Martha’s Vineyard Summer Idyll
Few places better capture the halcyon joys of summer — lobster rolls, donuts, sunsets, sunrises, fried clams, fresh oysters — than the island off Cape Cod known as Martha's Vineyard.
San Francisco’s Outside Lands Returns for 8th Annual Smorgasbord
Not unlike the Summer of Love in 1967 when American youth headed by the thousands to the Haight in San Francisco, Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival has attracted music and food fanatics to San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park for the past seven years.…
NYC Pride 2015 Completes the Dream w/Ariana Grande, Sir Ian, Sir Derek, et al.
Nothing could dampen the spirits of the participants in this year’s New York City Pride March—not after the United States Supreme Court’s historic decision establishing marriage equality throughout the United States. Under a cloudy sky that burst…
Hot Gay Summer in Berlin
Ever since Magnus Hirschfeld founded the world’s first homosexual organization in 1897, Berlin has exerted a magnetic, magical pull for LGBTQ people from around the world. As Christopher Isherwood revealed in numerous novels and memoirs, Berlin in the…
Swiss Glam Along Lake Geneva
Elevating hospitality to a five-star art has been a specialty of Switzerland since the founding in 1893 of the world’s first hotel school, École hôtelière de Lausanne, located in the Lake Geneva Region in the French-speaking part of the country.…
San Francisco Spring
San Francisco has a habit of hovering in the collective gay imagination like an empyrean city beckoning at rainbow’s end. It’s the city that most often answers the question, “If you could live anywhere else…”, one of the world’s most favorite cities –…
Marseille on the Mediterranean
Some years ago, thanks in part to a certain best-selling novel and an Oscar-winning film, Marseille had such a raffish reputation that its natural attributes were often overlooked. Situated on one of the world’s most beautiful harbors with more than 35…
The Pursuit of Happiness on the San Juan Islands
Even the alpacas are happy on the San Juan Islands. Located in the northwest corner of the United States between Seattle, Victoria, and Vancouver, the San Juan Islands are so pristine that both residents and visitors feel a shared responsibility to…