So: Memorial Day is fast approaching. Ideally, a long weekend lies ahead; perhaps you’ve even wrangled yourself an extended vacation. Well done, and no doubt well deserved! Just one thing: Don’t expect the…

“Are you drawing my PIC-TCHA?” From my lounge chair, I look up to see an older, slightly stocky gentleman hovering over me. He’s wearing blue shorty-shorts, and spitting his words with a particularly…

Splashy pool parties and on-the-water adventures, late-night dance parties, a race for tutu-wearing competitors, an intriguing film premiere and a lively community parade are among the attractions during Key West Pride 2014. Set…

Mark Twain famously said, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” It is a common tourist faux pas to think June, July and August are going to be…

Chat with a local in the Florida Keys and you’ll likely hear a similar story often repeated. The storyteller talks of traveling here for a vacation and never going home, of calling time…

Oakland as modern lesbian dreamscape. “To my right, four women in lingerie are making cookies, giggling as they find new parts of each other’s bodies to ‘accidentally’ get dough on and subsequently lick…

About five years ago, at a rehearsal in the Back Bay for the True Colors LGBT youth theater, a teenage performer improvised a speech that turned Abe Rybeck’s head. “She said, ‘Why should…

There’s a new entry to the group of so-called “peer to peer” businesses like Airbnb, Uber and Lyft that are offering services in West Hollywood outside the purview of regulators. It’s Misterbnb, a…

The GLBT History Museum in the Castro received a facelift and reopened last week with a remodeled main gallery and a brand-new show, Queer Past Becomes Present, which will be up for several…

Across the street from Philadelphia bookstore Giovanni’s Room two men kiss. Double-decker tour buses pass by the shop’s location on the corner of 12th and Pine Street. A poster to re-elect Brian Sims,…