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Stories of abuse by American soldiers stun the world
Former Iraqi prisoners detained at Abu Ghraib prison (pictured) in Baghdad tell of the abuse they suffered at the hands of American soldiers, including forced gay sexual situations. Read the full story>>>
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SMALL SCREEN
Jasmin and me
Our American Idol chronicler meets his favorite contestant at a salad bar only days before Big Band Night allows the remaining divas to woo gay fans with cover versions of Garland, Streisand, and Queen. Oh yeah, and he met Diana too. Her mom made sure.
By Q. Allan Brocka

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Q & A
Mothers know best
Never know just what to say to your mom on Mother’s Day? Out author Taro Gold’s new book, The Tao of Mom, has 365 answers. In a brief Q&A, Gold offers a few more pearls of wisdom just for gays and lesbians.
By Bruce C. Steele

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FIRST PERSON
Love and marriage: oh, how intoxicating
A breakdown at the altar, free booze, and sexual tension at a lesbian wedding give one gay man hope in finding his own true love
By Trent J. Koland

COMMENTARY
ImageVirginia is not for GLBT lovers
Virginia’s antigay legislature recently passed a law to keep gay and lesbian couples from sharing any of the benefits that should come with long-term partnership. Now the state’s only openly gay lawmaker speaks out against the move.
By Adam Ebbin

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THEATER REVIEW
Best friends forever!
Writer-performers Mindy Kaling and Brenda Withers skewer celebrity relationships in their off-Broadway hit, Matt & Ben, now onstage in Los Angeles. But will showbiz outsiders appreciate the show’s pop-culture lingo?
By Anderson Jones

NEWS FEATURE
Scenes from a gay Republican convention
President Bush’s endorsement of a proposed constitutional ban on same-sex marriage has the Log Cabin Republicans united against his move, but many at the organization’s national convention said they will still vote for him.
By John Caldwell

COMMENTARY
Beyond the marriage debate
In 1996, when John Kerry was one of the few U.S. senators to oppose the antigay federal Defense of Marriage Act, he wrote for The Advocate a passionate column on the civil rights struggle for gay and lesbian equality. That article is reprinted here.
By Sen. John F. Kerry

COMMENTARY
Youths break their silence
In Chicago for the national Day of Silence, the event’s founder wishes all gay and lesbian adults--who often think today’s kids are apathetic--could see how brave and motivated many LGBT youths really are. By Kevin Jennings, Executive Director, the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network


SMALL SCREEN
Queer eye for the Nazi guy
A new Cinemax documentary from Party Monster filmmakers Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato explores the sexuality of Hitler. But can it make the case that the Führer was a fairy?
By Ryan MacDonald

FIRST PERSON
Not without my children
For this lesbian mother, a recent episode of NBC’s ER made the fear of losing her children dramatically real, and it underlined what the marriage fight is really about
By Allison F. Bauer

FUNNY UNCLE
Am I too old for this shirt?
At 49 and 11/12, our columnist is desperately seeking role models who are smartly stylish, uniquely self-expressive, and...of a certain age. Nominees include Calvin Klein, Ian McKellen, and...Jeff Stryker?
By Christopher Harrity

COMMENTARY
Curious George speaks
President Bush’s press conference left our columnist angry but also reassured that there’s light at the end of the tunnel for gay and lesbian Americans
By Charles Karel Bouley II

LET'S GET TO WORK
Stars and gripes
Our career coach offers advice to an aspiring astrologist who struggles with “normalcy” and a facilities manager who’s done with the dirty work.
By Ed Vladich

FIRST PERSON
Tears of elation and frustration
Thirty-one Advocate readers share their marriage stories from San Francisco, New Mexico, Vancouver, and beyond
By our readers

COMMENTARY
Thanks for coming out
The onslaught of gay weddings is the endpoint in a long process of overcoming the closet. Because only once you’re willing to stand up to being labeled a “fag” can you demand equal access to a rite as conservative as marriage.
By David Ehrenstein

BOOK EXCERPT
The case for gay marriage
In an excerpt from his new book, Gay Marriage: Why It Is Good for Gays, Good for Straights, and Good for America, a gay journalist makes his case for the importance of marriage both for society and for gays and lesbians.
By Jonathan Rauch

Q & A
Chrissy Gephardt on the front lines
The openly lesbian daughter of former presidential candidate Dick Gephardt, who will be helping to bring gay voters to the polls in 2004, talks frankly about coming out, whether she will marry her partner, and why she feels no ill will toward Mary Cheney.
By Chad Graham

COMMENTARY
Dear God, it's me...and I'm gay
A holy father from the Old Catholic Church answers readers’ questions and offers advice about dealing with homosexuality within the context of traditional Christianity.
By Archbishop Bruce J. Simpson, Benedictine Order of St. John the Beloved (an Old Catholic order)

COMMENTARY
Talking points on marriage, part 2
In the second of Advocate.com’s series of “talking points” to counter arguments against same-sex marriage, we take on everything from “marriage exists only for procreation” to “doesn’t traditional marriage need to be protected?” By Mike Rush Talking points on marriage, part 1
In the first of Advocate.com’s series of “talking points” to counter arguments against same-sex marriage, we take on “civil unions are just as good” and “are you saying that mothers are irrelevant?”
By Ryan James Kim

FIRST PERSON
A gay goody-two-shoes goes swinging
When an innocent young gay man from Canada accidentally winds up at a swingers party in Vegas, he finds he’s the least adventurous person in the room. And that was before the lap dance
By Josh Murray

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Del and Phyllis get married
Longtime lesbian activists Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon talk about their lives before and after becoming the first same-sex couple to marry in San Francisco
By John Caldwell

STEELE BEARINGS
Scenes from a wedding
You’ve heard about the long lines, the rain, the mayor, the court decisions, the political fallout. In this account of his own San Francisco marriage, The Advocate’s editor in chief offers some glimpses of other revealing and intimate moments in an unprecedented point in history—and in his 17-year relationship.
By Bruce C. Steele

WELL WOMEN
Sex with someone you love
For the new year, the good doctor answers new questions about masturbation, herpes, sex toys, oral joys, and what happens when one partner loses her libido
By Susan Ball, M.D., MPH

THE INS & OUTS OF GAY SEX
Fear of sex
In his latest column, our gay-health specialist answers questions from a number of men whose problems are preventing them from having a healthy sex life, including an overriding fear of sexually transmitted diseases, impotence, ulcerative colitis, and a rare disease of the penis that’s not responding to treatment By Stephen E. Goldstone, MD 

ARCHIVES OF ADVOCATE.COM EXCLUSIVES
Archives for previous online reports, news stories, and commentaries are listed here.
NEWS
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The deal-breaker
Against the Current columnist Andrew Sullivan is no longer in the Bush camp following the president’s push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution barring gays from marriage.    

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NEWS
Censorship: The Big Chill
Paul Reubens: arrested for collecting vintage nude photos. Howard Stern: silenced for on-air speech. How a nationwide crackdown on “obscenity” could freeze out gay and lesbian expression for years to come. By Mike Hudson and Chad Graham  
ARTS
A majority leader comes out
Rhode Island legislator Gordon Fox decided to tell everyone why the battle for marriage equality in the Ocean State is personal.
By Christopher Lisotta 
Closeted in the capital

They’re powerful, Republican, and gay. Will the marriage battle finally get them to come out to their bosses?
By Tim Bergling     
 
ARTS
Measure of a man
The Opposite Sex,
a two-part Showtime documentary, begins with the gripping journey of trans man Rene Peña, a God-fearing, married truck driver.
By Christopher Lisotta 
Dead poets’ society

Three great gay poets live again on spoken-word CDs that let you read along.
By Michael Giltz 
Merritt’s multiple tracks

A new Magnetic Fields album and an opera are just a few of the new projects for composer Stephin Merritt.
By LD Beghtol 
 
 
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COLUMNS
For better, for worse, for us
My Perspective guest columnist and California state senator
Sheila Kuehl officiates at the weddings of six same-sex couples in San Francisco, and together they get a glimpse of true equality. 
Looking for queerer TV
Generation Q guest columnist
Billy LeSesne decries the lack of “cute, mushy, grade-school queer romances” on TV. 
Never a bride?
Minority Retort columnist
Alec Mapa shares in the joy—and disappointment—of his lesbian sister’s planned wedding at San Francisco City Hall. 
The deal-breaker

Against the Current columnist
Andrew Sullivan is no longer in the Bush camp following the president’s push for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution barring gays from marriage.   
THE ADVOCATE POLL
Censorship
Do you think the current crackdown on "obscenity" is likely to stifle gay content in the media?

 
HEADLINESHEADLINES
News

Iraqi prisoner charges that U.S. soldiers forced him into gay sex acts
N.J. authorities probe gay-bias claim
Southern Baptists condemn public schools as too gay-friendly
Focus on the Family seeks impeachment of pro-gay judge
Gay-friendly Coors heir plans run for Senate
Texas high school reverses stance on banning same-sex prom couples
Hundreds march for gay rights in Poland
Entertainment

Warner Bros. Pictures picks up rights to Rent
Jack & Bobby makes the WB's fall schedule
Wicked, I Am My Own Wife, Assassins likely to figure in Tony race
La Cage aux Folles revival headed for Broadway at the end of the year
Indian drag film, banned at home, premieres in U.K.
Health

Lawmakers urge Administration to boost ADAP spending
Frist AIDS event may violate campaign laws
PepsiCo CEO announces plan to develop AIDS policy
Illinois bill would allow HIV-positive people to donate organs
Researchers say abstinence model doesn't consider violence against women
Herpes vaccine test failing to draw volunteers
Events

Superstar in a Housedress premieres May 5-18 at New York's Film Forum
Anthony Rapp stars in Gompers in Pittsburgh, May 6-30
Mark Morris's Sylvia premieres in S.F. May 7
Battle for Marriage Equality forum in Chicago on May 7
Cahun and Moore exhibit in New York, May 7-28
Tim Miller's US in Los Angeles through May 8
Bad Boys Pool Party AIDS fund-raiser in Palm Springs, Calif., May 8
Stephen Pelton Dance Theater's September for Sale onstage in S.F. through May 9
One-night-only concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's Bounce, May 9 in NYC
Phylicia Rashad headlines Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS benefit in NYC, May 10
HIV microbicides and vaccines forum May 11 in Chicago
Sin: A Cardinal Deposed extended in Chicago through May 12
STD focus groups planned for African-American men in Chicago on May 13
Slava Mogutin photos on display in NYC through May 15
NGLTF launches night of marriage equality on May 16
All-female theater company produces School for Scandal in NYC through May 16
Varla Jean Merman's Under a Big Top in Los Angeles through May 16
Matt & Ben in L.A. with original cast through May 16
Panel discussion of the politics of gay marriage held in Encino, May 18
L.A. Forum on HIV/AIDS in the African-American community, May 21
Celebration Theatre presents Hedwig and the Angry Inch and The Laramie Project through May 23
Joe Orton's Loot onstage in Washington, D.C., through May 23
"Robert Indiana: Peace Paintings" on display in NYC through May 29
Revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart in New York through May 30
Pierre et Gilles exhibition at the Seoul Museum of Art through May 31
West Hollywood's Abbey to host marriage ceremonies on June 1
Dance Divas fund-raiser in Chicago, June 3
"Embrace!" fund-raiser for Matthew Shepard Foundation, June 14 in Miami Beach
Family Pride Coalition Weekend at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Fla., June 17-20
Micah Barnes performs Trash Circus in Santa Monica, June 18-19
"The Hot House: Three Plays in Rep" onstage in San Francisco through June 20
Museum of TV and Radio examines the history of gays on TV, through June 27
L.A. black gay pride set for July 1-4
Paul Rudnick's Valhalla onstage in NYC for extended run

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