Midcentury haven Palm Springs comes back to life
It was as if I were walking through an issue of Architectural Digest. I gingerly stepped on travertine floors with a pair of disposable medical shoe covers clinging to my beat-up sneakers. I…
Vegas Three Ways: Choose Your Own Sin City Adventure
Grab your paycheck and head to Las Vegas, a city that spares no expense—and ensures you don’t either—in making your wildest dreams come true. After all, it’s where the rich get down and…
LGBT travelers face some of the biggest challenges
As a white heterosexual American male, there are certain things — OK, plenty of things — I don’t need to think twice about. One of them is travel. There obviously are places where…
Many of Key West's charms lie outside tourist-heavy Duval St
Wastin’ away in Margaritaville is not my idea of a good time. So Key West, which inspired Jimmy Buffett’s booze-soaked ode, had never been on my radar. But when I heard about The…
The diviest dive bars in Vegas
A dive is a dive and everyone needs to deal with that. It’s not an insult. It’s not really a badge of honor. But it’s a mantle that means a rougher clientele and…
Otter Box, a Sunday Party for Hirsute Gays
Why go to a “gay” bar these days when you can specify a niche like twinks, bears, muscle queens and “Hellsea” gays? The latest addition to this fragmented landscape is the Otter Box,…
New York barber gives custom cuts in LGBT-friendly shop
For Ayanna, getting a haircut at her local barbershop in New York City meant having to fend off unwanted advances from the barber. “He knew that I was gay but every time I…
My gay city: NYC local Michael Massetti gives us his tips on the best pizza and more
What’s life like for a modern gay guy in New York City? Hell’s Kitchen, Chelsea, and Fire Island are your go-to neighbourhoods. He lives in New York City. He loves fashion. He works…
Hidden New Orleans
Everyone knows NOLA, the partying-est, craziest, drinking-est, convention-going, Mardi-Gras-Parading, jazz-music-playing, levy-bursting, Brad-Pitt-loving, most reputation-rebuilding city in the USA, especially right now. From Fat Tuesday to Ash Wednesday — okay, really between New Year’s…
Wilde times in Philadelphia
A new exhibition in Philadelphia, co-curated by two scholars at the University of Delaware, explores Oscar Wilde’s connections to the city, while showcasing three newly discovered works by the 19th-century Irish writer, who…