New Orleans: Gay club patrons fight for their right to be naked
Partrons of a gay club in New Orleans are fighting for their right to drink and smoke naked. Clientele of The Country Club launched a petition calling for the reinstatement its clothing-optional policy,…
My gay West Hollywood: Nir Zilberman on America's glammest gay village
The man behind America’s first privately-owned LGBT center, based in WeHo, shares his love of the gayest of gay districts. I’ve lived here since… 1981. I moved here from Israel.I’ve stayed because… the people are…
GLBT History Museum in San Francisco pursues ambitious plans
A one-of-kind U.S. museum will remain in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood for another five years, museum officials said. Officials with the Gay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender History Museum were able to renew the museum’s…
Palm Springs’ celebrity legacy, past and present
The first is that the Elvis Presley house is on the market, up for auction actually, on Oct. 25. This is not the futuristic House of Tomorrow where Presley and his new bride,…
Club Skirts Dinah Shore :: 25 Years of Girls, Girls, Girls!
“You have come a long way baby… To get where you’ve got to today.” Though the line has its beginnings in a time when “baby” was rooted in a world still dominated by…
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…