The Advocate (magazine)
The Advocate is an American LGBT magazine, printed bi-monthly[2] and available by subscription. The Advocate brand also includes a website. Both magazine and website have an editorial focus on news, politics, opinion, and arts and entertainment of interest to lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people. The magazine, established in 1967,[3] is the oldest and largest LGBT publication in the United States and the only surviving one of its kind that was founded before the 1969 Stonewall riots in Manhattan, an uprising that was a major milestone in the LGBT rights movement. On June 9, 2022, Pride Media was acquired by Equal Entertainment LLC.
This article is about the LGBT magazine with domain name "advocate.com". For the literary magazine, see The Harvard Advocate. For the newspaper with domain name "theadvocate.com", see The Advocate (Louisiana). For other uses, see The Advocate (disambiguation).Editorial director, editor in chief
Neal Broverman Desiree Guerrero[1]
Bi-monthly
175,000
1967
Pride Media
United States
Los Angeles, California
English
Comics[edit]
The Advocate provided a venue for several noteworthy LGBT cartoonists in the 1970s and 1980s. Early in its history, the publication ran single-panel gag cartoons by Joe Johnson featuring effeminate Miss Thing and beefy Big Dick,[24] and "Gayer Than Strange" by Sean. After these were discontinued, It's a Gay Life by Donelan debuted in 1977 and ran for 15 years.[24] Howard Cruse's strip Wendel appeared from 1983 to 1989, transitioning from a single tabloid-size page to two magazine-size pages when the publication changed format. Leonard and Larry by Tim Barela[24][25] and Servants to the Cause by Alison Bechdel also appeared briefly during the late 1980s.
Podcast[edit]
The Advocate produces a podcast called LGBTQ&A, created and hosted by Jeffrey Masters. The LGBTQ&A podcast features interviews with notable LGBTQ figures such as Pete Buttigieg, Laverne Cox, Lili Reinhart, Roxane Gay and Trixie Mattel.[26][27] The series features a range of LGBTQ guests including activists, politicians, and members of the entertainment industry.[28][29][30]
In January 2014 The Huffington Post cited three Advocate covers in its feature, "23 Magazine Covers That Got It Right When Depicting Powerful Women": February 2011 (featuring Hillary Clinton), February 2012 (Nancy Pelosi) and January 2013 (Tammy Baldwin, .com edition).[31] The Advocate won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Magazine Overall Coverage in 2020.[32] In 2021, it won the GLAAD Media Award in the Outstanding Online Journalism Article category for the article "Gay Men Speak Out After Being Turned Away from Donating Blood During Coronavirus Pandemic: 'We are Turning Away Perfectly Healthy Donors'".[33]