Tag Archives: Advocate

HomoQuotable – Ken Mehlman

“Look, I have a lot of friends who ask questions and who are angry about it. I understand that folks are angry, I don’t know that you can change the past. As I’ve said, one thing I regret a lot is the fact that I wasn’t in the position I am today where I was comfortable with this part of …

Read More »

On The Rise Of GetEQUAL

From heckling the president, to congressional sit-ins, to chaining themselves to the White House fence, not since ACT-UP has an activist group shaken up our world as GetEQUAL has. Today Andrew Harmon and Kerry Eleveld have posted a lengthy dissection of GetEQUAL for the Advocate. An excerpt: Although GetEqual appears to have sprung up from nowhere and arrived with haste, …

Read More »

Advocate Locates Geo/Lucien

The Advocate has learned the real name of the elusive Geo/Lucien, but the kid is still not talking. “Lucien,” the young man at the center of an emerging scandal involving one of the most influential leaders of the “ex-gay” movement, is known on his Facebook and MySpace profiles as Jo-vanni Roman, The Advocate has learned. Reached Tuesday afternoon by phone, …

Read More »

Advocate To Partner With NBC News

The parent company of The Advocate announced today that they have inked a partnership deal with NBC News. Via press release: Here Media and The Advocate, the world’s leading gay news source, announced today their new affiliate deal with NBC News Channel, an NBC News unit that provides content services to NBC television affiliates and other selected news outlets around …

Read More »

HomoQuotable – Sean Hayes

“I am who I am. I was never in, as they say. Never. I believe that nobody owes anything to anybody. Nobody owes anything to anybody. You are your authentic self to whom and when you choose to be, and if you don’t know somebody, then why would you explain to them how you live your life? “I feel like …

Read More »

Flashback: 1967 CBS Report On Gays

Head over to the Advocate for Dave White’s take on this 1967 CBS report titled The Homosexuals, which includes an interview with a founding member of the Mattachine Society, America’s first gay rights group. Dave White: This weekend, for my second visit to The Homosexuals, I took notes. And when I was done my pad of paper was a laundry …

Read More »

HomoQuotable – Paul Katami

“It was shocking how emotional the process was. You prepare as much as you possibly can, but on day 1, I was the most nervous I’ve ever been in my life. I was sick to my stomach and rendered a lump in the chair. But the minute Ted Olson stood up and encapsulated why we were there that day, my …

Read More »

GLAAD Responds To Signorile

GLAAD writes us this morning directing us to a response to Michelangelo Signorile’s Advocate column criticizing their fundraising methods and other tactics, which I excerpted here yesterday. GLAAD executive director Jarrett Barrios, from a lengthy reaction also posted on the Advocate’s site: It seems like Signorile, and many who criticize GLAAD’s work, do so because we don’t always see eye …

Read More »

Advocate Writer Don Belton Stabbed To Death In Indiana Home

Indiana University professor and occasional Advocate contributor Don Belton, 53, was found stabbed to death in his Indiana home on Monday. A 25 year-old man has confessed to the slaying, claiming that Belton had expressed no remorse for sexually assaulting him. Michael J. Griffin, 25, of Bloomington told police he visited Don Belton on Sunday to confront the 53-year-old assistant …

Read More »

White House Condemns Uganda Bill

In response to a request from the Advocate, the White House has issued a statement (finally) condemning Uganda’s proposed “kill gays” bill. Via Kerry Eleveld: “The President strongly opposes efforts, such as the draft law pending in Uganda, that would criminalize homosexuality and move against the tide of history,” read the statement that came late Friday in response to an …

Read More »

TIME Names Advocate’s June Issue As A Top Ten Cover For 2009

TIME Magazine has named the Advocate’s June 7th issue as one of the ten best magazine covers of 2009. This clever and hilarious cover either consciously or unconsciously pays homage to the famous painting The Scream by Edvard Munch. The article it sells is about how the recession has affected the porn industry — hard times indeed! The photo suggests, …

Read More »

On The “Death” Of LGBT Print Media

Over on Mediaite, Michael Triplett of the National Gay & Lesbian Journalists Association covers the demise of the Washington Blade and other LGBT print titles and what physical gay newspapers have meant to us. Like other “minority” media, it is easy to underestimate the significance of the LGBT press for the gay community. For many of us, it was the …

Read More »

The (Sort Of) End Of The Advocate

After a week of internet rumors and quasi-denials, Here Media CEO Paul Colichman has confirmed that The Advocate will now be shipped only in combination with sister publication Out Magazine, ending after 40+ years the stand-alone status of the nation’s most highly regarded LGBT news source. From Colichman’s letter published at Advocate.com yesterday: The recent closures of Gourmet, Portfolio, Genre, …

Read More »

Today: President Obama To Announce End To HIV Travel Ban

The Advocate’s Kerry Eleveld reports that President Obama is expected to announce the final end to the HIV travel ban during a signing ceremony today for the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act. The new regulation eliminates any travel and immigration restrictions that are tied to a person’s HIV status. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) put the …

Read More »

HomoQuotable – Michelangelo Signorile

“The march in fact has only made us all stronger as a movement. We were able to organize in a few months, using new media, and got 200,000 people to D.C. without spending much on traditional advertising. David Mixner is to be lauded for his passion and putting the idea out there. Cleve Jones, for his vision and his steadfastness …

Read More »

The Gay Blood Libel

The Advocate has published an excellent and extensive article by Steven W. Thrasher about the FDA’s decades-old ban on gay men donating blood. An excerpt: Today, three years after the American Red Cross, the American Association of Blood Banks, and America’s Blood Centers blasted the policy as “scientifically and medically unwarranted,” congressional representatives have ramped up pressure on the FDA …

Read More »

Perez Hilton Is Worse Than You Thought

If you think your opinion of Perez Hilton couldn’t be any lower, you’ll probably change your mind after reading what he tells Advocate writer Benoit Denizet-Lewis about his dust-up with the Black Eyed Peas, during which he called their lead vocalist a “faggot.” But Perez tells me that, in the heat of the moment that night, he almost chose to …

Read More »

JMG Makes Advocate’s Top Political Blogs

This here website thingy made the Advocate’s Top Political Blogs list. From Joe.My.God to The Daily Beast, Advocate.com spotlights a few of the best blogs that cover politics, inside and way outside the Beltway. Joe.My.God: The name sounds salacious, but the content is anything but. Not to say Joe Jervis’s six-year-old blog is boring — it just gets to the …

Read More »

Advocate’s Top 15 Gay(ish) Blogs

Some of my favorites made the Advocate’s top 15 gay(ish) blogs list, although the list is a bit heavy on the gossip side. PamsHouseBlend.com AmericaBlog.com: Gawker.com DListed.com HuffingtonPost.com OhLaLaMag.com Signorile.com TowleRoad.com WorldofWonder.net PerezHilton.com Slog.TheStranger.com PinkIsTheNewBlog.com Popnography.com Rod 2.0 GoodAsYou.org (Via – Pam’s House Blend)

Read More »

Mmm, Mmm, Gay

Here we go again. The Campbell Soup Company booked an ad in The Advocate depicting a two-mom family and right on cue, the American Family Association crawled out their sewer. “Not only did the ads cost Campbell’s a chunk of money,” writes AFA Chairman Donald Wildmon in an email alert, “but they also sent a message that homosexual parents constitute …

Read More »