Gay Hotel Opens in Times Square West
BY MICHAEL LUONGO | New York is now home to a new gay hotel, the self-styled “straight-friendly” Out NYC in Hell’s Kitchen, on 42nd between 10th and 11th Avenues. The 105-room hotel complex opened on...
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Lending a Hand to Peru, Returning to the Closet
BY TYMON MANNING | As a muscled male model playfully flits across the screen on my favorite Peruvian show, “Combate,” my host sister calls him, in English, a butterfly. “Como se dice ‘butterfly’ en...
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Home Place Like Noh
David Noh with Kimo Stone, musician and Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame president, at Iolani Palace. BY DAVID NOH | After staying away for four ridiculous years, the siren song got to be too much for me...
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The Pines No Longer Barren
Large wooden beams cross over the top of the new Pavilion. BY JOSEPH EHRMAN-DUPRE | This summer, make way for the Pines. The internationally known gay mecca is about to reclaim its status as the...
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The Magic of Molokai
The cliffs of Kalaupapa National Historical Park, the site of the storied leper colony. |Nathanael Boehm/ US NATIONAL PARK SERVICE BY DAVID NOH | I missed Gay Pride in New York, but living right on...
View ArticleCapital Returns
BY MICHAEL T. LUONGO | With summer here along with thoughts of quick, carefree weekend getaways, our sister city in tragedy, Washington D.C., might be far from your mind but I think you would be making...
View ArticleVery Committed Clowning
BY DUNCAN OSBORNE | Sitting on the set of “Legends,” the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus that is performing in the New York area through March 23, DJ Weiss was carefully applying the...
View ArticleNew York’s LGBT Athletes Rev Up for Gay Games 9
BY PAUL SCHINDLER | When as many as 9,000 athletes gather in Cleveland August 9-16 for Gay Games 9 (GG9), at least one New Yorker will be able to say he’s seen it all. Charlie Carson, 59, attended the...
View ArticleSleeping With the Enemy?
BY MICHAEL LUONGO | It was the giant red star that so intrigued me, a remnant of Cuba’s ties to the Soviet Union. Forty long years ago, that connection nearly brought the world to nuclear war, but...
View ArticleDaydreaming On Riviera Maya
BY KELSY CHAUVIN | Kicked back in a lounge chair on the shore of the Yucatán Peninsula, cocktail in hand as a Caribbean breeze fills the shade beneath my beach umbrella, I’m reminded that daydreams can...
View ArticleDreaming of Summer
BY ROSS D. LEVI | It’s hard to believe, with snow a not so distant memory, but it’s only a matter of weeks until the unofficial start of summer. A great way to get there quicker — in your mind, at...
View ArticleNo Wrong Way In New Orleans
BY KELSY CHAUVIN | Whether you’re a New Orleans first-timer or a deep fan who can’t get enough, this city seems ever ready to charm you anew. Yes, it’s a historic place — one of America’s oldest...
View ArticleAn Equal Rights Vacation
BY ROSS D. LEVI | Most LGBTQ New Yorkers know that our state was the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement at Stonewall. Some know that the women’s rights movement was born here as well. Still...
View ArticleLast Minute Beat the Heat Escapes
BY ROSS D. LEVI | So you never got around to planning that amazing summer vacation for this year. Okay, totally understandable, your life is crazy busy. You’re still a good person. But now it’s 92...
View ArticleKauai’s Mix of Nature and Adventure
BY KELSY CHAUVIN | If you think about it, Hawaiian culture is one of the most easily identified, even for those who’ve never set foot on its lush lands. How quickly we conjure up hula skirts, floral...
View ArticleA Not So Gay Passage to India
BY PERRY BRASS | India had always been a distant dream of mine, starting decades ago when I met George Michell, an authority on Indian temples who encouraged me to make the trip. I never did. Not only...
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No Wrong Way In New Orleans
New Orleans' historic French Quarter. | KELSY CHAUVIN BY KELSY CHAUVIN | Whether you’re a New Orleans first-timer or a deep fan who can’t get enough, this city seems ever ready to charm you anew. Yes,...
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An Equal Rights Vacation
The National Susan B. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, where the pioneering suffragette was arrested for trying to cast a vote for president in 1872. | DARREN MCGEE/ EMPIRE STATE DEVELOPMENT/...
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Last Minute Beat the Heat Escapes
Volleyball at South Edison Beach in Montauk. | DARREN MCGEE/ NYSDED So you never got around to planning that amazing summer vacation for this year. Okay, totally understandable, your life is crazy...
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Kauai’s Mix of Nature and Adventure
Kauai’s Napali Coast. | KELSY CHAUVIN If you think about it, Hawaiian culture is one of the most easily identified, even for those who’ve never set foot on its lush lands. How quickly we conjure up...
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