Like Palm Springs and Fort Lauderdale before it, Las Vegas used to sell itself as primarily straight. But “Sin City” has re-invigorated itself so many times, it’s like an athlete who switches gym regimens and workout programs and trends every so often just to keep up with the times and stay in top shape. To visit Vegas now, especially at night, is to find a city that has gone majorly gay, keeping in step with most other resort spots that have embraced men-with-men travelers with gusto and more than a splash of sex.
In addition to more than a dozen gay bars around the Vegas Strip, gay-oriented hotels and annually produced gay Circuit parties, not to mention the highly promoted “RuPaul’s Drag Race” finale, Britney, Bette and Cher (and when she’s in the mood, Babs), they’ve got gay-friendly male strip reviews like “Chippendale’s” (openly gay Jaymes Vaughan still resides there) and the Aussie bums in “Thunder From Down Under,” and, coming soon, hunky heartthrob Jeff Timmons and his all-male “Men of the Strip” review.
On June 1, at 10 p.m. E! premieres Timmons’ Men of the Strip, a backstage look at the 98 Degrees singer’s all-male hunk-fest that’s heading for Sin City, titillating the girls while encouraging the guys to come along for the package deal.