Partying Like It's 1979
In its current issue, HX, the gay nightlife guide, trumpets "the resurgence of back rooms." If last Saturday night's Black Party is any indication, th...
View ArticleIt's Back!
Five gay men sharing a Lower Manhattan duplex penthouse are throwing a party. Downstairs, guests mingle at an impromptu bar. James, a 23-year-old bank...
View ArticleBecoming Kevin Aviance, Again
Ever since he stole his mom's makeup and clothes to perform "I Will Survive" in front of a stunned audience of fellow fourth graders, Kevin Aviance h...
View ArticlePegging Goes Big: Straight Men Get It In the End
Considering how "liberated" gay men are supposed to be, I'm amazed by how many of my brothers refuse to recognize that some straight men like to get f...
View ArticleThe End of Public Sex
On the night before Memorial Day last month, several hundred men were packed into the top floor of a building in the meatpacking district. A DJ spun i...
View ArticleThe Queer Issue: The Rise of Rentboys
Only 19 and barely out of high school, Jason Pitt looks like a typical small-town Georgia youth. But this good ol' boy is making a lot more than the s...
View ArticleThe Queer Issue: Beefcake's Golden Age
Scott Herman is hanging out at the Belvedere, the campy, turreted guesthouse in Cherry Grove that is so over-the-top it's been called the Capitol of G...
View ArticleAIDS Killed My Partner—But It Was His Decision To Die
On January 1, 1990, I met Tom, the love of my life. On May 15, 2001, I helped him die. Tom seroconverted (i.e., was exposed to HIV) in late 1992. Fr...
View ArticleIn Praise of Promiscuity
Event planner Michael Scarna, 31, was walking down the street one day when he realized he wanted to be in a relationship. Soon thereafter, he met Mich...
View ArticleGay Museum Wars: Victory? Or a Truce?
Way back in 1934, Paul Cadmus's painting "The Fleet's In!" displayed a shockingly honest panorama of oversexed sailors on leave. When the Corcoran Gal...
View ArticleNightlife Suffers as Gay Men Move Online
A recent poster in New York's gayborhoods tells the tale: "MORE GRINDR=FEWER GAY BARS." This brief cri de coeur—spread, appropriately enough, vi...
View ArticleLGBT Purists to Christine Quinn: We'd Love a Gay Mayor. Just Not You.
On a recent Sunday morning at the Mandarin Hotel in the Time Warner Center, many of the city's gay glitterati gathered for a Victory Fund champagne br...
View ArticleFrom Fetish to Fabric
If you want to know what happened to New York's once-subversive leather scene, take a look at the photo in an optometrist's window on Ninth Avenue ...
View ArticlePride Issue: Life Keeps Getting Better for David Miranda
David Miranda had always suspected that he was gay. The child of immigrant parents in the South Bronx, he tried to pray away his feelings, but the co...
View ArticleWill Success Spoil Astor Place?
Tony Rosenthal's black cube continues to attract stoners and skateboarders to the center of Astor Place. But the sleek new structures surrounding th...
View ArticleThe Day the Dancehall Died
After Lady Gaga ends her ten-day string of sold-out shows at the Roseland Ballroom, the block-long venue (52nd to 53rd streets between Broadway and Ei...
View ArticleTime Warp, the Most Prestigious Techno Festival in the World, Makes Its Way...
For three months, Time Warp found itself in limbo. The first festival in the city where it is still based — Mannheim, Germany, having debuted in...
View Article
