The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) articles from June 2005

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) archives from June 2005

Gannongate.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
June 7, 2005... Jen Christensen's e-mail interview of Jeff Gannon (a.k.a. James Guckert) ["Jeff vs. the Bloggers," May 10] featured several softball questions of its own. Seeing Christensen ask Gannon, "What do you say to our gay readers who think you're...

Getting seen.(reader forum)(Letter to the Editor)
June 7, 2005... As the person who put together the GLAAD stats that Richard Goldstein refers to in his column "The Disappearing Queer" [Left Hook, May 10], I am keenly aware of the decrease in LGBT characters on network television. As the former entertainment...

Correction.(reader forum)(Correction Notice)
June 7, 2005... The Youth Pride College Fair did not occur in Washington, D.C., on April 23, as reported in our Generation Q section of the May 10 issue of The Advocate. The event was rescheduled for June 4. The mistaken report was the result of an editing...

Reader comments from www.advocate.com.(reader forum)
June 7, 2005... In the May 10 issue, we asked: Will the Catholic Church become more accepting of gays and lesbians under the new pope? * "The Catholic Church is too hung tip on dogma and its assertion of infallibility to ever admit that its homophobic...

Gay teen revolution.(my perspective)
June 7, 2005... Being a gay teenager in 1982 really, really sucked. Until I reached college, I didn't hear a single positive word about gay people (and believe me, I was listening!). But I sure heard a lot of the negative stuff--about how we gays were weak and...

Rants & raves.(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... "I've been waiting all year to do that." --Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman (inset, far left), after planting a big kiss on the lips of fellow cast member Marcia Cross at the GLAAD Media A wards in Los Angeles, April 30 ...

Rejecting our own: reported racial profiling by a San Francisco bar illustrates the persistence of an old problem.(At Issue)
June 7, 2005... Minutes after stepping outside to get some cash from a nearby ATM, Marvin Miller said he returned to the popular gay nightclub Badlands in the heart of San Francisco's Castro district in October 2003. That's when the bar's owner stopped him at...

The passing of a pioneer.(ACTIVISM)(Brief Article)(Obituary)
June 7, 2005... When Jack Nichols first stepped out of the shadows to publicly demonstrate for gay rights in the 1960s, few people even recognized that gays and lesbians existed. Nichols, who died of cancer at Cape Canaveral Hospital in Florida on May 2 at the...

Beaten in gay mecca.(HATE CRIME)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Chris Crain thought he'd be safe walking hand in hand with his boyfriend in gay-friendly Amsterdam in the wee hours of April 30. So when a strange man spat on him, Crain, editorial director for Window Media, which owns the Blade and other gay...

Antigay mayor outed.(POLITICS)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... James E. West, the ultraconservative Republican mayor of Spokane, Wash., has for years publicly opposed any law to support gay equality. So it came as a shock to the conservative city when he revealed that he has "had relations with adult men,"...

Microsoft reboots its gay agenda.(BUSINESS)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Bowing to pressure from gay activists, Microsoft Corp. on May 6 said that it would support pro-gay employment laws in the future. The software giant came under fire two weeks earlier when it dropped its longtime support of gay-inclusive...

Rhetoric leads to violence.(HATE CRIMES)(National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... When religious and political leaders publicly denounce gays and lesbians and push laws to deny their rights, antigay violence increases. That's the conclusion of a report released in April by the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs and...

Across the Nation.(The Nation)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Denver, Colo. On a 6-5 party-line committee vote, Democratic state lawmakers on May 3 killed a proposed state constitutional ban on same-sex marriage. The move came less than a week after another legislative committee approved a measure to...

Overcoming violence in the Holy Land.(ISRAEL)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Openly gay Jerusalem city council member Sa'ar-Ran Nathaniel can't be certain that a recent campaign by religious conservatives against the city's planned WorldPride celebration in August was connected to an April 24 arson fire at Shushan,...

Success depends on gays: Richard Florida argues the U.S. will lose in the global competition for creative talent unless more of its cities open up to gays.(Behind the Headlines)(Interview)
June 7, 2005... Economist Richard Florida caused a stir in 2002 when he argued that acceptance of gays is an important element in a city's continued success. In his best seller The Rise of the Creative Class, Florida used no-nonsense economic terms to point...

Haring's Pop Shop stops.(RETAIL)(Keith Haring Foundation )(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Nearly 20 years after iconic gay midst Keith Haring opened his highly acclaimed Pop Shop in New York City to "make my work accessible" to a wide range of people, the Keith Haring Foundation says it must close its doors in September due to...

Trucking together.(EMPLOYMENT)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Are you a gay couple with a hankering to see the country together? If so, a national trucking company wants you to consider quitting your jobs and taking up residence in a big rig. Schneider National is recruiting "nontraditional driving...

Continental gives flight to partners.(BENEFITS)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Continental Airlines has long offered travel and health benefits to the partners of current gay employees. But after openly gay flight attendant David Lee retired in 1989, the company refused to extend travel benefits to Daniel Vaillancourt,...

Clergy reversal.(METHODISM)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... An appeals panel of the United Methodist Church on April 29 reversed a lower church court decision to defrock Philadelphia minister Irene "Beth" Stroud after she revealed she was in a lesbian relationship. But the church is appealing, and...

Died.(Transitions)(Obituary)
June 7, 2005... DIED: Alvin Novick, 79, a gay Yale University biologist, early political advocate against AIDS, and former president of the group that became the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, of prostate cancer, April 10. DIED: Michael Stern, 56,...

AIDS Research Alliance.(Appointed)(appointed Carolyn Carlburg as attorney and longtime AIDS advocate)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... APPOINTED: Carolyn Carlburg, an attorney and longtime AIDS advocate, as executive director for the West Hollywood, Calif.-based AIDS Research Alliance, in April,

ProtectMarriage.com.(FORMED)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... FORMED: ProtectMarriage.com, a new coalition of antigay groups pushing for a California constitutional same-sex marriage ban, April 27.

Undoing Greek homophobia.(Generation Q)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... My sexuality has never been an issue for my fraternity brothers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining Phi Sigma Kappa, I made it clear that I would not hide it, and they accepted me as a brother anyway. But other...

"Ex-gay" advocate speaks.(NEWS FEATURE)
June 7, 2005... In an interview with The Advocate's Bob Adams, psychologist Warren Throckmorton--creator of the pro-"ex-gay" film I Do Exist--insists he's not a reparative therapist and that his far-right pals didn't demand he be rehired by a major mental...

Black lesbians unite.(FIRST PERSON)
June 7, 2005... This year's National Black Lesbian Conference in Dallas brought together women from across the country to celebrate and embrace their common bond of culture and sexuality. A firsthand report from Jasmyne Cannick, only at www.advocate.com.

The siblings Sedaris.
June 7, 2005... The Book of Liz, a new play from David and Amy Sedaris, a.k.a. the Talent Family, is now running at Los Angeles's Blank Theatre Company, starring Ann Magnuson (second from left) and Tom Lenk (Buffy the Vampire Slayer). Get a review at...

Martina's newfound muscle: October 5, 1993.(From the Advocate Archives)
June 7, 2005... Lesbian tennis star Martina Navratilova continues to be an outspoken advocate for equality and positive representation of gays in the media, as reported in in the current issue of The Advocate. It's a role she enthusiastically took on long...

Witches, warriors ... and Paul Lynde.(the Buzz)(Television Program Review)
June 7, 2005... IF YOU grew up attuned to Wonder Woman or Bewitched's Uncle Arthur, you're not alone. A new special, Inside TV Land: Tickled Pink, premiering June 1, examines the strong women and goosey men on shows like The Sonny and Chef Comedy Hour, Xena:...

Elton takes a groom.(the Buzz)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... HIS CRITICALLY lauded album Peachtree Road may have withered on the sales-chart vine, but it's shaping up into a big year for Elton John nonetheless. His Vegas show, The Red Piano, is a regular sellout; a July 4 concert to raise money for the...

Merman gets mean.(the Buzz)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... LOOKING FOR this summer's Mean Girls? Sharpen your claws on the San Francisco stage production of Hush Up, Sweet Charlotte, an adaptation of the Bette Davis cult classic Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte. It's got madness, murder, dismemberment,...

Jiminy Glick.(Big Gay Following)(Interview)
June 7, 2005... In a world where Entertainment Tonight's Jann Carl and the New York Post's Cindy Adams have steady gigs, it's difficult to satirize entertainment journalism. But not impossible: Martin Short's hilarious and bizarrely fey Jiminy Glick character...

NCLR earns its stripes: the 28-year-old National Center for Lesbian Rights and its executive director, Kate Kendell, are building nationwide respect for their work on key legal battles.(MOVEMENT IN CRISIS)
June 7, 2005... When Kate Kendell became executive director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights in 1996, the nonprofit's dwindling finances kept her awake at night. "We had a $500,000 budget and not a penny in reserve," she remembers. Kendell had to...

Hello Olivia, goodbye Rainbow: is the L Word really why Martina Navratilova parted ways with the Rainbow Card and signed on with Olivia?(Do Tell company lawsuit)(Cover Story)
June 7, 2005... You know it's messy when no one will talk. "I don't want to get into that," says Martina Navratilova of her lawsuit against Do Tell, the company she formed in 1995 with Pare Derderian and Nancy Becker. The prominent entrepreneurial couple are...

Family focus: Jeff Lutes was fed up with the antigay, antifamily rhetoric of Focus on the Family, so he packed up his husband and son and went to their doorstep. They're part of a growing movement to fight the far right where they live.(FAR RIGHT)(Straightforward)(help book for talking to straight people)(Related Article: 10 ways to fight the right.)
June 7, 2005... For a long time, therapist and family counselor Jeff Lutes was satisfied with just helping people cope with being gay in a less than gay-friendly world. But the number of those who struggled with the situation never waned, and Lutes eventually...

Poles, queers, and the pope: visiting Poland with his acclaimed queer play I Am My Own Wife, playwright Doug Wright is caught up in homophobic history with the death of John Paul II.(FAR RIGHT)(attitudes towards gays in Krakow, Poland)(Campaign Against Homophobia, March for Tolerance)
June 7, 2005... When I arrive in Krakow, the city is still in mourning for the pope. His hunched, wrinkled face is in shop windows everywhere: He peers out from behind shoe displays, from apothecary shelves lined with bromides and analgesics, and from...

A stranger in Neverland.(hell in a handbasket)(Michael Jackson's case)
June 7, 2005... When Michael Jackson was indicted, something in my gut told me he was probably guilty. Pity, because I liked that he was becoming so freaky over the years. As a lifelong weirdo myself it's always nice to have a talented celebrity join the club....

Winterson's way: Jeanette Winterson speaks out on sex, America's religious fanaticism, and her new novel, Lighthousekeeping.(SUMMER BOOKS)(Interview)
June 7, 2005... Raised in poverty, religious fanaticism, and intolerance, Jeanette Winterson left home at 16 and burst on the literary scene 20 years ago with her award-winning autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit--the tale of a young lesbian...

After hours: acclaimed author Michael Cunningham channeled his love of Virginia Woolf in The Hours. In Specimen Days, he considers the world after Walt Whitman.(SUMMER BOOKS)(Interview)
June 7, 2005... "I try to model myself on artists most heroic to me," says Michael Cunningham, "people who ignore their obvious gifts to try something new and see what happens." After the success of his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Hours, Cunningham...

Beach book bingo: our top 20 picks for summer reading.(SUMMER BOOKS)(Bibliography)
June 7, 2005... Beck Where He Started by Jay Quinn (Alyson, $24.95): Dumped by his husband--for a younger woman, no less-Chris moves to a Southern beach town where he's reintroduced to the joy of life and the love of a hunky man. Beneath the Skin: The...

Message to mom: for her new lesbian romantic comedy, Saving Face, out filmmaker Alice Wu draws on her own life.(FILM)
June 7, 2005... "Everyone wants to love," says 35-year-old filmmaker Alice Wu. Her debut feature film, Saving Face, which opens May 27 in Los Angeles and New York--and which possesses enough wit, intelligence, and neuroses to recall Woody Allen's classic urban...

Wil power: Michelle Krusiec shines in Saving Face as Wil Pang, a dutiful daughter who's also gay.(FILM)(Brief Article)
June 7, 2005... Actress Michelle Krusiec loves a challenge, so she was eager to be cast as Wilhelmina Pang in Alice Wu's Saving Face. She was drawn to the script for "the strength of Alice's writing," says Krusiec. "I am a writer too, and Wu left no stone...

Jazz metamorphosis: Meshell talks about the jazz journey of her latest albums--and why she converted to Islam.(MUSIC)(Interview)
June 7, 2005... To most interview questions, Meshell Ndegeocello gives polite but ultraconcise answers. Ask a question even remotely about her personal life, and she clams up completely. But offer the bass-playing singer-songwriter--known for her distinctive...

Cocktails with the clueless.(last word)
June 7, 2005... When I perform on cruises I usually mingle with the guests, but on one recent cruise I found myself hanging out with the cast of the onboard Broadway revue, who cope with the months at sea by seducing passengers and becoming alcoholics. One...

Corey Johnson.(Q&A)(gay activist)(Interview)
June 21, 2005... The clean-cut cocaptain of his high school football team and Tommy Hilfiger--handsome to boot, 18-year-old Corey Johnson was an instant gay hero when he came out in 2000. He was profiled in Sports Illustrated and The New York Times, and he...

Everything old is new again.(FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF)(Editorial)
June 21, 2005... Readers' attachment to The Advocate has always been remarkable. Everyone looks for stories in our pages that remind them of themselves, and when they find them, they let us know. Readers send in news clippings, story ideas, and photos of their...

Pride.(TIME LINE)(history of gay and lesbian pride day)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... 1970: In an event widely considered the birth of gay pride, 10,000 gays and lesbians march in New York City on June 28 to commemorate the Stonewall riots of a year earlier. 1978: What would become the Sydney Gay Mardi Gras takes root in a...

Gay students come together.((02.02.72) ARCHIVES)
June 21, 2005... This year our Pride Issue takes a broad look at a changing gay youth movement, including gays and lesbians who are leading the charge for acceptance and visibility on college campuses. It's a subject The Advocate has tackled many times,...

Moral high ground.(commentary)(increasing discriminatory attacks against gays)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Tired of being blamed for asking for too much when all you want is equality? So is National Gay and Lesbian Task Force executive director Matt Foreman. It's time, he writes, to point out "the utter immorality of the escalating attacks against...

Over the moon in Miami.(arts & entertainment)(2005 Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Advocate executive editor Anne Stockwell got a peek at the great gay and lesbian films heading your way later in 2005 at the Miami Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. Find out which remarkable lesbian documentary beat out popular favorite Adam &...

A tale of two Jims.(commentary)(outings of governor Jim McGreevey and mayor James West)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Gay people's differing reactions to the unexpected outings of former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, a liberal Democrat, and Spokane, Wash., mayor James West, a conservative Republican currently on leave, says a lot about the politics of...

Mixed on Marsden.(FROM THE READERS)(responses to "Exploring Marsden," May 24)(Letter to the Editor)
June 21, 2005... It's refreshing to find an actor like James Marsden who is willing take a gay role, like in the movie Heights, after finding success "playing it straight" in big budget blockbusters like X-Men and X-2 ["Exploring Marsden," May 24]. I was...

Asking and telling.(FROM THE READERS)(responses to "Fit to Serve" May 24)(Letter to the Editor)
June 21, 2005... As a lesbian with a brother who drives a supply truck in Iraq, I was saddened and enraged by your story "Fit to Serve" [May 24]. The government's ability to discharge and discard highly qualified men and women, such as Sgt. Robert Stout, based...

Multifaceted Middle East.(FROM THE READERS)(response to Mike Hudson's, "Escaping Abuse Overseas," May 24)(Letter to the Editor)
June 21, 2005... While Mike Hudson is right to highlight the special needs of gays and lesbians in the developing world, I'm afraid he reveals his ignorance of the Middle East in his otherwise informative article "Escaping Abuse Overseas" in the May 24 issue of...

Demonizing gays.(FROM THE READERS)(respopnses to Arthur Finkelstein in, "A Roy Cohn for Our Time?" May 24)(Letter to the Editor)
June 21, 2005... Why is Arthur Finkelstein not being confronted by every gay organization in the country ["A Roy Cohn for Our Time?" May 24]? Why have the national gay activist groups in this country not gone ballistic over the assault on gay rights that...

Demonizing the pope.(FROM THE READERS)(responses to "How Dangerous Is Benedict?" May 24, by Andew Sullivan)(Letter to the Editor)
June 21, 2005... Upon reading Andrew Sullivan's column ["How Dangerous Is Benedict?" May 24], I practically stood up and clapped. As a Catholic and, more important, a believer in God, I hold the church in high regard--at least in general. After all, it's an...

Correction.(misspelt names)(Correction Notice)
June 21, 2005... In our May 24 stories on the film My Summer of Love, the names of director Pawel Pawlikowski and star Natalie Press were inadvertently misspelled. The Advocate regrets the errors.

The Advocate poll.(FROM THE READERS)("don't ask, don't tell" repeal)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... In the May 24 issue, we asked: Do you believe "don't ask, don't tell" can be repealed by a Republican-led Congress? Is the self-confidence of many GLBT young people in part a reflection of more-accepting friends their age? Sign on...

Who's the victim.(POLITICS)(Mayor James West )
June 21, 2005... Spokane, Wash., mayor James West has spent his entire political career actively opposing gay rights, including an attempt to bar gays from teaching and a successful bid to ban same-sex marriage in the state. Now the 54-year-old Republican says...

Israelis invite Arabs to bed.(CULTURE)(Sleeping With the Enemy)(art exhibition)(New York)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... While growing up in their native Israel, artists Gil, 37, and his partner of 11 years, Moti, 33, were encouraged to "hate and abuse" Arabs. Now they are opening their hearts--and their bed--to them. The two men have installed a huge double bed...

No deposit, no return.(HEALTH)(sexually active gay men to be barred as sperm donors)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... If you're a gay man who has had sex in the last five years, you may no longer be able to add to a family tree. The Food and Drug Administration issued new guidelines in May recommending that all fertility clinics bar sexually active gay men...

Garden state.(BY THE NUMBERS)(New Jersey poll)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Do you favor legalizing same-sex marriage in New Jersey? YES 55% NO 40% Would you consider voting again for newly out ex-governor Jim McGreevey? YES 49% NO 49% source: The Garden State Equality-Zogby International poll

No two kings.(POLITICS)(King & King, children's book)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Congressman Walter Jones sees a king-size threat in the nation's public-school libraries, and he's committed to stopping it before it reaches his district. Spurred by newspaper reports about a 7-year-old girl who borrowed the book King & King,...

The ugly truth.(REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... "Sociologits Tony Campolo... likes to quote from philosopher Eric Hoffer's 1951 book, True Believer: 'Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a god, but never without belief in a devil.' Hitler had the Jews, and the...

Against the ban.(BY THE NUMBERS)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Recent national surveys of Americans have been asking the same question: Do you think people who are openly gay should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military? YES 79% Boston Globe/University of New Hampshire poll, May 15 ...

Cross country.(REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... 1 SACRAMENTO, CALIF. Committees in the state legislature on May 10 rejected two proposed constitutional amendments that would have banned same-sex marriage and stripped away a long list of rights granted to domestic partners. 2 DENVER,...

Prefect improvement?(RELIGION)(Archbishop William Levada)(new Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prefect)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Is a Vatican official plucked from San Francisco a hopeful sign? Archbishop William Levada has been a champion of Catholic orthodoxy. But as he takes over the former post of Pope Benedict XVI, some are hoping his application of church doctrine...

Resume: Donna Red Wing.(REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Age: 55 Current employment: Newly appointed senior program and development adviser for the Interfaith Alliance, a progressive religious advocacy group Education: Bachelor's degree in fine art from Assumption College and master's from...

A force against meth.(COMMUNITY)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Abuse of crystal methamphetamine is rampant among gay men in cities across the country, particularly in San Francisco, where recent studies have shown that up to 20% of the city's gay and bisexual men use the drug. Many users then engage in...

Ending Hong Kong's homophobia.(WORLD FOCUS)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Government statistics show that about half a million of Hong Kong's nearly 6.9 million people are gay or lesbian, but most "live in the shadow of homophobia," said organizers of the city's first-ever gay rights parade on May 16. To symbolize...

Self breast exam made easy.(NEED TO KNOW)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... If you're a woman who finds breast self-exams too complicated or just plain embarrassing, you may want to consider getting dressed. Atlanta-based Hark for Life is offering the world's first breast self-exam T-shirt, which has instructions on...

Ignoring condoms.(POLL)(Brief Article)(Illustration)
June 21, 2005... Ignoring condoms 97% Percentage of gay men age 18 to 24 who believe unprotected anal sex carries a high risk of HIV transmission 51% Percentage who claim they always or often use a condom...

Got milk?(COMING SOON)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... The long-stalled biopic on Harvey Milk (above), based on Randy Shilts's book The Mayor of Castro Street, may finally go before cameras. Out director Bryan Singer, who carries the clout of two X'Men movies and the upcoming Superman Returns, has...

Not just Jack.(TELEVISION)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... If Jack McFarland of NBC's Will & Grace saw the phrase "parasocial contact hypothesis," he might assume it referred to doing the nasty with ghosts. In fact, it's a theory from University of Minnesota communication researchers that TV viewers'...

Rants & raves.(REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... "Shane is the new Samantha from Sex and the City, only gayer, bolder, and more complex." --USA Today TV writer WHITNEY MATHESON, in a May 11 column on why she loves The L Word character played by Katherine Moennig "I, honest to God,...

Stonewall revisited.(first person: Tree)(Stonewall Bar, Greenwich Village, 1969)
June 21, 2005... In the 1960s I had to sneak out of Brooklyn to come to the Nobody at home knew I was a homosexual, because in those days everybody would beat you up. But in Greenwich Village there were bars where you could drink and dance with other gays. ...

Dear George.(FIGHT THE RIGHT)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... "As a proud gay married couple and happy two-daddy family, we feel we must do everything we can to enlighten our leaders about marriage equality for families like ours," says Rob Calhoun, 36, who married his 37-year-old partner of 13 years,...

Gannon to Thompson in one step.(SIX DEGREES OR LESS)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Can't imagine a connection between fight-wing faux journalist and ex-hustler "Jeff Gannon," 48, and left-wing "gonzo journalist" Hunter S. Thompson? Conspiracy theorists have made one: An Internet rumor asserts that Thompson's suicide at age 67...

Died.(TRANSITIONS)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... DIED STEPHEN KELLOGG, 87, a pioneering Bay Area gay rights activist and president of the Mattachine Society in the 1960s who helped launch the Society for Individual Rights in 1967 and numerous other support groups for gays and lesbians;...

Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services.(APPOINTED)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... GLORIA NIETO, former director of the People of Color AIDS Foundation of Santa Fe, N.M., and vice chair of the Democratic National Committee's Gay and Lesbian Caucus, as executive director of Lyon-Martin Women's Health Services in San Francisco,...

Chad Allen Conyers.(SETTLED)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... A wrongful death lawsuit against CHAD ALLEN CONYERS, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to the strangling death of Knoxville, Tenn., gay rights activist Joseph Camber as part of a deal that kept him out of jail. The settlement requires Conyers to pay...

Poor role model.(REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... Name: Whithheld Age: 17 Home: Mill Valley, Calif. Position: Head of Tamalpais High School's gay-straight alliance Other achievements: Named Athlete of the Year for her wrestling victories Bad move: Claimed to be the...

Suspect's last chat.(REPORT)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... New Jersey resident Jay Vaughan Gregory Jr., 48, accused of robbing banks in Utah and Montana, might have eluded police had he not updated his profile on a gay chat room: 1 Banks in Salt Lake City and Missoula, Mont., are held up May 6 by...

Jane Wiedlin.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(Interview)
June 21, 2005... Guitarist Jane Wiedlin cowrote some of the biggest hits for the Go-Go's, but there's much more to her wacky career: She has also had film roles in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, released solo records,...

Future gay hero: Andrew Goldstein.(GENQ)(Brief Article)
June 21, 2005... "If I could have any impact, I would want kids growing up to realize that they can be themselves and do whatever it is they want to do." Name: Andrew Goldstein Age: 22 School: Dartmouth Majors: Biochemistry and molecular biology Sport:...