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P-town stops the wedding march for out-of-staters
Bowing to pressure from Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, Provincetown officials decided Wednesday to stop issuing marriage licenses to out-of-state gay couples. Read the full story>>>
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Whitney Houston, we have a problem
It’s music mogul Clive Davis’s week on American Idol, which means it’s really Whitney Houston Week. But will all those power ballads work for Fantasia? Can our flower-addicted columnist resist voting for Jasmine? And who is Diana again?
By Q. Allan Brocka

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SMALL SCREEN
From the closet to the boob tube
The first segment of a new Bravo miniseries, Out of the Closet, highlights groundbreaking moments in gay TV history. The Advocate’s reviewer notes how the show details the evolution of gay identity on our television screens
By Ann Caldwell

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SILVER SCREEN
Wooden horse, wooden acting
Advocate.com’s feisty reviewer deciphers Troy and finds it to be borderline soft-core porn and nothing more than a technological wonder.

By Charles Karel Bouley II

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COMMENTARY
Why conservatives should support marriage equality
President Bush isn’t wrong about “judicial activism,” this columnist argues, but that doesn’t make him right about same-sex marriage. In fact, Bush’s own pleas to Muslims to support his war on terror can be used to argue in favor of tolerance for gay weddings.
By Mark Goldblatt

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NEWS FEATURE
Gay students wage battle to be heard
Administrators at a high school in Salt Lake City say they were only upholding their school’s dress code when they banned an antismoking T-shirt that features the slogan “Queers Kick Ash.” But the students have a different story.
By John Caldwell

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NEWS FEATURE
The Real Jail: Kansas City
Out Real World Miami star Dan Renzi tells all about his recent arrest for indecent exposure in an adult movie theater in an exclusive Advocate.com interview.
By Anderson Jones

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FIRST PERSON
My first time
Single and feeling blue, a young gay man recalls the flush and blush of his first crush—only to realize his memories are far from warm and fuzzy.
By Trent J. Koland

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FAMILY MATTERS
This price is right
An ordinary day takes on new meaning when this lesbian mom stops by the town clerk’s office to cross an unordinary errand off her list: paying for her civil marriage ceremony.
By Lisa Eisenbud

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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

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.
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Chicago’s lesbian leader
Deborah Mell is trying to convince Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to support same-sex marriage—after all, he is her brother-in-law. By Lisa Neff      

CONTENTS OF THE CURRENT ISSUE
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NEWS
More Michael
Six Feet Under
star Michael C. Hall took time to share these great stories you won’t read anywhere else—even in the pages of The Advocate. Here Hall talks about getting inside the heart of a gay man who’s homophobic, pulling his weight in the show’s brilliant ensemble, and falling in love with his wife, fellow actor Amy Spanger.
By Anne Stockwell  
ARTS
Chicago’s lesbian leader
Deborah Mell is trying to convince Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich to support same-sex marriage—after all, he is her brother-in-law.
By Lisa Neff
Baldwin’s new battle

Capitol Hill’s only openly lesbian lawmaker preps for a tough reelection. If only she knew who she was running against.
By Adele Stan     
 
ARTS
Patience is a virtue
At peace with his sexuality, George Michael produces his best and gayest record ever.
By Charles Karel Bouley II 
Suave. Sophisticated. Gay?

Five DVDs and a new documentary on TCM recall the continuing allure—and mystery—of Cary Grant.
By David Ehrenstein 

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COLUMNS
Aunties and uncles
My Perspective guest columnist
John Tyler Connoley remembers the sense of extended family he knew as a child growing up in South Africa and how he and his partner embrace a meaning of family that is expansive enough to include the whole world. 
Choosing the lesser evil
Generation Q guest columnist
Owen O’Brien admits that “John Kerry might not be a poster boy for gay rights, but in this choice of two evils he isn’t the one trying to set us back 100 years in the fight for equality.” 
Weapons of mass homophobia

For weeks we have been pummeled with images of homosexual acts used as a tactic to humiliate and torture Iraqi prisoners. Such atrocities, writes
Patrick Moore, arise directly from the vicious demonization of gay people in our society, from the White House on down. 
Forever

R Family columnist
Rosie O’Donnell experiences a variety of reactions upon her return home in Nyack, N.Y., after her high-profile marriage to partner Kelli in San Francisco. 
 
THE ADVOCATE POLL
Election 2004
Will President Bush's vocal opposition to equality hinder the election of out gay candidates in 2004?

 
HEADLINESHEADLINES
Late Breaking News

P-town stops issuing licenses to nonresident couples
Group starts contest to get America to say "I do" to gay marriage
Australian government bans same-sex marriages
News

Arizona high court upholds same-sex marriage ban
More Massachusetts towns issue marriage licenses to out-of-state gay couples
Araujo's family seeks posthumous name change
Republican senators urged to promote marriage ban
Same-sex marriage opponents seek to remove Massachusetts justice
N.M. county clerk faces permanent restraining order for issuing marriage licenses
Antigay protesters claim unfair treatment in Tennessee
Entertainment

Logo won't be the only player in gay cable sweepstakes
Health

Aspirin may cut breast cancer risk
Military revamps HIV testing policy
Pittsburgh AIDS Walk comes to a close
South Africa in another dispute with global AIDS fund
Events

West Hollywood's Abbey to host marriage ceremonies on June 1
Dance Divas fund-raiser in Chicago, June 3
Works by out artist Tim Tate on display in Bethesda, Md., through June 8
"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
Gay Mafia comedy troupe performs "Out of Wedlock" in West Hollywood, Calif., through June 26
Lambda Legal commemorates one-year anniversary of Lawrence case June 26 in Dallas
Museum of TV and Radio examines the history of gays on TV, through June 27
"Keith Haring at Work" on display at NYC's Pop Shop through June 27
Richard Kramer's Theater District to be onstage in Los Angeles through June 27
L.A. black gay pride set for July 1-4
Hedwig and the Angry Inch extended through July 11 in West Hollywood
Southern Baptist Sissies onstage in San Francisco through July 11
Revival of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart in New York through August

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