Maggie Griffin: Out of the Box
The reality television star, boxed-wine aficionado, and new author opens up about drinking with Betty White, her “boyfriend” Bill O’Reilly, and why she supports gay rights.
Coming Out to Parents
Book excerpt: In Ex-Gay No Way, author, educator, and speaker Jallen Rix recalls "the tidal wave of fear and shock" his parents experienced when they learned he was gay.
High School Harassment
Book excerpt: From the Closet to the Courtroom reveals the human story behind five lawsuits that advanced the LGBT movement. Here, a gay Wisconsin teenager is repeatedly victimized as school officials look the other way.
How Nellie Oleson Became an AIDS Activist
Book excerpt: In her memoir, Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, Alison Arngrim (Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie) reveals how the death of her TV husband from AIDS complications spurred her to become an activist.
Living the High Life
Book excerpt: In his candid, often startling memoir Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man, Bill Clegg reveals his journey from happy, successful literary agent to free-falling cocaine addict.
Remembering Peter Orlovsky
Directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman remember fondly their time spent with the late Peter Orlovsky while preparing to make Howl, their movie based on Allen Ginsberg's life, which opens in September.
Kinsey’s Gay Entrée
Book excerpt: In the biography Glenway Wescott Personally, author Jerry Rosco chronicles the colorful life of the unjustly ignored gay writer who was a peer of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Stein. In this excerpt Wescott assists sex researcher Alfred Kinsey with introductions to gay parties in New York.
There's a New Hunk in Riverdale
Archie, Veronica, Jughead, and Reggie have a new friend who's handsome, smart, and gay. Archie Comics CEO Jon Goldwater talks to The Advocate about what's in store for Riverdale's newest resident, Kevin Keller.
“Empty Apartment, Dance Naked”
Book excerpt: In Robin and Ruby, author K.M. Soehnlein revisits the characters from his best seller The World of Normal Boys as Robin MacKenzie waits for his life to start during one hot summer weekend in the 1980s.
Molly Ringwald: Pretty in Print
Former teen queen and first-time author Molly Ringwald marvels at the abundance of gay characters in her life and the absence of gay characters in her John Hughes movies like The Breakfast Club and Sixteen Candles.









