THE ADVOCATE

:''For other uses, see The Advocate (disambiguation).''
'''The Advocate''' () is a US-based LGBT-related bimonthly news magazine. It is the oldest continuing gay publication in the United States.
The website for the magazine contains approximately thirty percent of the print issue online and is updated daily. Archives of the magazine can be found in various subscription databases including EBSCO and InfoTrac.

Contents

History

Goodstein's influence

Contributors

Notable writers

Editors

Executive officers

References

External links

History

It was first published by Dick Michaels and Bill Rand, of the Los Angeles activist group PRIDE in Los Angeles in 1967 as a local newsletter titled ''The Los Angeles Advocate''. In 1969 it was renamed ''The Advocate'' and distributed nationally. By 1974, they were printing 40,000 copies for each issue. It attracted the attention of David Goodstein, an investment banker from San Francisco who bought the publication in 1974.

Goodstein's influence

Goodstein instituted several changes to the publication once he acquired it. These changes included switching from newspaper to magazine format. Under his watch, ''The Advocate'' fully transformed into a national news magazine covering events important to the homosexual community including the gay rights movement, art, and culture. Goodstein also worked toward reducing sex oriented advertisements in favor of more socially acceptable ones.
Goodstein also created "The Advocate Experience". Loosely based on the then-popular EST seminars, The Adocate Experience was a 2-weekend, all-day series of extensive self-realization workshops to bring self-acceptance, awareness and tolerance within the GLBT community. Goodstein himself facilitated the workshops.
Soon after Goodstein's death 1985, the magazine changed hands through a series of mergers and acquisitions, and is now published by LPI Media, a division of PlanetOut Inc.^[1]

Contributors

Notable writers

★ Vito Russo

★ Chastity Bono

★ Lance Loud

★ Kate Clinton

★ Donald Spoto

★ David Ehrenstein

★ Ryan Murphy

★ Janis Ian

★ Steve Gunderson, politician

★ B. Ruby Rich

★ Gabriel Rotello

★ Tully Satre, youth journalist

★ Michelangelo Signorile

★ Andrew Sullivan

★ Urvashi Vaid

Editors

★ Editor: Anne Stockwell

★ Managing Editor: John Jameson

★ Deputy Editor: Rachel Dowd

★ Arts & Entertainment Editor: Corey Scholibo

★ News Features Editor: Sean Kennedy

★ Associate Editor: Neal Broverman

★ Art Director: Craig Edwards

★ Photo Editor: Albert Smith

Executive officers

★ CEO: Karen Magee

★ President: Robert Cohen

★ Vice Presidents: Lisa Barker, John Knoebel^[2]

References

1. What Is the History of The Advocate? Wik Wikholm
2. ''The Advocate'' staff



★ Completely Queer: The Gay and Lesbian Encyclopedia, , Steve, Hogan, Henry Holt, 1998,

★ Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America, , Rodger, Streitmatter, Faber and Faber, 1995,

★ Long Road to Freedom: The Advocate History of the Gay and Lesbian Movement, , Mark, ed., Thompson, St. Martin's Press, 1994,

External links

★ ''The Advocate'' Official website

★ ''The Advocate'' history at PlanetOut.com