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…
Hotel Gaythering 1st Year Anniversary
The Gaythering Hotel in South Beach is about to celebrate their first anniversary. I recently had the pleasure of going down to The Gaythering Hotel in South Beach to meet with the owners,…
A Field Guide to San Francisco Penises (NSFW)
It used to be that you couldn’t live in San Francisco for long without seeing a penis (or five) on the street at some point during the year. But two years ago, San…
Being Gay is Beautiful in Philadelphia
Based on the news cycle, you’d think LGBT people all lived in a sparkly version of hell. It’s true that in many ways, being queer can suck, but besides dealing with a whole…
Young Gays Are Sniffing Out the Pup Life
Already the howls leak onto 12th Street. And as you pass through the heavy black doors of San Francisco’s go-to gay biker hangout, The Eagle, the scene that greets you isn’t the expected…
SoMa To Get Leather-Themed Public Park?
Apparently a plan has been taking shape for several months to install a parklet/plaza on the block of 12th Street outside the Eagle Tavern in SoMa that would recognize the neighborhood’s history in…
Hollywood Gets Its Groove Back
Hollywood’s grande dame hotels, the Sunset Tower and the Chateau Marmont, stand like stone sentries on Sunset Boulevard, less than two miles from the decidedly less stylish stretch of Hollywood Boulevard that hustles…
What to Do in Koreatown, Los Angeles
The antidote to Hollywood’s seasonal Academy Awards fever is just a few blocks away, in Koreatown. It’s hard to imagine that two decades ago, K-Town, as it is known in local parlance, was…
All About The Castro's GLBT Historical Society and Museum
Nestled between Walgreen’s Pharmacy and Badlands on 18th Street, the GLBT History Museum has been showcasing queer history from the archives of the GLBT Historical Society for the last four years, with a…