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

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

Leaving the Log Cabin fight: after four years, Log Cabin Republicans president Patrick Guerriero is stepping down to run the newly formed Gill Action Fund. So was he able to make a difference in a time when the far right seemed to be taking over the GOP? And shouldn't he be staying on during an election year?(Interview)
July 4, 2006... You're leaving Log Cabin when the GOP needs all the help it can get in the run-up to the midterm elections, Are you still a Republican, or have you given up the fight? I am still a Republican and do believe that there will be a resurgence...

Yes to Phelps, no to Bush.(Fred Phelps, George W. Bush)(Editorial)
July 4, 2006... When notoriously antigay Kansas preacher Fred Phelps's clan picketed Matthew Shepard's funeral, we were angry and deeply offended. But we recognized that Phelps was exercising his constitutional right of free speech. After all, it's that same...

Out on the street: we asked a sampling of LGBT people in Seattle.
July 4, 2006... "Does your patriotism ever conflict with your self-respect as an LGBT American." NEILA GLIDDEN, 34, LAB MANAGER "My sense of self respect isn't affected, but I don't feel respected by this government because I pay taxes just like...

Big love and hate.(Letter to the editor)
July 4, 2006... I was surprised that your article "Big Gay Love" [June 6] made almost no mention of legal recognition for polyamorous relationships. I used to think that conservatives threatening that gay marriage would lead to legalized polygamy was an...

Bi and bye.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
July 4, 2006... Thanks for publishing an interview with bi and out-of-the-closet former congressman Michael Huffington ["Michael Huffington: The Long-awaited Advocate Interview," June 6]. Bisexuality is frequently misunderstood by both straight and gay people,...

Singing his praises.(Letter to the editor)
July 4, 2006... As someone who was raised in Colorado Springs, Colo., from the age of 3 until I was 21 and who attended the First Congregational Church there, I was very moved by Guy McPherson's account of forming Out Loud, the new gay men's community chores...

One man's harassment.(Public Health Service's Jesse Leonard proclaimations)(Editorial)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Regarding your June 6 GenQ column Outspoken, perhaps Jesse Leonard's next purchase should be a big rainbow-colored KICK ME sign. Here's a person who goes to his principal, proclaims his sexuality, and hears a response he doesn't like. The next...

Correction.(FROM THE READERS)(Correction notice)
July 4, 2006... In our June 20 issue, actor Wilson Cruz's first name was inadvertently omitted in the cover story "What's 'Gay' Now."

The advocate poll.(FROM THE READERS)(survey on polygamy)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Q: Does portraying polygamy in a positive light hurt the fight for marriage equality? How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the June 6 issue of The Advocate * "It has been a long, hard battle to get the...

Lovers forever.(MARRIAGE)(same-sex)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... On the lush grounds of the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles you can find the bust of punk rocker Johnny Ramone, the resting place of classic screen idol Tyrone Power, and an homage to the great Rudolph Valentino. And now there's a...

Karachi's TV "trysexual".(WORLD FOCUS / Pakistan)(Ali Saleem)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... In Pakistan, you might expect a flamboyant drag queen to be harassed and rejected. But in a country where Islamic fundamentalism has been on the rise in recent decades, citizens have been surprisingly tolerant of Begum ["madam" in Urdu, the...

Joe Nadeau.(SHORT ANSWERS)(interview)(Interview)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... In January, the gay music director at St. Agnes Catholic Church in Roeland Park, Kan., was given a choice by the pastor: Stop leading the gay Heartland Men's Chorus, agree to celibacy, and state that homosexuality is a disorder--or leave his...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: why gays make better bosses.(Kirk Snyder's The G Quotient )(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Do you hate your job? Are you working in an unsatisfying environment with little or no morale? It may be because your boss isn't gay. That's the conclusion of career expert Kirk Snyder, whose five-year study found that workplaces headed by...

Top 5 international stories @advocate.com.(Liberation Publications Inc.)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... 1. Antigay protesters attack Moscow marchers The Russian capital's first-ever gay pride parade was marked by violence on May 27. 2. United Nations blocks gay rights groups Despite a favorable vote from the United States, in May two...

By the numbers: out in the office.(survey on lesbian, gay, bisexual transgender at workplace)(Statistical table)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... LGBT employees comfortable with introducing a spouse, partner, or significant other to a boss or management 2002 41% 2004 62% LGBT employees comfortable with having a picture on their desk of a spouse, partner, or...

Transitions.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Tom Hansen, Fritz Klein and Alan Ross expires)(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... DEDICATED JOSE SARRIA COURT, a block of San Francisco's 16th Street, after Jose Julio Sarria, believed to be the first openly gay person to run for public office when he vied for a seat as a city supervisor in 1961. DIED TOM...

No offense to Coretta.(Coretta Scott King on pro-gay views)(National Black Justice Coalition )(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Civil rights pioneer Coretta Scott King wasn't afraid of offending people with her pro-gay views. But when the gay rights group National Black Justice Coalition asked The Afro American Newspapers of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., to run an...

Friend or Foe.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(rights for gays and lesbians)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... FRIEND THE U.S. SUPREME COURT, for allowing a lesbian to seek parental rights to a child she had helped raise with her now ex-partner. Was Scalia duck hunting that day? FOE JEFF DROZDA, an Indiana state senator who said he'll introduce...

Rants & raves.(Rosie O'Donnel on describing her perchants)(John Cameron Mitchell on defending pornography)(Jared Leto interview)(Interview)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... "I figure when we're both 80 we'll be in rocking chairs, going, 'Ah, remember the 'Confessions' tour, honey?'" --ROSIE O'DONNELL, describing her penchant for taking lots of pictures during the concerts of her friend Madonna, to Liz Smith's...

Meet the bloggers.(services of OpinionatedLesbian)(Website overview)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Age: 41 Location: Montreal Blog: www.OpinionatedLesbian.com Year launched: 2005 Visitors per month: Around 3,000 Why you started: "To force myself to write, to afflict the comfortable, to hear the delightful sound of my girlfriend...

A club for all Poles.(gay club )
July 4, 2006... I'm a 27-year-old Polish black man. This is an explosive combination in itself--Poland has a very small black population, so I stand out. Of course, being gay in a Catholic country isn't a bed of roses either. Many straight people in...

Kelis.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(interview)(Interview)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Your late father was a minister. How would he have felt about your sex symbol status? My father was very supportive of me as a musician, but any daddy is going to be a bit uptight with his little girl. I'd like to think he'd see that I'm a...

A love of camp: think gay camp is all about roasting marshmallows and telling campfire stories? Think again.(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community Center organises the camp)
July 4, 2006... As a child in Queens, N.Y., Star Robinson was shy, quiet, and withdrawn. "In group discussions I wouldn't ever say anything. I'd simply be off on the side observing." All that changed after Robinson attended Youth Enrichment Services'...

Camp Outgoes inside.(gay movie Camp Out)(Critical essay)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Goth girls, overweight former drug addicts, and Elvis fans are not the kinds of people one would associate with a Bible camp. But that's exactly the crowd that populates Camp Out, a new documentary about a camp for gay Christian youths. The...

GenQ poll.
July 4, 2006... Q: Have you ever attended a summer camp for gay and lesbian youth? Sign on to The Advocate's Web site before June 27 to cast your vote and leave your comments. Results will appear in the August 29 issue. Powered by Socratic Technologies ...

Caps, gowns, and rainbows.(lesbian gay bisexual transgender)
July 4, 2006... Cap, gown, and... gay pride? That's the checklist for many LGBT students attending lavender graduation ceremonies at an estimated 50 universities nationwide this year. Some even provide rainbow tassels. "[At graduation] LGBT students are...

Group to watch/ Sigma Phi Beta.(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Brotherhood, self-empowerment, character... and transgender acceptance? One college fraternity is changing the way Greeks see queer people. At its May 14 meeting in Tucson, the Sigma Phi Beta fraternity's national board of directors...

Outspoken.(gay coming out with his sexuality)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Life should have been perfect for me. Life was supposed to leave all the doors open to me. Why were they closed? When I was younger I knew I was different, yet I also knew inside I had the potential to conquer the world. I was praised for being...

The power of mayors: Republican or Democrat, man or woman, gay mayors are making a difference at city halls across the nation.
July 4, 2006... In the thick of the 2004 presidential campaign, Gina Genovese and her partner, Wendy McCahill, threw a fund-raising soiree for Democratic contender Howard Dean in their affluent and mostly Republican suburb of Long Hill Township, N.J. At the...

Picking their court battles: it's taken on the Boy Scouts, eliminated sodomy laws, and won victories for students. Now Lambda Legal has its sights on marriage. Its recipe for success: select ingredients carefully and cook them slowly: with the fight for gay and lesbian equality at a crucial crossroads, The Advocate continues its ongoing series of articles focusing on our leading activist and service organizations.(Lambda Legal)(Organization overview)
July 4, 2006... Kevin Cathcart wants every gay and lesbian person to learn the value of patience. We can't get discouraged, he says, just because marriage equality and parental rights for LGBT people are under all-out assault by social conservatives in...

The sexy professor: Doug Spearman, the out actor who plays buttoned-up Chance on Noah's Arc, swears he's nothing like his character. Well, except for that part about driving his car into a cheating boyfriend's house.(Interview)
July 4, 2006... Unlike a lot of actors who play gay characters, Doug Spearman doesn't waste any time being coy about his sexual orientation. "You know I've been in The Advocate before, right?" he says at one of our meetings in Vancouver, Canada, where the...

New passengers on the Arc.(same sex marriage)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... While Chance and Eddie tied the knot at the end of the first season of Noah's Arc, all of the show's other relationships went nuclear. Will season 2 see Noah and Wade, or Alex and Trey, or Ricky and Junito get back together? Noah's Arc...

Project lesbian: ever wonder what gets edited out of reality shows? In the case of Project Runways second season--now on DVD--it was the fact that designer Zulema Griffin has a longtime female partner.(SUMMER TV PREVIEW)(Interview)
July 4, 2006... There was plenty of gay male drama in the second season of Bravo's Project Runway, which comes out on DVD June 27, but all references to contestant Zulema Griffin's lesbianism got left on the cutting-room floor. As she prepares to show her...

Getting Court TV in order.(Marc Juris )(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... When gay TV executive Marc Juris got hauled into court, he was determined to make it fabulous. Hired as general manager of Court TV in 2004, Juris has since delivered style, hot new programming, and the highest ratings in the cable network's...

Tune in, turn on, eat chips: will and Grace are in rerun heaven while the desperate housewives have a few months off. But there's no shortage of queer TV offerings for when the summer heat drives you indoors.(Big Brother 7: All-Stars Imagine Marcellas, Million Dollar Listing, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List)
July 4, 2006... Bravo Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List The ex--Suddenly Susan star's unscripted new adventures include attending a gay prom and (gulp!) touring the red states. (Tuesdays) Queer Eye Vegas The Fab 5 try their luck in Sin City as they...

Logo turns I: MTV's gay network gets set to blow out its first candle. Has the channel changed the game for queer visibility on TV? And can it stay afloat in a cutthroat cable universe?
July 4, 2006... As Logo approaches its one-year anniversary on June 30, it looks like MTV's gay and lesbian cable channel is getting some respect: At this year's presentation of new programming to advertisers in May in New York City, MTV parent company Viacom...

R.I.P.Q: a time line of the late cable network's rise and fall.
July 4, 2006... February 4, 2004 Frank Olsen, CEO of the publicly traded Triangle Multi-Media Limited, says his company will launch a gay and lesbian cable television network. April 16, 2004 Triangle Television Network renames itself Q Television Network,...

Gay back in the day.(Hank O'Neal works as a photographer gets published in Gay Day)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Photographer Hank O'Neal lived on Christopher Street during the early days of New York's gay pride parade. From 1974 to 1983, he photographed the revelers. The work is touchingly innocent now, but in 1979, O'Neal couldn't find a publisher. In...

Hi-def jam: make TV's latest advancements even cooler with this neat stuff.(Sony Corp.introduces Sony Handycam HDR-HC3)(Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend)(Harman Kardon TC 30)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Design Within Reach's Alu Media Wall ($1,398) solves the most pressing question of our age: What if I don't want to mount my flat panel TV on my wall? The aluminum platform does the tough job of hiding all your cords without demanding wall...

Unleashing the big Audi.(promotional partnership between Audi of America and the Elton John AIDS Foundation)
July 4, 2006... Can you fight HIV/AIDS by test-driving a hot car? Actually, yes, thanks to a promotional partnership between Audi of America and the Elton John AIDS Foundation. From now until December 31, if you test-drive a 2007 Audi Q7 in the metropolitan...

Sacred to the profane.(Till the End of Time)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Till the End of Time * Jason and deMarco * Centaur/RJN Music Spirit pop" performers and romantic partners Jason and deMarco emphasize the pop over the spirit, and the results are boy band--meets--modern Broadway, with all the good and...

Small pleasures.(The Pet Shop Boys )(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Pet Shop Boys * Fundamental * Rhino After 20-plus years, being the Pet Shop Boys isn't hard (e.g., My Robot Friend's 'We're the Pet Shop Boys"), but doing so in compelling fashion is. And Nell Tennant and Chris Lowe rarely meet the...

Good grief.(Grief)(Brief article)(Book review)
July 4, 2006... Grief * Andrew Holleran * Hyperion * $19.95 A book called Grief doesn't scream "beach reading," but anything from Andrew Holleran (Dancer From the Dance, Ground Zero, The Beauty of Men) demands our attention. Grief, despite its modest...

Man with insight: meet Michael Connor, the editor who chooses the titles for queer book club InsightOut Books.(interview)(Interview)
July 4, 2006... While Amazon has made finding and purchasing LGBT-interest books easier for nonurban residents in recent years, InsightOut Book Club has made it a specialty. Founded in 2000, InsightOut stocks 300 to 400 titles at a time, highlights new works...

What's my line? it's a bumper crop of camp classics, with new DVDs of Valley of the Dolls, Mommie Dearest, and What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? See if you can match the dialogue to the right movie.
July 4, 2006... Some elements of queer culture come and go--anyone worn a caftan without irony lately?--but certain gay faves never go out of style. Three classic movies that have tickled generations of gays are currently featured on swanky new DVD editions:...

Wig in an idiot box: follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig.(Wig in a Box)(Sound recording review)
July 4, 2006... * Premieres June 26 * Sundance Channel The well-intentioned Follow My Voice: With the Music of Hedwig misses the mark as a great documentary. As we follow the production of the Hedwig and the Angry Inch tribute album Wig in a Box, it takes...

Underwear apparent.("Pants-Off Dance-Off" from Fuse)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Fuse's hit Pants-Off Dance-Off--which involves regular folks stripping to their undies, accompanied by popular videos, and having their hotness rated on the network's Web site-is, as you might imagine, ludicrous. But it's sort of ingenious too....

Sierra Swan: ladyland: May 23 (Custard/ Interscope).(singer-songwriter )(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... The latest find from producer Linda Perry, singer-songwriter Swan toured this spring with James Blunt. Her music is sometimes playful, sometimes dark, and her phrasing brings back vague memories of Freddy Mercury--not a bad ghost to summon.

RCA dance vault: now on iTunes.(REA Music Group avaiable on iPod)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... How about these downloads? REA Music Group is back with a second installment of out-of-print or never-released mixes by Whitney Houston, the Pointer Sisters, the Thompson Twins, and Lisa Stansfield, direct to your iPod.

Natural disasters: now available (iUniverse).(Julia Salazar's book)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... First-time novelist Julia Salazar conjures a vivid portrait of AIDS-era Los Angeles with this story of a lesbian faced with a breakup, professional burnout, and the AIDS-related death of her best friend--plus earthquakes, mud slides, and other...

Empathy: now available (Little Sister's Classics).(Sarah Schulman's novel gets new edition)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... Sarah Schulman's powerful ]992 novel gets a new edition as part of Arsenal Pulp Press's series of LGBT classics. No one evokes the queer struggle in late-20th-century New York like Schulman, and no one writes lesbian characters as she does....

Ghost of hoppers: now available (Fantagraphics Books).(Jaime Hernandez works)(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... One of comics' most compelling lesbian characters--Maggie from Love and Rockets--stars in Jaime Hernandez's fascinating tale of haunted apartments, queer romance, cable access talk shows, and art theft.

A man who mattered.(Jeff Katzoff )
July 4, 2006... Jeff Katzoff had been my close friend for over 30 years when he vanished from my life May 19. Jeff suffered a linear separation in his aorta, a condition revealed by CAT scans at a Long Beach, Calif., hospital just hours before he died. Several...

On marriage equality.(Second Opinions)(same-sex marriage )(Brief article)
July 4, 2006... "Though President Bush endorsed the federal marriage amendment [in 2004], there's a reason he hasn't pushed it since. Not Gonna Happen, however many times it is dragged onto the Senate floor. The number of Americans who 'strongly oppose'...

OK in Oklahoma: after Anne Magro and Heather Finstuen moved to Oklahoma from New Jersey with twin daughters, the state passed a law prohibiting recognition of adoptions by gays and lesbians from other states. Backed by Lambda Legal, the couple of 15 years fought the law in court. In May they won.(MOMS: Anne Magro and Heather Finstuen)(Interview)
July 18, 2006... What was your reaction when you first heard about the law? Magro: I was angry and sad. I remember thinking that if I died, Heather should put the kids in the car and get out of the state as quickly as possible. Did the girls understand...

Freedom and its limits.(Gay and lesbian rights)
July 18, 2006... The Cold War is alive and well, except now the forces of LGBT equality are fighting it against the forces of antigay theocracy. Remember the Cold War? Remember how many Americans believed the Communists were the ultimate threat to our way of...

Out on the street: we asked a sampling of LGBT people in New York City ...(lesbian gay bisexual transgender)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... "In what ways are LGBT parents better than straight parents?" RAY GAST, 59 ACCOUNTANT "Because they really want the child. They have to go through a tot to adopt or inseminate, so these couples would tend to really care for these...

Gay by any other name.(Letter to the editor)
July 18, 2006... I just read the article "Is Gay Over?" [June 20]. Seems that the younger generation is scared of using the word gay and chooses to use the word queer. Using queer is nothing new. I'm 52. When I was in junior high and high school, guys were...

Hitting home.(Letter to the editor)
July 18, 2006... Wow! This is the first time I have read every article in The Advocate--what a great issue [June 20]. I especially enjoyed reading what others' lives are like. I am in my 70s, was married for many years, and finally met the man of my life and am...

Family matters.(Letter to the editor)
July 18, 2006... I just read about the final "slap in the face" to gay men and women in the U.S.-George Bush's (unsurprising) comments about his strong support for the Federal Marriage Amendment. While his arrogance and incompetence are common knowledge, Bush...

We deserve better.(Letter to the editor)
July 18, 2006... The interview with Howard Dean only further highlights the lack of vision, leadership, and principals in the Democratic Party [Person to Know, June 20]. What kind of political double talk is "I support equal rights under the law for every...

No shame.(Letter to the editor)
July 18, 2006... I want to applaud Q. Allen Brocka's column "Gay Shame Is a Drag" [June 20]. Being a professional drag performer myself, I agree that we need to get back to making films with and about drag queens for ourselves and, more important, by ourselves....

The Advocate poll.(abbreviations like LGBT or GLBTQ should be used ?)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Q: Do you think an abbreviation like LGBT or GLBTQ, etc., should replace use of the phrase gay and lesbian? How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the June 20 issue of The Advocate * "I'm not an...

Taking pride.(Letter to the editor)
July 18, 2006... Shame on The Advocate and shame on heterosexual publicist Michael Levine ["Is Pride Good PR?" June 6]! His argument that pride events "do more harm than good" to the LGBTQ community is unfounded and heterosexist! He claims that there is...

A bridge to marriage equality.(same sex marriages)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... There was no sun, but there was a big rainbow across the Brooklyn Bridge on June 3 as hundreds of people with colorful umbrellas participated in Marriage Equality New York's third annual Wedding March. The cheery display was a fitting symbol...

Does the family on this billboard look like a threat to marriage to you, Senator Bill Frist?(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Caption: Does the family on this billboard look like a threat to marriage to you, Senator Bill Frist? In the days before the Marriage Protection Amendment was brought up for debate on June 7 by the U.S. Senate majority leader (it was tabled),...

Mary Cheney's book sales.(Now les My Turn (Threshold))(Statistical table)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Published May 9, Mary Cheney's memoir, Now les My Turn (Threshold), about her life as the openly gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, has sold decidedly poorly. A week-by-week breakdown of the first month's sales: Week ending May...

Top 5 people in the news:@advocate.com.(case against Lisa Johnston from becoming a foster parent.)(Sue Wilkinson and Celia Kitzinger sues for marriage equality)(Rhonda Davis discharged after passing comments at radio interview)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... 1. Gay candidates win big in primaries On June 6, six Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund-endorsed candidates for state legislatures advanced to general elections this fall, including three in states with no openly gay legislators. 2. Missouri...

Marrying Mounties.(Jason Tree and David Connors in ties)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Since their June 30 nuptials were reported in a local paper in May, Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers Jason Tree and David Connors have been deluged with e-mails and letters of support from around the country and the globe. The attention...

Friend or foe.(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... FRIEND HOWARD STERN, who vows not to marry until gays and lesbians can. He reserves the right to continually joke about them and host naked lesbians in the studio. FRIENDS Angry residents of SEAFORD, DEL., who quickly drove Fred Phelps and...

Bevan Dufty and Rebecca Goldfader.(beliefs)(Interview)
July 18, 2006... They met seven years ago in a step aerobics class and became friends. Now out San Francisco city supervisor Bevan Dufty, 51, and lesbian Rebecca Goldfader, 39, are having a child together, due in October. The platonic couple is looking for a...

Billy Preston.(dies of heart infection)(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... BILLY PRESTON, 59, the organ virtuoso and "fifth Beatle" John Lennon wanted to add to the band while recording Let It Be, of complications from a heart infection, in Scottsdale, Ariz., June 6. Preston was uncomfortable discussing his sexual...

Ralph Paul Gernhardt.(dies of lung cancer)(Obituary)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... RALPH PAUL GERNHARDT, 72, who founded Gay Chicago Magazine, of lun8 cancer, at home in Chicago, June 4. Gernhardt launched the publication in 1976 after receiving an overwhelming response to his gaynightlife telephone hotline.

Being Alive/People With HIV/AIDS Action Coalition.(appoints RAFAEL COSIO)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... RAFAEL COSIO, as executive director of the Los Angeles-based Being Alive/People With HIV/AIDS Action Coalition, May 24. He was formerly the director of HIV/AIDS education programs at the Pacific Pride Foundation in Santa Barbara.

The Marriage Protection Amendment.(Congress. Senate)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... THE MARRIAGE PROTECTION AMENDMENT, in the United States Senate, June 7. Only 49 senators voted to end debate and allow a full up or down vote to constitutionally prohibit same-sex marriage nationwide, well short of the 60 necessary. Forty-eight...

Data.(facts of lesbian gay bisexual transgender on website)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Data: Detailed facts on LGBT and reproductive rights in each of the 50 states, accessible by a click of the mouse on the interactive map. Launched May 31 by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and two women's health organizations, the site...

Netroots potential.(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Netroots potential High. Never before has state-by-state information on such topics been gathered together in a package this convenient and comprehensive, so whether you're a frontline activist or an armchair rabblerouser, you'll be armed with...

Rants & raves.(Christopher Sieber at New York City's Live Out Loud charity event)(Cynthia Izaguirre on Erik Weihenmayer)(Jake Gyllenhaal and Health Ledger accept Best Kiss award )(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... "As a gay kid in high school, I didn't have any role models. I only had Richard Simmons, Snagglepuss, and Charlton Heston." --Gay actor CHRISTOPHER SIEBER at New York City's Live Out Loud charity event, which awarded scholarships to...

A feminine voice: Rachael Smith couldn't find other lesbians who fancy big silver hoop earrings, red stilettos, and the perfect application of eye shadow. So now she's the "Donna" of her own mafia.
July 18, 2006... Atlanta is the queer capital of the South. Our pride celebration is phenomenal, the gay nightlife is dizzying, and gay neighborhoods and gay-owned businesses abound. When I moved here in 2002, I knew I'd found home. But when it came to...

Studying gaydar: admit it: more than once you've probably had to rely on that mysterious sixth sense to figure out if the person walking down the street plays for your "team".(William Lee Adams)(Interview)
July 18, 2006... Affectionately referred to as "gaydar" by gays and straights alike, that special sense that tells you if someone is gay or not is actually a real and necessary trait, according to a study conducted by gay 24-year-old Harvard graduate William...

Grad in drag.(Kevin Logan dressed in bright pink halter gown for his senior prom)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... When Kevin Logan showed up at his senior prom wearing a bright pink halter gown, school officials ordered him to turn around and go home. The same thing almost happened at the 18-year-old's graduation on June 7, but Logan, who describes himself...

Their own kind of church.(One-in-Teen Youth Services)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Every Wednesday right most of the students from Ariel Franklyn s high school in Nashville go to church. But the 17-year-old lesbian isn't with them. Neither are her gay and lesbian friends. Instead, they gather at a meeting of One-in-Teen...

Outspoken.(Gay and lesbian culture)
July 18, 2006... I arrived in America on Christmas Eve, 1995. The immigration officer, in a hurry to finish work, tore my visa in hall. My twin brother and I spent the entire night staring out a dingy apartment window, praying the test of America didn't...

The Advocate GenQ poll.(poll on hiv positive)(Survey)(Brief article)
July 18, 2006... Q: How fine-tuned is your gaydar? Sign on to The Advocate's Web site before July 11 to cast your vote and leave your comments. Results will appear in the August 29 issue. Powered by Socratic Technologies www.advocategenqpoll.com ...