It was just after noon and the sun was setting. Seventy-two dogs bayed in the gloaming, as the horizon glowed a frosty blue. Everything was snow. We were nearly one hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle where the temperature … Read More
You’ve just got to love a city that erects a bronze statue of a local gay magistrate accused of too closely examining the nether regions of three male suspects. On a bronze frieze, at the base of the Alexander Wood … Read More
For those of us living in large American cities where winning is paramount and money the raison d’être (and the scream of sirens ongoing…), there is a great deal of comfort to be found in a city where civility is … Read More
Second cities like middle children often find themselves in the shadows of their bigger, older siblings. Some, like Chicago, embrace the Second City moniker, while others like Manchester, England, work to define themselves apart from their larger sister. For years, … Read More
For years, Manchester has been well-known as a breeding ground for boundary-pushing musical pioneers – and yet, equally important if perhaps lesser known, Manchester has been at the vanguard in the fight for LGBT equality. … Read More
As the locals like to say, there are two seasons in Montréal: winter and festivals. And while Montréal’s winter can last for eight months, that still leaves an entire four months to celebrate 24/7 amidst a profusion of outdoor festivals. … Read More
As the third state (out of five) in the US to perform same-sex marriages, Connecticut has embraced the LGBT community rather more passionately than most of the country-and that embrace extends to the gaming industry as well. Recently, Mohegan Sun … Read More
When the emcee at the Disco Ball at Trump Taj Mahal asks the audience for a hometown shout-out and the largest cheers are for the boroughs of New York, it’s suddenly clear that Atlantic City must be doing something right; … Read More
