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  • NATIONAL EQUALITY MARCH BACKSTAGE LEAD X390 (STEPHEN VOSS) | ADVOCATE.COM
  • News Scenes From D.C.

    Missed the National Equality March in Washington, D.C.? Advocate.com has photos from the scene.

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  • HIV Blood, Sex, and the FDA

    Despite policy changes in other countries and technological advances in screening for HIV, the FDA stands firm: Gay men pose far too great a risk to give blood. Will we ever be allowed to donate again?

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  • News The Next Generation of Activists Steps Out

    A crowd estimated at 200,000 streamed into Washington, D.C., on Sunday for the National Equality March, in what for many was their first experience with LGBT activism.

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  • News Backstage at the March

    For those who said they wouldn't come -- they came. Some 200,000 people demanding gay rights turned out for the march, in fact. Head backstage with Advocate.com for a look at what you didn't see.

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  • News The Next Generation

    Gay activists who sprang from the civil rights and peace movements of the '60s passed the torch to a new generation of advocates Sunday at the largest LGBT march on Washington in nearly a decade.

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Activism
  • Voting for Change(.org)

    Change.org plans to present the Obama administration with 10 progressive proposals that can become reality through grassroots dedication and legislative support. Will any of those causes include gay rights?


  • Honduran LGBT Rights Activist Assassinated

    Activists suspect government agents in the drive-by killing of LGBT activist and coup protester Walter Trochez.

  • Antony: Our Responsibility to Copenhagen

    An open letter by Antony Hegarty, lead singer of Antony and the Johnsons, on the importance of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit, and what readers can do to support its success.

  • Progress in the Midwest

    A city native and strong supporter of Kalamazoo's effort to keep an anti-discrimination law reflects on a hard-won campaign.

  • Alabama Groups Protest Focus on the Family

    Several gay rights organizations in Alabama announced plans to protest a Focus on the Family conference on LGBT youths that will be held Saturday, November 7, in Birmingham.

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Coming Out
  • Gayest Cities in America

    Intrepid amateur sociologist Mike Albo searches for America’s 15 gayest burgs—based on a finely tuned (if totally arbitrary) calculus.

  • Meredith Baxter's New Family Ties

    One of America’s best-known TV moms comes out of the closet as a real-life lesbian.

  • Rumor Has It

     

    As the decade draws to a close, we look back at gays outed with a little help from their enemies.

  • Uganda's Most Wanted

    Victor Mukasa crossed a line in his home country. He came out -- once as a lesbian, once as trans -- and decided not to stay silent about it. Now he fears the worst.

  • Oedipus Wrecks

    When his mom started dating women, writer Brett Berk was amused. But now she's gayer than he is -- and he's confused.

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Commentary
  • Life on the G-List: Gym Actor Hours

    David Moretti explains the pursuit of getting ripped for film, and doing it with the company of other actors while people with real jobs work.

  • Life on the G List: Episode 3

    Young actors pay their dues, and often in slasher films. For actor David Moretti, that meant learning a new vocabulary term: "deferred payment."

  • Sex Disorders According to the APA

    COMMENTARY: The American Psychological Association may no longer consider homosexuality a disorder, but according to its updated guidebook, playing with toys or liking sex a lot is cause for concern.
     

  • Life on the G-list: Episode 1

    In the first of his biweekly columns, out actor David Moretti (The Lair) chronicles the life of a working actor and pulls a treacherous traveling quick change in pursuit of a role.

  • U.K. Gov. Adviser: ‘Lesbians Make Better Parents’

    Professor Stephen Scott, the director of research at the National Academy for Parenting Practitioners, claims evidence shows that children raised by gay women go on to do better in life.

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Culture
  • Famed Los Angeles Party Ends

    Take a look back at 17 years of iconic monthly party Dragstrip 66 before its farewell blowout this weekend.

  • Cruise Control

    Once an unfortunate but understandable option for a beaten-down sexual minority, public sex no longer has a place in modern gay culture -- as so many closeted politicians and celebs have proven.

  • It's Not You, It's Your Color

    Author Terrance Dean examines the intricacies of being a black gay man in a white gay dating world.

  • SlideshowFlag  Out in Cuba

    Join photographer Byron Motley on a photo tour of Havana -- a journey few Americans get to take  -- and get up close and personal with Cuba’s gay and transgender community.

  • Remembering the B in LGBT

    Bisexuals are (real) people, too -- that was the message of a recent, and popular, get-together in New York.

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Education
  • Unrest at UCLA

    Police in riot gear, students laying in the streets -- sounds like the UCLA of the 1960s. But with rising costs and slashed LGBT history courses, is holding the UC Board of Regents captive a necessary move for gay students?

  • There's No One Way to Be a Morehouse Man

    Why can't a Morehouse man wear a fierce pair of Jimmy Choos to class?

  • Princeton Review's Approach Is Outdated

    COMMENTARY: One of the nation's leading college ranking groups fails to keep actual LGBT students in mind when ranking the most gay-friendly campuses.

  • The Advocates: Ease on Down the Loan

    Student loans, StockTwits.com, socially charitable

  • Harvard Graduates to Gay Milestone

    In 1920, 14 Harvard leaders and students were found "guilty" of homosexuality and dismissed. Now Harvard boasts the first endowed, named chair in LGBT studies at an American institution of higher learning.

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Ethics
  • Recs and Wrecks

    What's the delicate way to tell a friend you won't vouch for her work? Ethical pro Stephen Milioti explains.

  • Why the Long Face?

    Blinders , a documentary by gay stand-up comedian Donny Moss, explores the dark side of Central Park's iconic horse and carriage businesses.

  • Work It Out

    When the ex is a coworker, where's the line between business and revenge? Ethical pro Stephen Milioti explains.

  •  Pics, Clicks, and Tricks

     Where’s the trust when neither of you were supposed to be cruising online? Ethical expert Stephen Milioti explains.

  • We Need to Talk -- or at Least Text

    What’s breaking up when we’re really not yet an item? Ethical expert Stephen Milioti explains.

     

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Law
  • SLC Gay Rights Win May Go Statewide?

    Following the Salt Lake City Council's passage of two gay rights measures with the backing of the Church of Latter-day Saints, the possibility of passing a similar law in the state may come with the church's support.

  • Man Arrested After Trying to Burn Flag

    Police arrested a man early Wednesday morning after he attempted to burn the gay pride flag at a Memphis, Tenn., gay and lesbian center. A second suspect remains at large.

  • Death Sentence Upheld for Killer of Gay Man

    The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday reinstated the death sentence of a man who was found guilty of killing a man he met at a gay bar in 1985.

  • Trans Rights Rock Cleveland City Council

    More than 2,500 postcards were delivered to the Cleveland City Council meeting Monday night, urging members to support transgender rights legislation.

  • French Lesbian Adopts After Decade in Court

    After a 10-year legal battle, a court in eastern France on Tuesday granted a lesbian schoolteacher the right to adopt a child.

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Marriage Equality
  • Prop. 8 Judge Considers a Televised Trial

    Judge Vaughn Walker will hear arguments Wednesday on whether to permit cameras in the courtroom for the federal Proposition 8 suit.

  • NOM Sues to Evade Maine Election Law

    A group tied to the defeat of Maine’s marriage equality effort is eyeing the next election cycle in the state and is suing to take part.

  • The Semantics of Marriage Equality

    An editor for The American Heritage Dictionary reflects on the redefinition of marriage — shortly before the death of his own husband.

  • Wis. Supreme Court Hears Gay Marriage Case

    The Wisconsin supreme court heard arguments on Tuesday in a case that charges the 2006 referendum that banned same-sex marriage and civil unions was unconstitutional.

  • Terri White Stages Her Leather Encore

    Last year, acclaimed stage performer Terri White was homeless and living in a public park. On Sunday, she and her partner held a leather-themed commitment ceremony onstage following her triumphant Broadway turn in Finian’s Rainbow. 

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Media
  • Capital Gains

     

    One of the nation’s most respected gay newspapers celebrates four decades of looping in the Beltway. 

  • Fired: News Anchor Charles Perez Speaks

    Allegedly fired for being "too gay," former Miami news anchor Charles Perez talks to Advocate.com about his termination, his gay boss, and Anderson Cooper.

  • NYT 's Big Gay Celebration

    More than 300 same-sex wedding or commitment announcements have appeared in The New York Times in the past seven years -- now many of the featured couples are coming together to commemorate Stonewall.

  • Forty Under 40: Media

    Ariel Foxman heads up an impressive list of out media professionals that includes Ariel Levy, Benoit Denizet-Lewis, Air Shapiro, Josh Rubin, and Rachel Maddow.

  • View From the Hill

    Washington debates hate crimes and a slew of ads -- bad, good, and campy -- hit the airwaves on both sides of the same-sex marriage issue.

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Military
  • A Few Good Men

    In honor of Veteran's Day, two of the most famous gay vets -- Frank Kameny and Dan Choi -- share their letters from Uncle Sam.

  • AMA: Repeal DADT

    America’s largest organization of physicians and medical students has issued declarations against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy and state same-sex marriage bans.

  • Marine General Balks at DADT Repeal

    Marine Corps commandant James Conway has emerged as the Pentagon's most outspoken opponent of repealing the ban on out gay and lesbian military personnel.

  • Sailor Speaks Out

    Sailor Joseph Rocha endured years of hazing until he spoke out — then he was discharged for revealing his homosexuality. Nonetheless, the 23-year-old is itching to suit back up.

  • Caught in the Crossfire

    Since it was implemented in 1994, “don’t ask, don’t tell” has ended the careers of more than 13,000 service members—men and women who served their country honorably, yet fell casualty to discriminatory policy. For discharged soldiers and other gay veterans, it’s a painful legacy.

     

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Obituaries
  • HIV Activist Howard Jacobs Dies at 45

    HIV/AIDS activist and West Hollywood City Hall staffer Howard Jacobs died Thursday morning after a two-decade battle with HIV. He was 45.

  • View From Washington: Ted Kennedy

    Sen. Ted Kennedy's unfaltering devotion to the LGBT community during the AIDS crisis typified the wealth of humanity he offered to all.

  • Tweeting the Jackson Funeral

    Of the millions who tried to get tickets to Michael Jackson's gigantic funeral, Advocate News Editor Andrew Harmon was one of the few to actually win a pair. He kept us posted through the day with Tweets from the Staples Center.

  • Remembering Ron

    When Continental Flight 3407 crashed in upstate New York, it claimed the life of local hero and gay rights activist Ron Gonzalez -- beloved by family, friends, and total strangers.

  • Looking Back on Lawrence King

    One year after the death of Lawrence King, GLSEN Executive Director Eliza Byard takes a look at what's being done in schools to stop the bullying and start a conversation.

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People More People
Pride More Pride
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Technology
  • The Advocates: Shades of Blu

    Blu-ray choices, Blu-ray DVD picks, body composition scale

  • The Advocates: California Dreaming

    Faster Ferraris, speed trap app, close shaver

  • The Advocates: Palm Pilots

    There have been so many advances in palm-sized video cameras lately -- not the least of which are the pint-sized price tags -- that there's no excuse not to get in on the hi-res fun. Here are three of our favorites.

  • Apple's Gay Poster Boy

    San Francisco's Steve Demeter has gone from Wells Fargo employee to independently wealthy game designer in less than a year thanks to a $5 iPhone game called Trism.

  • Pixelated Pride

    One of the world's biggest gaming communities toasts its LGBT members for a Pride celebration.

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Transgendered
  • Crime Lab Fails S.F. Trans Women

    Though DNA evidence has identified a murder suspect, a failure to process the evidence quickly left him free to allegedly brutalize three other trans women.

  • Fixing Corrections

    As a U.K. court moves to protect its MTF inmates from rape and assault, America’s transgender prisoners continue to suffer.

  • Fort Worth Bans Trans Discrimination

    The Fort Worth City Council voted on Tuesday to expand its antidiscrimination ordinance to include transgender people.

  • Trans Rights Rock Cleveland City Council

    More than 2,500 postcards were delivered to the Cleveland City Council meeting Monday night, urging members to support transgender rights legislation.

  • No Trans Workers at Senate ENDA Hearing

    The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions will hold its first-ever hearing on a transgender-inclusive Employment Non-Discrimination Act on Thursday at 10 a.m.

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Youth
  • Learning Curves

    Brazil takes a leap forward with a government-backed “school of gay arts,” where students learn about wig preparation, costume creation, stand-up routines, and lip synching.

  • Unrest at UCLA

    Police in riot gear, students laying in the streets -- sounds like the UCLA of the 1960s. But with rising costs and slashed LGBT history courses, is holding the UC Board of Regents captive a necessary move for gay students?

  • Church Opens Doors for Homeless Gay Teens

    A church-turned-shelter for homeless youth in Queens, New York is a far cry from sleeping on the streets after a $200,000 renovation and a partnership with the Ali Forney Center for LGBT youth.

  • Prom Returns With Lesbian Couple

    A north Alabama school district may allow a high school student to bring her girlfriend to the prom after initially canceling the event.


  • Judge Allows Teens to Play Gay

    A Nevada judge ruled on Tuesday that a high school theater class should not be blocked from performing The Laramie Project and the musical Rent.

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