Archive for 2008

Donate to save Gay Marriage in California

California’s historic acceptance of gay marriage is at a high risk of being overturned and you can help.
Donate now to the No on 8 to help them counter the anti-equality voices.
Ever since May when the California Supreme Court decided to allow gay marriages, we gays & lesbians have been traveling to California to get married. [...]

October 9th, 2008

Win a trip to Switzerland

We’ve started working on our first European guides and we’ve can’t help but come back to the natural beauty of Switzerland.
So, when we heard our friends at Pride Radio were giving away a trip for two to Switzerland as their “PrideRadio Destination of the Month”, we wanted to share it.
Hurry up and [...]

September 30th, 2008

Our newest guides: Oklahoma City & Providence RI

One of our favorite things to do around here is add new cities to our guide. You all have been great in requesting your favorite town and sending us info about those towns.

So I’m happy to announce that we added two cities that you asked for: Gay Oklahoma City and Gay Providence, [...]

September 4th, 2008

Hurricane Gustav Curtails Southern Decadence

Most business are prepped for the storm
After days of hoping, the organizers of New Orleans’ Southern Decadence have been forced to cut back the event significantly - the Saturday street party has been cancelled and the parade appears to as well.
With Hurricane Gustav looming and expected to hit just west of New Orleans on late [...]

August 30th, 2008

Kristin Chenoweth’s “Intervention”

It’s a little off topic, but we couldn’t help but post this fun video from Funny or Die. It’s funny AND has a good anti-meth angle. Enjoy.

See more Kristin Chenoweth videos at Funny or Die
via towleroad

August 27th, 2008

Join the team - we’re hiring!

UPDATE: We’ve filled this position, thanks for all the interest!
Over the coming months, we’ll be growing our team and today we are looking for a part-time Editorial Assistant, ideally in San Francisco (our home base), but we’re open to people working from remote locations in the US.
The job description follows, if you [...]

July 30th, 2008

South Carolina pulls gay tourism ad campaign

For this year’s London Pride, a UK based travel website ran an ad campaign using posters throughout the London Metro touting US cities as gay friendly locations. The posters read “Atlanta is so gay, Las Vegas is so gay”, etc.
Well, the folks in South Carolina’s government caught wind [...]

July 14th, 2008

Attempt to Reopen NYC’s Roxy?

Last Dance at the RoxyPhoto by: hrichton91 on flickr
For years, New York’s Roxy set the tone for what a gay mega-club should be and when in closed last year to make way for a new condo development, people lined up for hours for the last dance.
But the club is still there, re-opening from time [...]

July 8th, 2008

Pride 2008 Wrapup

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom at Gay Pride 2008. Photo by puppyboysuk

Well, it was yet another terrific pride month with celebrations all over the world.
Festivities started early–in May!–in Sao Paulo Brazil and Long Beach, CA, and each weekend in June brought celebrations somewhere.
There are some great roundups about [...]

June 30th, 2008

What pride means to me: Atlantaboy

Who is Atlantaboy Matt Burkhalter
We first got to know Matt after he wrote the book “Atlantaboy” and helped us learn all about where to go in Atlanta (see our original interview here). Matt’s still helping people find the best of the south’s metropolitan center.
Matt in his own words
I am a graphic designer, [...]

June 27th, 2008