gay culture
Views from Tokyo's Infamous Gay Micro-Bar District
Shinjuku 2 Chome is like a gay bar buffet. The Tokyo district is said to have the highest concentration of gay bars in the world, each with its own theme (such as BDSM or J-Pop), and each with less than a 12-person capacity.
Why Clubbing Was Crucial for Gay Men During the AIDS Crisis
"Often, I was relieved to see people at parties; I had assumed they had died in the interim."
Photos from MIX, NYC's Premier Queer Film Festival
The long-running happening transformed a raw warehouse space into a 24/7 art and film hub.
Do Raves and Drag Go Together? We Polled Bushwig's Most Fabulous Queens
"I think drag is really fun to appreciate even when you are not rolling."
Call Me Daddy: Playing Son to My Fatherless Boyfriend
I fell in love with a man 20 years my senior. Then, I became his "son."
Filming Mario Diaz, the Man Behind The Cock
In the aftermath of the AIDS crisis, Mario Diaz brought sex-positivity back to New York's gay scene with his balls-out wild club, The Cock. Now, documentary filmmaker Jon Bush is immortalizing Diaz's party life on film in Club King.
Ten Walls' Homophobic Rant Just Cost Him His Career
The Lithuanian producer has been dropped from major festivals and his booking agency.
Dance Music Is My Religion: Steve Weinstein on the Sacred Origins of Gay Circuit Parties
Circuit parties came to be defined as creating sacred spaces where gay men could converge to celebrate their identity without hostility or judgment.
Watch Tatum O'Neal Dance with an Alien Rosa Parks in iRAWniQ's New Music Video
We weren’t sure what happened in the music video for iRAWniQ’s "ALIENPU$," so we asked Oscar winner and former child star Tatum O'Neal to explain what the heck was going on.
Trans Writer Sybil Lamb Wrote a Novel About Surviving a Hate Crime
Trans writer Sybil Lamb was living in post-Katrina New Orleans when two men beat her with an iron pipe, taking a chunk out of her skull, and left her for dead in a rail yard. She's transformed this experience into a new book called I’ve Got a Time...
Dear Black People: Cut White Gays Some Slack
A recent editorial on TIME.com suggested that white gay men are stealing black culture. What the writer fails to understand is that much of modern black pop culture is stolen from gay people—specifically, everything about Beyonce.