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For gay and lesbian groups in India, the new Bollywood movie Girlfriend has posed a confusing dilemma. Queer activists are condemning the film for its homophobic and titillating depiction of [...]

When Fox Television shelved its two-hour reality special Seriously, Dude, I'm Gay just days before it was scheduled to air, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation declared a victory. [...]

The world of movie visual effects is, like most artistic arenas, peopled by a high percentage of gay men and lesbians, but that doesn't mean some aspects of this multifaceted [...]

After a summer of pundits jamming the airwaves with debates on the pros and cons of gay marriage, ABC is launching It's All Relative--a new sitcom that might just turn [...]

'When Qeer as folk came on the air, only gay groups complained, saying that it painted the gay lifestyle in an extreme light, which of course was one of the [...]

'They make their arguments as if they were a housewife in Denver, and they're probably right that a housewife in Denver would be offended by gay sex scenes,' says United [...]

Big Eden * Written and directed by Thomas Bezucha * Starring Arye Gross, Eric Schweig, Tim DeKay, Louise Fletcher, and George Coe * Wolfe Video * $24.95 (DVD) Marketed as [...]

Nat DeWolf is an openly gay actor--and he plays one in the new comedy Lisa Picard Is 'Famous,' in which he spoofs showbiz and bad gay theater Out actor Nat [...]

GAY AND LESBIAN FILM TV PROFESSIONALS OF COLOR TALK ABOUT THE STRIDES THEY'VE MADE--AND HOW FAR SHOW BUSINESS STILL HAS TO GO Patrik-Ian Polk is a successful gay African-American executive [...]

Tom Shepard, the gay filmmaker who documented Steven Cozza's crusade in the PBS film Scout's Honor, says he 'had an inkling' the Boy Scout battle would be big When documentary [...]

Out TV veterans Terry Sweeney, Lanier Laney, and Scott King--and a few gay writers--give a zippy spin to the WB's outrageous new sketch comedy series While Hype, a half-hour sketch [...]

Former lovers James Crotty and Michael Lane have made a name for themselves as trippy travel guides the Mad Monks The self-declared 'premiere fagabonds in America and pioneers of dashboard [...]

With a hot restaurant, plus his art and film projects, Madonna's younger brother Christopher Ciccone has a lot on his plate Prolific partygoer and general man-about-town Christopher Ciccone is a [...]

When did you know you were gay? That's the question Los Angeles-based writer, filmmaker, and photographer Robert Trachtenberg put to 400 gay men and women, some famous, some not, for [...]

Television shows revolving around four women have been a staple of Marc Cherry's career. He was Dixie Carter's personal assistant on Designing Women; he wrote for The Golden Girls during [...]

When Green Day sing that they are the faggot America' in their hit single 'American Idiot,' they are rejecting the 'redneck agenda' and 'paranoia' that in their view are sweeping [...]

Little Britain * Starring Matt Lucas and David Walliams * BBC America * Premieres June 20 American audiences may struggle with some of the parochial cultural references in the hit [...]

The drama in Michael Burke's The Mudge Boy may be crackling with the sexual attraction between two teenage boys, but up-and-coming star Emile Hirsch, who plays title character Duncan Mudge, [...]

Straight actor Michael K. Williams has had his eyes opened to some fundamental gay issues in the process of playing charismatic drug dealer dealer in the hit. HBO series The [...]

For artist and filmmaker Thomas Allen Harris, the journey of self-discovery he embarks upon in his documentary film That's My Face (E Minha Cara), which premieres on the Sundance Channel [...]

Even a season working on Temptation Island could not prepare director Katherine Brooks and director of photography Jennifer Lane for the surprises in store with Ozzy Osbourne and his family [...]

Joel Soler didn't specifically mean for his excoriating documentary portrait of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, Uncle Saddam, to get its first U.S. TV screening this month (the film premieres November [...]

September 8 Women. A who's who of French divas--including Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, and Fanny Ardant--is brought together by gay director Francois Ozon (Criminal Lovers, Under the Sand) for this [...]

We've seen Hollywood studios compete to produce two movies about volcanic eruptions, missions to Mars, asteroids hurtling toward Earth, even two computer-animated movies about ants--but this year the grandest race [...]

Morris Weissman--the Charlie Chan producer with a soft spot for his young valet (Ryan Phillippe) in Gosford Park--is only the second gay role Bob Balaban has ever played, and a [...]

In 1995 The Advocate proudly broke the news that Sir Nigel Hawthorne--who died on December 26 at age 72--was the first openly gay Best Actor Oscar nominee, for his star [...]

Five years ago at a Los Angeles screening of seminal 1986 gay movie Parting Glances, actor Steve Buscemi--who got his big break in the film--was stunned by the poor quality [...]

On March 1, Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful talent agency, announced it had dropped uber-right-wing radio host Michael Savage as a client, just two days after announcing it had [...]

The goal is not to have a rainbow flag implanted into their brain,' says Matt Farber of the artists at Music With a Twist, the new LGBT-oriented record label recently [...]

It's no surprise that hit sketch show Little Britain has a gay following, The bigger surprise is that its straight following is so huge, at least in the United Kingdom. [...]

As Cote d'Azur and Summer Storm prove, great gay movies are being made all over the world. Here are six more to check out Beautiful Boxer: The true story of [...]

Filmmaker Marco Kreuzpaintner set out to make a coming-out movie that he would want to see when he started writing Summer Storm. 'I wanted to make something personal,' he explains. [...]

'Mona and Tamsin do fall in love, and love is a big word,' declares 23-year-old Nathalie Press, who affects a thick regional accent to play love-struck teen Mona in My [...]

Thai filmmaker Ekachai Uekrongtham says that if he had invented the story of world famous Thai kickboxing champion Nong Toom, nobody would believe it. As shown in the new film [...]

The first original movie produced to air on gay and lesbian premium cable network Here TV, Too Cool for Christmas is a rare TV movie in that it features key [...]

'This is a lighthearted show. There is no twist, no mean spirit,' says Douglas Ross, one of the executive producers of new TBS reality series He's a Lady. On the [...]

The pool of out gay men and women in power positions in Hollywood just got larger. David Janollari, whose producing partner Robert Greenblatt was installed last year as president of [...]

It's too early to say whether ABC's Boston-set sitcom It's All Relative--in which the daughter of an upscale gay male couple falls in love with the son of a working-class [...]

Two new entertainment services targeted at the gay and lesbian market are off and running: Satellite talk radio service Sirius OutQ started broadcasting on April 14, while Here Pay-Per-View launched [...]

Don't believe the old saw that you can't be out and still be a mover and shaker in Hollywood. These gay and lesbian folks have left the closet behind and [...]

Series creator Ryan Murphy may be openly gay, and his work to date--such as the WB's cult fare satire Popular--may be loved by gay viewers, but he will tell you [...]

When executive producers Howard Gewirtz and Steven Levitan were first writing the supporting character of Michael into their new Fox sitcom, Oliver Beene, they were keenly aware of avoiding gay [...]

Watching the short films of Belgian film director Bavo Defurne, four of which have recently been released on DVD under the title Campfire (Strand Video), can be both an aesthetically [...]

'I grew up in Orange Country [Calif.] and used to watch it on a black-and-white TV when I was 9 years old,' recalls Peter Fitzgerald of when he first became [...]

In the movie Sweet Home Alabama, Reese Witherspoon plays a New York fashionism who returns to her hometown in Alabama to confront her past. Except for the heroine's sex, the [...]

An annual radio series of real-life stories from the American gay community, Outright Radio has earned a reputation for being good radio, an achievement that was always the goal of [...]

GayBC founder John McMullen anchored marathon coverage on September 11, Now he's fighting for his Web radio station's survival in the resulting harsh economic times September 11 has become a [...]

The article features the individuals who have influenced the lesbian, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people in 2005. John Aravosis helped exposed the background of James Guckert. Keith Boykin published his book Beyond the down Low and have worked to debunk myths about African American male sexuality. Cancer survivor Melissa Etheridge's courage motivated the lesbian community to learn about the importance of nutrition. Maya Keyes was able to face the consequences of her coming-out. She was able to study through the help of the Point Foundation and now speaks to gay children that they are not alone in their struggle.