CELEBRITY ADVOCATE INTERVIEWS

Featuring the uncensored words of 15 controversial, ground-breaking celebrities who drop their masks and empty their hearts to Advocate Editor in Chief, Judy Wieder, The Advocate Celebrity Interviews, Volume One is unmatched in providing readers with the kind of compelling revelations and insights that no traditional biography can provide. Taken from the pages of The Advocate with beautiful new photographs and bonus, never-before published updates and accounts of all the dishy behind-the-scene dramas that went into getting the interviews, The Advocate Celebrity Interviews, Volume One will be a classic addition to any gay or straight person’s library. Rediscover the early struggles of Melissa Etheridge, Mark Wahlberg, Chastity Bono, and Gore Vidal. Learn from George Michael’s own account of being a closeted pop teen star what it was like fall in love with a man for the first time. Read Liza Minnelli’s shocking narrative as she describes what it was like to discover that the man she married, the man her mother Judy Garland introduced her to, was gay. Marvel as the great French diva Catherine Deneuve confesses what it was like to become a lesbian icon after making love to Susan Sarandon in The Hunger. Whether the stars are gay or straight, Ellen DeGeneres, Bruce Springsteen, Rob Halford, Liz Smith, Steve Kmetko, Sting, Tony Kushner, Emma Thompson, Larry Kramer, and Diana Ross all have outrageous, amazing, uncanny stories to tell. And, in a longstanding tradition of trust and adventure, they’ve told them to The Advocate.

Judy Wieder is editor-in-chief of The Advocate. Prior to working at The Advocate, she was an associate editor at Creem magazine and one of the founding editors of Genre, An accomplished songwriter, Wieder has had over 40 songs published and recorded , topping the dance and pop charts twice, capturing one Grammy award, two Grammy nominations, three Gold Albums, and one Platinum Album.