The Advocate

The Advocate is an American LGBT-interest magazine, printed bi-monthly 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, 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 New York City, an incident that is generally credited as the beginning of the LGBT rights movement.

History

The Advocate was first published as a local newsletter by the activist group Personal Rights in Defense and Education (PRIDE) in Los Angeles. The newsletter was inspired by a police raid on a Los Angeles gay bar, the Black Cat Tavern, on January 1, 1967, and the demonstrations against police brutality in the months following that raid. Richard Mitch (using the pseudonym "Dick Michaels") and Bill Rau (under the name "Bill Rand") joined PRIDE and, along with Aristide Laurent and artist Sam Winston, transformed the newsletter into a newspaper titled The Los Angeles Advocate. The first issue bore a cover date of September 1967, and was sold for 25 cents in gay bars in Los Angeles. By early 1968, PRIDE was struggling to stay viable and Mitch and Rau paid the group one dollar for ownership of the paper in February of that year. In 1969 the newspaper was renamed The Advocate and distributed nationally. By 1974, Mitch and Rau were printing 40,000 copies for each issue.

The Advocate (Contra Costa College)

The Advocate is a student newspaper published at Contra Costa College, a community college in San Pablo, California. The paper is published weekly during the school year and has a circulation of approximately 2,500. An online edition, "cccadvocate," is also published. The current editor in chief is Lorenzo Morotti.

Tradition of excellence

The Advocate is the second-most prestigious two-year college newspaper in Northern California, having won 14 Associated Collegiate Press National Pacemaker Awards since 1990. The newspaper was inducted into the ACP Hall of Fame in 1996, and has been cited by ACP officials as being one of the many adequate examples of small-college journalism.

Advocate reporters and photographers cover the campus, which rests halfway in San Pablo and halfway in Richmond in the East Bay Area. The students cover topics ranging from crime on campus, to student profiles, sports and local entertainment. The tradition of The Advocate has always been to chase news stories and focus on the hard news.

The Advocate (disambiguation)

The Advocate may refer to:

Magazine

  • The Advocate, an LGBT magazine
  • The Harvard Advocate, a Harvard College-based literary magazine
  • Newspaper

  • The Advocate (Australia), a Tasmanian newspaper
  • The Advocate (Contra Costa College), a Contra Costa College student newspaper
  • The Advocate (Louisiana), the daily newspaper of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States, and the sister edition of the paper in New Orleans, Louisiana
  • The Advocate (Newark), the newspaper of Newark, Ohio, United States
  • The Advocate (Pittsburgh), a 19th-century newspaper of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
  • The Advocate (Portland, Oregon), a historically African-American newspaper in Portland, Oregon
  • The Advocate (Stamford), the daily newspaper of Stamford, Connecticut, United States
  • The Daily Advocate, daily newspaper in Greenville, Ohio, United States
  • The Advocate Weekly Newspapers, a set of weekly regional alternative newspapers published by New Mass. Media Corp. in Connecticut and Massachusetts, United States
  • Podcasts:

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    The Advocate

    by: Abaddon Krist

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    Creating patterns of souls and shadows
    To form unheavenly figures and soldiers
    Rising from infinite portals
    Rising from infinite portals
    When Satan walks upon the earth
    God's children die
    One by one they fall and burn
    And so I live again
    Sent through time and space to kill
    Consuming all who fly above
    Angel limbs and gore I lust
    And murder is my god
    Building this art, this flesh, this pain
    I claim this torture my own
    To stretch the wounds of human infection
    Erasing existence with violence and death
    Erasing existence with violence and death
    Undead kings and fallen masters
    I keep these burdens
    Blood and doom my calling
    I fall to coma, bliss, and nightmare
    Creatures from beneath my dreams
    I live to serve you
    Demons from below these realms
    I kill to serve you
    Undead kings and fallen masters
    I keep these burdens
    Blood and doom my calling
    I fall to coma, bliss, and nightmare
    Shadows from beneath the Earth
    I live to serve you
    I sleep in hibernation




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    Public Technologies 11 Mar 2025
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    Opinion of the Advocate General in the case C-271/23 (CURIA - Court of Justice of the European Union)

    Public Technologies 27 Feb 2025
    On the merits, Advocate General Medina takes the view that a Member State cannot plead the illegality of a Council's Decision as a defence against an action for failure to fulfil obligations, without ...
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    Opinion of the Advocate General in the case C-59/23 P (CURIA - Court of Justice of the European Union)

    Public Technologies 27 Feb 2025
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