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

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

Polygamy, gays, and TV: Dustin Lance Black knows about devout Mormons. He was one before leaving the church as a teenager. Now he's an out writer working on the hit HBO series about polygamy.(BIG LOVE WRITER / Dustin Lance Black)(Interview)
June 6, 2006... You were born into the church? Yes, the grandparents on my father's side are from Utah. My father was a Mormon missionary who converted my mother. From birth I was brought up as a devout Mormon. Were you exposed to polygamists? ...

Fear and loafing.
June 6, 2006... Do you feel threatened? Immigrants do In April and May, in the wake of a proposed federal law that would have turned many immigrants into criminals simply because of their status (sound familiar?), they took to the streets by the hundreds of...

Gays & immigration.(TIME LINE)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... 1980: Persecuted and imprisoned under the Castro regime, Cuban writer Reinaldo Arenas flees to the United States as part of the Port of Mariel exodus. 1987: The Department of Health and Human Services adds HIV to the list of communicable...

Gay sex in the '70s.(Sasha Gregory-Lewis)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Big Love has brought polygamy back into the news, and within gay circles it's sparking discussions about polyamorous relationships. In the anything-goes He Decade, author Sasha Gregory-Lewis was advising gay couples on how to remain...

Riding high.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 6, 2006... When I received the May 9 issue of The Advocate, I was elated to see a group of young gay and lesbian people on the cover doing something to make this country safer for all GLBT people ["Queer Youth to America: Get on the Equality Bus," May 9]....

Will & Grace & Jack.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 6, 2006... Thanks for paying tribute to Will & Grace with several articles about the show's end ["Was It Good for the Gays?" May 9]. However, I'm frustrated by the harsh criticism leveled against the show, particularly in your two lead articles. If Dave...

Getting read.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 6, 2006... Christopher Rice is absolutely right ["The Next Brokeback," May 9]: We gain power and self-affirmation every time we buy a gay or lesbian book. The decline of our bookstores has also resulted in a decline in the political education of our...

We are the village.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 6, 2006... Recently our local paper printed a story detailing a new bill on the senate floor calling for a complete ban on abortion, statewide, in the event that Roe v. Wade was ever overturned. A few days later, I came across the Reverend Irene Monroe's...

Barney Frank speaks.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 6, 2006... In the April 11 issue, in his listing of "Gay Sex and Political Scandals," Don Romesburg, understandably, perpetuates a myth that arose out of my involvement with a hustler in the late 1980s. Because I had come out voluntarily about 2 1/2 years...

Correction.(FROM THE READERS)(Correction notice)
June 6, 2006... In our May 9 Nuggets & Bites, the University of Freiburg was incorrectly identified as a Swiss school; it is located in Germany.

The Advocate poll.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 6, 2006... Q: Is it more important for LGBT activists to go to places where discrimination is the strongest than to lobby lawmakers? * "Both are crucial, but marches, activism, and visibility are desperately needed in homophobe strongholds such as the...

Outrage in Russia.(INTOLERANCE)(protest against gays)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... More than 150 Russian nationalists and skinheads joined Orthodox Christians in Moscow on April 30 to stop a group of gay partygoers from "damaging" their nation. The angry crowd hurled rocks, bottles, eggs, and other objects at revelers...

Adoptation update: proposed state bans on adoption by gays have been making news in 2006. But so far none has made it very far.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... The Ohio house in February introduced legislation banning adoption and foster care by LGBT people. No movement is expected for the bill this year. In March, Utah's governor vetoed a bill passed by the state legislature that would have...

Gay partnerships.(BY THE NUMBERS)(survey)(Survey)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... A web survey of almost 5,000 gay and lesbian Americans revealed these unscientific but intriguing stats on relationships Percentage of gays online nationwide who are partnered: WOMEN 53% MEN 42% Percentage who have...

Out on the street: we asked a sampling of LGBT people in Omaha ...(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
June 6, 2006... We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Omaha... "At what age should children learn about gay people in public schools?" SARAH LUND, 31 AESTHETICIAN "As they enter school Children need to understand that every family is different....

No freedom in Cameroon.(WORLD FOCUS / Africa)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Apparently, acquittal doesn't equal freedom for gays in Cameroon. After having sat in jail on sodomy charges since May 2005, nine Cameroonian men were acquitted April 21, according to the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission....

For sale: Lesbian.com.(SHORT ANSWERS)(interview with Sue Beckwith )(Interview)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Sue Beckwith and Mel Bramyn, the owners of Lesbian.com, a bare-bones informational site, announced last month that the domain--which cost them $35--is for sale. The asking price: $2 million. Beckwith spoke with The Advocate. Why sell now?...

Top 5 people in the news @advocate.com.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
June 6, 2006... 1. Howard Dean, DNC chairman Dean fired gayoutreach adviser Donald Hitchcock on May 2. Hitchcock's partner, Paul Yandura, had publicly criticized Dean for not doing enough to support LGBT equality. 2. Jeff Whitty, gay writer of Avenue Q ...

Rosie O'Donnell.(SIGNED )(joins ABC Inc.)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... ROSIE O'DONNELL, 44, to replace Meredith Vieira as moderator of ABC's The View starting this fall, pitting her against Star Jones, whom she's publicly criticized. The comic's one-year contract forbids her from cutting her hair beyond a certain...

Died.(TRANSITIONS)(Edward Weber)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... EDWARD WEBER, 83, curator of the University of Michigan's Labadie Collection of social protest literature, which included materials related to "sexual freedom," of unspecified causes at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich., April 11.

PFC. Richard T. Ashley.(CONVICTED)(sodomy)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... PFC. RICHARD T. ASHLEY, of sodomy after appearing on a militarythemed gay pornographic Web site, April 27. The Army paratrooper in Fort Bragg, N.C.'s prestigious 82nd Airborne Division was sentenced to 90 days in prison (with 15 days' time...

"Don't ask, don't tell.(UPHELD)(military policy for gay soldiers)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... "DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL," the military policy barring openly gay soldiers, after it was challenged in court by 12 gay service members. The U.S. district court for the District of Massachusetts ruled April 24 that "no controlling case has held...

Gay love for school kids.(EDUCATION)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... In Massachusetts gays have the right to marry--and so do gay storybook characters. At least that's true in the Lexington Public Schools district, where gay-themed children's books like King & King, about two betrothed princes, are included in...

Friend or foe.(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... FRIEND D.C. DEPT. OF TRANSPORTATION, for firing a bus driver who told a passenger to move to the back of the bus after the rider complained about a message hanging behind the driver's seat that equated homosexuality with murder. Bravo to the...

Rants & raves.
June 6, 2006... 'The Us Weekly issue [with Nick Lachey] sold really well in Chelsea, but that's about it. It was the gayest cover in years." --An unnamed source, quoted in the New York Post's PAGE SIX column, April 26 "You can goof on [Rosie...

Meet the bloggers: Andy Towle.(on towleroad.com)(Website overview)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... ANDY TOWLE Age: 38 Location: New York City Blog: towleroad.com Year launched: 2003 Visitors per month: 840,000 Why you started: "I'm an information addict, so the medium suited me well." Purpose of blog: "I call it a...

Colorado sings! When this gay man decided to make pride visible in Colorado Springs, his notoriously conservative hometown, he enlisted 20 fellow singers. The result? At least 900 supporters ... and front-page news.
June 6, 2006... I've lived in Colorado Springs, Colo., for 27 of my 39 years. The antigay Amendment 2 was initiated in this city, and as the home base of the notoriously homophobic U.S. Air Force Academy, Focus on the Family, and dozens of right-wing religious...

Out on MySpace, then out the door: think that no one will discover you're gay on MySpace? Think twice, say a growing number of gay students.(Matthew James)
June 6, 2006... When Matthew James changed his MySpace.com profile in early 2005 to say he was gay, he knew it was a risk. "Some of my friends said I should take 'gay' off of my profile," he says. "But I didn't think it would ever come to this." Indeed,...

President and gay at OSU: Ryan Fournier, 21, ran for student body president at Ohio State University this spring--and won, becoming one of the very few openly gay individuals ever to be elected student body president at a big 10 university.(Interview)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... How did students react to your candidacy? Some people were trying to make an issue out of [my sexual orientation], but others looked over that and saw that it wouldn't be a deciding factor in the election. Who helped you win the...

Outspoken.(educators criticism on gay youth )(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... I used to think harassment was something students did to other students. That changed earlier this year after I came out to my principal at Thorp High in Wisconsin. He asked me questions like "Did you ever do anything with a woman?' "How...

The Advocate GenQ poll.
June 6, 2006... Q: Do you worry about the consequences of being out on your MySpace profile? In the May 9 issue we asked: In what ways should gays respond to Fred Phelps? Results: They should ignore him: 14% Protest him: 5% Contact...

An expression of trans youth.(Red Durkin's )
June 6, 2006... Red Durkin's journey to adulthood hasn't been an easy one. Her mother passed away at an early age, and her stepmother had her in and out of therapy for dressing like a girl. For a young artist growing up transgender in North Carolina, finding a...

Web watch / www.gayteens.org.(Dean Powell)(Website overview)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Who: Founded and managed by site editor Dean Powell What: Web site that links LGBT teens around the world to forums, personals, news, and resources When: Launched in May 1996 Where: Cardiff, Wales Why: To provide young people...

Rebecca Romijn.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(interview)(Interview)
June 6, 2006... As blue mutant Mystique in the X-Men films, Rebecca Romijn kicks ass but doesn't say much. Maybe that's why the title role in Pepper Dennis, the WB's newsroom dramedy, appealed to her. "It's got that '40s rapid-fire dialogue, which I love,"...

"We too are immigrants"; gay Latinos are crossing the border from Mexico in search of a better life and a place where they can be themselves. But when they get here they're not always finding the American dream.(IMMIGRATION)
June 6, 2006... Carlos Manuel and Miguel Gonzalez spend their free time like any other couple: They walk their dogs in the afternoon, they go out for dinner on Fridays, and they see at least one movie every weekend. And they like to vacation at theme parks...

Thick and Thin for binational couples: Argentinean-born filmmaker Sebastian Cordoba is bringing the plight of binational same-sex couples to the big screen with a powerful new documentary.(Column)
June 6, 2006... Argentinean-born filmmaker Sebastian Cordoba knows the pain of being an immigrant with no rights. In 1997 he fell in love with an American man while living in New York. But with Cordoba's uncertain immigration status, the couple lived with the...

Michael Huffington: the long-awaited Advocate interview: in our first chat since his coming-out in 1998, the former congressman talks about his activism on behalf of bisexual equality.(SOCIETY)(Interview)
June 6, 2006... "It's just a phase" is something former congressman Michael Huffington, who identifies as bisexual, never wants to hear again--and he plans to make that happen. The onetime Republican candidate for U.S. senator from California, who spent a...

Big gay love: HBO's Big Love has ignited debate about hetero polygamy, but polyamorous relationships are not news to the many gay men with multiple long-term partners. How do they fit in to our fight for visibility?(Cover story)
June 6, 2006... When Pete Chvany feels like kissing his partner Alan Hamilton on the front lawn of their home in Somerville, Mass., he doesn't really care what the neighbors think. And he doesn't mind if Hamilton then gives a kiss to his wife of 22 years,...

Is pride good PR? A-list Hollywood publicist Michael Levine assesses the public relations impact of pride festivals and parades.
June 6, 2006... It is undeniably true that it is difficult to be gay in our society. Cultural, religious, and in some cases governmental disapproval of homosexuality by the majority infects the daily lives of gay men and lesbians, and it can seem that the...

True confessions: cool queer memoirs from a gal who won The Gong Show, a guy who used porn to chasten bad drivers, and a woman who survived an axman's murder attempt.(Possible Side Effects)(Giddy, Girl-Powered Queen of the Oddballs)(Strange Piece of Paradise)(Book review)
June 6, 2006... Most memoirs could be classified as champagne or lemonade. Gay memoirs have traditionally been of the lemonade variety, like Quentin Crisp's The Naked Civil Servant: The author crafts a life of dignity, grace, or hilarity despite sour...

Beach, beach, beach: headed for a holiday in the sun and sand? Make sure to pack one of these hot summer titles in your tote bag.(introduction of mystery fiction)
June 6, 2006... Mystery & murder The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard (HarperCollins, June 1, $24.95) A grisly murder in old New York challenges a young sleuth named Edgar Allan Poe. Yes, the one who later wrote the horror stories. One of the buzziest books...

Kiss kiss, bang bang.(introduction of adult books)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... This summer everybody gets lucky, with smart sex guidebooks that reach beyond the old labels and into that hot, full-spectrum future we keep hearing about. The Guide to Lesbian Sex by Jude Schell (Hylas, $19.95), pairs short text with fierce...

Daddy's girl: instead of offering genuine insight on how she reconciles her politics with her life, Mary Cheney uses her memoir to snipe at girly-man Democrats.(Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life)(Book review)
June 6, 2006... Flying home from a hunting trip in the summer of 2000, Dick Cheney asked his daughter Mary, "What do you think about me running for vice president?" In her new memoir, Now It's My Turn: A Daughter's Chronicle of Political Life (Threshold...

Say Peter: Peter Paige courted controversy as unapologetically queeny Emmett on Queer as Folk. His directorial debut, Say Uncle, doesn't play it safe either.(Interview)
June 6, 2006... How do you top Queer as Folk? With something even queerer, that's how. In Say Uncle, Peter Paige-known to millions as the wildly out Emmett Honeycutt--debuts as a feature film writer-director while playing a decidedly different sort of gay man....

Curling up: enhance your reading pleasure with these groovy household helpers.(TOYS)(Buyers guide)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Sony's hoping that the "Electronic Paper" readability and 7,500-page-turnsper-charge battery life of its electronic Sony Reader (expected to cost between $300 and $400) will give traditional books a run for their money. Companies like Random...

Groping toward enlightenment.(The History Boys)(Theater review)
June 6, 2006... The History Boys * Written by Alan Bennett * Directed by Nicholas Hytner * Broadhurst Theatre, New York City (through September 3) The prestige hit play of the Broadway season, Alan Bennett's The History Boys is a funny, moving,...

History repeating.(The Great Pink Scare)(Movie review)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... The Great Pink Scare * June 6 * PBS On Labor Day weekend 46 years ago, Massachusetts state troopers arrested Newton Arvin, a noted professor of American literature at Smith College, along with 14 others, as part of a purported...

Welcome to his world.(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... The world turns, all right, but never smoothly--especially for fictional gay teens on daytime dramas. Poor Luke Snyder, 16 and gay, struggling with the closet and a drinking problem, has a crush on his straight best friend. On CBS's As the...

Muddle in the middle.(A Lively Mind)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... A Lively Mind * Paul Oakenfold * Maverick Every good story requires a strong beginning, middle, and end. Alas, on his second artist album, U.K. superstar DJ-remixer Paul Oakenfoid nails only two thirds of the formula. The 12-track set...

Down and too dirty?(Dirty Sanchez)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
June 6, 2006... Dirty Sanchez * Dirty Sanchez * Hypnotic/Cleopatra Damn, this shit is gay! Which doesn't necessarily make it good. On the plus side, this stylish Los Angeles trio's debut brims with flawlessly updated '80s synthpop grooves. DJ Barbeau...

Royal dance party.(The Contessa's Party)(Sound recording review)
June 6, 2006... Thorne Presents The Contessa's Party * Thorne * The Stereo Society Legendary producer Mike Thorne (Blur, Soft Cell, the Communards, Siouxsie and the Banshees) throws a 74-minute party with his famous friends trading leads on eight...

Mystery man.(Unjust Malaise)(Sound recording review)
June 6, 2006... Julius Eastman * Unjust Malaise * New World In the musical avant-garde of the 1970s, the late African-American composer and baritone Julius Eastman was openly gay, outrageous, and brilliantly gifted. But his legacy is as much about...

Hot picks.(Theater review)(Television program review)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
June 6, 2006... THEATER The Black Rider Through June 11 (Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles) Avant-garde theater legend Robert Wilson channels this macabre German folk tale with text by William S. Burroughs, score by Tom Waits, and a cast who chill as...

Whose party is it?(LEFT HOOK)
June 6, 2006... Socially conservative Democrats have been arguing since 2004 that their party won't win until it abandons its commitment to "multiculturalism," a term that encompasses racial equality, feminism, and gay rights. Never mind that George W. Bush...

Second opinions.
June 6, 2006... "Al Gore defended the [federal] gas tax [in 1993].... And mind you, this was before we knew Gore was clinically insane. Back then we thought he was just a double-talking stuffed shirt who seemed kind of gay." --From Ann Coulter's...

Mea culpa over marriage: a onetime darling of LGBT voters, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee said on The 700 Club in May that the party platform opposed marriage equality. He was wrong.(PERSON TO KNOW: DNC CHAIRMAN: Howard Dean)(lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender )(Interview)
June 20, 2006... What is the chairman of the DNC doing on The 700 Club? It's not the last time I'm going to go on CBN. I went on and I said gay people need to be included [and that the Democrats] stand up for equal rights for every American. Look, I don't...

Pride and Thanksgiving.(FROM THE EDITORS)(gay rights)(Editorial)
June 20, 2006... It's Pride Month, so why are we writing about Thanksgiving? Because Pride Month this year began with an encore U.S. Senate appearance of the Federal Marriage Amendment, which aims to enshrine antigay marriage discrimination in the U.S....

We asked a sampling of LGBT people in St. Louis ...(OUT ON THE STREET)
June 20, 2006... "How do you express your pride?" RYAN HUELSING, 30, BARTENDER "By being me. My boyfriend and I hold hands, and we peck each other on the cheek in restaurants." TINA MANGIARACINO, 38, SELF-EMPLOYED "I'm out, and if it's...

Finding the next ABBA.(ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT)
June 20, 2006... Gay men all over Europe cherish Eurovision, the splashy, campy singing competition that once launched ABBA--think American Idol multiplied by 37 countries. Find reports from this year's contest from Eurovision vets Steve Holyer and John Egan on...

Soap against hate.(FIRST PERSON)
June 20, 2006... Damon Romine loved soap operas as a kid. Now he's an activist at GLAAD and worked closely with CBS on the coming-out story of teen character Luke (Van Hansis, pictured) on As The World Turns. In a victory for visibility, the network ignored a...

Same difference.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 20, 2006... You really fed my inner geek with the superhero articles in the May 23 issue, especially Alonso Duralde's "What I Learned From Superman." His three theories regarding why gays and lesbians are drawn to superheroes were all true for me,...

Confronting Islam.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 20, 2006... Thank you for the articles on Islam's treatment of gays and lesbians ["Radical Islam in Your Backyard," May 23]. I used to make fun of people who in the '60s were afraid of Communism. From what I read of the woman in New York, now I'm afraid of...

Mideast crisis.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 20, 2006... Curious and sad that in the same issue there are articles about the oppression of gays and lesbians by Islam as well as an interview with an Israeli Arab lesbian who references the "Israeli occupation" but never mentions the freedoms she enjoys...

Wanted: gay couples.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 20, 2006... While there are a significant number of recent books and articles about same-sex marriage (and same-sex couples), we would hardly call it a "flood" ["The Science of Same-Sex Marriage," May 23]. In fact, researchers are just now making up for...

My old Kentucky home.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 20, 2006... What Bruce Steele said about the governor of Kentucky needed to be said ["X-Men and Liars," May 23]. The action of the governor sure wasn't Christian. I live about 20 minutes from Williamsburg, Ky., where Jason Johnson was expelled from the...

Missed connection.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 20, 2006... Alonso Duralde describes United 93 as "emotional pornography," "repellent," "makes one's skin crawl," and a "manipulative snuff film" ["Airsick," May 23]. Non-sense. United 93 succeeds precisely by not engaging in the very action-thriller...

Transgression.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
June 20, 2006... The advertisement for the Transamerica DVD release in the May 23 issue of The Advocate, featuring a nude muscular male physique clutching the DVD with Felicity's face to his crotch, framed by "Anatomically incorrect" and "Life can change a...

The Advocate poll.(FROM THE READERS)(Survey)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... Q: Do you think radical Islam poses a threat to the well-being of gays and lesbians in the United States? yes 78% unsure 4% no 18% Note: Table made from pie chart. How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll...

A prom for all.(YOUTH)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... "This is really the greatest thing ever said Hervey Tennessee, 23, of the Boston Alliance of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth prom, which celebrated its 26th year on May 13. Wearing three-inch vinyl platform boots and a formal...

Cultural history: out California state senator Sheila Kuehl, of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis fame, says public schools should teach LGBT history.(SHORT ANSWERS)(interview)(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender)(Interview)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... Sheila Kuehl, a Democrat representing western Los Angeles who played Zelda on the classic 1960s sitcom, has authored a controversial bill that would put LGBT history in public schools in her state--and possibly across the country, as California...

Strange stat.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Survey)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... 51% of people who use only a cell phone believe same-sex marriage should be legal, compared to 37% of people who also use a landline Source: an Associated Press-AOL-Pew Research Center study

Meet the bloggers: Rod 2.0.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... Name: Rod McCullom Age: 34 Location: New York City and Chicago URL: http://rodonline.typepad.com Year launched: 2005 Visitors per month: 250,000 Why you started: "There was a lack of content by and for black gay men. My goal...

Jim McGreevey's truck stop memories.(MEMOIR)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... When James McGreevey was governor of New Jersey he had an affair with a male employee. That was the reason given for his dramatic coming-out and resignation on national television in 2004. But long before that the 48-year-old McGreevey says he...

Equality check.(WORLD FOCUS / United Kingdom)(gay rights)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... Missing 12 votes in parliament on equal rights is probably not the best way to become an "equality minister." But that didn't stop Prime Minister Tony Blair from appointing Ruth Kelly in early May as the United Kingdom's new secretary of state...

Top 5 HIV/AIDS: stories@advocate.com.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... 1. Stop AIDS Project dots San Francisco with irises In May the large-scale purple flowers in the Castro neighborhood commemorated 25 years of the AIDS epidemic. 2. Centers for Disease Control recommend routine HIV testing The...

Richard Hatch.(SENTENCED)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... RICHARD HATCH, 45, the gay winner of the first season of CBS's Survivor, to 51 months in jail on May 16 for not paying taxes on his $1 million prize and other income. He was convicted in January.

Andre Labarrere.(DIED)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... ANDRE LABARRERE, 78, the mayor of the southern French town of Pau and one of his country's first openly gay politicians, of cancer, May 16. A Socialist, he was elected in 1971 and never left office.

Michael Onstott.(DIED)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... MICHAEL ONSTOTT, 55, cofounder of the AIDS Nutrient Bank in Sonoma County, Calif., of a heart attack, April 25. He had lived with HIV since 1982 and promoted nutritional education for HIV-positive people.

Jay Presson Allen.(DIED)(Obituary)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... JAY PRESSON ALLEN, 84, the screenwriter of Cabaret and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (which she also adapted for the stage), and author of the Broadway play Tru, about Truman Capote, of a stroke, May 1 in New York.

Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE).(APPOINTED)(Senior Action in a Gay Environment )(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... MICHAEL ADAMS, as executive director of Services and Advocacy for GLBT Elders (SAGE), a senior citizens group. He was formerly the director of education and public affairs for Lambda Legal.

Love is in the smell.(SCIENCE)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... When it comes to sex it appears that lesbians follow their nose. A new study published in the May 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences scanned the brains of 12 lesbians as they smelled both a male-oriented and...

Friend or foe.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(gay and lesbian rights)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... FOE ANN COULTER, who, when asked what she'd do if one of her children came out, replied, "I'd say, "Did I ever tell you you're adopted?'" Coulter will reportedly star in the remake of Mommie Dearest. FRIEND WENDY'S, for adopting a...

Rants & raves.
June 20, 2006... "The only thing we consider unacceptable is for you to engage in sexist, racist, or homophobic behavior. If you do, we don't want you as a fan." --Fall Out Boy bass player PETE WENTZ, writing on the band's Web site May 3 after the group...

Br-Ayn-gelina.(BUZZ)(Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to star in Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged)(Brief article)
June 20, 2006... Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt--currently the Earth's reigning couple that anyone of any sexual orientation wants to sleep with--have announced their interest in starring in a movie version of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Jolie would play...