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Trans icon Candy Darling's story is coming to the big screen

Fifty years after her death, the legendary actress and Andy Warhol museis having a moment — and we’re so here for it.

Underground Icon Taylor Mead Dies

The elfin poet and Andy Warhol superstar is dead at 88.

Hot Sheet: An Italian Loose Cannon

The top 10 entertainment highlights on our gaydar this week: The fashionable life of Halston is remembered, Justin Vivian Bond evokes Warhol superstar Jackie Curtis, Neil Patrick Harris plays host to Oprah, and more.

She Walked on the Wild Side: R.I.P. Holly Woodlawn

Lou Reed sang about her, Andy Warhol filmed her, and most recently she appeared in Jill Soloway's Transparent. 

Laverne Cox and Twin to Headline NYC's GenderFluid Fest

The transgender arts festival will also include appearances by Kate Bornstein, Ian Harvie, Bianca Leigh, and Holly Woodlawn.

Scavullo and the great ones

Openly gay photography legend Francesco Scavullo shot every great celebrity for decades: Grace, Liz, Janis, Liza, Barbra, Brooke, Cindy, Bowie, and on and on and on up to the present day. By the time he died at age 82 on January 6, he was not only a chronicler of the great ones, he had long since become one himself.

Where the Boys Aren't

Finding old-school gay shame is more difficult than ever. Even at Christmas.

Midnight Cowboy, Andy Warhol, Hustlers and a Feminist

In this exclusive excerpt, the author of Sexplosion! From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange: How a Generation of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos tells us how Midnight Cowboy's party sequence and a gunshot from Valerie Solanas helped make Joe Dallesandro a gay icon.

Hall of Fame Part Two

Any celebration of the The Advocate's founding in 1967 must honor the LGBT rights heroes that we've covered for 45 years. With one honoree named per year, the list will be announced in segments and culminate in an event in Los Angeles this month.

It's the Right Time, Right Place, for HBO's Out List

Timothy Greenfield-Sanders brings us The Out List, an eloquent and moving meditation on LGBT identity. His timing couldn't be better.

18 Stars Who Prove Queer People Can Rock

Think LGBT pop stars make only dance music? Think again!

60 Music Videos That Raised LGBT Visibility

LGBT artists and allies have been creating compelling music videos about our lives for decades.

From Stonewall to the White House: Mark Segal's Gripping Memoir

Mark Segal recounts his amazing life in activism in his new memoir, And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality. Read an exclusive excerpt below.

Famous Moments On the Wrong Side of History

One day we will laugh at the freak out over marriage equality. After all, the zipper frightened people to death at one time, too. Here are some historic lows of paranoid impediments to progress.

A Gay Photographer Rediscovered

Jack Robinson photographed some of the most iconic figures in entertainment in the 1960s and '70s. Then he disappeared.

Rare Warhol Film at MOMA

San Diego Surf is one of two movies Warhol made in California, and one of the last films made with his direct involvement.

Interview Magazine: A View on the Inside

Warhol distributed his little magazine by hand until the whole world wanted it. Jeff Yarbrough writes about the frivolity and celebrity-stalking back in the golden days.