April 18 2006 12:00 AM ET
Dying at BYU
A symbolic die-in to honor the many gay Mormons who have committed suicide gets two dozen Equality Ride protesters arrested on the campus of Brigham Young University. It also sends an important message.
April 18 2006 12:00 AM ET
Chance encounter in Va.
Our young activist diarist learns something from an unexpected encounter outside a Panera Bread eatery in Warrenton, Va.
April 14 2006 12:00 AM ET
What's in a trans name?
Transsexual? Cross-dresser? Gender-queer? Under the “transgender” umbrella are a range of people who deal with gender identity and gender expression in nontraditional ways. A primer on who’s who. Part 2 of The Advocate’s ongoing transgender series
April 13 2006 12:00 AM ET
The GOP's antigay pitch to blacks
The Republican Party is reaching out to African-American voters with a pitch that hones in on their presumed homophobia. The party’s blatantly antigay “misinformation campaign” is detailed in a new report from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
April 12 2006 12:00 AM ET
The first seven out of 569 miles
This Southern California soccer mom and lesbian is now on the road, walking the coastline from San Diego to San Francisco to raise LGBT visibility. This is the first of her dispatches from the road.
April 11 2006 12:00 AM ET
We 55 respectfully disagree
In an “open letter” to The Advocate and to LGBT people everywhere, more than four dozen prominent activists of color take issue with Jasmyne Cannick’s commentary calling for LGBT equality to take priority over rights for illegal immigrants. Quoting Audre Lorde, they remind us, “There is no hierarchy of oppression.”
April 10 2006 12:00 AM ET
Immigration is an LGBT issue
Christine Chavez, former UFW California political director and granddaughter of the late civil rights leader Cesar Chavez, says gays and lesbians everywhere stand to gain by working together for the rights of immigrants
April 10 2006 12:00 AM ET
It's all about our children
State lawmakers across the country are proposing new bans on adoption by gays and lesbians. That makes the work of the Family Pride Coalition all the more challenging—and necessary
April 10 2006 12:00 AM ET
She's #1
With her first Grand Slam title, Amélie Mauresmo becomes the top-ranked woman player in the world
April 10 2006 12:00 AM ET
Mo'Nique
It’s a man’s world, but for gay men, it would be nothing without a big, fabulous black woman. Queen of comedy Mo’Nique sees this relationship as symbiotic and mutual, so the big-boned star of the new romantic comedy Phat Girlz rang up The Advocate to share a few belly laughs and a whole lotta love.
April 10 2006 12:00 AM ET
Family guy
Todd Parr translates a kid’s-eye point of view into a successful career in children’s literature and TV
April 10 2006 12:00 AM ET
Validated vows
Commentary 961 2006-04-25 2006-04-10 Validated vows The Reverend Jane Spahr The Reverend Spahr directs That All May Freely Serve, a group lobbying for ordination of gay and lesbian
April 10 2006 12:00 AM ET
Outspoken: Justin Lerner
Commentary 961 2006-04-25 2006-04-10 Outspoken: Justin Lerner Lerner is 23 and lives in St. Louis. As I drove by the First Evangelical Free Church ne
