Screenwriter Dustin Lance Black tops The Advocate's Forty Under 40 issue -- the Oscar winner for Milk made the acceptance speech of a lifetime with his passionate plea for gay rights.
May 6, 2009
By Ari Karpel

In two short months, the battle over California’s Proposition 8 went from double-digit opposition to passing with 52% of the vote on Election Day. Could the heartbreaking loss have been avoided? Depends on who you ask.
November 19, 2008
By Ben Ehrenreich

In the wake of California’s passage of Proposition 8, protests are popping up around the country -- and so are comparisons between gays’ and African-Americans’ fights for equality. Is gay the new black? Michael Joseph Gross examines two struggles for civil rights.
November 19, 2008
By Michael Joseph Gross

Former Advocate publisher David B. Goodstein is portrayed as one of Harvey Milk’s political nemeses in Gus Van Sant’s new movie. Oftentimes imperious, Goodstein would seem perfectly cast in that role. But only in the movies does every white hat have a black counterpart.
October 22, 2008
By Mark Thompson

Cleve Jones interviews Emile Hirsch about the making of Milk.
October 22, 2008

Fans knew comedian Suzanne Westenhoefer was really in love when her “girlfriend Jenn” started turning up in her onstage monologues. Westenhoefer met marketing pro Jennifer Houston four years ago, when both of them were working on a women’s cruise.
October 8, 2008
By Anne Stockwell

Brusso and Manelski’s relationship involved a child from the start—their 6-year-old daughter, Camille. Manelski, her biological dad, shares custody with Camille’s mother. “I always knew it would have to be somebody very special before I’d make the commitment to bring that person into her life,” Manelski says.
October 8, 2008
By Anne Stockwell

Peter Morrison entered his first Internet chat room when he was 27 years old -- but he wasn’t hunting for sex. “I was looking for other gay people, someone who was out and comfortable,” he remembers.
October 8, 2008
By Anne Stockwell

If there’s one man who is essential to the gay brain trust, it’s Tony Kushner. His towering, Pulitzer Prize–winning drama Angels in America galvanized Americans to make a deeper political and emotional commitment to the value of a gay life. Kushner found that same commitment with author and columnist Mark Harris.
October 8, 2008
By Anne Stockwell

How is it possible to have spent three decades with your partner and still be in your 40s? By meeting in 10th-grade art class and sticking together from then on.
October 8, 2008
By Anne Stockwell