Key West Is Actually Cool: 12 Not-for-Tourists Reasons to Visit Now
Key West isn’t exactly known for its refined elegance—in fact, outsiders may know the Floridian island mainly for its sunburned cruise ship crowd and for debaucherous Duval Street. And while that scene…
N.Y. lawmakers seek to honor gay rights landmar
New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and U.S. Rep. Jerrold Nadler expressed support for the LGBT community on Sunday with an announcement of a proposal to mark Stonewall Inn as the first national park…
The state of LGBT community engagement in Las Vegas
Leave it to a Facebook post to stir things up. In 2011, then-local news anchor and LGBT community member Chris Saldaña shared a link about the first active-duty military ever to march in…
Getting To Know The San Francisco LGBT Community Center
Yesterday, we introduced Castro readers to the new Strut, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation’s new space. But another LGBTQ-serving organization has been a longtime fixture nearby: Open since 2002, the San Francisco LGBT Community Center at Octavia and Market was…
How the Fruit Loop came to be
What’s now known as the Fruit Loop, a cluster of LGBT nightclubs and businesses on Naples Street near UNLV, wasn’t always a gay epicenter. Even in the 1950s and ’60s it was a…
Travel: That Los Angeles Lifestyle
Four of my six nights out in West Hollywood, I was on the dance floor at The Abbey. At one point, the bar was named one of the world’s best gay bars and it’s…
Why the 'Best Gay Bar in the World' Is Here to Stay
For nearly a quarter of a century, I have played host at the Abbey. When I opened the Abbey as a small coffeehouse on Robertson Boulevard, the LGBT and West Hollywood communities were…
New York LGBTQ Art Museum To Undergo Major Expansion
The Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, the first and only museum in the world to be dedicated to LGBTQ art, announced today that they’d be moving into an adjacent space in…
LGB-Friendly Florida City Now Courting Tourists with Capital 'T'
Just days from now, a city well-known as a mecca for gay and lesbian tourists looking for warm and welcoming travel destinations, will be opening doors to tourists who are transgender. As our sibling publication…
36 Hours in Boston
Thanks to the area’s 50-some colleges, Boston has a reputation for hitting the books first, goofing off second. To be sure, venerable institutions like Symphony Hall, the Museum of Fine Arts and Faneuil…