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13 LGBTQ+ films TCM is spotlighting for Pride Month

Out host Dave Karger and author Alonso Duralde take you through a wealth of films June 21 and 28.

'Hollywood Pride' tells you all you want to know about LGBTQ+ films and artists

Film historian and critic Alonso Duralde's new book offers a comprehensive view.

Memories of Heath

On the cusp of Brokeback mania, former Advocate editor Alonso Duralde spoke frankly with Heath Ledger for the magazine's January 17, 2006 cover story. Below is the interview in its entirety, along with Duralde's remembrances of the promising and conflicted actor.

Men on film

Leonard Maltin and The Advocate's Alonso Duralde talk about their new movie books, coming out just in time for stocking-stuffer season

Sundance Diary: The final countdown

On his last day in Park City, Advocate arts and entertainment editor Alonso Duralde has close encounters with lesbians--the television kind and the Mississippi kind--and amused bear icon Kevin Smith

Exclusive preview Heath speaks

In a gay-press exclusive, Brokeback Mountain's Heath Ledger spoke with The Advocate's Alonso Duralde for our January cover story, on sale December 20.

What I learned from Superman

With Superman Returns headed at us faster than a speeding bullet, Advocate arts and entertainment editor and lifelong comics fan Alonso Duralde looks at superheroes and their appeal to gays and lesbians

Violent Gay Protests at the Oscars: Could It Happen Again?

Furious over queer villains in The Silence of the Lambs, JFK, and Basic Instinct, activists clashed with police at the 1992 Academy Awards. Has representation changed enough since?

Frameline Kicks Off

Last night at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, the 33rd annual Frameline LGBT film festival kicked off to a packed house. The opening-night film -- An Englishman in New York , a sequel of sorts to The Naked Civil Servant -- this time follows Quentin Crisp in the later years of his life, after he had jumped the pond to Manhattan and become an American treasure, only later to become the scourge of the gay community for a time, following a remark he made about AIDS being a fad in the '80s.

50 Years Later, the Film 'Gay Deceivers' Is Still Very Gay, Very Bad

The Gay Deceivers was homophobic, juvenile, and, somehow, ahead of its time.

WATCH: 'Ex-Gay' Subject of James Franco's Film Grateful

Michael Glatze, played by Franco in I Am Michael, is happy to see his story on screen. But what's the film's stance on praying away the gay?

Looking's Legacy Surprised Even Its Creator

At the Looking movie’s Outfest screening, creator Michael Lannan and actor Daniel Franzese said they were proud the HBO show educated its audience about PrEP and HIV.

Gay Comic Artist Howard Cruse, Creator of 'Wendel,' Dies at 75

Cruse was best known for the strip "Wendel," which ran in The Advocate in the 1980s, and the lauded graphic novel Stuck Rubber Baby.

The queer side of Sundance

In this first of three installments, The Advocate's arts and entertainment editor takes us along on his whirlwind trip to the Sundance Film Festival. It's all about the movies, yes--and who you meet at brunch, or in the men's room.