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Sherry Cola on Why Raunchy Comedy 'Joy Ride’ Will Change the Game

The queer comic shares why her hilariously raunchy new summer flick could also change hearts and minds.

A Daughter's Diagnosis and a Refusal to Give in to Despair

This gay father has a lesson for finding joy in the most difficult of places.

'Ghost' screenwriter Bruce Joel Rubin on coming out: 'I've never not been gay'

Rubin has opened up in his just-published memoir, It’s Only a Movie.

After 'Love, Simon,' Keiynan Lonsdale Is Shedding All His Skins

Keiynan Lonsdale, the multitalented artist from down under, is now riding high.

Rent gets real

As the pansexual, AIDS-inflected Broadway sensation becomes a gritty, hyperreal movie, three returning cast members talk about how the show's messages of love, life, and liberty for all have only become more urgent

Calling Miss Cleo: The Story Behind the World's Most Famous Lesbian TV Psychic

The co-director of the HBO Max documentary Call Me Miss Cleo tells us about the misunderstood woman who was much more than a '90s punchline.

This Is Why I Fight for Trans Youth

Rep. Joseph Kennedy says passing the Do No Harm Act, which he's about to reintroduce in Congress, is a personal mission.

14 LGBTQ+ TV Shows and Movies to Watch in August

Summer is in full swing and so are queer summer series and films.

Joan Rivers Better Work

Thanks to Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, rapt audiences are learning that there's a lot more to Joan Rivers than E! red carpet critiques, QVC jewelry, and plastic surgery punch lines.

Max Adler Closet Gleek

Will it get better for Dave Karofsky, or could Glee's closeted bully still kill himself? Max Adler reveals what might be in store for his conflicted character next season -- including the possibility of a love connection with Kurt Hummel.

Real L Word's Kacy Boccumini on Transitioning in Your 40s

For this former reality star, happiness is finally coming into focus.

Casey McQuiston's bisexual rom-com 'The Pairing' will make you hungry

McQuiston talks to The Advocate about their latest romance novel, eating their way through Europe, the Red, White & Royal Blue movie sequel, and more.

Black and Gay Like Me

After Wanda Sykes stood up in front of a crowd of thousands and declared that she's a lesbian, she became a poster girl for black and gay America, whether she likes it or not. 

Portia, Heart & Soul

In an intimate interview, Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi talks for the first time about coming out to grandma and finding happiness with Ellen DeGeneres

The Penultimate Anticlimax

Want to know how to make the American Idol season finale even less interesting? Kick the best singer off before it ever happens, that's how.

Reflecting on Queer Cinema's Golden Age: The Gay '90s

A New York film festival reminds us how wide the celluloid closet busted open 20 years ago. The Advocate's editors look back at how these movies changed history and their own identities.

Modern Family Director's Worst Flight Ever Entertains Twitter

This Modern Family director's tweets about her drunken seat mate is better than any sitcom on TV.

Haley Scarnato has great legs

And Sanjaya has still not left the building in week 12 of Dave White's American Idol recaps...

Shedding her skin

As Melissa Etheridge prepares her new CD, Skin, for its summer release, she talks for the first time about her split with Julie Cypher, the revelations in her upcoming book, and how she makes no apologies for turning her life into her art

The real Rosie

365 days of amazing challenges and feisty decisions turned America's sweetheart into the fighter she's always been--and The Advocate's leading lady for 2002