“South Beach? Is that like Palm Beach?” -Diane Wiest as Louise Keeley, in The Birdcage (1996) If you’re from Miami, and you go to college out of state, there’s probably no question you…

Key West’s Womenfest is a celebration for lesbians and their friends that offer performances by high-energy musicians, productions ranging from burlesque to drag, sunset sailing excursions and parties at LGBT landmarks. Headlining performers…

Rainbow colors were in full display Thursday for the annual Carnival parade, where the Candyland theme served up a campy confection for an estimated crowd of 100,000. One of the most over-the-top celebrations…

When Kevin Farrell got the call to evacuate New Orleans in August 2005, he didn’t think much of it. “Everyone was saying this could be the big one but I’d gone through a…

Los Angeles is a world-class city for gay sports—with over a dozen leagues in games as varied as kickball and rugby, a healthy love of competition and a community that adores fitness and…

Provincetown, Mass., the original gay destination. Often imitated, never duplicated. Whether you are a circuit boy, refined scholar, tree-hugging lesbian, or any combination of the above, P-Town has something for you. Here are…

Beyond breathtaking sunsets and sour, gelatinous pie, Key West, Florida, has historically been famous for its gay culture. Queer icons from Divine to Leonard Bernstein used to slut it up at the many…

The bartender shows us the photograph on his cellphone. It’s the very first ghost image I’ve ever seen and it looks very real and I sure didn’t expect to see it on a…

A documentary hosted by JD Samson explores why some of the gayest cities in the country have no lesbian-oriented bars. The LGBT community is celebrating an unprecedented amount of visibility in the United…

Drag in New York? It’s natural! And yet Wigstock, the city’s once iconic drag festival of the ’80s, ’90s, and ’00s, has been out of commission for more than a decade. That changes…