Category: The Advocate

Ken Jones has died at age 70. The pioneering Black gay activist, who worked for decades to desegregate the LGBTQ+ movement, passed from cancer at...

Ohm Phanphiroj is an artist, filmmaker, photographer, traveler, thinker, lover, loner, inspirer, an provocateur. Ohm creates an atmosphere in his books that is both dangerous...

In the sexy video for “Like a Gun,” Baby Yors dances around an empty room like his life depends on it, gyrating, spinning, and leaping...

Let’s say that during both World Wars, respective Vice Presidents Thomas Marshall and Henry Wallace told their bosses that they were too afraid to fight?...

Search Party kicked off its fourth season with a flash of polyamory. In the premiere, which debuted Thursday on HBO Max, characters Drew (John Reynolds),...

I was a rabid baseball fan growing up. I even won baseball trivia contests. I could name every MVP in history, both American and National...

At the same rally where his father encouraged supporters to march on the U.S. Capitol, Donald Trump Jr. lambasted transgender athletes. Trump Jr. stirred the...

Meulebeke, Belgium hosts the Belgian cyclo-cross national championship this weekend, and one contender announced he is gay ahead of the competition. Justin Laevens, one of...

With the pandemic lockdown stretching into 2021, we’re more in need of inspiration than ever. Fortunately for hip-hop fans — or anyone looking for an...

Henry van Ameringen, a gay man who donated millions of dollars to LGBTQ+ and HIV organizations, died September 9 at age 90. Ash Christian, an award-winning...

Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican senator who was an ardent critic of Donald Trump until the latter was elected president, was rushed away from...

Xena gave an epic Twitter smackdown to Hercules. Lucy Lawless, who portrayed the warrior princess on the cult fantasy series, slammed her former costar Kevin...

Satirist Randy Rainbow has a rule of never repeating a song for a parody, but at the request of fans and following the riots at...

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, known for her many anti-transgender actions, has submitted her resignation to Donald Trump and blamed him for inciting violence at...

Donald Trump’s favorite gay man, Richard Grenell, has denounced Wednesday’s violence by a pro-Trump mob at the U.S. Capitol but repeated the myth of widespread...

Accompanying these selected photos from Galkin’s new book, G-Male, is an intriguing introduction that explores Galkin’s point of view as a man living in Russia, written...

As we enter this New Year, the election is finally over and COVID-19 vaccines are making their slow creep across our country. While we grapple...

Two  more transgender or gender-nonconforming Americans have died by violence in December, bringing the total of such deaths to at least 43 in 2020, the...

Bisexual opera singer Jamie Barton, a social media star and activist for LGBTQ+ and women’s rights, body positivity, and other social justice causes, is part...