5 Steps to a Healthy Gay Vacation
The ferry docks in Provincetown. It’s Ptown’s annual Bear Week. The busiest week of this gay tourist town’s brief summer season. Hundreds of gay men disembark from the boat. Hurrying to enjoy the…
A Shore Thing: Asbury Park's offbeat boardwalk reflects the town's renewed vitality
One Jersey boardwalk is much like the other, right? Rides, games, plush animals, pizza. As with that other great local institution, the Jersey diner, the menu seldom varies. With one exception. The Asbury…
Pinkbox Sex Toy Vending Machine Heading to the Gayborhood
It was only a matter of time before PinkBox, the country’s first sex toy vending machine which launched in Philly several months back, made a (triumphant?) return. We’ve learned that after a debut…
How A New England Beach Town Changed The Course Of Gay History
A caravan of SUVs was snaking through the sand dunes that stretch for miles along the coast of Provincetown at the northern tip of Cape Cod. In one of the vehicles, James Husson-Cote,…
Are 'gayborhoods' a victim of the gay rights movement's success?
For decades, the blinds of this semisubterranean Laguna Beach bar were closed tight. Back then, the dingy saloon was underground in more ways than one. People whom employers might still refuse to hire…
Faultline: Where L.A.’s Gay Cultures Collide and Coincide
It should come as no surprise if a gay Dorothy from West Hollywood who wanders into Faultline turns to her Toto and says: “We’re not in WeHo anymore.” It’s pretty much always been…
Asbury Park, Long Neglected, Shows Signs of Rejuvenation
Fifteen years ago, Bruce Springsteen wrote a dirge about Asbury Park, his adopted musical hometown, called “My City of Ruins,” in which he lamented the fate of this forlorn seaside resort: Young men…
LGBT theater fest marks five years with Philly premieres
GayFest!, Philadelphia’s LGBT theater festival, returns for its fifth year Friday, Aug. 7, through Saturday, Aug. 22. The lineup includes four Philly premieres as well as staged readings and one-time performances. The festival…
New Orleans Journey: Past, Present and Future
Growing up in a small Cajun town west of New Orleans made every visit special. I was lucky to have parents who loved the “big city,” so we were there all the time….
New Orleans: Gay Old Times and New Ones Too
Southern Louisiana’s wicked heat and humidity, not to mention the bureaucracy’s slowly-turning wheels, means things evolve slowly here. In the 10 years since Hurricane Katrina devastated the city, rebuilding progress started off at…