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  • News Video Content Flag Whitney Houston Remembered Entertainment luminaries such as Ricky Martin, Barbra Streisand, Dolly Parton, Ellen DeGeneres, and Mariah Carey are sharing their condolences and memories with the family, friends, and fans of Whitney Houston, who died Saturday at age 48. More >
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  • Art Slideshow Flag Artist Spotlight: James Gobel James Gobel wanted his latest bear-centric work to be more cuddly. "An artwork that you could conceivably snuggle up to seemed a good place to start."
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  • Features Hot Sheet The top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: new music from Goldfrapp, forbidden love in a military academy, and Hollywood's most notorious bisexual pimp tells all about Hepburn, Tracy, Grant, and Leigh. More >
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  • News Rebecca Remake in the Works Alfred Hitchcock's only Oscar-winning best picture, with its subtext of sapphic love between the title character and her servant Mrs. Danvers, is being developed for a big screen redo. More >
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  • News Take a Photo Tour of John Waters's Home From inspirational bulletin boards to twisted Britney Spears and Michael Jackson figurines, see how the author-filmmaker-raconteur has decorated his Baltimore home. More >
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  • News Ricky Martin Has a Fan in Obama President Obama's Spotify playlist has been made public and the most powerful man in the world enjoys listening to Ricky Martin's "The Best Thing About Me Is You." More >
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  • Spectator Not Garden Variety After dazzling audiences with his award-winning Grey Gardens, film director Michael Sucsy branches out, just in time for Valentine's Day, with the romantic comedy-drama The Vow. More >
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  • News Lestat May Return to Big Screen Film rights to Anne Rice’s best seller The Tale of the Body Thief, the fourth in her Vampire Chronicles, have been optioned by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Entertainment. More >
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  • News Smash Third Highest Debut of Season NBC's heavily promoted musical drama about the the staging of a Broadway show about Marilyn Monroe premieres to huge ratings, winning its time slot in the coveted 18-49 demographic. More >
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  • News Jonathan Groff Joins Cast of TV's Boss The out actor, best known for his recurring role as villain-turned-good guy Jesse St. James on Glee, will join the second season of the Starz drama Boss. More >
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  • Best of Broadway Smash: Why You Will Love It Craig Zadan and Neil Meron, two of the producers of NBC’s new critically acclaimed musical series, explain why the backstage drama of creating a musical about Marilyn Monroe has mass appeal and why big stars like Anjelica Huston, Uma Thurman, Bernadette Peters, and Nick Jonas were eager to appear in it. More >
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  • News Video Content Flag WATCH: Ricky Martin Sings "Sexy And I Know It" Next week in television is one for the record books: Madonna performs during the Super Bowl Sunday, Monday brings the premiere of NBC's brilliant musical drama Smash, and then there's Tuesday, when Ricky Martin steams up Glee with his Spanglish take on LMFAO's hit "Sexy and I Know It." More >
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  • Features Hot Sheet The top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Madonna is everywhere, Smash is a blast, and Ricky Martin turns Glee into a fiesta. More >
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  • News Vote For Hottest NFL Superstar From out former players like Dave Kopay and Esera Tualo to just plain playas like Joe Namath, cast your vote for sexist footballers. More >
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  • News WATCH: Madonna Wants You to Step Into Her World Madonna urges you to step into her world filled with cheerleaders and football players with the release of her new single, "Give Me All Your Luvin'," and its accompanying video featuring Nicki Minaj and M.I.A. More >
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  • Best of Broadway John Carroll Takes a Bow The Broadway dancer recalls his bittersweet final moments appearing with Elaine Paige in the New York revival of Sondheim's Follies and his memorable encounter with Bernadette Peters at the cast party. More >
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  • Cover Stories Our Exclusive Madonna Interview Nearly 30 years into her reign as the greatest gay icon, Madonna is back in a big way with her new film, W.E., and her first studio album in four years, reminding us why so many adore her.
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  • News Video Content Flag Ricky Martin on Glee: First Look Say "gracias" to Ryan Murphy and anyone on the Glee team involved with the inspired decision to have superstar Ricky Martin  guest star as a musically-inclined night school teacher in an upcoming episode of the Fox hit. More >
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  • News Video Content Flag Dan Savage's It Gets Better Comes to MTV The It Gets Better Campaign, launched by Dan Savage in 2010 as a response to antigay bullying and teen suicide, is now an hour-long special with appearances by Zachary Quinto, Jake Shears, Chaz Bono, Margaret Cho, Sia, and Adam Levine. More >
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  • News Video Content Flag Outing Dead Celebrities Discussed on The View   "You shouldn't out someone when they're alive and you shouldn't out them when they're dead," says Elisabeth Hasselbeck, while discussing a new book about the secret sex lives of celebrities such as Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. More >
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  • People Video Content Flag Sacha Harding: Flattered by the Attention The rugged rugby star, recently voted Britain's Manliest Man, shares his thoughts on the honor, advice for athletes thinking about coming out, and how he felt posing nude for a gay magazine. More >
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  • News Weekend Named Best Film by Gay and Lesbian Critics Group The romantic drama Weekend; We Were Here, a searing chronicle of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco; and the haunted house series American Horror Story each took two honors in the Gay and Lesbian Critics Association's third annual Dorian Awards. More >
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  • Film Juno Temple: Girl Talk The fast-rising actress discusses the her movie Dirty Girl, the film’s positive message for LGBT teens, and making out with Elvis’s granddaughter in the lesbian werewolf tale Jack and Diane. More >
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  • Best of Broadway Broadway Boy Toy Performer John Carroll returns with more tales from the wicked stage and working with Bernadette Peters, Elaine Paige, and Stephen Sondheim on the revival of Follies. More >
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  • Features Hot Sheet The top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Ricky Gervais skewers Hollywood's elite, Chris Evans (pictured) towels around, and James Franco performs a gay sex act. More >
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  • Spectator Close Encounter: Her Greatest Role Yet? Glenn Close, who's been dazzling audiences for years with her indelible performances as complicated women, may have found her greatest role yet as the title character in Albert Nobbs.
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  • News Video Content Flag WATCH: James Dean Hustles For Fame The pre-fame years of immortal screen star James Dean, including his liaisons with helpful gentlemen in the entertainment industry, are chronicled in an upcoming film Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean. More >
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  • News 30 Rock Will Address Tracy Morgan Incident The controversy that followed Tracy Morgan's alleged homophobic comedy routine last summer in Nashville has inspired the plot of an upcoming episode of his NBC sitcom 30 Rock. More >
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  • Music Doris Day: New Album, Fond Memories In a rare interview, the reclusive, iconic entertainer discusses her new album, My Heart; her friendship with Rock Hudson; and her status as an unlikely feminist role model. More >
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  • Features Slideshow Flag Whatta Man-crush!

    From Chris Evans and Bradley Cooper to Paul Rudd and John Stamos, our favorite male celebrities confess their same-sex attractions and obsessions exclusively to The Advocate.

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  • News Video Content Flag It's Time Actor Blown Away By Response Actor Julian Shaw says the creators of the popular It's Time marriage equality ad have been "blown away by the response"and he considers his part in it an actor's dream role. More >
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  • News Video Content Flag Will Bette Midler Talk About the Continental Baths? For his upcoming documentary on New York's legendary/notorious Continental Baths, filmmaker Malcolm Ingram has offered to donate $5,000 to Bette Midler's favorite charity if she'll agree to be interviewed about the years she performed there. More >
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  • Features Slideshow Flag Who’s That Girl Crush? From Helen Mirren and Nicole Kidman to Amy Poehler and Tori Spelling, our favorite female celebrities confess their same-sex attractions and obsessions exclusively to The Advocate. More >
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  • News Mart Crowley on His Friend Natalie Wood The Boys in the Band playwright Mart Crowley discusses the investigation into the 1981 death of his close friend Natalie Wood and disputes claims that her husband, Robert Wagner, was responsible.
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  • Features Sean Maher: Family Man Actor Sean Maher reveals how he found serenity when fatherhood caused him to open up about his sexual orientation and his family life. More >
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Best of Broadway
  • SlideshowFlag  The Advocate Staff Remembers: Best of BroadwayThe staff of The Advocate turns back the pages of time and shares their favorite Broadway memories. We asked for yours earlier so it only seemed fair that we share, too.
  • Sometimes a Hat Makes a Big DifferenceWho has the best Easter bonnet? It's just another of the unexpected ways that Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS raises money for the cause.
  • Dressing Felicia: Priscilla's Costume Designer Talks ShopCostume designer Tim Chappel shares private sketches with The Advocate of his work on The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and gives the behind-the-scenes scoop on that flip-flop dress.
  • How Broadway Does a Flea MarketFind out why actress Kathleen Chalfant calls the annual Flea Market and Grand Auction in Times Square "the most glamorous flea market you've ever seen." It raised half a million dollars to fight HIV/AIDS.
  • SlideshowFlag  You Picked: Broadway's Best MomentsWe asked for your most loved and loathed moments from the Broadway stage. Here are eight of our reader's favorite musical moments, plus two that were not so well received.
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Dance
  • Dear Diary, in DanceChoreographer Sean Dorsey uncovers the lives of a gay transgender pioneer in a deeply felt suite of modern dances.
  • Travis Wall Is the King of Dance A gay contestant turned choreographer and judge on So You Think You Can Dance, Travis Wall is up for an Emmy Award for his work on the show and has a new reality series, King of Dance.
  • SlideshowFlag  The Innovators: Great Gay Moments in 20th-Century DanceThese LGBT artists and producers broke away from the rigidity of 19th-century forms by taking daring steps for freedom of the body and open sexual expression. Part 1.
  • Stephen Petronio's Dance Revolution

    Controversial choreographer Stephen Petronio caps his eponymous company’s 25th anniversary season by revisiting his ACT UP involvement and putting his bare-assed male dancers back in corsets.

  • The Music and the Mirror

    The dancer, the gay guy, and the tits and ass girl get the star treatment in Every Little Step, a backstage look at a backstage musical, A Chorus Line, out now on DVD.


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DVDs
  • Hot SheetThe top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Johnny Weir gets read, Varla Jean Merman lets loose, Ryan O’Connor eats Oprah, and Showtime gets Shameless.
  • Hot SheetGarrett Hedlund becomes a star with Tron,Nicole Kidman gets back to her acting roots, Real Housewife Kandi is koated, and Emma Stone scores an A.
  • The Hot Sheet Helen Mirren stirs up a storm, Angelina and Johnny fail to create sparks, and Erasure stands up against bullies in this week's Hot Sheet.
  • The Hot SheetJim Carrey and Ewan McGregor go gay, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis face off, Duffy's blue-eyed soul returns, and it's back to The Beginning for the Black Eyed Peas.
  • The Hot Sheet This week Cher dazzles, Xtina debuts, Gyllenhaal strips, a Peruvian love story haunts, and buzzed-about Nicki Minaj finally delivers.
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Features
  • Hot SheetThe top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Madonna is everywhere, Smash is a blast, and Ricky Martin turns Glee into a fiesta.
  • Hot SheetThe top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Glenn Close buttons up, RuPaul revs his engine, and Richard Nixon's alleged secret is revealed.
  • The Gay Male Couple’s Guide to Nonmonogamy
     
    When it comes to opening up a relationship, two men are best served by clear communication and mutually agreed-upon boundaries, experts say.
  • Hot SheetThe top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Brad Goreski (pictured) goes solo, Leslie Jordan reflects, Pee-wee is revealed, and Eddie and Patsy make a welcome return.
  • Hot SheetThe top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: Dieux du Stade studs survive 2012, Michael Fassbender shamefully scores, Kylie Minogue leads a live locomotion, Lady Bunny ain’t no lady, and more.
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Project Runway
  • No-hit Wonders

    Music and fashion go together like Lindsay and Sam, but no one told the Project Runway kids that news.

  • Sidekick of Doom

    Joe phones home this week on Project Runway. That’s how you know he’s going back there before the episode’s over.

  • Diane von Furstenberg’s Googly Eyes

    She has them, in case you didn’t know. She used them on Blayne. They had a moment. Look, Blayne said so, that’s why.

  • Rubbing Elbows, Making Art

    Project Runway winner Christian Siriano captivated audiences across the country with his cutting bluntness and unquestionable talent. Love him or hate him, the young designer is certainly, to use his own word, "fierce."

  • And the Winner Is...

    Christian. But you knew that already. Here’s how it went down on the season finale of Project Runway

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Style
  • Mario Lopez Shows Off With Rated MThe former Saved by the Bell star chats with The Advocate about underwear, his hippest fans, and a gay cinematic classic.
  • Is Barbie's New Man Ellen DeGeneres?The iconic doll has a new fairy secret.
  • Artist Spotlight: Richard HainesRichard Haines makes it look so easy and effortless that you want to try it yourself. His very popular fashion work, erotica, and portraits are deceptively simple and sensitive at the same time.
  • Canine CoutureSparkly accessories, witty T-shirts, and cute capes — New York's Pet Fashion Week let the dogs run the show. Check out the photos.
  • The Spectacular Derek J
    After making a splash in Good Hair and on The Real Housewives of Atlanta, fantasy hair creator Derek J. kicks up his heels at the judges table for Hair Battle Spectacular. 
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Opera
  • Opera Company: We're Not HomophobicRichard Mantle of England’s Opera North says homophobia was not the reason for canceling a new opera featuring a gay character, but show’s librettist, Billy Elliot creator Lee Hall, remains unconvinced.
  • Opera Pulled Over Gay ContentAn opera company in England has canceled the premiere of a new opera by Billy Elliot creator Lee Hall because of objections to gay content.
  • Hell, and other operatic delights From consumption to the Grand Inquisition, our intrepid opera critic risks damnation to bring us his survey of the L.A. Opera season.
  • Opera and beyond! Advocate.com's itinerant opera critic recounts recent encounters with diva Susan Graham, legend Kitty Carlisle Hart, and Los Angeles Opera productions of Strauss and Verdi.
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Powered by Women
  • Poetry In Motion: Lesbians Take Their Words on TourA group of black lesbians share their experiences through a multi-city celebration of poetry. Meet them and their message.
  • SlideshowFlag  Artist Spotlight: Dwora FriedFried has captured miniature operas and intimate moments in her boxed assemblages. At first they seem wondrous and playful, but take a closer look.
  • Before “Born This Way”The Advocate counts down 13 other great LGBT empowerment anthems that preceded Lady Gaga’s latest.
  • Kelly McGillis Is Not a Role ModelPlaying a nun on the run in the post-apocalyptic vampire flick Stake Land, Kelly McGillis explains why she won’t read fan mail, shouldn’t write her memoirs, and doesn’t care to be a lesbian inspiration.
  • Women on the Verge: Part OneThese entrepreneurs, activists, politicians, artists, and athletes are much more than ahead of the curve, they're out, proud, and changing the world.
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