date: Thu, 16 May 96 17:41:50 -0800
From: truston@advocate.com (Todd Ruston)
Subject: Advocate Issue 709 Preview

              The Advocate * June 11, 1996 * Issue 709
                         (On Sale May 28)

                   * MARRIAGE GOES TO WASHINGTON

                          * WHY YOU'RE GAY
                   
                       * KRAMER VS. STREISAND
                       
                * * *  C O V E R   S T O R Y  * * *

                           PERSONAL BEST
                         The Sporting Life

Thanks to the recent coming-out stories of Muffin Spencer-Devlin and
Rudy Galindo, we're getting a first glimpse inside two sports
closets-golf's and ice skating's. What is life like inside these
sports for gays and lesbians, and will anything change now that the
doors are slightly ajar?

                    * * * NEWS & FEATURES * * *

CAMPAIGN '96: IN THE AISLES
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Congressional opponents of gay marriage grab the steering wheel on
the issue with a fast-track federal bill.

PROFILE: GO, FIGURE SKATER
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Humor and politics hit the ice with gay skating star and Olympic
hopeful Doug Mattis.

SCIENCE: WHY YOU?
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A new book on the origins of homosexuality says the answer is
simpler than the question.

                      * * * ARTS & MEDIA * * *

CINEMA: SIMPLY NO MORE BARBRA
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Why Barbra Streisand walked from The Normal Heart and why Larry
Kramer's AIDS play turned film will go forward without her.

DEPARTMENTS
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Letters
Agenda
Advocate Poll
Viewpoint: Rich Tafel
Breaking Silence: Janis Ian
Reviews
Last Word: Gabriel Rotello

On the cover: Muffin Spencer-Devlin photographed by Michele A.H.
Smith for The Advocate
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