Chaya Milchtein is Our Favorite Queer, Femme Automotive Writer
Chaya Milchtein is one of The Advocate’s Women of the Year. View the full list from the current issue of the magazine. Meet the “mechanic shop femme” who’s made...
May 20, 2020
Gay World War II Veteran, 97, Attacked and Robbed in Columbus, Ohio
Police are searching for the attacker of a gay World War II veteran. Rupert “Twink” Starr, 97, was robbed Monday in Columbus, Ohio, during an...
May 20, 2020
40 Images of Men From Terry Hastings’s Secret File
Terry’s first geographic adventure was out to the sand dunes just north of Palm Springs. You can see them just off the highway to your...
May 20, 2020
God’s Own Country’s Gay Sex Scenes Censored on Amazon
UPDATE: An Amazon representative reached out to The Advocate to assert that “Amazon Prime Video did not censor the movie.” Rather, the edited version was uploaded...
May 20, 2020
33 Portraits of Gay Men in Isolation
Vincent Keith of MASCULAR Studio and Oliver Zeuke of Photomolekuel are pleased to announce the launch of A Portrait in Isolation, a project exploring emotional...
May 19, 2020
White Supremacists Deface Pulse Mural at Orlando LGBTQ+ Center
A mural honoring the 49 lives lost at the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting — where Latinx LGBTQ+ people were targeted by a mass shooter —...
May 19, 2020
Roe’s Norma McCorvey: I Switched Sides in Abortion Fight for Money
Norma McCorvey, the woman at the center of Roe v. Wade, the case that legalized abortion throughout the U.S., said toward the end of her...
May 19, 2020
LGBTQ+ Ugandans Arrested for Violating Social Distancing to Be Freed
Prosecutors have dropped charges against 19 LGBTQ+ Ugandans who were accused of violating social distancing rules, and a court has ordered that they be released....
May 19, 2020
Queer People See More Harassment in Dating Apps Than Straights
A recent Pew Research poll dug deeper into trends that people experience in online dating. According to results, lesbian, gay, and bisexual users are more...
May 19, 2020
Hairspray’s Star-Studded Virtual You Can’t Stop the Beat Is Infectious
The virtual rendition of Hairspray’s “You Can’t Stop the Beat” to raise money for the Actors Fund is also one of the most infectious, feel-good...
May 19, 2020
Randy Rainbow Skewers Trump’s Anemic Pandemic Plan to ‘Fiddler’ Tune
Donald Trump’s latest strategy for failing to address his anemic response to the pandemic is to shout “Obamagate,” or what satirist Randy Rainbow calls “Distraction”...
May 19, 2020
Roy Horn, Little Richard, and Life in the Half-Closet
As I’ve mentioned before, I met Liberace twice in my life, which is kind of strange for a kid from Pittsburgh. Once at 6 years old, and...
May 18, 2020
Two Kansas City Cops Charged With Assaulting Transgender Woman
Two police officers in Kansas City, Mo., have been charged with assaulting a transgender woman while arresting her in May 2019. The officers, Matthew Brummett...
May 18, 2020
Martin Shkreli Denied Release for ‘Delusional’ Claim He’ll Cure COVID
Disgraced former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli, described by probation officials as “delusional” and “self-aggrandizing,” won’t get a furlough from prison to pursue a cure for...
May 18, 2020
Indigo Girls on Personal Best, Bowie & Telling LGBTQ Stories Via Song
Ahead of their upcoming album Look Long, out Friday, the Indigo Girls do a deep dive on Inside With the Advocate about their early queer influences, overcoming...
May 18, 2020
33 Images from the New Issue of ‘Character,’ a ‘Fancy Gay Art’ Mag
Rodolfo Loaiza covers the latest issue of Character — which describes itself as a “fancy gay art magazine” — in a Disneyesque fantasy.Character issue 17 includes 17 international talented...
May 18, 2020
Albania Is Third European Country to Ban Conversion Therapy
Conversion therapy can no longer be practiced in Albania. The European nation’s leading organization of psychologists banned the discredited practice, which attempts to turn gay...
May 18, 2020
