Articles from The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine) (October 1, 2009)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A river ran through it: Valencia, Spain, dazzles with a mash-up of Old World charm and New World architecture, tied neatly by a long ribbon of unrivaled downtown green space.	Allen, Dan		1103
Al-Wilayat Al-Muttahida.	Halwani, Raja	Letter to the editor	97
Anchored woman: in her new memoir, HLN's Jane Velez-Mitchell recounts coming out and starting her life over at 51.	Pike, Laurie	Book review	615
Andy knows best: Andy Cohen is becoming increasingly familiar to Bravo's legion of gay viewers, but who is the man behind the smile, and where does the man stop and the network begin?	Lamphier, Jason	Cover story	3191
Beyond benefits: you deserve equal benefits in your job. Given. But what is your company doing to truly create a gay-supportive work atmosphere?	Davidson, Alex	Report	1718
Bottoms up! But only if you keep the calories down.	Massenburg, Toby	Brief article	209
Bringing safety back: a new website breaks the rules to educate and titillate.	Spinelli, Frank	Brief article	205
Clarification.		Correction notice	48
Country ham: after a series of reinventions, actor--carpenter--porn star--playwright Tom Judson pulls up stakes and heads west.	Judson, Tom	Essay	837
Editor's letter.	Barrett, Jon	Editorial	513
Flights of fancy: unlike other aviation aficionados, novelist Christopher Rice isn't swapping stats on wingspan, but he'll talk swatches and SpaceBeds.	Rice, Christopher	Essay	758
Go on, mess with Texas: Houston, the Lone Star State's largest city, heaps on the charm.	Collins, Andrew	Directory	864
Good reception: Neil Patrick Harris isn't the only reason this year's Emmy Awards will once again be the gayest night on TV.	Kilmer-Purcell, Josh		498
Haute bears: Costello Tagliapietra's fall collection is sheer feminine glamour. Its plaid-clad creators are anything but.	Galan, Alex	Brief article	163
Hoping for more.	Smith, Paul; Huffman, Craig; Watson, E.I.; Shelton, Michael Dean; Rogers, Joyce; Nooney, Dan; Lewis,	Letter to the editor	743
I advocate ... here's what Hammer Museum director Ann Philbin is passionate about this month ...	Philbin, Ann		488
In defense of luxury.	Smith, Nina	Brief article	234
Is Perez Hilton an appropriate spokesman for marriage equality and other gay rights issues?		Brief article	174
It's in the water.		Brief article	144
Just as he was: on the death of literary trailblazer E. Lynn Harris, author and Harris protege Terrance Dean remembers how he met the man who changed the state of black gay fiction.	Dean, Terrance		773
Mass control.		Brief article	140
Massaging therapy: did right-wing groups have a hand in the APA's recent report on conversion therapy?	Broverman, Neal		460
No to the party of no.	McPeters, Jim	Letter to the editor	186
Now screening: decide who can reach out and touch you with one Google Voice phone number.		Brief article	179
Papa don't preach: two politicians share genes but not love for gay marriage.	Tracey, Michael	Brief article	255
Prevention paralysis: funding for HIV prevention in California has all but collapsed (thanks, Governator). Is a spike in infection rates inevitable?	Parashar, Amita		389
Pushing buttons: funded by pins and pints, the first national gay rights march was a surprising success 30 years ago.		Brief article	219
Right-on woman: a new memoir traces folksinger Alix Dobkin's life as a Communist Jewish feminist before she came out as "Lavender Jane".	Ganz, Caryn	Book review	768
Ring leaders.	Galan, Alex	Brief article	166
Separation issues.	Kempf, Tim	Letter to the editor	153
State of the union.			346
Stretching, the truth.	Massenburg, Toby	Brief article	177
The lesson of Danny and Marilyn: advances in Iowa and Colorado--where it took a coordinated and determined coalition of progressive voters and donors to oust antigay state representative Danny Carroll and Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave--are a perfect model for the first step in winning full federal equality. But what comes next? The Gill Action Fund's Tim Gill and Patrick Guerriero have it all mapped out.	Gill, Tim; Guerriero, Patrick	Essay	1640
The new Cuban revolucion: as the daughter of president Raul Castro, Mariela Castro Espin could have done anything--or nothing--with her life. So why did she decide to become a champion of Cuba's gay and transgender communities?	Rowe, Michael		2577
The parent trap.	Curtis, Alan; Robison, David; Andrews-Katz, Eric	Letter to the editor	405
Ticket to ride: subverting machismo culture on the Mexico City subway.	Hernandez, Daniel	Brief article	263
Told you so.	Visser, John; Fritscher, Jack	Letter to the editor	107
Trading faux fun.	Smith, Nina	Brief article	153
Tread lightly: don't let common running injuries break your stride.	Massenburg, Toby	Brief article	288
Until rice queen and snow queen disappear from our own vocabularies.	Spearman, Doug	Brief article	73
Where there's no smoke ... The FDA says "safe" e-cigarettes are just smoke and mirrors.	Spinelli, Frank	Brief article	182
Why I'm marching: at first he thought the march on Washington planned for October was ill-timed and ill-advised, but Michelangelo Signorile now says there couldn't be a better time to take to the National Mall en masse.	Signorile, Michelangelo		1405
Woman on top.	Voss, Brandon	Interview	900
Yours, mine, and ours: avoid relationship penalties by creating both individual and joint bank accounts.	Smith, Nina	Brief article	189