Thirty years, one list: Frank Marino celebrates his queendom on the Strip
Frank Marino has surpassed the age of 50, 25,000 shows and, finally, 30 years as an unbroken star of a show on the Las Vegas Strip. Nobody has done this, ever. Marino today…
5 Gay Rights Sites That Should Be National Parks, Because Stonewall Inn Isn't The Only Place That Deserves Recognition
On Sunday, Sen. Kristen Gillibrand and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, both Democrats from New York, announced their plan for the historic Stonewall Inn to become the first national park to commemorate the gay rights…
Newfest, New York’s LGBT Film Festival, announces lineup for their 27th annual festival
NewFest, in partnership with Outfest, today announced the lineup of their 27th annual celebration of the year’s best LGBT films from around the world. The program of nearly 100 narrative features, documentaries and…
Key West Is Actually Cool: 12 Not-for-Tourists Reasons to Visit Now
Key West isn’t exactly known for its refined elegance—in fact, outsiders may know the Floridian island mainly for its sunburned cruise ship crowd and for debaucherous Duval Street. And while that scene…
N.Y. lawmakers seek to honor gay rights landmar
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler expressed support for the LGBT community on Sunday with an announcement of a proposal to mark Stonewall Inn as the first national park…
The state of LGBT community engagement in Las Vegas
Leave it to a Facebook post to stir things up. In 2011, then-local news anchor and LGBT community member Chris Saldaña shared a link about the first active-duty military ever to march in…
Getting To Know The San Francisco LGBT Community Center
Yesterday, we introduced Castro readers to the new Strut, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s new space. But another LGBTQ-serving organization has been a longtime fixture nearby: Open since 2002, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center at Octavia and Market was…
How the Fruit Loop came to be
What’s now known as the Fruit Loop, a cluster of LGBT nightclubs and businesses on Naples Street near UNLV, wasn’t always a gay epicenter. Even in the 1950s and ’60s it was a…
Travel: That Los Angeles Lifestyle
Four of my six nights out in West Hollywood, I was on the dance floor at The Abbey. At one point, the bar was named one of the world’s best gay bars and it’s…
Why the 'Best Gay Bar in the World' Is Here to Stay
For nearly a quarter of a century, I have played host at the Abbey. When I opened the Abbey as a small coffeehouse on Robertson Boulevard, the LGBT and West Hollywood communities were…