Category: The Advocate

Excerpted from What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life. Copyright (c) 2020 by Mark Doty. Used with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton...

Harry Potter mastermind JK Rowling made a glaring social media error this week when she accidentally tweeted a message featuring an expletive and the misgendering...

Lou Sheldon, one of the leading homophobes of the past few decades, has died at age 85. Sheldon died Friday in Southern California, his son-in-law...

Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot didn’t hold back when asked if she had anything to say to President Donald Trump during a press conference. “I will...

When Vida premiered on Starz in the spring of 2018, it blazed a trail for Latinx and queer people like no other show before it. The series,...

Jaida Essence Hall is the winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race season 12. Below, the Milwaukee-based drag artist spoke with The Advocate about the finale, the...

With eyelash lipsynch choreography, a dazzling at-home set piece, and a colorful transformation into Dorothy on the RuPaul’s Drag Race finale, Gigi Goode was great...

Friday marked the finale of season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and Jaida Essence Hall walked home with the crown. However, 28-year-old finalist Crystal Methyd...

Activist Peter Staley knew Larry Kramer like few did. Both men were influential members of ACT UP — Kramer being one of the group’s cofounders...

More than 70 LGBTQ+ organizations have signed on to an open letter calling for action to combat racism and racial violence in light of several...

Tony McDade, a Black transgender man, was shot to death by a police officer Wednesday morning in Tallahassee, Fla. McDade, 38, was accused of having...

Mayra Gavilanez-Alectus, a 48-year-old New Jersey woman, was arrested on by federal authorities and Houston police on Wednesday and charged with the murder of her...

A far cry from her role as former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly in Bombshell, Charlize Theron is back in action in the upcoming Netflix...

Taking over the job of the boss who fired you is a dream for many workers — and for Charmaine McGuffey, it may come true....

Last week, the pilot episode for Hightown, the murder mystery from Starz that’s set in the LGBTQ mecca of Provincetown, Mass., premiered.  The series from creator...

A new ad opposing the reelection of U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina uses his own words against him, noting that he’s gone from...

This exhibition consists of Stuart Sandford’s Polaroid suite, “1421 Laveta Terrace,” snapshots of his personal experiences and atmosphere at the Tom of Finland Foundation taken...

Capt. Michele Fitzsimmons has made history as the second woman and the first lesbian to become a battalion chief in the New York City Fire...

The man leading the horrific anti-gay purges in Chechnya, president Ramzan Kadyrov, has reportedly been flown to the Russian capital of Moscow where he is...

“I’m Coming Out,” from Diana Ross’s Diana album, is perhaps the apex of gay anthems. First recorded in 1979, the song’s refrain, and its urging...