Best Gay Bar (For the Boys): Charlie’s
From fun, typically well-attended weekly promos like Drag Queen Trivia Tuesdays to monthly events benefiting local community organizations, there are lots of reasons to saddle up to a stool at this country-Western gay…
Philly Faces Up
The city of Philadelphia launches a new LGBT exhibition. Philadelphia is about to raise its already “sky-high” support for the LGBTQ community: The City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program has announced its latest…
A Cop Theme Meets Rock in Downtown’s New Gay Bar
Downtown’s gay community has much to celebrate. On June 26, the Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution guarantees same-sex couples the right to marry. A week before, Precinct, Downtown’s first new gay bar…
GLBT Activism Comes Alive at Tenderloin Museum
If you ever wanted to hear a living history of San Francisco’s GLBT movement, now’s your chance. The Tenderloin Museum’s opening night event on July 16 at 6:30 pm features Susan Stryker and…
qFLIX Philly's New GLBTQ film fest
Since the early 90s, GLBTQ film festivals in Philadelphia, under various names, built a huge local audience of queer cinefiles and celebrated diversity and community. Not to mention proving an impressive midsummer tourist…
Breaking a D.C. sweat
As is tradition here at the Blade, every summer we provide an issue that rounds up the best D.C. has to offer if you’re staying in the area. Here are some of my…
Austin gay bar Oilcan Harry’s gets into the business of same-sex weddings
The next time you step into Oilcan Harry’s, the oldest gay bar in Austin, you’ll be able to order a whiskey sour and a wedding. On the heels of the U.S. Supreme Court’s…
Outfest, a LGBT film festival, returns to Los Angeles
Los Angeles’ largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender film festival returns this summer with some 166 movies — and it couldn’t come at a better time. Outfest Los Angeles, which starts Thursday and…
9 Things You Can’t Miss at Outfest 2015
Pride month is over, but L.A. cinema isn’t finished celebrating LGBT life. Outfest, one of the country’s oldest queer film festivals, kicks off Thursday, July 9 for more than a week of films…
Bear Week in Provincetown
What started out as a gathering of 200 members of the bear community in 2001 has grown to almost 10,000 men from over 40 states and more than a dozen countries — and…