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Exciting gay updates on 'The Office' spin-off 'The Paper'

Here's what gays have to look forward to in the new Peacock series.

Paper Trail: Signorile and Ratzinger

Sirius OutQ radio host Michelangelo Signorile's 1993 classic Queer in America includes a telling anecdote about Pope Benedict XVI, then known as Cardinal Ratzinger, the pope's point man on crushing gay rights.

Immigrant Parents Misled Into Signing Deportation Papers

Dozens of immigrant parents unknowingly agreed to be deported without their children.

Pentagon Papers Whistleblower Supports Bradley Manning

Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the documents that became known as "The Pentagon Papers" in 1971, will speak at a San Francisco rally in support of WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning.

Paper Trail: Information Overload

World-renowned author Daniel Tammet, in his second book, Embracing the Wide Sky, explores the human mind as only someone with his unique gifts can.

Paper Trail: How to Come Out

Celebrity publicist Howard Bragman has helped actors like Dick Sargent and athletes like Esera Tuaolo and John Amaechi come out of the closet. In an exclusive excerpt from his new book Where's My Fifteen Minutes (available this month from Penguin Press), he talks about how the process has changed over the years.

Paper Trail: Dirty Little Secret

In her latest book, Abortion & Life, bisexual author and activist Jennifer Baumgardner has compiled the stories of 15 women who discuss one of their most personal moments -- their abortions. In essays exclusive to Advocate.com resulting from the Abortion & Life book and film project, three women -- Dawn Lundy Martin, Jenny Egan, and Marion Banzhaf -- share their abortion stories.

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Paper Trail: The Religious Defense

In an excerpt from her new book, Bulletproof Faith: A Spiritual Survival Guide for Gay and Lesbian Christians, author Candace Chellew-Hodge incorporates the wisdom of Xena: Warrior Princess to illustrate her theories as to how gay and lesbian people of faith can protect themselves from those who attack their views.

Paper Trail: That '70s glow

An excerpt from Gay L.A., a remarkable and addictive queer history of the metropolis by Lillian Faderman and Stuart Timmons, traces the rise and racism of West Hollywood's iconic superdisco Studio One.

Paper Trail: Great American Couple

In an exclusive excerpt from his new book, Hollywood Bohemians: Transgressive Sexuality and the Selling of the Movieland Dream, Brett L. Abrams explores the relationship between Cary Grant and Randolph Scott, who led homosexual lives right under everyone's nose.

Paper Trail: A Love Like No Other

In a soulful excerpt from Neil Plakcy and Sharon Sakson's new book Paws and Reflect, writer Victor J. Banis remembers the time he shared with his beloved "girls."

Chicago Monthly Paper Threatens to Out Aldermen

In a bid to shut down ride-sharing, Chicago Dispatcher -- a monthly taxi newspaper -- threatens to out five city aldermen.

For Iowa Paper Bullying a Front Page Imperative

In its Sunday edition, the Sioux City Journal ran a full-page spread on bullying and its devastating consequences, with the headline, "We Must Stop Bullying. It Starts Here. It Starts Now."