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Up in the air with Pam Ann

October 23, 2009 / No Comments



Pam Ann, né Carolyn Reid, is the comedienne who has taken Europe and Australia by storm. She is currently on a multi-city “USA Layover Tour” skewering airlines, airports and everything they represent and embody. Dubbed “cruelly funny” by the likes of Madonna, Pam Ann has developed a cult-like following in the vein Dame Edna, Lily Tomlin [...]

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And the GayCities Next Top Reviewer is…

October 22, 2009 / 1 Comment



The results are in and 1outta4 (real name Courter) is GayCities’ Next Top Reviewer. Though he calls New York home, Courter has reviewed bars and shops all across this great gay nation, and clearly knows how to have a good time. It is his willingness to share the details of his escapades–from the “3-toothed Drag Queen [...]

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Sexy Street: Folsom Fair in pictures

September 28, 2009 / No Comments



It comes as no surprise that the boys & girls of Folsom love to show off. To memorialize the biggest fair in its 26 year history–with more than 300,000 people packed into nine square blocks–we sent one of San Francisco’s best chronicler’s of gay life, the photographer Rick Gerharter, to capture folks in all their [...]

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Out on the town: Pam Spaulding’s Durham

September 25, 2009 / 2 Comments



Pam Spaulding is a CNN commentator and creator of the award-wining blog, Pam’s House Blend, which goes far beyond gay and lesbian issues to touch on trans rights, race, class, the religious right and what Pam, in her trademark biting wit, dubs the “general asshattery” of life in 21st-century America. You need not lean as far [...]

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Out on the town: Janice Tjon’s Curaçao

September 23, 2009 / 1 Comment



GayCities effusive New York editor, JJ Keyes, snagged a plumb assignment: creating our guide to the earthly paradise of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles while managing to vacation there at the same time. To celebrate the guide’s launch, JJ sat down with Janice Tjon, organizer of the Curaçao’s Get Wet Weekend, at the Gay Plasa. Over [...]

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GayCities official guide to October’s march on Washington

September 23, 2009 / 3 Comments



GayCities is proud to announce a major new partnership with the National Equality March, Washington, D.C., October 10-11. We’ve worked together to create the official guide to the march, with events ranging from activist training sessions to the massive rally on the Washington Mall. But of course, as LGBT-ers coming together in one of the nation’s great [...]

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Out on the indie rock scene with singer Tom Goss

September 19, 2009 / No Comments



UPDATED: If you asked Tom Goss, ten years ago, What do you want to be when you grow up? he likely would have answered in one of three ways: gymnast, wrestler or Catholic priest. Any of the three would have made sense: he was born into a home of gymnast parents and siblings in Wisconsin, [...]

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