No, Canada hasn’t launched a suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ+ Americans
The internet rumor is false, but there are still resources available for people in crisis.
April 29, 2025
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Keeping It 'Real'
MTV's The Real World has been a reality television staple for almost 20 years. For its new Brooklyn season, the show is upping the LGBT ante -- a gay man, a trans woman, a girl who's dated girls but is now seeing a guy, and an allegedly straight virgin who pings the gaydar more than Ryan Seacrest at a Jonas Brothers concert.
December 15, 2008
'Game of Thrones' Hunk Cast as Aquaman
Rumors that Jason Momoa will be diving into the role of Auqaman in the Batman vs. Superman feature film have begun swimming through the internet.
June 16, 2014
GOP Lawmaker Retracts Claim Students Were Self-Identifying as Cats
The state senator repeated the rumor during a televised debate before backtracking hours later.
March 31, 2022
Cambridge Analytica Discussed Using Gay Rumors as Election Ploy
An undercover investigation is only adding to trouble for Cambridge Analytica after a gay whistleblower exposed how the firm secretly used Facebook data.
March 20, 2018
Marcia Cross: Desperate rumors
It's the little rumor that could: "Marcia Cross is coming out in The Advocate!" Here's how mainstream media gossips took an anonymous Internet posting and had many people believing it--until the Desperate Housewives star herself was forced to deny it
March 15, 2005
How they handled the gay rumor
Marcia Cross is not alone: Many celebrities have had gay rumors swirl about them.
March 15, 2005
Reports of Jussie Smollett Faking Attack Denounced by Fox, Chicago PD
Sources say Smollett may have faked the beating because he was being fired from Empire, but Fox, the Chicago PD, and Smollett push back.
February 14, 2019
Bradley CooperA Look Back At Peoples Sexiest Man
Bradley Cooper once told The Advocate that he thinks the gay rumors about him are "awesome" and "fantastic."
November 17, 2011
Lauren Boebert's 'probe' into alien colonies & human hybrids is getting hilariously mocked on X
If only the Republican congresswoman would phone home and get out of politics.
November 16, 2024
Fiona Apple
Fiona Apple has a reputation as a maverick. She won a Grammy for her 1997 hit "Criminal," yet that same year proclaimed "This world is bullshit" to the record industry at MTV's Video Music Awards. More recently, she sparked controversy when her album-in-progress was leaked on the Internet, sparking rumors of label squabbles. We caught up with the very down-to-earth Apple just before the start of her summer tour promoting Extraordinary Machine.
July 3, 2006
Sherman Hemsley Still Unburied, Pending DNA Test
The body of the late star of The Jeffersons remains refrigerated in an El Paso, Texas, mortuary, while a man alleging he is Hemsley's brother awaits results of a court-ordered DNA test.
September 26, 2012
What People's Obsession With Hillary's 'Health' Says About Them
How little we've evolved from the Salem witch trials over 300 years ago.
September 19, 2016
Shea Couleé Talks New Music, Drag Legacy, and Why She's Retiring by 40
The RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars winner opens up on the LGBTQ&Apodcast.
March 3, 2020
Bradley Cooper Still Down With Gay Rumors
The Advocate's candid interview with Bradley Cooper goes viral again seven months later.
January 11, 2010