February 13 2006 1:00 AM ET
Brokeback's big secrets
Was Jack really gay-bashed? Will Ennis love again? What was Heath Ledger’s inspired addition to the script? Screenwriters Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana take us inside their runaway hit
February 10 2006 1:00 AM ET
Idol thoughts...and rants
Singling out homophobia on American Idol overlooks the latest season’s most disturbing aspect—it’s just plain mean!
February 06 2006 1:00 AM ET
The right to roll
Will the White House find a way to stop over 100 gay- and lesbian-led families from participating in its annual Easter Egg Roll?
February 06 2006 1:00 AM ET
The state of our unions
The president mentioned gay and lesbian Americans in his State of the Union speech—for about eight seconds—but if you don’t have anything nice to say, Mr. President, please don’t say it at all!
February 03 2006 1:00 AM ET
Momentum in the movement
With more than 100 congressional cosponsors, the bill that will overturn the military's "don't ask, don't tell" is closer than ever to passing. Here's how that will happen
January 31 2006 1:00 AM ET
Covered Mountain
The author of Covering: The Hidden Assault on our Civil Rights sees the gay rights movement as a history of weakening demands for assimilation. So where does Brokeback fit in?
January 30 2006 1:00 AM ET
My hero from Georgia
The man who founded the country’s first national gay-straight alliance group says Kerry Pacer is a remarkable young woman who shines as an example for gay youths everywhere
January 30 2006 1:00 AM ET
The last battle
With increasing pressure on Congress to repeal “don’t ask, don’t tell,” a group of out veterans unveils a plan to bring conservatives to their side and win the right to serve
January 30 2006 1:00 AM ET
Closeted in plain sight
Yale law professor Kenji Yoshino talks about his new book, Covering, inspired by how gay people hide themselves in public—to the detriment of our fight for equality
January 30 2006 1:00 AM ET
Lord of illusion
Author and former Advocate columnist Norah Vincent on Self-made Man, her engrossing new book about passing as male for 18 months
January 30 2006 1:00 AM ET
Brokeback pyramid
Commentary 956 2006-02-14 2006-01-30 Brokeback pyramid By Bruce Vilanch People keep telling me there’s never been anything like Brokeback Mountain. But they’v
January 30 2006 1:00 AM ET
40+ years of Valentine's Days
Same-sex couples together more than four decades defined commitment years before today’s fight for marriage equality.
January 30 2006 1:00 AM ET
Peter Shalit
One gay man upset after Gene Shalit’s review of Brokeback Mountain on NBC’s Today show on January 5 was his gay son, Peter—only Peter was upset not because he disagreed (he’s used to that) but because he felt other gay people were misunderstanding his father. When the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued an alert demanding an apology for the review’s characterization of the Jack character as a “sexual predator,” Peter and his five straight siblings went to work to clear their dad’s name. An author and a physician with a mostly LGBT practice, Peter spoke from his office in Seattle.
