The Advocate

The Advocate has been the definitive news source for America’s LGBT community since 1967. Every issue, The Advocate keeps you involved and informed on everything that’s important to you in LGBT news, politics, culture and entertainment. You’ll enjoy our intriguing interviews with important gay and lesbian newsmakers, plus you'll enrich your life with our regular coverage of gay travel, finance, fitness, and style. Now available with the cool convenience of digital delivery. Now expanded with exclusive video and slide show in every issue.

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READERS TALK BACK

The Crown • Miss International Queen crowns its first Black winner, but beauty in the community is more than skin deep.

Madam Mayors • Lesbians took the reins of some of America’s most populous cities.

THEN & NOW • A sneak peek at an exhibition celebrating LGBTQ activism half a century after the famous uprising.

ENDING HIV IN AMERICA • It will take accepting science on rapid initiation, U=U, and PrEP.

SHE’S THE ONLY ONE • THIS AGING ROCK STAR IS STILL ROLLING

PAPI PATROL • Matt Bomer forges new alliances as the friend of a Mexican migrant in Papi Chulo and as a once-closeted superhero in Doom Patrol

SOUTHERN COMFORT • Gay TV star and chef Lazarus Lynch is happily serving up soul.

TRANS MANIFESTO • Activist Brynn Tannehill drops the knowledge.

BREEDLOVE’S WAR • 45 Thought Crimes’ author, nonbinary mixed-race musician and activist.

Sam I Am • Actress Devery Jacobs’s acting is magnificent, meditative, and thoroughly Mohawk.

GOOD GIRLS • Rekindling that old high school feeling, with a millennial twist.

ROCKET MAN • Can Taron Egerton soar playing the world’s most famous gay man?

A RESORT OF OUR OWN • At the W Punta de Mita, a modern artsy beach resort meets ancestral Indigenous history, offering an unexpected and wonderful experience.

LEFT MY ART IN ARUBA • I’m saying bon bini to a different side of the popular Caribbean island.

JUST AROUND THE BEND • One gay man’s battle with Peyronie’s disease.

Reclaim Your Pride • Rainbow flags are pretty, but self-respect is better.

LIGHTNING IN A BOTTLE • Nafessa Williams packs street justice, queer rights, and Black Lives Matter into TV’s first Black lesbian superhero.

DREAMWEAVER • Trans actress Nicole Maines is seeking justice on Supergirl.

NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE • Colton Haynes’s road to Hollywood stardom wasn’t paved in gold.

CHAMPIONS OF PRIDE

CRUZ CONTROL • Fifty years after the Stonewall Riots, trans activist VICTORIA CRUZ reflects on the past, present, and future.

Tale of Two Prides • New York City Pride Marches Into History, Lockstep or Not.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, PRIDE! • WorldPride is more than just a march of LGBTQ people from around the globe.