Scroll To Top

thrift store

This Minnesota thrift store is providing refuge for LGBTQ+ southerners

A growing number of LGBTQ+ southerners and other transgender refugees are seeking resources at a new shop in Minneapolis, which provides its items for free.

This new LGBTQ+ thrift store in Pennsylvania offers judgement-free fashion

A thrift store in Lancaster County recently opened, giving LGBTQ+ people the opportunity to explore their identities while being "encouraged and built up."

Virginia college students are running a thrift store for transgender and nonbinary people

Transgender people looking to change up their wardrobes are often met with financial barriers, but Dell Thrift and Pantry at the University of Lynchburg is working to change that.

The Nation's Oldest LGBTQ+ Bookstore Is Ready for 50 More Years

This is how Philadelphia's Giovanni's Room survived AIDS, gentrification, the internet, and COVID.

Gay Couple Turned Away From Volunteer Work

When a gay couple tried to give back to their small town's local church, they were met with hate. Now the two are testing the waters of Washington state's antidiscrimination policy, to see how it truly holds up.

The Advocates: Strap It On

Backpacks, MAC on men, Michael Clark

Queer Youth 'Slay The Runway' in Fashion Workshop Catered to LGBTQ+ Teens

The two-week workshop ends with a fashion show featuring the teens' designs.

Priest Accused of Stealing $1M for Kinky Gay Liaisons

A Bronx priest has been accused of stealing more than a million dollars from two churches to spend on his boyfriend, who was his kinky 'master.'

Boot Boys

Paris Men's Collections, Leather Makes Comeback, Who's That Girl?

The Milk Look

Expert advice on life -- as you live it.

Blue Traveler

Newcomer actor Alejandro Romero brings a queer edge to the stark urban drama Powder Blue.

Model behavior

Ebony Haith, the recently ousted lesbian contender on UPN's campy summer hit America's Next Top Model tells all about Tyra Banks, those evil goody-goody girls, and posing with a snake

Leslie Hall and the world of Internet camp

Wearing bedazzled jumpsuits and blue eyeliner, the latest YouTube darling has taken her brand of hip-hop on the road. The next stop for Leslie Hall? World domination.

Op-ed: 'Looking' at HIV Testing in 2015

An HIV test on last night's episode of HBO's Looking is a timely reminder for viewers to have one of their own.

Body Language

Trans Man Poe Black Fatally Stabbed in California Desert Community

Black, an artist and activist originally from Nashville, had been living in Slab City, an alternative community near Niland, Calif.

Op-ed: What It's Like Being The Oldest at The Advocate

What is it like to be the oldest staff member at The Advocate?

The Other White Meat

As one of the subjects of the documentary about the drag pageant circuit, Pageant, opening in select theaters, and one of the contestants on RuPaul's Drag Race, premiering next month on Logo, Victoria "Porkchop" Parker may not look or act like your typical female impersonator, but make no mistake, she is one of the best.

Miss Calif. Should Watch 'Glee,' Not Tyra

Ryan Murphy tackles the high school glee club, Tyra tries to dissect the gay kingdom, Hilary Duff goes method on SVU, and Ross Matthews still squeaks soprano.