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How Kelly Clarkson and her trans producer Caragh Donley are championing transgender lives

Donley talks to The Advocate about working on The Kelly Clarkson Show, which has featured segments celebrating Transgender Awareness Week.

The Healing Power of the Great Outdoors

Venture Out brings LGBT people to nature and lets them explore, marvel, and heal.

Meet Jane Velez-Mitchell, Unchained

The out journalist's newest venture uses new media to spread the word on animal rights, a cause she calls 'the social justice movement of the 21st century.'

Advocacy Groups Launch Campaign Against Ex Gay Therapy

The new campaign, a joint venture between Truth Wins Out and the Southern Poverty Law Center, will include a series of committee meetings nationwide to bring greater awareness to the harms and deceit associated with conversion therapy.

How Lesbian Singer Norma Tanega Took Hollywood by Storm

A friend of the lesbian folk legend Norma Tanega, whose song 'You're Dead' has a second life in What We Do in the Shadows, shares memories from her career and old gay Hollywood.

The Advocates: Travel, September 2009

Buenos Aires's Home Hotel, African safaris, Asian staycations

Decisions decisions

This month our career coach decides it's time for a gay couple from Indiana to move to a more progressive state, and gives the green light to a computer nerd who's about to start a business

WATCH: Andrew Garfield Bends Gender for Arcade Fire Video

Spider-Man gets made up for Arcade Fire's third single off last year's Reflektor, 'We Exist.'

The Watergate Hotel and the Nostalgia for Impeachment

With history eerily repeating itself, a writer checks in for a surreal stay at scandal central.

Having Sex in the Time of Corona? Wear a Mask, Say Harvard Docs

Physicians laid out some recommendations for minimizing risks.

A Time for Integration

Slowly but surely, a new generation of gay guys and girls is showing a generation of people used to living their lives on the outskirts how to integrate again.

Nick Denton Revealed His Standard for 'Outing' People

The Gawker Media founder has his own philosophy on when it's appropriate to report on a person's sexual orientation.

Caitlyn Jenner and Donald Trump: Two Egomaniacal Peas in a Pod

Jenner loved transphobe Trump, then claimed she didn't, now she's employing his vile former team in her run for governor. 

Michelle Obama's Mission to Celebrate Marriage With LGBTQ People

Obama writes in her book and elaborates to Ellen DeGeneres about how she and daughter Malia Obama celebrated national marriage equality outside the White House with the crowd.

David Archuleta Gave a Master Class in the Mormon Coming-Out

There's a reason many members of the Church of Latter-Day Saints add caveats, pleas, and apologies to their announcements of queerdom.

Patricia Nell Warren, 'The Front Runner' Author, Dies at 82

The lesbian writer inspired millions with her story of queer love and the pain of the closet.