All posts by Will O'Bryan
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Barrett Brick Honored for Immigration Efforts
Immigration Equality, the national organization working toward equality for LGBT and HIV-positive people under U.S. immigration law, with offices in New York and D.C., honored...
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Latest Advocate features Zac Efron interview
“I started doing local theater so young — I was 12 — so to me, being gay was just another way that you can be....
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Cameroonian man fighting for freedom after gay text message
“I’m very much in love w/u.” For sending this text message to another man, Roger Jean-Claude Mbédé of Cameroon has already spent a year in...
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Ram Tough
Craig Ramsay is not just a pretty face. He's also a pretty body. And a song-and-dance man, former hockey player, health a fitness superstar –...
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BHT Postpones Gay and Lesbian Night at Kings Dominion
Originally scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 8, Brother, Help Thyself announced today that the nonprofit organization is rescheduling its “Gay and Lesbian Night at Kings Dominion”...
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Catholic priest rebuked for role in same-sex wedding
“Archbishop Mansell informed Father DeVito that his participation in this ceremony was understandably perceived by many Catholics as an implicit endorsement of same-sex marriage, which...
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Fall Events Far Afield
September Orlando Bear Bash Orlando, Fla. Sept. 13-16 orlandobearbash.com Dallas Pride Sept. 16 dallasprideparade.com Gay Oktoberfest Munich Sept. 20-23 mlc-munich.de Austin Pride Austin, Texas Sept....
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Party Time
During the past long weekend – thanks to organized labor – I had a chance to spend about 48 hours in Florida visiting with my...
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Right Turn
Autumn may have a different look and feel in different parts of the world – even a different time, depending on the hemisphere – but...
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Decks and Divas
Ask the uninitiated about a gay cruise and plenty of preconceptions come to mind. Some guess that every passenger passes a screening process that includes...
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Old World Autumn
To an American mind, Thanksgiving can be a cultural touchstone. It's the Rockwellian dinner table. It's the lesbian Tofurky banquet. It's reunions of family and...
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Follow the Sun
Those glorious days of Rehoboth Beach, Del., summer are winding down. As the Earth makes another orbit around the sun, there's not much a sun-seeker...
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GOProud on the ground in Charlotte for DNC rebuttals
By Matt Comer/QNotes CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Fresh off his trip to Tampa, Fla., for the Republican National Convention, Jimmy LaSalvia, co-founder and executive director of the...
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Schumer at DNC: We will pass ENDA
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer speaks with a blogger at Charlotte’s Democratic National Convention (Photo by Matt Comer/QNotes) By Matt Comer/QNotes CHARLOTTE, N.C. — New...
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Zero Feet Away
In December 2011, Johnny Skandros, aka ''Johnny Scruff,'' turned 30, a threshold that consumes some gay men. ''I was working on Scruff,'' says the co-founder...
