Archive for January, 2008

MILK: Sean Penn & Emile Hirsch

While we know we are a gay travel blog, we continue to be amazed at the transformation of San Francisco’s Castro District for the filming of Gus Vant Sant’s MILK. The crew has now taken over two whole blocks of the Castro and fills the streets with over 50 period cars.
We caught [...]

January 30th, 2008

More MILK Pictures

The transformation of the Castro District in San Francisco is coming to a head as filming begins tomorrow for Gus Van Sant’s MILK.
Most of the store fronts near Harvey’s Camera Shop have gotten new signage. And another has closed for the filming turning itself into the liquor store it was years ago.

Harvey’s [...]

January 24th, 2008

Castro makeover for MILK begins

This week, constructions crews are painting and removing signs and awnings and two Castro businesses closed making way for the new Gus Van Sant film “MILK”. (Read more about the film at towleroad and the Bay Area Reporter)
Here at GayCities, we call San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood home. As we walk in the [...]

January 17th, 2008

iPhone: Thousands of gay bars in your pocket

Today we are unveiling GayCities for your iPhone and with it you can carry around the most up-to-date and comprehensive gay guide wherever you travel. It’s like having listings for thousands of gay bars, restaurants and hotels in your pocket.
Just in time for this week’s Macworld conference, we built a tailored version our [...]

January 16th, 2008

Diana Ross opens newest Las Vegas Hotel

Photo by Betizuka
Las Vegas’s newest luxury hotel opens later this month with an “extravaganza” (their word, not ours) featuring Diana Ross on January 19th.

Like it’s sister The Venetian, The Palazzo is an all suites hotel; each suite features a sunken living room, egyptian cotton bedding and remote-control curtains and shades.

They’ve gone over the top with [...]

January 7th, 2008

New Hampshire’s Inns want to host your civil union

Photo by: chrisirmo
On January 1, 2008 New Hampshire became the fourth state to legalize some form of civil unions (along with Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey, Massachusetts has marriage and other states offer domestic partnership).
The Associated Press looks at the decision and talks to the Chamber of Commerce and Inn [...]

January 4th, 2008

Happy New Year from GayCities!

Thanks to all of you, 2007 was a terrific year for GayCities. You are part of a large and growing community: over 60,000 people use GayCities each month and they’ve left thousands of reviews of gay bars, clubs, hotels, restaurants and beaches in the US & Canada. This year we added over [...]

January 1st, 2008