 was due to arrive. Not only was I getting the rare chance to drive this 505-horsepower supercar, but there was the added fun of my destination: the annual Endless Summer car show in...

Hot buttons: sizzling stuff to make your summer sexier.(TOYS)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... Davies Gate brings a candy-cool sensibility to tub time with the Bath Fizz Pop ($12), a ball of peppermint-scented oils that melts away to reveal a candy center: a pillow of body oil to massage into your skin after you're done bathing. ...

Humor hazard.(Penis Pokey)(Brief article)(Book review)
August 15, 2006... Among tacky novelty gifts, Christopher Behrens's Penis Pokey (Quirk)--"the book where you're the star!"--is an instant classic, Its 20 pages of heavy, color-printed cardboard are perforated with a 1 3/4-inch hole in the center, Inside are nine...

The Pee-wee Herman Show.(DVD)(Video recording review)
August 15, 2006... The Peewee Herman Show Now available (Image Entertainment) Just in time for Adult Swim's revival of Pee-wee's Playhouse comes the DVD release of the hilarious (and not-for-kids) HBO special that stared it all. Many of the shows cast...

The Jayne Mansfield Collection.(DVD)(Video recording review)
August 15, 2006... The Jayne Mansfield Collection August 8 (Fox Home Entertainment) Blond sexpot Mansfield was famous for her va-va-voom curves, but she was a talented comic actress too--check out the classic Frank Tashlin comedies The Girl Can't Help It (one...

Stand Up or Shut Up!(TV)(Television program review)
August 15, 2006... Stand Up or Shut Up! Friday nights (Starz) Gay satirist and "ivy League liberal" Steve Hanley joins five other aspiring stand-up comics on this new reality show. Does he have what it takes to tell jokes in front of a brick wall? Or will he...

The Tailenders.(TV)(Television program review)
August 15, 2006... The Tailenders July 25 on P.O.V.; check local listings (PBS) Out filmmaker Adele Home uncovers the story of Global Recordings Network,which has recorded Bible stories in over 5,500 languages--distributed, along with ultra-low-tech...

Confessions From the Velvet Ropes.(BOOKS)(Book review)(Brief review)
August 15, 2006... Confessions From the Velvet Ropes July (Griffin) It's a perfect marriage: a portrait of top New York City club doorman Thomas Onorato, penned by Glenn Belverio (also known back in the day as drag performance artist Glennda Orgasm). Favorite...

Queen: The Rex Photo Series.(BOOKS)(Book review)(Brief review)
August 15, 2006... Queen: The Rex Photo Series July (Trafalgar Square) This illustrated history of Queen comes from the archives of London's top photo library for the performing arts. Although Queen's front man, the brilliantly over-the-top Freddie Mercury,...

Blackbird.(BOOKS)(Brief article)
August 15, 2006... Blackbird Now available (Arsenal) Larry Dupleehan's seminal 1986 black coming-out novel gets a handsome reprint with fascinating supplementary features.

Out of the Navy: in June, Navy petty officer Rhonda Davis came out to a radio reporter during a Brooklyn march for marriage equality. Within weeks the 12-year veteran had been kicked out of the service.(EX-SAILOR: Rhonda Davis)(Interview)
August 15, 2006... You had to know that participating in the march while wearing your Navy uniform violated "don't ask, don't tell," yet you did it anyway. Why? It was kind of a last-minute thing. That morning I was wearing jeans and a T-shirt, I had my keys...

Still courting in Washington: Elizabeth Reis and Barbara Steele were among 19 same-sex couples arguing for marriage equality in Washington. On July 26 the state supreme court rejected their claim for a marriage license, but the couple of 29 years is vowing to fight on.(Interview)
August 29, 2006... Were you surprised by the ruling? Steele: I wasn't, not particularly. I'd been expecting it. Reis: I was surprised. We had been expecting the decision every day since 2005. When the announcement came, I was really expecting it to be...

Is lying about HIV a crime?(Editorial)
August 29, 2006... Australian Michael Neal is a gay man's worst nightmare. He's a sexually promiscuous liar who told partners he was HIV-negative when he knew he wasn't. In some tragic instances, Neal even persuaded his partners to have unprotected sex with him....

Out on the street: we asked a sampling of LGBT people in Boston ...(lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... "How do you discuss HIV status with prospective sex partners?" PATRICK KANE 28, MUSICIAN "I assume he assumes I'm negative if we don't talk about it. I'd expect someone to tell me if he were positive." ROSALIND CHOU 28, STUDENT...

Hot jock.(Letter to the editor)
August 29, 2006... It was so refreshing to see Jackie Warner on the cover of the July 18 issue ["Power Lesbian"]! Not only is she a new lesbian face, but her strong athletic look is a welcome addition. I'm an RN and an active cyclist, triathlete, and marathoner....

Undemocratic principles.(Letter to the editor)
August 29, 2006... Thank you for the editorial Freedom and Its Limits" in the July 18 issue of The Advocate. The comments need to be stated over and over by all gay groups to the public (and to ourselves). The rightists and the president are changing our...

LGBT DIY.(Letter to the editor)
August 29, 2006... The July 18 issue provided two good reminders that we have to fight for ourselves to affirm our place in our society and our rights. In the story about meeting the right definition of family to be allowed to live in certain municipalities ["Gay...

When boycotts backfire.(Letter to the editor)
August 29, 2006... I just read your article "The Breakdown of Boycotts" [July 18] and was happy to hear that many of the boycotting efforts of hatemongering so-called Christian organizations like the American Family Association and Focus on the Family have not...

The Advocate poll.
August 29, 2006... Q: Do you think Fred Phelps's antigay protests at military funerals are protected by the First Amendment? yes 52% no 43% unsure 5% How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the...

I am what I am.(Letter to the editor)
August 29, 2006... I read Jeremy Koepf's words and realized I could have written those same exact words 30 years ago [Outspoken, July 4]. What does this say about our progress for gay rights in the last 30 years? Parents still disown us. People are still...

Acting out.(Letter to the editor)
August 29, 2006... While reading Q. Allen Brocka's "Gay Shame Is a Drag" [June 20], I agreed with one point he made: "Straight-acting" is not a compliment. In reality, there is no such thing as "straight-acting" or "gay-acting" because straight and gay describe...

The right Dykes.(Letter to the editor)
August 29, 2006... The organizing members of the San Francisco Dykes on Bikes Women's Motorcycle Contingent were quite pleased with the article in the June 20 issue about our three-year struggle to own our name Dykes on Bikes ["Bikers Fight to Own "Dyke'"]....

Losing Beirut: the American reporter refused to leave the Lebanese capital, his home of eight years, when the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict began in July. Now he is watching as the gay-friendly city is destroyed once again.
August 29, 2006... On July 19 I lied to my mother. I called her from Beirut but said I was still on assignment in Dubai. "I've been crying my eyes out," she said, her voice cracking. "I was sure you'd gone back to Beirut. I've been calling and calling, but I...

Our true colors.(gay and lesbian athletes at Gay Games)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... Some Chicago-area residents were nervous about the prospect of 11,500 gay and lesbian athletes arriving in their city for Gay Games VII--witness the controversy over plans to host the rowing competition on a suburban lake--but most seemed to...

Cruising for George Michael.(gay pop star caught in sex crime)(Table)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... After he was caught allegedly cruising for sex in a London park in July, openly gay pop star George Michael told a reporter, "This is my culture! I'm not doing anything illegal.... I'm a free man, I can do whatever I want." 2,157 readers told...

Hiding in plain sight: the events leading up to Lance Bass's coming-out in People.('N Sync (musical group) )(Chronology)
August 29, 2006... 1996: Boy-band mogul Lou Pearlman creates 'N Sync. Lance remains mum about his sexuality, fearing it might damage the band. March 21, 2000: 'N Sync reaches its apex when the CD No Strings Attached sells 2.4 million copies in its first week,...

One gay Hill.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Eric Johnson 'The Hill')(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... "I had to come out as a Democrat before I came out gay," says Eric Johnson, chief of staff for Florida congressman Robert Wexler, in the first episode of the Sundance Channel's six-part documentary series The Hill, debuting August 23. No small...

International stories @advocate.com.(TOP 5)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... 1. Rip gay pride parade attacked Marchers in the Latvian capital, where the official parade was banned. were hit with eggs and human excrement July 22. 2. WorldPride parade canceled Because of security concerns due to the...

Over the rainbow in Kansas.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... Caption: When J.R. and Robin Knight's 12-year-old son brought home a rainbow flag souvenir from a Wizard of Oz museum near their home in Kansas, they promptly hung it outside their bed-and-breakfast, the Lakeway Hotel, in the town of Meade. And...

A long parenting fight.(WORLD FOCUS / Chile)(Karen Atala )(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... Chilean judge Karen Atala never expected that her legal rights as a mother would be subverted by her country's supreme court. But that's what happened in May 2004 when the court stripped her of custody of her three kids because she is lesbian....

Grand Ole gays.(SHORT ANSWERS: Stan Hill)(Interview)
August 29, 2006... To celebrate its 25th anniversary and promote gay visibility in those areas where it may be needed the most, the Twin Cities Gay Men's Chorus of Minneapolis embarked on a five-city tour of the South in July that included a groundbreaking...

Transition.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Obituary)
August 29, 2006... FIRED NINA JACOBSON, 40, as president of Wait Disney Motion Pictures Group, in Los Angeles, July 17. As head of production, she oversaw such hits as Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead Man's Chest and The Chronicles of Namia as well as...

Friend or foe.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... FOE BILL O'REILLY, who, when confronted with studies showing that legalizing same-sex unions has boosted marriage rates in Scandinavia, still asserted that encouraging gays to many creates "a more libertine or permissive society." Not as...

Rants & raves.
August 29, 2006... "I am proud of who I am, and... I'm finally in a place where my heart is secure and content." --DARREN HAYES, former lead singer of Australian pop group Savage Garden, coming out on his Web site, July 17. Hayes also revealed he married...

Love and Heche.(Anne Heche)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... We all remember the pangs we felt when Anne and Ellen--the world's first gay supercouple--broke up. But while Anne Heche may have married Coley Laffoon, she rejected the "ex-gay" label her mother tried to slap on her. Now promoting her new...

A haven for homeless youths: rejected by family and friends, many queer youths flee to the streets of New York City. Amid despair, many find hope.(GENQ)
August 29, 2006... "Get out of our town, Satan!" That's what Kimy's peers said to her when she came out as a teenager in Utah. "They felt being gay was the same as being a child molester," 20-year-old Kimy, who eschews sexual identity labels but refers to...

College made easy: the Advocate College Guide for LGBT Students is the best ever road man to gay-friendly campuses. Even if we do say so ourselves.(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... If you're a young queer student sorting through college choices, don't you want most to hear from the LGBT youths who already attend your future alma mater? Hundreds of students speak out about their campuses in The Advocate College Guide for...

GenQ poll.(gays)(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... Q: How would you make your college more gay-friendly? In the July 18 issue we asked: How fine-tuned is your gaydar? Results: What's gaydar? 4% I sometimes know: 30% I have made a friend or two with it: 20% There...

Campus clues.(Brief article)
August 29, 2006... The Guide is also entertaining, packed with "buzz bites" and "rainbow rumors." A sampling: * "Amazons, Valkyries, Naiads and Dykes: Women-Identified and Lesbian Artists in Europe"--a course offered at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn....

The closet or death: peace activist James Loney knew he would be killed if his Iraqi captors found out he is gay. So did his partner, Dan, back in Canada, who had to go back into the closet.(KIDNAPPED IN IRAQ)
August 29, 2006... The night before Canadian peace activist James Loney was due to leave Toronto for Baghdad, his longtime partner, Dan Hunt, held him close in the darkness of their bedroom. "James turned to me and said, 'What would you do if this was going...

Fixing HIV spending: leading AIDS advocates agree that a doubling of federal funding could make a dramatic difference in the fight against the disease, though they diverge when asked how they would allocate the additional money.(HEALTH SPECIAL)
August 29, 2006... There is strong consensus among AIDS experts and advocates that Washington isn't allocating nearly enough money to fight the 25-year-old AIDS epidemic in the United States, and that budgetary shortfall makes agreeing on priorities a near...

Our $40 billion prescription for AIDS.(Statistical table)
August 29, 2006... The Bush administration proposed about $19 billion on domestic HIV spending in 2007. What will make a difference? We'd start at $40 billion. $ BUSH $ ADVOCATE ...

25 years of advocacy: a sampling of a quarter century of this magazine's coverage of the AIDS epidemic, from poppers to barebacking.(HEALTH)
August 29, 2006... August 20, 1981 New Viral Cancer Stirs Gay Fears Cover line: A "Gay" Cancer? Foresight: "The bright light at the end of the dark Kaposi's [sarcoma] tunnel is that if the disease is in fact sexually transmitted, a vaccine could...

Breaking down health barriers.(HEALTH)
August 29, 2006... Better doctors for lesbians Battling health workers' ignorance about lesbians--a well-known barrier to maintaining lesbian health--the Mautner Project is reaching out to thousands of physicians and other health care providers nationwide....

"They're peddling death": profiting from unsafe sex--an Advocate investigation.(Cover story)
August 29, 2006... The promoter of the Raw Dukes sex party in Harlem in May banned safer sex, hoping to maximize his profits. A loud protest shut him down, but the underground industry of largely condom-free parties aimed at men of color is still thriving in New...

The Advocate poll.
August 29, 2006... Are the promoters who allow or encourage unsafe sex at their parties more responsible for the spread of HIV than the men who attend? Sign on to The Advocate's Web site beginning August 15 to cast your vote and lave your comments, Results...

AIDS nomad: author Susan Hunter has studied AIDS in 29 countries. She says the epidemic in the United States is not all that different from that in the developing world.(HEALTH)(Interview)
August 29, 2006... Author and AIDS expert Susan Hunter spends much of her time in the developing world studying the AIDS epidemic. Her many works on the subject--which are as comprehensive as their titles are straightforward--include AIDS in Asia: A Continent in...