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Here’s the choice: 957 pages of My Life by Bill Clinton or 22 essays drawn from the quirky life of David Sedaris? Bergdorf Blondes or Donna Brazile’s Cooking With Grease? The Advocate’s news features editor picks the best summer books to save gay readers from literary hell. By Chad Graham 
African-American gays and lesbians are too often left out in the battle for equal marriage rights—an oversight that makes “mainstream” gay groups as guilty of elitism as our enemies on the Right. It’s not too late to come together. By Jasmyne Cannick 
Our career coach offers advice to a professional who feels unfulfilled by his not-for-profit job and another who has relocation anxiety. By Ed Vladich 
Coming out to her sorority was the most terrifying thing possible, until she actually did it. An Advocate intern recounts the night she told her 80 sisters that she is a lesbian. By Ann Caldwell 
A Friendster encounter and a live performance reminds this Advocate.com contributor of the transcendental talent of out singer-songwriter Daniel Cartier, who has a new album and is on the road—this week, in San Diego, L.A., and San Francisco. By Michael Matson 
In an exclusive interview with Advocate.com, actress, radio personality, and dedicated activist Janeane Garofalo spouts off about the evils of the Republican Party, revolutionizing radio, and the joy of being mistaken as a lesbian. By Andrew Harmon 
The AIDS epidemic has been one of the two great holocausts of modern history, notes Larry Kramer, and Ronald Reagan chose to say nothing about it until the seventh year of his presidency. In all the early coverage of his death, why was this forgotten? Kramer, for one, is counting the bodies to mark the passing of the man he calls "Adolf Reagan"  
In his response to Larry Kramer’s just-published commentary on the former president, Advocate columnist Andrew Sullivan argues the facts and offers his own assessment of the Reagan administration’s response to the AIDS crisis. 
Vin Diesel has what it takes to wrap gay men and straight women around his not-so-little finger, and his latest romp, The Chronicles of Riddick, is fun, beautiful, and action-packed. By Charles Karel Bouley II 
In this excerpt from What Makes a Man: 22 Writers Imagine the Future, Rebecca Walker recalls her son’s worries about fitting in in the sixth grade, which led her to question how American society wages war on boys who aren’t butch enough. 
This month’s questions elicit advice on oral sex, what constitutes an orgasm, overcoming muscle cramps, and how to avoid the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases. By Dr. Susan C. Ball 
His anger shunted aside for the moment, our columnist reflects on the humanity of Mrs. Reagan’s final farewell to her husband. For the sake of Nancy’s grief, at least, the “silent monsters” who ignored AIDS have become human. Would they grant him the same courtesy? By Charles Karel Bouley 
Novelist and screenwriter Allison Burnett didn’t intend to be a closeted heterosexual. But when he wrote his first novel, Christopher, about a gay man’s seduction of his gorgeous straight neighbor, people made assumptions he didn’t always correct. By Allison Burnett
The debut film from out filmmaker Q. Allan Brocka imagines a world where being gay is no big deal and hooking up is all anyone is thinking about. By Ryan James Kim
Michael Airington nails the essence of the late, great Hollywood Squares comedian in “A Night With Paul Lynde,” a one-man show currently onstage in Los Angeles. By A. Ashley Hoff
Before becoming president, Ronald Reagan publicly opposed a law that would have barred gays and lesbians from teaching in California—a fight that was instrumental in forming the Log Cabin Republicans. Yet once in the White House he appeared to ignore the AIDS crisis for years. What happened? By Steven Harbaugh
College students born during the Reagan years ask: How could the president have done so little for so long while so many died? It wasn’t as simple as homophobia. It was politics. By Michael Bronski
Gay men and lesbians have renewed the longstanding debate about what impact Ronald Reagan's policies had on AIDS and gay rights. While some mark his early sympathy for gays, many continue to blame the late president for countless deaths and current antigay crusades. By Chad Graham
The Advocate’s high school correspondent recounts a story of two decidedly different students who don’t think gays and lesbians should be able to have children. But can minds be changed with just a little education? By Donny Coram
The LGBT community needs her inside political support, but does Mary Cheney have the courage to step outside of her father’s guarded garden? By Lincoln Rose
Four hours of American Idol finale-dom have our recapper on the floor, testing out his own rendition of “Summertime” and wondering just why Ryan Seacrest is so obsessed with Jim Verraros. And, oh yeah, they finally announce the winner. Surprise! By Q. Allan Brocka
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thirty-one Advocate readers share their marriage stories from San Francisco, New Mexico, Vancouver, and beyond By our readers
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
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
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 Gay libelous no more? A federal judge has ruled that being thought to be gay can no longer be considered a bad thing. By Jay Blotcher Bringing marriage to New Mexico Republican county clerk Victoria Dunlap will be out of a job in January, but until then she’ll fight for the rights of same-sex couples. By Christopher Lisotta There goes the gayborhood The urban renewal of Asbury Park, N.J., renews the debate: Can gay men and lesbians single-handedly transform bad neighborhoods? By Fred Kuhr  Ageless ambiguity Morrissey’s back with a new album, and longtime British fan and biographer Mark Simpson still wants him. By Dave White Just how far will Logo go? As MTV chief Tom Freston launches the first gay-themed basic-cable channel, viewers and marketers assess its PG-rated plan. By Greg Hernandez
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