The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) back issues from July 2008:
This is our moment. Are you in?(FROM THE EDITOR)(California Supreme Court desicion in favor of LGBT people )(Editorial)
Jul 01, 2008; ... "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN THE CALIFORNIA MARRIAGE DECISION CAME DOWN?" Years from now we may be carbon-dating ourselves with that question, just as we used to ask "Where were you on the night of the Stonewall rebellion?" That's how big this moment is for us. You may not think you ...
City girl.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; ... Thank you for a great birthday present with the beautiful Kim Cattrall cover [May 20]! I have loved her since Mannequin (go ahead and giggle, but you know you love it!), and she deserves every penny as much as Sarah Jessica for her role as Samantha on Sex and the City. Don't get me ...
The man show.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; ... In my opinion, Austin Bunn's profile of novelist Chuck Palahniuk ["Open Book," May 20] is one of the finest profiles The Advocate has ever published. While the bitchy, facile response to Palahniuk's mid-interview cold feet about coming out in the magazine might be that he knew what he was ...
The Advocate poll.(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Did Thomas Beatie's going public with his pregnancy hurt the transgender movement? Yes 34% No 51% Unsure 15% How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the May 20 issue of The Advocate "I don't think it hurt ...
Trans visibility.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; ... So Margaret Somerville, Cathy Renna, et al are concerned that the publicity surrounding Thomas Beatie's baby will harm the child ["Transpositions," May 20]? Are they equally concerned about the publicity surrounding Suri Cruise and the Brangelina children? Do they worry about the million ...
Love counts.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; ... I found "Marrying With Money" [May 20] quite interesting, particularly the notion that legislators and business leaders still need convincing about the monetary benefits of same-sex marriage equality. As New York City's comptroller, I am responsible for analyzing the city's $60 billion ...
The color of money.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 01, 2008; ... I have a couple of concerns about your article "Digging for Dollars" [May 20]. Foremost, while the David Geffen Foundation definitely funds LGBT programs and services, it is not an LGBT-specific foundation. Had the author consulted us, it would have been abundantly clear that we fund in ...
Correction.(FEEDBACK)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 2008 ... In our June 17 story "The Believers," Wayne Besen was incorrectly identified as an ex-ex-gay. The out executive director of Truth Wins ...
Out on the street.(FEEDBACK)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; ... We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Hong Kong: "What do you think about China's hosting the Olympics?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Abigail Lee, 35 regional manager "It's a major milestone. China has been trying to open up for a while. At the same ...
Art's quiet lion.(Robert Rauschenberg)(In memoriam)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Andy Warhol asked a friend, filmmaker Emile de Antonio, why artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns didn't like him, De Antonio told him he was "too swish, and that upsets them." Rauschenberg, who died May 12, never talked about being ...
Will scandal sink NYC's top lesbian?(Forward)(Christine Quinn)
Jul 01, 2008; ... NEW YORK'S LGBT political leaders are holding their breath as Christine Quinn--city council speaker since 2006--has become mired in an ugly slush fund scandal. It tarnishes a lesbian many considered a formidable Democratic contender for mayor next year. Quinn came under fire in ...
Know your faults.(DOSSIER)(earthquakes)(Interview)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE MAY EARTHQUAKE in China's Sichuan Province has left tens of thousands dead. California Institute of Technology seismologist Kate Hutton, one of the nation's foremost authorities on geologic forces, has advice for her fellow gays residing in quake country--and that's not just the West ...
A kiss after dying.(Forward)(remembrance for gay victims of Third Reich )(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Germany's newest memorial to the gay victims of the Third Reich was unveiled in Berlin's Tiergarten on May 27. Unlike the commemorative statue in Frankfurt or the remembrance plaque in Cologne, Denkmal fur die im Nationalsozialismus Verfolgten ...
Gays, straights, and divorce.(Forward)(spouses announce they're gay and want divorce)
Jul 01, 2008; ... AS THE NEVER-ENDING PUBLIC slugfest between former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey and ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey demonstrates, the dissolution of a marriage is hard--harder still when the separation involves a coming-out. The anger and self-doubt accompanying any divorce is ...
By the numbers: follow the leader.(Forward)(Chronology)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008; ... The saying "As goes California, so goes the nation" may soon ring true again since the Golden State's supreme court ruled marriage equality is a constitutional right. California has long had the most emulated state supreme court. Here are some examples: 1948 The ...
Sam Adams.(ELECTED)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Sam Adams, 44, as the first openly gay mayor of Portland, Ore., which becomes the largest city in America to have an LGBT leader. Adams, formerly a Portland city commissioner, ...
Died.(Transitions)(Obituary)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Larry McKeon, 63, illinois's first openly gay state legislator, of a stroke, May 13, in Springfield. A onetime police officer in Southern California, McKeon moved to Chicago in the 1980s and was elected to the state house of representatives in 1996, where he helped pass antidiscrimination ...
Rants & raves.(Forward)
Jul 01, 2008 ... "Let's go with Jesus. Not the gay-hating, war-making political tool of the Right, but the outcast, subversive, supreme adept who preferred the freaks and lepers and despised and doomed to the rich and powerful." --John Cusack on his hero, in the June Vanity Fair ...
Datebook 06.17-07.01.(Forward)(Brief article)(Calendar)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] JUNE 18-22 The international Gay and Lesbian Aquatics 2008 Championships splashes down at the District of Columbia Aquatics Club. Synchronized swimming, the best sport ever, will be featured. IGLA2008.ORG [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
Wagon Ho: Gaywheels.com's Zach Taylor left his baggage behind to test the 2009 Audi A4 Avant--but he didn't need to.(FAST LANE)(Product/service evaluation)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] 2009 AUDI A4 AVANT RETAIL PRICE (MSRP) $28,000-$38,000 STANDARD ENGINE 2.0-LTR. TFSI 4-CYL. HORSEPOWER 211 @ 1,500-4,200 RPM TORQUE (LB-FT) 258 @ 1,500-4,200 RPM FUEL ECONOMY (MPG) NOT YET AVAILABLE ...
Indulge your inner ironman.(FAST LANE)(sporting goods)(Buyers guide)
Jul 01, 2008; ... YOU DON'T NEED TO BE an Olympic triathlete to totally geek out on the high-tech sports and fitness gear on the market today. With things like high-tech aqua gyms, shockproof cell phones, and fancy hydration pills, there's bound to be a sporty accessory to drag your inner gym dandy off the ...
Love! Valour! Commerce! The California marriage equality victory means big bucks for the state economy--and good news for the budget crisis there. But as Jen Christensen finds out, businesses around the country are raking it in too.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WHEN THE CALIFORNIA SUPREME COURT ruled in favor of marriage equality, wedding bells went off in many people's heads. But many others heard the sound of the cash register or the credit card machine as they contemplated the financial windfall in store for ...
Reversal of fortune: when Evan Fallenberg, a U.S.-born writer and translator living in Israel, split up with the mother of his children to live with the man in his life, he hadn't bargained on finding himself in a new role: wife.(FIRST PERSON)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] I WAS A HUSBAND FOR NEARLY 19 YEARS. Then suddenly two Septembers ago I became a wife. No, it wasn't a sex-change operation; I'm perfectly happy with my penis and have no need for breasts. The change was that my wife and I finally split up ...
His day in court: National Center for Lesbian Rights legal counsel Shannon Price Minter reflects on making the case for marriage equality before the California supreme court.(Column)
Jul 01, 2008; ... THE DAY OF ORAL ARGUMENTS, I climbed the marble steps of the California supreme court with an unwavering conviction that the court would understand it held dreams and dignity of the entire LGBT community in its hands. I had appeared before the California supreme court before, but never in ...
Alanis Morissette.(BIG GAY FOLLOWING)(Interview)
Jul 01, 2008; ... For purely selfish and superficial reasons, we took Alanis Morissette's split last year from longtime fiance Ryan Reynolds especially hard--that is, until we remembered how well she's been turning personal pain into bittersweet beauty since her 1995 breakthrough album, Jagged Little Pill ....
Marriage: the bliss & the battle: when California's supreme court cleared the way for marriage equality, our world changed. How will we keep our enemies from changing it back? An Advocate special report.
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] SUMMER OF LOVE WINTER OF STRUGGLE Even as we celebrate our new right to marry in California, our opponents are preparing to give us the fight of our lives at the ballot box in November. Sue Rochman sizes up the situation WHO KNEW THE ...
The other 48: if California indeed sets the pace in this marriage equality marathon, which states will be the next to cross the finish line?
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AS GAY ACTIVISTS CELEBRATE MAY'S California supreme court victory (and prepare for the next battle in November), they're also anticipating the next states to follow in the Golden State's footsteps. Gary Buseck, legal director of Gay and Lesbian ...
Going to the chapel--again.(MORE ON ADVOCATE.COM)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A look at four same-sex couples who took the plunge in San Francisco in 2004 (including ...
Justice for all.(MORE ON ADVOCATE.COM)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... On May 15, the California supreme court ruled 4-3 in favor of lifting the ban on gay marriage ....
Your friends and enemies.(MORE ON ADVOCATE.COM)(gay rights activists)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... The way we see it, there couldn't be a better time to become an activist. So we're going to make it really easy for you ....
California marriage primer: everything you ever wanted to know about gay marriage in the Golden State.
Jul 01, 2008; ... NOBODY EVER SAID marriage was easy, and in the wake of the California supreme court's decision to legalize gay marriage, there arises a host of new legal questions. We went to Lambda Legal director Jon Davidson and found out some surprising benefits (New Yorkers, you may want to book a ...
Roller derby queens: short skirts, fishnets, and full contact. Inside the lesbian underground of the Los Angeles Derby Dolls.
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My first time watching roller derby comes on May 3 in a Los Angeles warehouse packed full of beer-drinking rockabilly kids and dykes of all stripes. Tattooed girls with tree-trunk thighs fly around a dangerously sloped track, shoving each other out of the ...
Relax--it's just TV: this summer brings a slate of new reality shows featuring gay participants, but forget about positive representations. As Choire Sicha finds out, it's all about the crazies, and in the end, that's the real progress.(Spectator)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BACK IN THE 1980S AND EARLY '90s, gay people used to talk a lot about "representation" in the media. Depictions of gay people were considered "good" (employed; adopting children) or "bad" (murdering; slutty). The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against ...
These American lives: the long-awaited small-screen edition of Del Shores's classic comedy about the rural South, Sordid Lives, comes to Logo this summer. Shores gives us a first look at what to expect from his cast of characters.(SPECTATOR)
Jul 01, 2008 ... Peggy (Rue McClanahan) The good Christian matriarch of the Ingram clan who is introduced to the wild side of life by ex-con Bitsy Mae. So what do you do when you fail in love with your daughter's best friend's legless husband and have your first orgasm at age 70? Ask ...
The first cut is the deepest: born in the wrong body? This femme fatale can relate--in a whole new way.('Quid Pro Quo' and 'The Wackness')(Movie review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] QUID PRO QUO WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Carlos Brooks STARRING Nick Stahl and Vera Farmiga MAGNOLIA PICTURES THE WACKNESS WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY Jonathan Levine STARRING Sir Ben Kingsley, ...
Beyond Hatred.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIRST RUN FEATURES This documentary follows the family of a young gay ...
The Carmen Miranda Collection.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FOX HOME ENTERTAINMENT Who doesn't love a little fruit now and again? ...
EXES & OHS: The Complete First Season.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PARAMOUNT In case you missed it on Logo, catch up on ...
Our House.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIRST RUN FEATURES Director Meema Spadola follows five gay families ...
Mad Men: Season One.(DVD PICKS)(Brief article)(Video recording review)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS The sometimes sexist but never dull series ...
History in the making: the debut from Hercules and Love Affair recalls the golden age of '80s dance music while still marching to the beat of a fresh and original drummer.(Sound recording review)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Hercules and Love Affair MUTE/DFA INSPIRED BY A HUMPY, bronzed he-man and his string of young male lovers, Hercules and Love Affair's eponymous debut CD is hedonistic, ecstatic, and gay as all ...
Priscilla Ahn: A Good Day.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] PRISCILLA AHN A Good Day BLUE NOTE Winsome Los ...
Various Artists: Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] VARIOUS ARTISTS Disco Italia: Essential Italo Disco Classics 1977-1985 STRUT ...
Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] DENNIS WILSON Pacific Ocean Blue EPIC LEGACY Nearly lost 1977 solo ...
Ferron: Boulder.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FERRON Boulder SHORT STORY Grande dame of women's ...
Bitter: Sweet: Drama.(MUSIC PICKS)(Sound recording review)(Brief article)
Jul 01, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] BITTER: SWEET Drama QUANGO Sultry vocals, ...
Cartoon.(Cartoon)
Jul 01, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "Just my ...
Angels at The Advocate.(FROM THE EDITOR)(Editorial)
Jul 15, 2008; ... THIS MAGAZINE WAS A LITTLE DIFFERENT WHEN I ARRIVED FOR A JOB INTERVIEW IN 1993. The offices were musty rabbit warrens, mismatched desks shoved together and everybody in everybody else's face. The editor in chief quizzed me from behind a pine desk with a shaky leg. Afterward, I stopped ...
Inside the insider.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 15, 2008; ... I thoroughly enjoyed Sean Kennedy's profile of Thomas Roberts ["The Insider Is Out," June 17], who, I confess, I didn't know is gay. All I gathered of him was as a charming, charismatic, and thoroughly professional news anchor. In that context, it's really what distinguished him first and ...
Ex marks the spot.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 15, 2008; ... I just finished "The Believers" [June 17] about ex-gays and ex-ex-gays (boy, don't we like labels!). Having been a part of the leadership of an Exodus affiliate, Desert Stream Ministries, I know all too easily the issues at hand. My experience was not all a bad one, for I made some ...
The advocate poll.(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008 ... Do you still practice the same religion your family did when you were growing up? <Pre> How readers responded to the Advocate.com poll question featured in the June 17 issue of The Advocate Yes 22% No 78% </Pre> "I was raised Southern Baptist. There is no way ...
Unconditional lumping.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 15, 2008; ... I think Azariah Southworth is still drinking a little too much of the Kool-Aid ["Unconditional Love," June 17]. While he counsels Christians to love LGBT people, he still lumps us in with the prostitutes, wife beaters, homeless folks, and alcoholic mothers. Fine company, all of whom, ...
The F word.(FEEDBACK)(Letter to the editor)
Jul 15, 2008; ... "Fag" is hate speech, pure and simple ["Sticks and Stones," June 17]. I doubt Judy Gold's gay friends refer to her, affectionately, as their "kike." ...
Out on the street.(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008; ... We asked a sampling of LGBT people in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: "Do gays make better parents than straights?" [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Evelyn Puenima Kurup, 24 student "There are pros and cons. In Malaysia two women can legally adopt a child, but ...
Just like old times.(WORLD)(discrimination against gays)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] You'd think the Russian people would remember their shameful history of pogroms, the anti-Semitic mob attacks of the 19th and 20th centuries in which tens of thousands of Jews were raped and killed. In this millennium we get a milder version, with the ...
Spain's envoy for change.(Forward)(Pedro Zerolo)
Jul 15, 2008; ... IN THE FACE OF TERRORIST attacks by Basque separatists last year, Spain's Pedro Zerolo spoke about serenity of the soul and spirit. When he was called a faggot by supporters of the conservative People's Party, Zerolo, the openly gay executive secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party, spoke ...
Philly stands up to scouts.(Forward)(Philadelphia's Cradle of Liberty Council)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008; ... THE ENDURING WAR between the Boy Scouts and the gay rights movement has gone quiet as of late, but a blockbuster case in Philadelphia is bringing it back to the national discussion. At issue is a parcel of land the local Boy Scouts chapter, the Cradle of Liberty Council, calls ...
Air America's sweetheart.(DOSSIER)(Rachel Maddow )(Interview)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008; ... SINCE RACHEL MADDOW hit air-waves with her eponymous show on Air America in 2004, the former Rhodes Scholar has become one busy politico. Listeners can hear the 35-year-old California native play part logician and part devil's advocate in the plum listening hours of 6 P.M. to 9 P.M. every ...
Red Gold.(Russia repealed the ban on blood from gay male donors)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008; ... Despite Russia's continuing hostility to gays and lesbians (see page 11), the nation in April repealed its six-year ban on blood from gay male donors. The United States and the United Kingdom bar all men who have had homosexual sex since 1977 from giving blood. Some other national stances: ...
Yves Saint Laurent.(Obituary)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Yves Saint Laurent, 71, the legendary fashion designer, of a brain tumor, in Paris, June 1. Widely credited with transforming women's fashion by sending pants, tuxedos, and other masculine looks down the runway--looks ...
Charles Moskos.(Obituary)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008 ... Charles Moskos, 74, the father of "don't ask, don't tell," of cancer, May 31, in Santa Monica, Calif. A military expert and sociology professor at Northwestern University, Moskos saw the policy as a ...
Clay Aiken.(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008 ... Clay Aiken, 29, of American Idol fame, it was reported May 29. According to news reports, Aiken artificially inseminated music producer Jaymes Foster, 50, and the baby is due in ...
Gay and lesbian workers' rights.(Exxon Mobil Corp.'s gay and lesbian workers' rights)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008 ... Gay and lesbian workers' rights, by ExxonMobil stockholders for the ninth year in a row, on May 28. Only 40% of shareholder votes were in favor of a resolution to establish an antidiscrimination policy covering LGBT ...
Female Catholics.(THREATENED)(Brief article)
Jul 15, 2008 ... Female Catholics, when Vatican officials said the church will excommunicate women who take part in ordinations for the priesthood, May 28. Monsignor ...
Rants & raves.(Quotation)
Jul 15, 2008 ... "It's written by guys who happen to be gay who are sluts. You have a bunch of guys who are sluts, writing for women and telling them they are supposed to act like this." --Former model Lauren Hutton, talking about Sex and the City on the Today show, May 29 ...