The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) articles from May 2007

The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) archives from May 2007

After the party: it's fun to dance in the sun with thousands of brothers and sisters. But will we show up for our cause when we go home?(FROM THE EDITORS)
May 8, 2007... For queer writers of the early 20th century, the passionate cry of the heart was, See us! "Acknowledge us, oh God, before the whole world," prays the lesbian heroine of Radclyffe Hall's 1928 melodrama The Well of Loneliness--just before the...

Out on the street.(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Shanghai: "How openly can gays and lesbians live in China?" SIMON YANG, 32 TRAVEL AGENT "In big cities, quite open. For girls, it's fashionable to have a close gay friend-maybe because of...

Glass on glass.(Q&A)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... In an interview with The Advocate's Neal Broverman, This American Life's handsome host, Ira Glass. defends his decision to bring his radio show to television, reveals his favorite TAL stories, and admits that living among the gym bunnies of...

Campaign finance.(POLITICS)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... Unsure of what to do with your tax return? Democratic National Committee treasurer Andrew Tobias squares off against Patrick Sammon, president of the Log Cabin Republicans, on why you should use your hard-earned cash to support their parties in...

Equality Ride II updates.(ACTIVISM)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... Dispatches from Equality Ride II activists (like Haven Herrin, below) tell of prejudice, fear, a fair amount of jail time. and an occasional show of tolerance as two buses cross the U.S., stopping at A 32 Christian colleges and universities...

Off to the races.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2007... Rod McCullom's cover article "Behind the Gay-friendly Faces" [April 10] on Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was informative and interesting, but perhaps The Advocate needs reminding that there is a third serious front-runner in the Democratic...

Remembering Keith Gann.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2007... The April 10 Advocate Report erroneously states that the late Bob Hattoy "was the first person with AIDS to speak at a Democratic National Convention, in 1992.... " In fact, the first such person was the late Keith Gann of St. Paul, Minn., who...

Bad link.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2007... "Hysterical Blindness" [April 10]? Selective is more like it. While reading your piece about HIV and AIDS and the progress or changes in society's attitudes (or lack thereof) since 1983, I was pleased that you included a man of color Magic...

Weller's sweller.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2007... What a pleasant surprise to see the story about Frederick Weller in the April 10 Advocate ["The Faces of Fred"]! I have seen Some Men two times now, and it is wonderful. Really wonderful! Fred Weller is a standout, and that scene where he plays...

"That's so Mormon".(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2007... Regarding your April 10 GenQ story "That's So Gay' War," what is perhaps most regrettable is that it seems the teachable moment was missed. The key question to pose to Rebekah is: How would she feel if "That's so Mormon" or "That's so Rebekah"...

Shower scene.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2007... Shame on Brandon Voss for making light of the issue of prison rape by using the "joke" phrase about "dropping the soap" in his interview with Will Arnett [Big Gay Following, April 10]. If The Advocate wants to be taken seriously around not...

Cape gay.(FROM THE READERS)(Letter to the editor)
May 8, 2007... Comparing little old Cape May to Paris-wow ["Summer Love for Two," April 10]! The 250 members of GABLES, our area GLBTQ organization, welcome vacationing gays. Cape May, or "Cape Gay," as locals call it, is one of the top three birding spots in...

Correction.(FROM THE READERS)(Correction notice)
May 8, 2007... In our April 10 cover story "Behind the Gay friendly Faces," two statements were incorrectly attributed to blogger John Aravosis. He did not express the opinion that Hillary Clinton is ambivalent about the Defense of Marriage Act, and he did...

The Advocate poll.(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... Q: Who do you think would do more for LGBT people if elected president: Hillary or Barack? Unsure 7% Barack 47% Hillary 46% How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the April 10 issue of The...

Sea change?(ENVIRONMENT)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... Supreme Court to President Bush: Do something about global warming. In a 5-4 vote, the high court said in a landmark ruling April 2 that the Environmental Protection Agency does indeed have authority under the Clean Air Act to limit vehicle...

A cabin of one's own: New England's MacDowell Colony celebrates 100 years of artistic utopia. And the gay and lesbian artists who prospered there celebrate its role in their careers.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
May 8, 2007... Though not founded or necessarily intended to cater to LGBT artists, the MacDowell Colony has a rich history of doing just that. The Peterborough, N.H., retreat center for creative types--along with New York's Yaddo, the most famous of its...

Person to know: Warren Cohn.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
May 8, 2007... I love punctuality," says Warren Cohn when I call him at exactly 10:30 A.M. for a phone inter view. As vice president of Mellon Financial Corp.'s private wealth management group, Cohn needs to keep punctual, considering his client base of...

Music lovers, unite.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... Previously a 48-hour aural orgasm, the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival swells to a three-day sonic rapture this year. The additional day of performances boosts the lineup at the marquee music event--held in sweltering Indio, Calif....

Man with a mission: the author of a new book says he was infected with HIV by a priest who sexually abused him in 1977. Could this be the start of a new Catholic Church scandal?(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
May 8, 2007... Eric Bepots is convinced that he contracted HIV from a Catholic priest who raped him in 1977. Never mind that he has no empirical evidence to support that charge; never mind that the AIDS virus wasn't discovered in humans until 1981--Bepots...

Kay Longcope.(DIED)(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... KAY LONGCOPE, 69, founder of Texas Triangle, an Austin-based gay newspaper, of pancreatic cancer, March 29. She launched the paper in 1992 after retiring as a reporter for The Boston Globe, where she had worked for 22 years. She is survived by...

Arlene Halko.(DIED)(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... ARLENE HALKO, 73, cofounder of the Chicago House HIV and AIDS service organization, of heart failure, March 22, in Chicago. She had been active in the gay rights movement for decades and once owned a lesbian bar in the Windy City. She is...

Sandra Pailet.(DIED)(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... SANDRA PAILET, 67, founder of the Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays Scholarship Fund and former president of the organization's New Orleans chapter, of Alzheimer's disease, March 23. The straight ally and real estate broker...

Mautner Project.(RESIGNED)(National Lesbian Health Organization)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... KATHLEEN DEBOLD, 51, the executive director of lesbian health organization the Mautner Project, April 1, in Washington, D.C. She had led the group since 1999, overseeing its national expansion and widening its scope beyond cancer, its original...

Meet the bloggers.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Fruit Brute)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... Fruit Brute Age: 39 Location: Atlanta Blog: www.gaygamer.net Year launched: 2006 Visitors per month: approximately 300,000 Why you started: "I wanted to create a gaming site where gay and lesbian players could come...

Queers in Queerland.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... The much-ballyhooed PlayStation 2 game Bully, released last fall, may have featured gay content, but as with virtually all such video games, it was fairly well-hidden. In order to ferret it out you had to first work your way through various...

The Advocate calendar.(Calendar)
May 8, 2007... APRIL 24-MAY 8 25 DAVID SEDARIS It's one night only at UCLA's Royce Hall for the guy dubbed "funniest man alive." Rumor has it he'll be reading from new works. UCLALive.org TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL APRIL 25-May 6 De Niro's baby has...

Rants and raves.(Quotation)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... "Life is too short to live closed up, guarding what you say. [Gay singer Christian Chavez] has to be free in many aspects. I wish him much strength." --RICKY MARTIN, defending the right of pop stars to come out, to the Associated Press,...

Life in 2-D.(BUZZ)
May 8, 2007... In mid March, "Vito Desoto" opened the Fire Island Gay History Museum, but you won't find this museum on Long Island. It's only as far away as your computer, in the online virtual community Second Life. SL has grown steadily since Linden...

Diaper duty: for most gay folks, being in their 20s means a time of dating and dabbling. But for others it means carpools, strollers, and fighting for the right to be a gay parent.(GEN Q)
May 8, 2007... John Lawrimore and Billy Pinson aren't your typical 20-something gay couple. Their relationship has always had two other guys in the equation--Lawrimore's two sons, 8-year-old Kyle and 7-year-old Jayden. Lawrimore and Pinson, both 27, have...

Gen Q poll.(Interview)
May 8, 2007... Q: Are you hoping to have kids before you reach a certain age? Sign on to The Advocate's Web site before May 1 to cast your vote and leave your comments. Results will appear in the June 19 issue. Powered by Socratic Technologies...

Gina Gershon.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(Interview)
May 8, 2007... Say it ain't so, darlin'! The sultry rocker chick who became a bona fide gay icon by playing a bisexual vamp in Showgirls and by butching out in Bound and Prey for Rock & Roll is now a children's book author? Don't worry: Cowritten with her...

Land of loopholes: as long as the federal Defense of Marriage Act reigns supreme, full equality is denied to gay and lesbian couples joined in domestic partnerships, civil unions, and even marriage.(SPECIAL REPORT)
May 8, 2007... As defined by the Defense of Marriage Act, marriage is a "legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife," and spouse refers "only to a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife." Passed by Congress in 1996 and...

Courtroom wrangler: Virginia trial lawyer Jill Jacobson was once a rodeo gal, riding broncos and roping calves. Her stint inside the ring prepared her well for the high-stakes world of corporate defense.(CAREERS)
May 8, 2007... Jill Jacobson, the first and only openly gay partner at the national trial law firm Bowman and Brooke, believes being an attorney in Virginia, where she works out of the Richmond office, is as much a calling as it is a career. Headquartered in...

Legal crusader: a trans lawyer since the 1980s, Phyllis Frye has had her struggles. Life is sweeter now that she's a named partner at a Houston law firm.(CAREERS)
May 8, 2007... When Phyllis Randolph Frye came out as transgender in 1974 and began transitioning in 1976 to become a woman, it was illegal to cross-dress in Houston, The city ordinance, which barred a "person from appearing in public dressed with the intent...

Courting the gay vote: some say Bill Richardson is on the Democrats' short list of candidates for vice president in 2008. But the governor of New Mexico insists he's running for the top spot or nothing--and he wants our vote.(POLITICS)(Interview)
May 8, 2007... New Mexico governor Bill Richardson may be low in the polls compared to other 2008 Democratic presidential candidates, but the former member of the U.S. House, secretary of energy, and ambassador to the United Nations says that leaves him only...

What a woman! Rebecca Romijn doesn't want to be a spokeswoman for LGBT people. But with her transgender role on ABC's hit series Ugly Betty, that's what she's become. It couldn't happen to a nicer girl.(Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender)(American Broadcasting Companies Inc.)(Interview)
May 8, 2007... Like most sensible people in the United States, actress Rebecca Romijn--the 34-year-old former Victoria's Secret model who became a major movie icon as the wicked, blue-skinned Mystique in the X-Men film trilogy--became addicted to Ugly Betty....

Out in Africa ... and WeHo.(HELL IN A HANDBASKET)
May 8, 2007... Meeting people is difficult for me. By "people" I mean "boyfriend material." A friend advises, "For adventure, choose the more difficult path." It has a certain fortune cookie logic, so I put it to the test in South Africa at the Out in Africa...

Second opinions.(Quotation)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... "Politics still make me angry. But I'm 60 years old. An angry 60-year-old is an asshole." --John Waters, as reported in the Rush & Molloy column in the New York Daily News, March 29 "There [have been] a lot of important things [over 10...

Good as gold: in her new book, 25 Questions for a Jewish Mother, lesbian comic Judy Gold laments that the joke is ultimately on her--she too is turning into her mother.(Q&A)(Interview)
May 8, 2007... Judy Gold can go from zero ? 140 decibels in less time than it takes to jerk a phone away from your ear. Here s how I found out. Judy is walking into her New York City apartment after being away for several days, describing her collaboration...

Black is back: to many, the cancellation of Noah's Arc meant the end of black gay men on television. Kellee Terrell reveals that the brothers are just getting started.(CULTURE)
May 8, 2007... When the cable channel Logo unexpectedly announced in January that it was canceling Noah's Arc, one of the network's most successful shows, and turning it into a feature film, all hell broke loose. The black gay blogosphere erupted with...

The great White way: Mike White is the writer of some of the best comedies of the last decade. Now the fiery-haired son of the Reverend Mel White has decided he wants to direct. Year of the Dog, starring Molly Shannon. proves he's good at that too.(FILM)
May 8, 2007... Mike White has worn so many different hats in his career--writer (of films like School of Rock and The Good Girl), actor (in the gay comedy Chuck & Buck, he played the latter), and television producer (Freaks and Geeks, Pasadena)--that when the...

Smell like summer: the season's latest scents have arrived.(LIFE/STYLE: FRAGRANCE)(Brief article)(List)
May 8, 2007... 1. Frank cologne//$65 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2. Escada Sunset Heat for Men//$45 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 3. Halin Goetz Lime Tonic//$45 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 4. Marc Jacobs Cucumber//$65 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...

Back to the future: the 2006 Chevy SSR marks the end of a grand automotive experiment. The upshot? Now's the time to get a convertible sports car pickup truck--cheap.(CARS)(Super Sport Roadster)(Product/service evaluation)
May 8, 2007... If you think the Toyota Camry is America's best car simply based on popularity, fair enough. Personally, I like a machine with something more to say for itself than "toaster"--something like the Chevrolet SSR. When it first arrived on the...

Cinephile.(Movie review)
May 8, 2007... Why settle for just one American in Paris when the new movie Paris, je t'aime can give you a multitude? This omnibus film (comprised of shorts directed by the likes of Gus Van Sant, Alfonso Cuaron, and the Coen brothers) assigns an...

Henry Rollins.(SHORT ANSWERS)(Interview)(Brief article)
May 8, 2007... Known as much for his outspoken opinions as his hardcore music and spoken-word performances, former Black Flag front man Henry Rollins returns to the small screen for the second season of his eponymous IFC talk show, airing Fridays at 11 P.M....

Planet Earth: The Complete Series: BBC Warner.(DVD PICKS)
May 8, 2007... Possibly the best nature documentary ever filmed, Planet Earth is an epic journey through the planet's untouched wonders.

Dreamgirls: Two-Disc Showstopper Edition: Paramount.(DVD PICKS)
May 8, 2007... What is there to say about this that hasn't been said? Just buy it. You know you're going to.

Matthew Barney: No Restraint: IFC.(DVD PICKS)(Independent Film Channel)(Movie review)(Brief review)
May 8, 2007... How could you miss a documentary that chronicles Barney and wife Bjork as they set sail for Japan to tell a tale of two lovers transformed into whales?

One Day at a Time: The Complete First Season: Sony.(DVD PICKS)
May 8, 2007... ODAAT' s concept is so 70s--a hardscrabble single mom raising two daughters in Indianapolis--but that's what makes it great. Oh, and Schneider.

Eat your heart out, SNL: veteran comedian Chrisanne Eastwood turns a jealous eye on Logo's newest series, The Big Gay Sketch Show.(Saturday Night Live)(Television program review)
May 8, 2007... I must confess: I am jealous as hell. Fifteen years ago I was a founding member and director of Planet Q, New York City's first gay sketch comedy troupe. During the gay '90s, Planet Q was hailed by The New York Times and inspired TV network...

Scarlet fever: Patrick Wolf is becoming Tori Amos, and Tori has become five different versions of herself.
May 8, 2007... Blonds are flighty, brunets are sensible, and redheads strong-willed and crazy. Or so stereotypes would have us believe. Neither Tori Amos nor Patrick Wolf puts much stock in conventional attitudes, yet each has carved out a niche as...

Times of transition: at first The Advocate identified itself simply as "the national gay newsmagazine." Then we realized we'd underestimated ourselves.(The Advocate 40th ANNIVERSARY)
May 8, 2007... What is transgender?" we asked on a cover featuring gay Olympian Greg Louganis and transgender actress-singer Alexandra Billings. On May 25, 1999, that question seemed to be on everyone's lips, gay and straight alike. Some three decades after...

Time capsule 1999.(The Advocate: 40th ANNIVERSARY)(Brief article)(Calendar)
May 8, 2007... Bill Clinton is acquitted by the U.S. Senate in his impeachment trial February 12 Columbine High School is the scene of a deadly shooting by two Colorado teens, April 20 Jenny Jones is found liable for the death of talk-show guest...

Possibly maybe.(Bjork's Volta)(Sound recording review)
May 22, 2007... Hot on the heels of her Coachella gig, Bjork releases Volta, her self-produced sixth album. With collaborators like Timbaland--the hitmaker behind Justin, Nelly, and soon, Madonna-the album could be Bjork's most accessible in years. Our music...

Mike Jones tells all.(Had to Say Something: The Art of Ted Haggard's Fall)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... His clients included politicians, athletes, and movie stars. But it was his affair with the closeted evangelical leader Ted Haggard that made Mike Jones a household name. John Ireland reviews the former gay male escort's upcoming book f Had to...

Diaz's Real World.(A&E)(Johnny Diaz's Boston Boys Club)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... "There are no second acts in American lives," said F. Scott Fitzgerald, but he never knew Johnny Diaz, who transitioned from that guy on The Real World to newspaper reporter to fiction author. In an interview with fellow journalist Sam...

Two men out: as T.R. Knight and Neil Patrick Harris proved in April, simply coming out of the closet is no longer enough to make gay people fall at celebs' feet.
May 22, 2007... At April's GLAAD Media Awards in Los Angeles, Grey's Anatomy star T.R. Knight opened the show, walking onto the stage of the Kodak Theatre to thunderous applause. The crowd bestowed a hero's welcome on the modest actor who weathered an intense...

Out on the street.(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Seattle: "What was your strangest job?" MICHAEL GRAVES, 28 RETAIL "I modeled for the Dungeons and Dragons book of erotic fantasy. It can be found in brown paperwrappers in bookstores." ...

Idol talk.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... I am once again extremely disappointed with whom you chose to put on the cover of your magazine ["American Idol's Big Gay Closet," April 24]. In this issue, probably your most important article involved a group of GLBT veterans who decided to...

Friendly fire.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... The Advocate failed in its mission. You praise seven military officers for their zeal and morality and defending gays in the military ["Back in Action," April 24]. All seven wait until they are safely retired, benefits secured, before speaking...

The downside of anger.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... I very emphatically disagree with "Give 'Em Hell, Larry" [From the Editors, April 24]. His type of activism can only result in hate. And he does not care! His confrontational attitude can only bring on more confrontation. I certainly do...

Unkindest cut.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... Twenty years ago I stopped reading John Updike because he made a derogatory comment about the penis in his third Rabbit novel. Now this whippersnapper Pete Wentz comes along in your April 24 issue [Big Gay Following] to assert his masculinity...

Epiphany.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... I couldn't sleep soundly last night (but I'm OK). If you can believe this--and it's true--your articles "Irshad Loves Islam" and "A Gay Christian's Creed" [April 24] were just the personal support I needed from your periodical. I'm so glad I...

Indie blues.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... While I was happy to see The Advocate devoting four pages to books in the April 24 issue, I was dismayed by your exclusion of books published by smaller gay presses. All of the books reviewed were from major publishing houses--the sole...

Dirty old men.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... One detail was missing from the article on Chicago's new Center on Halsted ["Not Your Average LGBT Center," April 24]. On a recent tour for gay elders, tour leader and executive director Robbin Burr announced that although the center has a...

Money's a bitch.(Letter to the editor)
May 22, 2007... So let me see if I got this right. On March 1, Creative Artists Agency announced it had dropped Michael Savage as a client two days after signing him ["Karma's a Bitch," April 10]. You hypothesize that Savage's homophobic "invective," in this...

The Advocate poll.(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... Q: Do you think American Idol is rigged? How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the April 24 issue of The Advocate * "I don't think it's rigged, but I also don't believe people vote because of talent....

Rich & lemony.(ART)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... Talk about turning a lemon into lemonade--Andy Warhol's Lemon Marilyn, purchased for $250 in 1962, is scheduled for auction May 16 at Christie's New York and is expected to fetch at least $15 million. Other "flavors" in the series of 13...

Housing crunch: with subprime borrowers and homeowners who signed adjustable-rate mortgages defaulting on their loans, lenders and prospective buyers are feeling the pain too.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
May 22, 2007... First-time home buyers Frances Reed and Jessica Morris qualified for a program that let them put no money down on their two-bedroom "dream house" in Washington, D.C., but it required the couple to take out two loans: one of $160,000 at a...

Person to know: Ryan Roemerman.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Interview)
May 22, 2007... Ryan Roemerman, 24, is not only helping rack up victories for LGBT students, he's proving to be a serious figure of interest for at least one 2008 Democratic presidential campaign. His gig: He's the cofounder and director of the Iowa Pride...

Raising the bar: law schools in the heartland struggle to recruit LGBT students.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
May 22, 2007... Liz Van Deusen, a first-year law student at the University of Iowa College of Law in Iowa City, is frustrated. Despite the administration's best efforts, only one other student at the law school self-identifies as gay. "We need to do a better...

Queer youth, no justice: a sexual-abuse scandal in the Texas juvenile system highlights the plight of underage LGBT inmates nationwide.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)
May 22, 2007... On April 10, two men were arrested for sexually abusing teenage boys under their care at a Texas juvenile facility. John Paul Hernandez had once been principal at the West Texas State School in rural Pyote; Ray Brookins had been the assistant...

Three makes a trend.(THE ADVOCATE REPORT)(Oregon, New Hampshire. and Washington)
May 22, 2007... Last month at press time, bills to establish civil unions or domestic partnerships in three states--Oregon, New Hampshire. and Washington--were on the verge of near-certain passage or headed to a governor's desk for signature. The bills signal...

Kurt Vonnegut.(Obituary)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... KURT VONNEGUT, 84, the author, of brain injuries related to a fall, in New York City, April 11. A World War II veteran, the Indianapolis native went on to write such classic novels as Cat's Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five. In his 2005 collection...

James Lyons.(Brief article)(Biography)
May 22, 2007... JAMES LYONS, 46, a film editor known for the movies he made with director Todd Haynes, of squamous cell cancer, in New York City, April 12. A sometime actor who appeared in Haynes's Poison, he also edited that film as well as the director's...

Cecily Gonzalez, 17, and Uriah Smith, 18, to a year in juvenile detention and four years in prison, respectively, for assaulting a gay teen, in New Mexico, April 13.(SENTENCED)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... CECILY GONZALEZ, 17, and URIAH SMITH, 18, to a year in juvenile detention and four years in prison, respectively, for assaulting a Bay teen, in New Mexico, April 13. The two were part of a group of four who kidnapped, tied up, and beat the teen...

Micheal Ray Richardson.(FIRED)(Albany Patroons)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... MICHEAL RAY RICHARDSON, as coach of the Albany Patroons professional basketball team, April 4. He had made anti-Semitic remarks during an interview and used a gay slur during a Continental Basketball Championship game on March 27.

Meet the bloggers.(THE ADVOCATE REPORTER)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... Jason Adams >> Age: 29 Locations: New York City Blog: mynewplaidpants.blogspot.com Year launched: 2005 Visitors per month: 25,000-35,000 Why you started: I used to annoy my friends by e-mailing them every random...

Bitter, party of one.(THE ADVOCATE REPORTER)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... In the name of "balance," the conservative Alliance Defense Fund sues schools that observe the Day of Silence in April if they don't also allow antigay speakers. The following might be sued too if equal time is not ensured: Elton John,...

A tragedy for all: everyone was affected by the tragic shootings at Virginia Tech in April, including gays and lesbians at the school and in the greater community.(GEN Q: SPECIAL REPORT)
May 22, 2007... Seung-Hui Cho's April 16 killing spree on the campus of Virginia Tech happened two days before the 11th annual Day of Silence, when students nationwide protest the silencing of LGBT voices by keeping quiet throughout the day. Naturally, the...

Gen Q poll.(GEN Q: SPECIAL REPORT)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... Q: How would you deal with a friend who seemed unstable? Sign on to The Advocate's Web site before May 15 to cast your vote and leave your comments. Results will appears in the July 3 issue. Powered by Socratic Technologies ...

THe Advocate calendar.(Brief article)(Calendar)
May 22, 2007... May 8-22 10 MARANATHA BOOK EVENT Maranatha: Riversiders for LGBT Concerns, a ministry of NYC's Riverside Church, hosts a reading, panel discussion, and signing of Their Own Receive Them Not: African-American Lesbians and Gays in Black...

Rants & raves.(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... "We are living in an era of instant gratification, and [Project Runway] is built on that premise. The fact is that fashion is an art form.... When they just use personalities, they miss a lot of the hard work that goes into our industry." ...

Gay China comes out online.(BUZZ)(Brief article)
May 22, 2007... China may not have Ellen or Rosie, but as of April 5 it has Didier-Zheng, the country's first openly gay talk show host. Zheng, 27, hosts the online program Tong Xing Xianglian, or "connecting homosexuals." Zheng, an AIDS and minority rights...