Born from Watch Party PHL, The Stoop Pigeon is Philadelphia’s first home for women’s sports, uniting NWSL, WNBA and NCAA fans. See how this clubhouse drives advocacy and community ahead of Spring 2026—take a look.
H.B. 632 to modernize Pennsylvania’s HIV law cleared the state House Judiciary Committee, advancing HIV decriminalization grounded in U=U science. See what changes, who’s impacted, and what happens next—read on.
William Way LGBT Community Center has left 1315 Spruce Street as the historic building heads for demolition, but programs across Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ community continue. See how this move safeguards the mission, expands access, and builds a sustainable future—discover what’s next.
Philadelphia names Tito Valdes to lead the Office of LGBTQ Affairs, aiming to restore stability and prioritize LGBTQ youth in foster care. See how this reset could reshape city services and trust—dive in to learn what changes first.
A compliance inspection at Philadelphia’s Marsha’s Bar ended with no violations—but the heavy police presence sparked deeper questions about LGBTQ+ spaces, policing, and fairness. Here’s why the moment matters for queer nightlife and community safety.
After 30 years of drag, laughter, and HIV activism, Carlota Ttendant takes her final bow at Philadelphia’s iconic GayBINGO. Discover how one performer helped turn camp into community care—and why this Pride Month farewell matters more than ever.
Pillion treats queer kink as lived language, exploring power, vulnerability, and desire without sensationalism. This review unpacks why the film’s explicit heat gives way to something rarer and more tender—read on for the conversation it sparks.
Richard Barone and Tawatha Agee deliver a soul-stirring finale at Mazzoni Center Honors, closing the night with a genre-defying tribute to Melba Moore. Experience the performance that brought the audience to its feet and the legacy full circle.
Nikki Renee Daniels’ soaring performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” at Mazzoni Center Honors celebrates Melba Moore’s groundbreaking Broadway legacy. This moving tribute honors the voice, visibility, and courage of a true LGBTQ+ ally—don’t miss the moment.
Heated Rivalry is the queer hockey romance rewriting the rules — where raw passion meets emotional honesty on the ice. This isn’t just about sex or sports; it’s a deeply felt love story in a world where visibility still matters. Stream it now and feel every charged second.
Vance Gilbert’s live tribute to Melba Moore at Mazzoni Center Honors is a powerful reminder of Black excellence, LGBTQ+ legacy, and the healing force of music. Discover how one song captures a lifetime of artistry, activism, and impact.
Adam Weiner lit up Mazzoni Center Honors with a fierce, genre-blending rendition of Melba Moore’s Grammy-nominated hit “Read My Lips.” His performance reclaims Moore’s rock legacy and proves her boldness still inspires artists across generations. Don’t miss this moment.
Wicked: For Good doubles down on its queer energy, heartbreak, and political bite—mixing campy spectacle with emotional depth. Dive into the messy magic of Elphaba, Glinda, and the gay feelings in between.
Netflix’s Boots blends queer identity, military tension, and ’90s nostalgia into a sweaty, subversive story of resilience and belonging. Watch now.
David Archuleta brings queer joy and bold energy to Philadelphia with his Earthly Delights tour—don’t miss this euphoric night of music and self-expression.
BOS Philly returns with Level Up – Game On, a gamer-themed circuit party at NOTO for OurFest 2025. Grab your tickets and get in on the action!
Celebrate National Coming Out Day at OURfest 2025, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ festival. Discover how Philly shows up with pride, power, and purpose.
After 38 years, AIDS Walk Philly takes its final bow—join the community for a powerful retrospective and honor its enduring legacy. RSVP today.
Philly’s first queer women’s sports bar, Marsha’s South Street, is here to change the game. Celebrate inclusion, sports, and community—visit now.
Step into an 8-bit fantasy with PLAYER ONE, BOS Philly’s arcade-themed party during OurFest Weekend. Grab your ticket and power up the night!
Florida officials removed the rainbow crosswalk at the Pulse site, sparking LGBTQ+ outrage. See how the community responded with love and resistance.
Celebrate 30 years of GayBINGO with drag, music, and community spirit — all while supporting Action Wellness. Get your tickets now!
Discover Tavern on Camac’s stunning new menu and renovated space. Experience bold flavors, rich history, and LGBTQ+ community—reserve your table now!
William Way LGBT Center is relocating in 2025 to expand access, sustainability, and services. Discover how you can support this transformative shift.
Trump allies want to strip Harvey Milk’s name from a Navy ship during Pride Month. Learn why this fight for LGBTQ+ history still matters—take action now.
Celebrate LGBTQ+ Legacy, Unity, and Visibility at Philly Pride 2025. Join 100,000+ voices on June 1—march, dance, and live your pride.
Celebrate LGBTQ+ legacy, unity, and visibility at Philly Pride 2025 with a record-breaking 600-foot rainbow flag and vibrant community zones. Join the movement!
The Fairness Act just passed the PA House, promising LGBTQ+ protections in jobs, housing, and more. Learn what’s next—and how you can help push it forward.
Long-acting PrEP just got easier to access in Philly’s Gayborhood. Learn how Apretude at Mazzoni Center’s new location changes HIV prevention. Call now!
Join over 40 Philly restaurants on April 24 for Dining Out for Life 2025 and turn your meal into a mission to support people living with HIV. Reserve now!
Philadelphia names Tyrell Brown to lead LGBTQ+ Affairs, championing equity, visibility, and inclusive policy. See what’s next for the city.
Philadelphia’s most glamorous LGBTQ+ fundraiser is back! Black-Tie GayBINGO! returns on March 22, 2025, now hosted by Action Wellness. Get ready for an unforgettable night of drag, dinner, and BINGO—all for a great cause. Grab your tickets now!
Chris Bartlett’s departure from William Way marks the end of an era for Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ community. Discover his lasting impact and what’s next for both him and the center.
Philly AIDS Thrift just awarded $358,085 in grants to 34 nonprofits, surpassing $5 million in total donations. These funds support HIV/AIDS services, LGBTQ+ youth, and community health programs. See how they’re making an impact!
The Mazzoni Center’s tribute to George Takei was a night of inspiration, advocacy, and star-studded performances. See the highlights!
Clean Slate brings humor, heart, and authentic LGBTQ+ representation to the screen. Don’t miss this must-watch comedy on Freevee!
Companion (2025) redefines horror with a powerful queer love story at its heart. Lukas Gage and Harvey Guillén deliver emotional depth in a film that blends sci-fi, psychological terror, and groundbreaking LGBTQ+ representation. Don’t miss this must-watch thriller!
George Alley’s Blue Valentine is a hauntingly beautiful exploration of love, regret, and self-reflection. With mesmerizing visuals and poetic lyricism, this must-watch music video delivers an emotional punch. Experience it now!
New Jersey just made history by becoming the first state to ban conversion therapy for adults. This landmark law protects LGBTQ+ individuals from harmful practices while setting a powerful precedent for the rest of the nation.
Dive into this week’s most fabulous LGBTQ+ Instagram highlights, from drag extravaganzas to pride art. Celebrate the community’s brilliance—click to see it all!
Delaware makes history as the first state to launch a statewide LGBTQ+ inclusive curriculum, empowering students with representation and fostering inclusion. Learn how this groundbreaking initiative is reshaping education.
Get ready for a fabulous holiday season! From parades to festive markets and unexpected twists, here’s how Philly celebrates in style.
Rediscover Aiden James’ tender 2016 cover of Joni Mitchell’s “River.” This soulful rendition beautifully captures the bittersweet emotions of the holiday season.
After 35 years of transformative impact, AIDS Fund Philadelphia is closing its doors, leaving behind a powerful legacy of resilience, compassion, and community progress. Learn how their mission continues through Action Wellness.
Discover VinChelle’s electrifying performance in Kinky Boots, a musical brimming with heart, humor, and high-heeled flair. Grab your tickets now!
Discover Cherry, the innovative app fostering connections, inclusivity, and empowerment for the queer sapphic community. Join the movement today!
The long-awaited trial for Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells, a beloved Black transgender woman, begins this week. Stand with her family and community as they fight for justice.
Celebrate love and unity at Reading’s Mass LGBTQ+ Wedding on December 21. Join us in a powerful act of hope and equality as the community comes together for this historic event.
Sarah McBride’s election as the first openly transgender U.S. Congress member is a landmark for representation. Yet, pushback from conservative lawmakers underscores the ongoing fight for equality.
Explore the nation’s oldest LGBTQ+ lending library at the William Way Center—home to over 14,000 books and a rich archive celebrating LGBTQ+ history. Visit to connect with an extraordinary legacy!
Level Up Bar & Lounge, Philly’s iconic Black-owned LGBTQ+ haven, prepares to close its doors. Discover its legacy and the hopeful plans for a new beginning.
As Trump’s re-election brings uncertainty for LGBTQ+ rights, the community stands strong, celebrating historic wins and pushing forward with resilience. Discover how our voices remain powerful.
Get a behind-the-scenes look at Avi Wolf Borouchoff’s thrilling life as a bisexual aerialist and master of aerial straps. Discover how Avi combines humor, art, and identity to inspire audiences everywhere.
Join us as we celebrate the unforgettable legacy of Cockatoo, Philadelphia’s beloved LGBTQ+ haven, and honor the impact of this unique space on the city’s community.
LGBTQ+ youth are at higher risk of trafficking, but Philadelphia is leading the charge with a new safe house and survivor-centered resources. Learn more about the efforts to protect vulnerable youth and join the cause!
The Supreme Court is tackling pivotal LGBTQ+ cases that could reshape transgender healthcare and civil rights protections nationwide. Stay informed—these decisions will have lasting consequences.
The rebranding of Tabu to 254 marks a pivotal shift for Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ community. Discover how this iconic venue’s history shapes its future and what the new management has in store. Read on to learn more!
Mpox has disproportionately affected Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ community, particularly MSM. Learn how vaccination can help protect you and reduce outbreaks—take action today.
Follow the touching road trip of comedian Will Ferrell and his friend Harper Steele as they navigate the complexities of friendship, trans identity, and acceptance in “Will & Harper.” Stream it now on Netflix!
Brian Sims, a longtime LGBTQ+ advocate, now leads Agenda PAC, focused on defeating anti-LGBTQ+ candidates in the 2024 elections. Discover how his leadership will shape the fight for LGBTQ+ rights.
Join us in Manayunk for the 2024 Out & About Festival! From drag shows to artisan markets, this event celebrates LGBTQ+ pride with inclusivity, creativity, and fun. Don’t miss it!
Philadelphia celebrates the legacy of LGBTQ+ leader Michael S. Hinson Jr. with the renaming of Chestnut Street in his honor. Discover how his activism continues to inspire.
Discover how McKenna Michels’ upcoming EP Revolution blends resilience, love, and self-expression. Stay tuned for a transformative journey through music. Don’t miss it!
The Philadelphia Marathon’s new nonbinary category is a step toward inclusivity, but activists are calling for equal recognition for professional nonbinary athletes. Read on to discover how this shift could impact the future of sports.
Philadelphia is tackling LGBTQ+ homelessness with a transformative program offering housing, support services, and a path to stability. Discover how this initiative is changing lives and setting a national example.
Philadelphia’s John C. Anderson Apartments mark a decade of providing safe, inclusive housing for LGBTQ+ seniors. Discover how this pioneering project continues to change lives and inspire nationwide progress.
In a dynamic rally held at Temple University in Philadelphia, Vice President Kamala Harris and her newly announced running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, made a compelling case for their campaign’s commitment to LGBT rights and progressive values. This event marked a significant moment in their joint campaign, underscoring their dedication to fostering inclusivity and…
Discover how Philadelphia’s new real-time crime tracking system enhances safety and support for LGBTQ victims. Learn about its early successes and ongoing challenges.
Montgomery County’s new LGBTQIA+ advisory commission aims to enhance support and representation for LGBTQIA+ residents, businesses, and allies. Join us in creating an inclusive community!
Discover how the William Way LGBT Center in Philadelphia is providing crucial relief from extreme heat with their new cooling center. Learn more now!
Philly Black Pride introduces the Michael Hinson Mission Grants to honor Michael S. Hinson Jr.’s legacy, supporting Black LGBTQ+ individuals in academic and community initiatives. Apply now!
Discover the alarming impact of Project 2025 on LGBTQ+ protections. Learn how this conservative blueprint threatens to dismantle rights and freedoms. Stay informed, act now!
President Biden celebrated Pride Month’s end and the Stonewall Riots’ 55th anniversary by opening the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center. Discover his heartfelt tribute and commitment to LGBTQ+ rights. Read more to join the journey.
In the wake of a tragic hate crime, PA House leaders urge the Senate to pass H.B. 1027, ensuring comprehensive protections for LGBTQ+ individuals. Join the fight for justice.
Discover the Ark of Safety LGBTQ+ Safe Haven, Philadelphia’s first trans-focused shelter, providing crucial support and safety for transgender individuals. Learn more and join the movement for change.
Celena Morrison-McLean and her husband Darius McLean’s harrowing encounter with Pennsylvania State Police highlights systemic issues in law enforcement. Their story calls for urgent reforms and greater accountability.
Pennsylvania’s repeal of the same-sex marriage ban clears legal barriers and affirms commitment to LGBTQ+ equality. Join us in supporting this crucial step towards justice.
Discover the new Center for LGBTQ+ Health in Collingswood, providing comprehensive, inclusive healthcare tailored to the LGBTQ+ community. Visit today for affirming care.
Discover the inspiring journey of a Stonewall pioneer and hear from global LGBTI activists about the significance of Pride. Join the movement!
Discover how Philadelphia’s Pride 2024 set new records and celebrated the LGBTQ+ community with unforgettable events. Join the celebration of unity and inclusivity!
Former President Trump vows to revoke LGBTQ protections if reelected, sparking widespread concern. Learn how activists are mobilizing in response. Read on for more.
Discover how Cumberland Valley’s strong community advocacy reinstated Maulik Pancholy for an impactful anti-bullying talk, emphasizing the importance of LGBTQ+ representation in schools.
Explore the intricate landscape of LGBT rights in Pennsylvania, from legal battles to community strides toward inclusion.
The Old Bridge Board of Education’s repeal of transgender protections sparks fear and backlash. What does this mean for student safety?
Join us for the Philly Pride 2024: Be You, featuring the largest rainbow flag and a vibrant festival. Discover community, celebration, and support!
Philly AIDS Thrift and its Giovanni’s Room counterpart have once again demonstrated their commitment to the fight against HIV/AIDS by awarding substantial grants to local organizations, showcasing the power of community and generosity in making a tangible difference.
Discover how Andreas Copes leverages their past to inspire the LGBTQ+ future. Dive into a journey of empowerment and history.
Hey there, fabulous readers! Are you ready to dive into an evening filled with sparkle, laughter, and heartwarming moments? Mark your calendars for April 6, because the annual Black-Tie GayBINGO event at the luxurious Loews Philadelphia Hotel is the place to be! This isn’t just any bingo night; it’s a dazzling blend of glamorous drag…
Explore the implications of Celena Morrison’s traffic stop, shedding light on the need for transparency and community relations
Join the pinnacle of LGBTQ+ festive cheer and philanthropy at TOY’s enchanting “Winter Wonderland”. Secure your spot now!
Ignite your night with BOS Philly’s star-studded DJ lineup at the ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ event. Get your tickets now!
Unleash the stories of top LGBTQ figures fighting for change and making lasting impressions increase in society.
Join us in commemorating National Coming Out Day and expressing solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community at the yearly Out & About Festival in Manayunk. The event, stretching over four days from Thursday, September 28th to Sunday, October 1st, promises to be a spectacular extravaganza with drag shows, fitness routines, a fun-filled comedy night, a screening of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and much more!
Dive into hilarious queer narratives this autumn with two mesmerizing plays at Fergie’s Pub. It’s all about food, drama, laughter, and unforgettable emotions.
Celebrating diversity as we welcome Sabriaya Shipley, the new Executive Director of Theatre Philadelphia. Learn more about her compelling vision for inclusive theatre arts in the city.
Immerse yourself in OURfest, America’s inaugural National Coming Out Parade and Festival. Experience an unprecedented weekend of unity, resilience, and celebration. Get involved today
The recent decision by a group of House Republicans to slash federal funding to LGBTQ organizations sent shock waves through the LGBTQ+ community and beyond. Among those targeted were two Pennsylvania centers of communal refuge: The William Way Community Center and the LGBT Center of Greater Reading. This act, widely criticized as a blatant act…
Discover how ‘Moms for Liberty’ are linked to far-right extremist groups and why greater vigilance is essential.
Join us as we unveil the mural embodying Philly’s rich LGBT and Ballroom culture – a vibrant tribute to community pride and resilience.
Capture the golden opportunity to understand your legal rights and get free legal services with Angela Giampolo’s Caravan of Hope. Remember, knowledge is power!
Get ready for an unparalleled celebration of the LGBTQ community at the largest-ever Stonewall Sports National Tournament, hosted by Philadelphia this July.
Dive into Aiden James’ heartfelt acoustic version of his hit single “Arms Length” and experience the raw, authentic emotions that captivate fans worldwide.
OurNightOut-Philly truly outshined itself on June 6, as the Delaware Valley Legacy Fund (DVLF) hosted a spectacular Pride Month celebration for the LGBTQ community aboard the historic Moshulu. The world’s oldest and largest square-rigged sailing vessel, currently repurposed as a floating restaurant in Penn’s Landing, provided breathtaking views of the city skyline and a perfect…
What’s more delightful than a Pride event with a Candyland theme? At the start of Pride Month, BOS Philly hosted an incredibly colorful and vibrant affair at their official Pride celebration – Candyland! 🍭🌈 With over 1,000 guests dressed in their sweetest and most appetizing attire, you just couldn’t take your eyes off the candy-coated…
Experience the joy of painting and unleash your inner artist at ARTrageous Brush & Flow. Discover art, friendship, and creative expression.
Join Vinchelle as she interviews Garrett Matthew, owner of WiseGuy, a customer-centric tech business offering repairs, sales, and accessories. Get ready for a tech-filled adventure
OurNightOut had their monthly happy hour at Independence Beer Garden, located at 6th and Market streets.. Check out the photos and join them for their next one.
Dive into a candy-colored wonderland at BOS Philly’s Candyland Pride Party on June 3, 2023! This unforgettable night of music, dancing, and celebration is all about giving back to the community
Join the largest annual celebration of love and freedom at the Philadelphia Pride March and Festival presented by Galaei. Experience unforgettable moments of unity and joy!
The iconic rainbow crosswalks in Philadelphia’s Center City are making a vibrant comeback, symbolizing hope and support for the city’s LGBT community.
Pennsylvania House passes the Fairness Act, granting statewide anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ+ individuals in housing, education, and public accommodations.
Join PGMC for a grand finale to their 41st concert year as they commemorate the legendary Sir Elton John, featuring hits from pop to Broadway and beyond.
Get Ready for Philadelphia Pride 2023: Love, Light, and Liberation! June 2 – 4, 2023 Philadelphia’s official Pride celebration is back this year with a bang, and we can’t wait to share all the exciting details with you! Presented by Galaei, Philly’s leading QTBIPOC social justice organization, Pride is taking over the city with a…
Galaei, a QTBIPOC social justice organization, is excited to announce Tyrell Brown as its new Executive Director, continuing its mission to provide a safe space for Philadelphia’s Latinx/o/a/e community.
Meet our own Mazzoni Girl, Jae Marshall! As a Case Management Services Manager learn more about what Jae does, what case management is, and how she supports our community!
We are thrilled to share that Philly AIDS Thrift has just awarded over $372K in grants to 33 HIV/AIDS service organizations in the Delaware Valley!
Meet Dr. Billie Swiggard, an infectious disease physician, and learn why she chooses to work at Mazzoni Center, and what makes her proud to work there. Medicine is literally a second career for Billie Swiggard. This self-described guitar player, folk singer, entertainer and “Broadway Gypsy” was first on the stage, dropping out of college at…
Republican Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano recently announced his plan to introduce legislation that would effectively ban Drag Queens at pride events across the Commonwealth, including Philadelphia Pride
Excited to announce the American premiere of Meet Me at Dawn by award-winning Scottish playwright Zinnie Harris! Directed by Sam Tower and starring Hannah Gold and Jackie Soro. Don’t miss out on this mysterious and mystical tale of love and grief.
To kick off 2023, OurNightOut partnered with The Mulberry for January’s Our Night Out. Thank you,you, everyone who came out. They raised $1,322.04 for the DVLF.
Photos courtesy of Kelly Burkhardt
Honey, it’s been quite the year for PhillyGayCalendar! We’ve been serving up all the tea on everything from pride parades to Gunnar’s sizzling performances. And let’s not forget all the major events happening in BOS Philly – we’ve got the inside scoop on the hottest concerts and fundraisers. But the theater, darling. The theater. We’ve seen some truly incredible productions and had the pleasure of sharing our reviews with all of you.
It’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for! Winter sports registration is HERE. Get ready for another wonderful season of Stonewall!
The Philly Beauty Ball is the brainchild of Philly’s infamous drag performer BEV [Drew Gaver] and Ryan Rudy. It was created for everyone to get a chance to try out drag for the first time and a way to raise money for local charities. Philly Beauty Balls missions is: The one time each year anybody…
LGBTQ candidates made more significant strides towards becoming elected officials than ever before in this year’s midterm elections. Some advocates are calling it a “rainbow wave.” With results still coming in, more than 400 LGBTQ candidates have won elections so far. That’s about to surpass the number for 2020 and for 2018. The LGBTQ Victory…
Inis Nua Theatre Company announces the launch of Queer Connections Reading Series, featuring three moving stories that focus on life, love and competition. The series begins with a reading of Love Song to Lavender Menace by Scottish playwright James Ley, directed by David Bardeen, on Monday, November 14, 2022 at 7:00pm, at the Proscenium Theatre…
The Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus will present ‘Happy Holigays and a Queer New Year!’ at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre, 480 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia PA, 19146 on December 1, 2022 at 8 PM, December 2, 2022 at 8 PM and December 3 at 2 PM and 8 PM.
BOS Philly produced the most amazing party Philly has seen in decades. Featuring DJ Cindel, BOS took over The Ave for a circus themed party for the ages. Acrobats, clowns, bearded ladies, jugglers, performers and more under an impressive Big Top
The BOS Philly team took to the dark side for this fetish based party to celebrate OUT WKD. Featuring DJ Nick structure.
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A Philly tourism legend now has a Gayborhood street named after him. He joins the ranks of other LGBTQ civil rights icons named on the rainbow-striped street signs.
Philly AIDS Thrift brings back their beloved block party and fall festival with a full day of free, family and fido friendly fun! Philly AIDS Thrift 17th Anniversary Block Party
OurNightOut took over La Peg for their September Happy Hour!
The team at BOS Philly gave us another incredible party. With DJ Twin from DC spinning all night, the music was electrifying. Guys showed up dressed for a night in the garden of Eden, fig leaves, snakes and more….or should we say less!
The gang at OurNightOut took over Morgan’s Pier for a summer happy hour by the waterfront. OurNightOut offers monthly happy hours for the LGBT Community
Meet the Philadelphia Gryphons
Gunnar Montana Productions 2022 production, BATH HOUSE! Designed as a temple to the fluid nature of sexuality, BATH HOUSE will be a deeply sensory immersive theatrical experience dripping with erotic energy from start to finish. Our cast and crew has been working hard to create an atmosphere where you are free to indulge your own…
The OUT in Point Breeze gang took over Sardine Bar for an amazing happy hour! It might have been hot out, but that didn’t stop them from drinking, eating, and making friends.
Gunnar Montana is back again with another great photoshoot. This time with his help from his friends Teddy Fatscher and William Robinson, they build a neon shower for a truly unique look.
Another hot weekend, but the Philly LGBT community found ways to cool off!
Our Fall season is right around the corner, with registration kicking off on Monday, 7/25, at 7pm and ending on Sunday, 8/7, at 11:59pm. This season, we’re bringing back kickball, dodgeball (REMIX), billiards, Stonewall in Motion, and yoga!
Let’s look at some posts in the gay community last week Metro Men’s Fashion, everyone’s favorite gay owned and operated clothing store on Passynk just received some great new fashions. NEed a new wardrobe for the summer, stop in and check it out! Tom Longo who founded Metro Men’s, recently sold the business to Ish…
NYC Comedian Sam Morrison sits down with Alejandro Morales and Don’t Tell Your Brother co-host Jake Symbol to talk about July 2nd’s preview performance of Sam’s solo show “Sugar Daddy” at Strangelove’s in Philly July 2nd.
In celebration of Pride Month, Penn University Life took a trip to the Philadelphia Gayborhood with Malik Muhammad, Associate Director of the University of Penn LGBT Center, to learn about the history of the neighborhood, explore Malik’s favorite spots, and visit a few LGBTQ+ owned small businesses.
Local Entrepreneurs and personal trainers Come Alive 215 are hosting an event on Saturday, June 25th, to unite the community for a celebration of the Philadelphia LGBTQ+ community and a 45 minute boot camp workout experience. The event will include a community-oriented workout, live music, free lite bites by Michael Solmonov, Sazon, and drink samples…
After accusations of racism and transphobia ripped apart the group that ran Philadelphia’s biggest LGBTQ celebration, a scrappy group of activists is trying to pick up the pieces. Similar reckonings are taking place at Pride organizations across the nation. What happens next in Philly is unclear. Can a group with little experience and lofty goals create a new Pride festival that’s equitable and lasting? Can the movement be revived — and finally get it right?
Optimal Sport is a gay-owned gym that has been creating a vibrant and inclusive space for the last two decades and takes pride in zero-judgment gym culture. The family-friendly community gym is nestled in the heart of the Gayborhood. Optimal Sport The Philadelphia Building1315 Walnut StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19107PH: 215.735.1114 Mon – Thurs: 5:30am – 11pmFriday:…
William Way LGBT Community Center and artist/entrepreneur Alex Stadler have teamed up to collaborate on a special exhibition and public memorial service for those lost in the early AIDS pandemic in the city of Philadelphia.
Community, located at 1200 S. 21st (Federal Street in Point Breeze), has partnered with Smirnoff Vodka for the second year in a row to host a Pride Party and to raise money for William Way Community Center on Wednesday June 22rd from 5:00pm-12:00am. There will be a Spiked Smirnoff Lemonade Stand and scratch made carnival foods like homemade corn dogs with house-made ketchup and funfetti cake.
* Chef DeMarco’s residency is timed to coincide with Philly Gay Pride Month and will raise funds for a brand new restaurant concept Chef Jose Garces announces Chef Dane DeMarco (they/them) as the next Chef in Residency at Volvér on Kimmel Cultural Campus. Chef DeMarco’s residency is timed to coincide with Philly Pride Month, starting June 15th and…
Stina BYO, Philly’s restaurant with a social mission, will continue their monthly Guest Chef Series Charity Dinner on Tuesday, June 21st from 4:00pm to 10:00pm featuring Hardena’s Chef and Co-Owner Diana Widjojo. This Philly Gay Pride Month edition of Stina’s monthly series will benefit the Attic Youth Center, with 20% of sales donated to this…
Rainbow Bagel BenefitBy Glu HospitalityBagels and Co.1001 N 2nd St, Philadelphia, PA 19123All Month Long! Bagels and Co. and Glu Hospitality are proud to support Philly Gay Pride Month and the LGBTQ Community with a dollar from every single rainbow bagel sold in June to William Way LGBT Community Center to support their ongoing work…
Without a Cue Productions celebrates Philly Gay Pride Month with $5 off the new mystery walking tours in Historic Philadelphia.
Celebrate Gay Pride Month at America’s oldest continuously operating LGBTQ bookstore! For Philly Gay Pride Month, stop by Philly AIDS Thrift at Giovanni’s Room in the gayborhood for all of your gay pride month essentials
Philly AIDS Thrift celebrates June as Philly Gay Pride Month with a colorful, Queer-centric wowing window display celebrating the diversity of our city and region’s queer community.
Available at the Lab at Evil Genius and through GoPuff and Delivery PlatformsEvil Genius Beer Company1727 N. Front St., Philadelphia215-425-6820http://evilgeniusbeer.com Love who you want to, drink what you want to! Evil Genius Beer Company celebrates June as Philly Gay Pride Month with a special limited edition beer release #loveislove. This exclusive Strawberry Blonde Ale (6%…
FCM Hospitality presents a special month-long fundraiser for four local charities during Philly Gay Pride Month. Drink the rainbow with Cocktails for a Cause
We are so excited about Pride this year. This will be the first time Pride is in person since before COVID. For Pride there will be a block party in the gayborhood on Sunday June 5. But BOS Philly will have parties all weekend, including the official Pride Party on Friday June 3 at the…
Philadelphia’s famous beer garden that gives back to city parks announces its return for the summer season. Parks on Tap will start their extended stay outside of the historic Fairmount Water Works (640 Waterworks Drive) on Friday, May 20, 2022. For fans of the original traveling format, Parks on Tap will travel again starting August…
Philadelphia playwright Jame Ijames has won the 2022 Pulitzer Prize in Drama for his play Fat Ham. For Philadelphia and regional audiences wishing to see work by Ijames his brand new show Reverie is on stage now with Azuka Theatre. Azuka, Ijames and Fat Ham have a history that spans several years, as Ijames is…
Sofitel Philadelphia at Rittenhouse Square, part of AccorHotels, presents a month-long celebration for June as Philadelphia Gay Pride Month. The Sofitel Philadelphia will raise a giant Philadelphia-version of the Gay Pride Flag to hang proudly outside the hotel on 17th Street. Inside, neighbors, guests and visitors are invited to visit the Hall of LGBTQ Flags…
Join the community in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first PHL Pride
Aldo Lamberti and family are proud to introduce and unveil the new Positano Coast in Old City, Philadelphia – known for sponsoring the LGBT Film Festival qFlix. The award-winning Italian and seafood restaurant, bar, lounge, event space and outdoor dining destination has been renovated inside from top to bottom, in a story that is an…
Trans Day of Visibility: A Film By Daisy James and William Way LGBT Community Center, 2022
The gang from Out Night Out held their monthly fundraiser at the new W Hotel. They raised $1,075 for DVLF. Photos by Mikey Rios.
As is tradition, the team from BOS Philly has put together a Pride weekend full of the hottest parties around. Being known for such parties as Primal, GoldLust, and Erotica, BOS Philly is infamous for bringing in world renowned DJ’s and incredible production value! This year is no different. They will start the weekend off…
Philly favorite Gunnar Montana got together with Photographer Joe McFetridge for another sexy photoshoot sporting some Nasty Pig underwear.. This time with a little water. Plus a behind-the-scenes video to see how it was all done. We’re all a little nasty underneath it all!
Darius McLean, the Director of WWCC’s Arcila-Adams Trans Resource Center, and filmmaker Daisy James invite you to a special virtual screening on March 31 (Trans Day of Visibility) at 6 PM of their film celebrating trans-identified folks in the Philadelphia area.
The infamous drag entertainer, Brittany Lynn, turned 50, and she brought all her friends to celebrate. She was also presented with a citation from the Mayor delivered by Rob Nonemacker for her community work.
Theatre Philadelphia announces the return of Philly Theatre Week featuring hundreds of theatrical performances across the region between April 1-10, 2022.
Philly’s favorite queer Imagineer has a new creation – Super Gay Barbie: Leather Daddy Edition!
Azuka Theatre is thrilled to present an exciting World Premiere by a Philadelphia Playwright, and a cast and crew of Philadelphia regional artists. Azuka also returns with pay-what-you-decide where audiences are invited to experience the art on stage and pay based on the value of their experience after the show.
PHL Pride Collective is hosting a virtual event at 6:00 pm on Thursday,
March 10, 2022, for Philadelphia LGBTQ+ community members interested in volunteering on a
committee.
The team at BOS Philly threw another incredible party – ICE QUEEN. With Ice sculptures, snow machines, ice shots and much more, it was a night to remember. Can’t wait until their next party!
The annual night of dining out in Philadelphia to support services for people living with HIV is back in person this year after a hiatus during the pandemic. April 28th!
The Delaware Valley Legacy Fund (DVLF) is pleased to share that a gift of $250,000 has been received from the Estate of Dr. Walter J. Lear. Almost thirty years ago,
Three out actors and an out musician are integral parts of Philadelphia Theatre Company’s production of Tarrell Alvin McCarney’s Choir Boy running now-March 13.
After a 2-year hiatus, Philadelphia’s premiere burlesque producers HoneyTree EvilEye, Jaeda, Connor Michalchuk and Flirt Vonnegut are bringing back the riotously popular boot camp/ graduate school in burlesque Philadelphia Burlesque Battle Royale.
qFLIX Philadelphia 2022 has been rescheduled to June 19-26 @ the Suzanne Roberts Theatre. This will be an 8-day hybrid festival, with opening night dedicated to the celebration of Juneteenth, and the historical contributions of Black LGBTQ+ storytellers.
To promote their next big event, Ice Queen, the BOS team did a photoshoot with some of their models.
Philadelphia’s largest non-profit thrift store turns sales from yesterday’s treasures into dollars to support local organizations focused on HIV prevention and care.
Level Up always brings our the hottest dancers, Check them out!
BalletX is leaping back into live performances with an electrifying 2022 Season of unique partnerships and inspiring world premieres by nine of today’s top choreographers debuting at three performance series: BalletX at Glen Foerd (April 19-21), Spring Series at TD Pavilion at the Mann (May 18-19) and Summer Series at The Wilma Theater (July 13-17).…
The BOS Philly team has created another incredible party – ICE QUEEN. on February 26 at The Foundry. You don’t want to miss it but what are you going to wear????? We have some suggestions. And make sure you check out our sponsor, Andrew Christian, for some great lewks!
When national tragedy strikes, gay and bisexual men are denied the right to help our community due to outdated restrictions on blood donations that prevent us from participating in this vital community service.
Check out the photos from Caribe at Level Up
A man was arrested Sunday for allegedly sexually assaulting a child at a resort he owns in the Pocono Mountains. Police said Patrick Gremling, 54, assaulted a middle schooler at the Woods Campground in late 2011. The accuser, who is now an adult, reported Gremling to police Friday. Investigators wiretapped a 32-minute phone call between the accuser and…
Code Red 2021 was a great success raising $37,407. Thank you to all the entertainers and attendees who made the night magical. Thank you to all the sponsors who supported us and helped the donations grow especially Barclays Bank US Tabu Lounge & Sports Bar Punchline Comedy Club Cockatoo (Ram Krishnan) Level Up Bar &…
Philly photographer Joe McFetridge and Gunnar Montana get together again for a new take on what Christmas means.
What a year it has been!!! We have seen it all, and here at PhillyGayCalendar.com we have done our best to cover it all in our blog. Below are the 10 most popular stories of 2021! Which was YOUR favorite?
After a nearly year-long assessment, transition study, and national search process, After a nearly year-long assessment, transition study, and national search process, Sultan Shakir (he/him) has been named Mazzoni Center’s new chief executive. Sultan was selected from a group of exceptionally qualified and diverse LGBTQ+ leaders, representing the full diversity of the LGBTQ+ community. Sultan…
We had hundreds of events this year, and considering half the year, most venues were closed because of the Pandemic. That’s not bad at all! We have done our research and listed below the 10 most popular events by web traffic. Let’s see what they were!
Healthcare Leadership Council Honors Philadelphia FIGHT with the Redefining American Healthcare Award
What’s a family reunion without singing? Not much! Join us, masked and vaccinated, in our ANNA return to the stage with you, our extended family. We’ve got some old favorites planned, some new songs that we learned while in lock down, and plenty for you to join us on.
Philadelphia’s Drag Queen, Bev, is back at it terrorizing the citizens of Philadelphia as The Elf on the Shelf.
This holiday season they are serving more than just tacos. Introducing ¡Saluds Dudes! – a pin up calendar of hot dudes from across the queer spectrum getting sexy with tacos!
Tim Laskey (he/him) is a Philadelphia-based artist who works in both digital and traditional media. Originally from Long Island, NY and having lived many years in rural western Pennsylvania before moving here 20 years ago, “playing between extremes is a place I find a lot of creativity.
This Winter season, they are welcoming back dodgeball, volleyball, bowling, yoga, and trivia. Registration opens on Monday 12/13 at 7pm and closes Wednesday, 12/22 at 11:59 pm.
“William Way has made itself more known as a connector of people and the leadership calls were essential in doing so.” The William Way Center has continued to provide access to programs and events even in times of uncertainty.
Former Philadelphia Alex Ringler created a Halloween series. We find out who is the man in the mask!
Local singer releases a Christmas Song taken from his holiday album MR. CHRISTMAS available now
A local group of volunteers reimagining pride, PHL Pride Collective, has announced Philly Pride 2022 will be the first weekend of June.
An online petition with nearly 20,000 signatures started by a Christian author will have no effect on a planned Philadelphia show called “Jesus Drag Superstar,” according to FringeArts and the performers involved.
|Sober Vibes| It’s that time of year again! Let’s make (non-alcoholic) cider nog!
A short horror series created by Alex Ringler. Is there someone in the apartment?
In this episode of Tea Time With Tatyana, She interviews Tori Gillis, Community Engagement Coordinator and Dani Murano, Logistics Coordinator of The Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference.
A short horror series created by Alex Ringler. Who is ringing his bell? Maybe you don’t want to know!
OurNightOut held a Halloween Happy Hour at the Kimmel Ceneter.
The team at BOS Philly created another amazing party bringing hundreds from around the region for one of the hottest parties of the year. Check out the photos. BOS Philly
Was it his boyfriend playing a trick, or is there something more sinister going on?
A new short film inspired by True events called Parrot just released its trailer. It’s about a drag queen [played by Philly’s own Brittany Lynn] protects a child during a crisis as prejudices reach a breaking point.
One of Philly’s favorite queens, Bev, is ready for her big Halloween show, Hocus Poc-yasss
Kiyoshi Kuromiya, a gay civil rights activist and co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front movement’s Philadelphia chapter who revolutionized the way HIV/AIDS patients got reliable information about the virus.
The Wistar Institute is proud to announce Jane Shull, chief executive officer of Philadelphia FIGHT; philanthropist Ken Nimblett; Philadelphia Foundation and the Robert I. Jacobs Fund; and Philadelphia FIGHT will be honored at the Wistar Legacy Awards, a celebration of 25 years of continuous HIV research collaboration
Assistant Secretary for Health, and former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Dr. Rachel Levine is making history again. Levine is being sworn in as a four-star admiral, making her the first transgender four-star officer in all eight of the uniformed services. Admiral Levine will also be the first female four-star admiral in the…
In episode 2, trick or treaters interrupt his quiet night.
BOS Philly presented PINKLUST – an all pink OUTFest event and raised money for the William Way Center.
It’s up to all of us to create a more inclusive and diverse workplace. No matter where you are in your career journey, it’s essential that you help others grow, even as you are growing yourself,
It was a big deal back in its heyday, which was really the 1970s. Everybody from Philadelphia, New York and DC all came to New York Avenue
The Board of Directors of The Attic Youth Center is pleased to announce the appointment of John Fisher-Klein (he/him) as their new executive director. He assumed the role on September 27th, 2021.
In episode 1, it’s Halloween and our main character must spend the night alone, but his boyfriend thinks he can scare him!
Philly AIDS Thrift announces their 16th anniversary celebration – all to raise funds to support local HIV/AIDS organizations, plus to pay for interior and exterior renovations. Instead of hosting a giant fall block party with thousands of supporters, PAT will pivot again and host a socially distanced drive-in movie night at the Navy Yard.
Pennsylvania has laws on the books that criminalize or control behaviors through HIV-specific statues and regulations. During a hearing today, PA House Democrats heard testimony from a victim of these laws and those advocating for change.
he John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives at William Way LGBT Community Center has been awarded a $29,520 Save America’s Treasures grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Our Night Out is returned to Uptown Beer Garden — but in its new location at the corner of 16th and JFK Blvd (across from Love Park! )
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A state historical marker commemorating the life and work of the late Latina lesbian civil rights leader and activist Gloria Casarez (1971-2014) will be installed at City Hall on October 8 at noon
There is a lot of confusion with OUTFest this year. And while it’s not officially happening, we have some great events to celebrate!
Chef Jose Garces celebrates the return of in-person indoor theatre and arts with the relaunch of Volver for the first time since the pandemic shut-down the performance kitchen and restaurant. Volver is now reopened at Kimmel Garces is proud to announce the reopening of Volver at Kimmel Cultural Campus with a brand-new program that will see…
Visitors to the William Way LGBT Community Center talk about how arts and culture has helped them in their life.
Beautiful new mural by Philly-based artist Symone Salib honors the late LGBTQ+ leader and activist, Gloria Casarez at GALAEI on Fontain Street at Howard Street in Norris Square!
Two of the largest festival are going on at the same time to make the end of summer more fun! And as always, PhillyGayCalendar has all the tea!
PRESS RELEASE from qflixphilly.com It is with a great sense of duty, respect, and pride that qFLIX Philadelphia: The LGBTQ+ Film Festival announces the presentation of the 2021 Marsha P. Johnson Image Award to Dr. Rachel L. Levine, Assistant Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Levine has been selected as the…
That’s right! Registration is opened for Bowling, Billiards, Yoga, and Stonewall In Motion (formerly Stonewall Running Group). For registration details, dates, and locations, read on below! Registration questions? Contact Sports Operations Director Mike Morris at [email protected]. Can’t wait to see you all soon! Director Mike Morris This fall, they will be launching Stonewall In Motion (formerly known as Stonewall Running Group).…
It might have been a while and you might not remember what you are doing, so we asked our fans to give us some red flags to look out for when dating, and here is what they said!
With qFLIX Philadelphia 2021, just weeks away on Sept. 26 – Oct. 3, at the Suzanne Roberts Theatre & Virtual, it is time we all turn our attention to this all-important community festival that has grown to be the largest LGBTA+ arts and cultural festival between NYC and Miami.
Coed Team playing in Casa Soccer League. You can join this Fall while we are trying to put 3 Falcons teams together.
The Marsha P. Johnson Institue’s COVID-19 Recovery Fund provides one-time direct relief in the amount of $500 to BLACK transgender or non-binary identified people. As our commitment is to always center the needs of those most beyond the margins, priority has been given to BLACK trans women and those who have experience as sex workers,…
The team from BOS Philly produced another amazing party, this time by the pool. Check out the photos from Night Swim.
The tobacco industry has a long history of targeting Black and LGBTQ+ communities with advertising initiatives like Project SCUM, specifically promoting menthol cigarettes within these communities, giving financial contributions to Black groups and political leaders, and sponsoring LGBTQ+ events like Pride celebrations throughout the country.
Check out the photos from Level Up’s Pajama Party!
Two bars opened recently in the Gayborhood that are owned and operated by people of color, marking a big culture shift for the LGBTQ enclave in Center City, where racism has been documented for years.
“LIT” is the newest song by Philly’s own Rocco DeFinis. OUT ON ALL MAJOR MUSIC PLATFORMS. Nicholas Rocco DeFinis is a Philadelphia singer, dancer, songwriter, and activist born August 7th, 1986 in Lansdale, PA to Joanne McGlinchey, and Robert J. DeFinis. He almost exclusively goes by his middle name, Rocco, as a tribute to his late…
With Philadelphia LGBTQ+ Pride events on pause for the moment, we wanted to let you and fellow Philadelphians know that about an outdoor pride event in nearby Allentown this weekend.
Sonnys is proud to introduce Executive Chef D. DeMarco (they them), who brings a wealth of experience. Chef is now transitioning and at this stage of the process is using D. and they/them.
A bill that would discriminate against LGBTQ+ students by restricting their ability to participate in their school’s sports programs as the gender they identify with was condemned by the LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus after a House Education Committee hearing on the proposed Republican legislation, according to the caucus’ co-chair, state Rep. Brian Sims, D-Phila.
From Gunnar Montana Welcome to the official Indiegogo campaign for Gunnar Montana Productions 2021 production, Motel Montana! Our cast and crew are so excited to welcome you back to a live, in-person Gunnar Montana immersive experience. Rehearsals are already underway and we can’t wait to share this amazing show with you! Motel Montana will be a colorful…
Luna Thee Jawnette and Icon Ebony Fierce show Level Up Bar and Lounge how to twerk!
Legendary drag queen, comedian, actor and author Bianca Del Rio brings her Unsanitized Comedy Tour to Keswick Theatre on Saturday, Sept 18.
Philadelphia man was sentenced to 25 to 50 years in state prison for the 2019 killing of Michelle “Tameka” Washington, a transgender woman who family and friends said was a passionate advocate for the LGBTQ+ community.
Raising the Steaks!! Hope you’re hungry! #PhillyCheesesteak #RepYourCity
Outfit by @opheliabawdy
Headpiece by @its_miss_elaine
Photo by @joemaccreative
Eighteen years ago, after receiving a courtesy ride from a Philadelphia police officer, Nizah Morris, a Black trans woman, was found hit over the head. She died shortly after. After years of asking for police transparency and answers, Nizah’s murder is still unsolved.
Concourse Dance Bar (1635 Market Street) welcomes a brand new monthly variety show that is set to dazzle starting Wednesday, July 28th. Philadelphia Drag Queen Maria TopCatt will host the brand-new TopCatt Cabaret, a star-studded adults-only show with a rotating cast of top drag and burlesque performers. Each month guests can anticipate a new, exciting…
They’re excited to be phasing a reopening from now until September when they will return to their full-time pre- pandemic hours.
On July 28, Mural Arts Philadelphia and Morris Home are hosting a free public paint day and celebration. Members of the public are invited to help paint panels of two future murals in a paint-by-number style.
The first time I had seen anything close to a Wet T-Shirt contest was on a late night Girls Gone Wild commercial.
Black and queer owned ‘LesbiVeggies’ café to serve healthy eating with side of inclusivity
Most people know The Please Touch Museum is a special place. A place a child can learn, grow and discover new possibilities, but for Ian Morrison, it’s a safe space to be himself.
Jaffe St. Queer Productions is absolutely thrilled to be teaming up with The Penn Museum for our next big project!
Maroon Eyes Philly and Lipstick Diva presented PHILLY LOVE “UNLEASHED” at LevelUp Bar as they celebrate pride month
Plus Philly’s Own DJ Honey
Local OUT Singer songwriter Aiden James is releasing his first new music video in over a year: a moody yet dance-forward single called “Elixir,”
Eric Jaffe, Philly’s Drag Queen of the year, hosts a weekly Drag Brunch at Fabrika. This week, they pulled out all the stops and brought in RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 LaLa Ri!
Five trans women sharing their experiences and views in a candid discussion. Hosted by Colours Organization and lead by Deja Alvarez
The Greater Philadelphia Flag Football League provides a safe space and much more for the LGBTQ+ community and its allies.
VENDORS WANTED for the 13th Annual South Jersey Gay Pride Festival on Sunday, September 12, 20221 from 12:00PM to 6:00PM at the beautiful Cooper River Park in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.* Download our vendor application and regulations. For 13 successful years the South Jersey LGBTQA+ Pride Committee has taken this time to educate our community on prominent issues…
The guys from BOS Philly pulled off the biggest party of the year to celebrate Pride Night at the Concourse Bar. Photos by Kay Spence
By Michael Cook, Instinct Magazine Celebrity pop-ups at a drag show are commonplace during Pride month, but it’s rare that the star of one of television’s hottest sitcoms pops into one of Philadelphia’s hottest drag shows. That is exactly what happened though, when Young Sheldon star Iain Armitage (along with his mother) dropped by The City of…
Community Bar in Point Breeze held their first Pride Event. Check out the Photos!
ACT UP Philadelphia was live in Mayor Kenney, Your Silence = Death
Beginning this month, the Arcila-Adams Trans Resource center of the Wiliam Way LGBT Center will be hosting a bimonthly podcast centering the experiences of Black folks that are under that big ole trans umbrella.
6ABC introduces the new GALAEI – a Philadelphia queer Latinx organization
Join us for the season finale of Our City, Your Orchestra! Yannick Nezet-Seguin and Orchestra members are joined by Yannick’s partner, Pierre Tourville, and Jennifer Higdon for a celebration of Pride Month at the William Way LGBT Community Center.
With a platform highlighting quality of life issues, infrastructure, healthcare, and economic recovery, Deja Alvarez is running to become the first openly trans Latina member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.
The Series Finale. Featuring Christina Bianco, Taurean Everett, Lauren Renahan, David Ballard, Kenneth Nilson, Daniel Lynn Evans, and Louisa Bonn-Ringler.
A South Jersey valedictorian had his microphone cut out and his notes crumpled on stage by his principal during his high school graduation speech when he began to touch on his experience as a member of the LGBTQ community.
Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, founder of Black & Brown Workers Co-op, spoke today outside of City Hall in Philadelphia about the need for a new outlook on Philly Pride.
For too long, Black men have been made to feel less than if they show their femininity, but little does the world know, Black male feminine energy is the strongest force on the planet.
Roiled by community backlash, the organization behind Philadelphia’s largest annual LGBTQ Pride parade and festival for the last 28 years has abruptly dissolved and canceled its forthcoming Pride festivities, The Inquirer has learned. The organizers behind Philly Pride Presents did not respond to multiple phone calls, voice mails, emails, and Facebook messages — which were…
The energy was through the roof and it’s all because of y’all. Community is a gift, Black queer joy is a revolutionary act and we are so grateful for each and every one of you.
The ruling has broader implications for allowing taxpayer-funded groups, such as foster care and homeless services, to deny help based on “religious freedom.”
“This recognition from both the House and Senate means so much to the LGBTQ+ community.”
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“Go ahead and be yourself, you’re safe.” Philadelphia local choreographer and performance artist, Gunnar Montana partnered with Trojan Brand Condoms to design and construct a photoshoot set out of 2,500 of their BARESKIN™ Lubricated Condoms! (That’s right, zoom in ). Photographer Joe McFetridge captured it all. “Trojan and I both specialize in creating safe spaces…
All-day, June 30, Just Salad will donate 25% of in-store and digital sales to the William Way Community Center.
Gerald packs to go home. Jerry faces a crossroads. Created by and starring Alex Ringler
The Pennsylvania LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, a bipartisan and bicameral caucus made up of members of the General Assembly who advocate for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer residents, has released an open letter to Gov. Tom Wolf, and state Senate and House leadership, urging them to include funding for LGBTQ+ communities in this…
Love Speaks! This June, Saxbys is celebrating Pride & intersectionality with the return of their partnership with The Attic Youth Center, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization dedicated to serving lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ+) youth. For each bag of Make Life Proud: Love Speaks Cold Brew sold, they will donate $1 to support The Attic…
This month rapper and queer activist Anye Elite will be in the city of brotherly love to celebrate gay pride, Juneteenth, and to promote his latest musical release “The Adventures of Bam Bam”. Elite will be performing tracks from “Bam Bam” at Level Up Bar and Lounge, a black gay-owned bar in Philly on Saturday,…
Philly community members come together to celebrate Pride Month. Check out this video
Beyond the Bell Tour started by two friends as a way to tell stories of Philadelphians often left out of most tours. Rebecca and Joey met while studying at Haverford College. Rebecca was giving tours of Philadelphia as a summer job. She realized that she, a woman who has lived in Philadelphia her whole life,…
Philadelphia FIGHT Community Health Centers is providing free Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines at the following locations in partnership with Sunray Drugs. MONDAYS: The Simple Way Community Garden (3200 Potter Street) 3PM – 5PMIn the event of rain or very high heat, this site will relocate to The Simple Way’s indoor space at 3242 Potter Street.…
Starting today, Monday June 7, through this Sunday, June 13, 20% of all rainbow bagel sales at both locations of Schmear It (University City at 36th and Filbert and Center City at 12th and Ludlow) will go to the William Way Community Center. William Way LGBT Community CenterThe William Way LGBT Community Center is a…
Jerry searches for new place. Gerald is skeptical of his tactics.
Introducing… the Love Shake. We’re celebrating Pride Month by releasing a brand new shake for the month of June! We’ll be donating 10% of the sales of the shakes to local organizations that serve the LGBTQ+ community, like the William Way Center, SMYAL, and Whitman-Walker. Love is love, baby. HipCityVeg is a local vegan fast…
The Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus is proud to present “Singing with Pride” – a virtual concert celebrating pride and remembrance. The concert will feature songs celebrating Pride – such as Born This Way, We Are Family, and Dancing Queen – as well as a remembrance of those lost to the COVID pandemic. The virtual cabaret…
On Tuesday, May 25, Bebashi – Transition to Hope hosted its third virtual panel event, “A Community Conversation on LGBTQ+ Access to Care.” The event was moderated by Lee Carson, Director, Philadelphia Area Sexual Health Initiative, and included as panelists Chris Landtroop, Board Member, Bebashi – Transition to Hope; Chris Bartlett, Executive Director, William Way…
Philadelphia proudly celebrates June as Philly Gay Pride Month. Pride month is filled with more than 250 events happening throughout the city.
For Philly Pride Month, Stina relaunches their monthly charity program. For June, 1% of sales for the month will be donated to The Attic Youth Center. On Tuesday, June 29th, Stina will additionally give 20% of that day’s sales to the organization from 4:00 pm to 10:00 pm.
From Saturday Night Life – Friends (Anya Taylor-Joy, Lil Nas X, Kate McKinnon, Bowen Yang, Punkie Johnson) anticipate this year’s Pride Month celebrations.
Many gay choruses across the US are holding virtual concerts for June Pride Month. This will likely be their last virtual concerts, and therefore your last chance to check them out without a plane ticket.
The pain of suffering through the pandemic, the shifts in our relationship with technology, the immense amount of loss, the calls to action, and our strength to carry on as a community are all themes explored by artists of this show.
Available at the Lab at Evil Genius and through GoPuff starting June 1st Evil Genius Beer Company1727 N. Front St.Philadelphia, PA 19122215-425-6820 Love who you want to, drink what you want to! Evil Genius Beer Company celebrates June as Philly Gay Pride Month with a special limited edition beer release #loveislove. This brand-new Strawberry Blonde…
Jerry searches for a job and Gerald gets some great news from Kathy!
Level Up had a busy weekend, check out the photos!
Writer’s block is excited to add a new mural to the gayborhood featuring Lil Nas X in Montero, where he has given a bold voice to a new generation of queer artists and queer people of color. The mural is by Ashley Ryan. Please help by supporting this work. The mural is currently on the…
Please save the date for Pride Night at Philadelphia Zoo. This event will take place during Friday Nights Dinos and Bites on Friday, June 18th. Attendees are encouraged to show their pride between 5:00 pm and 8:00 pm for this special evening program. Local LGBTQ organizations will be on hand to network and supply information…
Philly AIDS Thrift invites you to grab your cha-cha heels, clutch your pearls, and head to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for a special movie fundraiser at sundown! Philly AIDS Thrift, in collaboration with the Philadelphia Film Society, presents a special Philly Gay Pride Month drive-in movie with Female Trouble on Wednesday, June 2nd. The 1974 cult…
Philadelphia largest and most stunning outdoor and indoor restaurants and bars will celebrate June as Philly Gay Pride Month with a month-long celebration! FCM Hospitality and owner Avram Hornik announce that Lola’s Garden, Juno, Parks on Tap (two locations), Morgan’s Pier, Harper’s Garden, Craft Hall, The Garden at Cherry Street Pier and Rosy’s Taco Bar…
Sofitel Philadelphia at Rittenhouse Square, part of AccorHotels, presents a month-long celebration for June as Philadelphia Gay Pride Month. The Sofitel Philadelphia will raise a giant Philadelphia-version of the Gay Pride Flag to hang proudly outside the hotel on 17th Street. Inside, neighbors, guests, and visitors are invited to visit the Hall of LGBTQ Flags…
For 27 years, Philadelphia FIGHT has hosted the HIV Prevention and Education Summit, a conference that welcomes all people interested in learning more about the wide range of issues that impact people living with HIV and AIDS. Each year, this event provides information on the latest treatment, research, prevention, and outreach strategies and aims to…
BalletX returns to the stage June 24
– 26 for its debut at TD Pavilion at the Mann with new, never-before-seen works by choreographers Hope Boykin, Matthew Neenan and
Dwight Rhoden. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 28.
Gerald and Jerry return to New York and reminisce.
Chef Sharon Shvarzman and his partner Abraham Bloom anticipated working long hours, especially during the opening weeks of their new Queen Village takeout restaurant, Keshet Kitchen.
It has been a long year of COVID. Bars have closed, parties have been canceled and vacations have been ruined. BOS Philly, the premier citcuit producers have been dormant all year in compliance with CDC recommendations. But now, with the newest recommendations, Philly is OPENED as of June 11. To celebrate, BOS Philly presents PRIDE!…
Pittsburgh is one of many cities proposing legislation bolstering LGBTQ businesses. A contributor to the effort says he thinks Philadelphia could benefit from a similar move. If the bill passes, Pittsburgh’s LGBTQ business owners would be able to register on the city’s online procurement platform and would gain access to business development and training opportunities.…
Gerald flies home for some R&R and gets an unexpected surprise. Created by and starring former Philly local Alex Ringler
Check out the Real Housewives of Philadelphia Episode 3, a new web series by locals Mikhael Brown-McKenna, Luis Hernandez, Derek Frazier and Adam. Instagram will load in the frontend.
We are witnessing a National wave of legislation that is targeting specifically Transgender people in America. Our own Commonwealth has experienced this in the past with Trans and nonbinary youth under the Pa Children’s health insurance program ( PA- CHIP) and again now with HB 972 the ” Protect Women’s Sports act”. This current ATTACK…
The Painted Mug Cafe is a new performance space and cafe that serves the queer community in Philadelphia.
Gerald lies to his building manager. Jerry unwittingly plays along.
Check out the Real Housewives of Philadelphia Episode 2, a new web series by locals Mikhael Brown-McKenna, Luis Hernandez, Derek Frazier and Adam. Instagram will load in the frontend.
Our IG Live series, The Daily Dish with Dining Out For Life! Join us as we talk about this year’s event, and of course, our favorite foods and Dining Out For Life Restaurants! Want to support those living with HIV? Go to www.actionwellness.org/donate to contribute, or text DINEIN to 50155. Today’s guests are:Local Activist and…
From the PGN LGBTQ community leader Deja Alvarez has announced a run for state representative of the 182nd district. Alvarez is the director of community engagement at World Healthcare Infrastructures and chairperson of the Philadelphia Police LGBT Liaison Committee. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, she founded a food program for undocumented immigrant families and other food…
The Garden at Cherry Street Pier is back for its first-ever full spring, summer and fall season.
The American Psychiatric Association (APA) will present Malcolm L. Lazin, Executive Director of Equality Forum, with the 2021 John Fryer Award. The award recognizes an individual who has contributed to or improved the mental health of sexual minorities.
We wanted to extend our congratulations to Michael Figueroa for winning at the Mr. Natural Philadelphia Body Building Competition
Join the Office of LGBT Affairs in conversation with the Department of Public Health and community healthcare providers to get your questions answered around the COVID-19 vaccine.
The membership of the Liberty City LGBTQ+ Democratic Club, the only organization in Philadelphia exclusively committed to organizing LGBTQ+ Democrats, has voted. Today we are proud to announce our endorsements for the 2021 primary election.
UPDATED: 4/29 – COVID has changed a lot of events, Check in to see what the latest on Philly Pride is!
Gerald and Jerry have a housing issue when Gerald encounters his building manager Mr. Geraldi.
Check out the Real Housewives of Philadelphia, a new web series by locals Mikhael Brown-McKenna, Luis Hernandez, Derek Frazier and Adam. Instagram will load in the frontend.
In recognition of the HEROES working to improve the lives of the LGBTQ+ community, DVLF has enlisted former honoree, Malcolm Kenyatta of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, to host this year’s ceremony. It is a virtual event being held on May 2, 2021. Your support for the event is invaluable to help DVLF fulfill our mission. You may…
From OUT.com Greg Yorgey-Girdy is running for judge for Municipal Court in Philadelphia, a city with a historically broken justice system. If elected, he would be the first out gay Black man elected to judge in Municipal Court history. An experienced attorney with nearly two decades focusing on litigation, conflicts, and compliance, Yorgey-Girdy says he…
Today, we’re taking a look at some of our more recent Pride celebrations. It’s going to be a different kind of Pride this year, as we will not be having our traditional Pride Parade and Fair due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. However, we have planned a variety of events that support our local community,…
We’re bringing thousands of folks together from across the country together for a night of celebration with inspiring speakers, special guests, an exciting auction and so much more. Don’t miss out! Featuring the cast of POSE!
The William Way LGBT Community Center is excited to partner with our friends at Philadelphia FIGHT to continue to get members of the LGBTQ+ communities vaccinated! We are currently registering members of Philadelphia’s LGBTQ+ communities for a vaccine event on Wednesday, April 28th, 2021. If you are an adult (age 18+) and live or work in Philadelphia please call us at…
After a robust and thorough search, GALAEI is elated to announce Ashley L. Coleman as the new Executive Director of GALAEI . Ashley brings more than 20 years of experience in social justice and racial equity.
Vinchelle brings on guest, such as Sapphira Cristal, Honey Davenport, Davon William and Sir Donyx to talk about being black in theater.
From the Philadelphia Gay News….. LGBTQ community leader Jonathan Lovitz announced on April 19 his candidacy for State Representative of the 182nd District seat. Lovitz has been the Senior Vice President of the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce for the past five years. In 2020, he co-organized PhillyVoting.org, an initiative to strengthen voting in the Black and LGBTQ community.…
As The Bachelor Star, Colton Underwood, comes out of the closet, we ask, is the word ready for him to have his own show?
Philly’s own Tip Popp shows what the show might look like:
Level Up shared some photos from their recent White Party.
Vinchelle is back with an all-new episode of Vinchelle’s In Business. This episode she talks with Garrett Matthew owner of Wise Guy Tech in Philadelphia.
Kathy is back for 2021! Created by and starring Alex Ringler
Your contribution to this campaign will help us fund these transportation, space rental, and safety expenses while the new and improved home for The John J. Wilcox, Jr. Archives take shape in our renovated building.
BROLO (Brotherly Love), the select ensemble of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus, invites you to “We’re Still Here!” our virtual Broadway Cabaret. This free one-hour concert features individual members performing solos, duets and small group numbers as well as full BROLO ensemble performances of hits from the classic to modern day Broadway. Suggested Donation of…
Get down with you favorite, Icon Ebony-Fierce, as they go through some of their favorite Wigs as a personal mood. What are some of your favorite wig moods? Be sure to leave your comments below and next time we will be sure to share some of those favorites.
The 45th anniversary of the Philadelphia Gay News is today and their anniversary issue is out!
BLACK DIARIES Season 2 Ep. 5 w/ Vinchelle and special guest: Paula Deen-White, Poochie, Icon Ebony Fierce
Gerald and Jerry navigate sharing space and pet names. Created by and starring former Philly local Alex Ringler
Featuring D. Nile, Miss Troy and Sean Barry Parsons
The April 6 clinic is among the first pop-up vaccination events specifically geared toward queer and trans Philadelphians. William Way first opened slots last week to people who receive regular services at the community center. Though it’s been posting on social media and sharing via email, the center is still working to fill its 200…
Help them make HISTORY with the first ever Bucks-Mont PRIDE Festival on July 18th from 1-6 pm. SAGA Community Center, Montgomery County’s LGBT+ center, and a program of The Welcome Project PA, will be hosting this long-overdue PRIDE Festival for residents of Montgomery and Bucks Counties, but we can’t do it without your help! Donate…
New Hope Celebrates (NHC) will not be having the traditional Pride Parade and Pride Fair in May 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and safety concerns surrounding the wellness of our community members, visitors, partners, and volunteers.
The City of Philadelphia raised the Trans Pride flag over city hall.
Gerald is sad to be without his wife Kristine for the holidays. Jerry decides to celebrate that. A musical homage to the Home Alone movies. (Originally premier on Dec 25, 2020)
Miss Morgan and Dominque Lee interview local singers. Featuring Brittany Marie, Jonathan Hernandez, Josh Zuckerman, and Yari
Unleashed LGBTQ creates a space where brands, entertainers, and the LGBTQ professionals can connect. See the latest products, services, and campaigns entering the LGBTQ market including apps, fashions, media, travel/destination and more.
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Registration for Spring 2021 is officially opened!
We wanted to remind you of a few key differences between our normal leagues and our Spring Pick-Up Season that will be important to keep in mind for registration:
The neighbors get a little closer… Special thanks to Philip Ferentinos, Blind Melon and the city of New York.
A little under a year ago, Philly Drag Queen BEV and Jeremiah Spoon filmed a dumb little video to poke fun at the pandemic and the emotions surrounding being in quarantine. They ended it with “Day 365” thinking they’d be funny by using this “ridiculous” number as an extreme .. Well oops. Lol here we…
In keeping with its mission to honor the people, places, and moments that made New Hope one of the most vibrant LGBTQ communities in America, New Hope Celebrates History announces a campaign to raise $10,000 to complete the funding for a new documentary film with a working title, Nowhere but HERE. “Nowhere but HERE chronicles the lives,…
Which Fast Food Chain Burger is the best? Find out when Aloe Vera and Lady Geisha Stratton do a blind taste test!
When Celena Morrison took office as the director of LGBT affairs in Philadelphia, she didn’t know she was making history. “I had a ‘me’ moment. Like, me? These people are looking up to me?” said Morrison. “Growing up, I didn’t see anyone who represented me, who I was as a kid.” She came out to…
Gerald and Jerry get some news. next episode
Brian Sims speaks on the floor of the PA house to talk about the danger of misinformation on HIV
Infamous Eric Jaffe and husband Greg make some socially distant brunch!
Miss Morgan and Dominque Lee interview Heavens 2 Betsy, Sasha Mala and Rupaul’s Drag Race’s Pandora Box.
Colonel Sanders has secret for you, its new KFC SECRET RECIPE FRIES and Mountain Dew’s new Sweet Lightning Tea. Are they any good? Onyx Ondyx is here to try it so you don’t have to.
Oh No! It it true? Have Millenials hit their peak? Are Gen Zer right about the newest trends? Icon and Onyx are here to help you find out if you’re in or out.
Gunnar Montana, known for his outrageous dance performances and creative photoshoots has done it again. This time he, and incredible photographer Joe McFetridge have created Super Gay Barbie. Check out the photos and the behind-the-scenes video. Photos Behind the Scenes
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The small bar at 1330 Walnut Street has gone under a lot of changes and it’s changing again. It’s new name is ‘Level Up‘ It started as BoxerPHL in 2014, as part of the set of Boxers bars from NYC. With two successful locations in New York City (one in Chelsea and one in Hell’s…
Kathy returns with a challenge for Gerald… next episode
Come join Vinchelle, Sir Donyx, Sappira Cristal, & Paula Deen-White as the bring in season 2 and continue to discuss black queer lives, the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Meet Astala Vista, the self-proclaimed ‘crazy cat lady of drag’ Astala Vista is a Jersey-based queen who combines her love for performance, fashion, cats, and healthy eating into one glamorous and over-the-top drag persona.
Dominque Lee and Miss Morgan talk with Brittany Lynn, Asia Monroe and Valencia Prime
Michael Grosberg (former treasurer) re-joins the Board to serve as President alongside Karl Michelfelder, longtime DVLF (Delaware Valley Legacy Fund) event contributor.
Jerry has a photoshoot. Gerald has a plan. next episode
UPDATE: Jocks PHL has released a revised apology letter A recent post to social media from Donyx Rivers has raised some eyebrows. In that video, Donyx has alleged behavior from the management of JocksPHL Donyx alleged the management often misgendered staff and customers. They also were allegedly quotes as saying “I have my one trans person,…
Philly AIDS Thrift is pleased to award $200,000 this spring to 24 organizations and programs focused on HIV prevention and care, as well as for support people living with and affected by HIV/AIDS in the Delaware Valley. This support has been more important than ever as non-profits throughout Philadelphia and across the country have been…
Former Philly Asian American drag king Wayne Newton
One of the Top Drag Queens in Philadelphia, Vinchelle, is traveling all over the city of Philly to find Businesses that are making a difference in the City. Starting off we have ARTrageous Brush and Flow in Germantown. Vinchelle speaks with Moneek Pines, the Owner and Lead Artist.
Black Girl Magic Philadelphia is BACK for the TWO YEAR ANNIVERSARY! We have a very special guest, Latrice Royale from RuPaul’s Drag Race joining us
While Gerald zoom calls with his coworker Kathy (NEW CHARACTER!) Jerry needs a favor… next episode
Iris Spectre is a costumer and Philly drag queen who designs and sews all of her looks from scratch. As a costume designer, of the most rewarding parts of drag for Iris Spectre is creating and performing in her own original looks. Watch her designs come to life in this episode of ‘Behind the Drag.’
Kenyatta, a Black gay man from Philadelphia, who’s considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, made the announcement Thursday on The ReidOut on MSNBC.
This episode of Eating Out With Onyx are the Lady Gaga Oreos. Are they any good? Did you know that they’re banned in Europe? Why are they green? Find out more in this episode with Onyx!
The neighbors navigate a morning in their New York apartments next episode
Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Sims, who was the first openly LGBTQ member of the Legislature when elected in 2012, announced on Monday that he is running for lieutenant governor.
We are saddened that Ari Gold passed away on February 14, 2021. Below is an interview we did with him on August 11, 2008.
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Mazzoni Center announced that due to the ongoing pandemic, its 2021 conference will be delivered in a virtual format. For more than a decade the conference has occupied physical space at the Pennsylvania Convention Center. Philadelphia Trans Wellness Conference Logistics Coordinator, Dani Murano-Kinney explained, “We know this is disappointing. We know that for many, the conference…
JocksPHL presents Heartthrob hosted by Iris Spectre, featuring Avery Goodname, Bear Trap, Yari and Eric Jaffe
Icon and Onyx are here to spread some LOOOOOOvvvveee this Valentine’s Day. Celebrate yourself or that special someone with some of these tips for the best Valentine’s day!
DVLF is powered by love and they need some of YOUR love this Valentine’s Day to help provide for the emerging needs of the LGBTQ+ community in the Delaware Valley Region.
Former Philly local Alex Ringer stars in a series about having an annoyingly fit neighbor next episode
Vinchelle brings you a weekly special for Black History Month. Don’t forget to TIP!
Behind the Scenes of football photoshoot with Model Gunnar Montana and Photographer Joe McFetridge
Is Rupaul’s new EP as good as Glamazon or American? Icon and Onyx are here to tell you all about the new EP in this video.
Giving RuPaul’s ever-growing arms of the Drag Race franchise, it is no surprise that the drag icon’s music releases feel slightly rarer. With RuPaul’s Drag Race, All Stars, UK, and now the upcoming Down Under taking Ru’s time, Momma Ru has still found time to bless us with a Remix EP. The EP dubbed RuPaul in London sees Ru’s London remixed by Markaholic and Skeltal Ki –…
Onyx tries Dunkin Coffee and gives you the tea!
Jerry goes through the 5 stages of quarantining with no gym. next episode
“How heroic we can be in a singular moment, a moment history makes, a moment like this.”
Stir is a chic lounge located in the heart of Rittenhouse Square. Daily happy hour 7 days/week from 5-7pm. Located between 17th and 18th streets off of Chancellor. Come see what all the buzz is about!!! NOTE: Stir is closed from COVID and working to repair damage obtained during the protest and plans to be…
TOGETHER brings the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus and our sibling chorus, ANNA Crusis Women’s Choir together for our free annual community concert – this year virtually!
Wanna try the ew #TacoBell #NachoFries BellGrande but not sure if they’re good?…
FROM Big Gay Ice Cream: “With great sadness, but with no regrets,” Bryan and Doug have decided that Big Gay Ice Cream will not be reopening its East Village and Philadelphia locations.125 East 7th Street was our first shop and where Big Gay Ice Cream became more than just our summer hobby. Big Gay Ice…
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Former Philly Local Alex Ringer stars in a series about having an annoyingly fit neighbor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ZwZPlqGWA next episode
At the end of 2016, Denise fulfilled a dream by opening an LGBTQ bar/nightclub in Philadelphia – Toasted Walnut. It provided an inclusive, diverse, fun, and safe environment. The business was growing, creating regulars who enjoyed the time spent at the establishment. All was well, until August 2019. While driving home at 3 am, Denise…
2020 has been fraught with incredible challenges and loss. While this is something unique for many, the Queer community has been through moments like this before. And so we are uniquely equipped to address this moment. We have always redefined parameters of time and space. Our embrace of failure, resilience and resistance is our strength,…
Aloe and Lady Geisha may loose their tastebuds after this challenge. Which Sour Candy is the strongest? Find out as the two ask each other Drag Questions while eating them.
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Former Philly Local Alex Ringer stars in a series about having an annoyingly fit neighbor next episode
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Former Philly local Alex Ringler wrote, directed, and starred in this series of what it’s like to live next to an annoyingly fit neighbor next episode
Brian Sims Live from the Capitol about the ongoing unrest
In their Burd Events Original Series debut, Aloe Vera and Lady Geisha-Stratton attempt the 100 Challenge with 100 Layers of Liquid Lipstick. Can they do it? Find out.
Logo Live with Brian Sims & Ritchie Torres In light of the recent invasion of the U.S Capitol by Trump rioters, #LogoLive host @johnnysibilly chats with PA State Rep @briansimspa and Congressman @repritchie on what happened, why @ritchietorresny15 supports impeachment, and what happens next. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xeb9sK1unyE&feature=youtu.be
It’s 2021 Dolls! Icon and Onyx are here to talk about New Year New You! Everything from New Year Resolution to what a crap year 2020 was. Grab a drink and enjoy the show.
Parker tests his luck with an anonymous hook up, and things escalate quickly. Interested In is a coming of age series about the painful, steamy, fumbling encounters of a recently out college student, Parker. We follow his journey, in Philadelphia, as he begins to find himself after “the closet.” During his first openly gay hook up, Parker realizes…
Onyx Ondyx and Icon Ebony-Fierce are here to fill you in on who you will see on Season 13 of Rupaul’s Drag Race! Who will win the crown this year? Onyx and Icon break down the first looks.
What happens when two business professionals accidentally end up on the same Zoom Call, during the holidays…IN THE MIDDLE OF A PANDEMIC? Jessie and Newman are about to find out in this Hallmark-inspired holiday romance tale. CAST:-Isis Marne as Jessie-Joey Viola as Newman-Aly Malia as Alyson-Khari Johnson as Carmen-Gabe Marenco-Garcia as Mr. Jermaine WITH A…
As the new year approaches, things are looking bright for Philadelphia native chef Kenneth J McDuffie. Chef McDuffie will be the next local chef to compete on FOX’s hit show, Hell’s Kitchen. Inspired and encouraged to cook by his deceased grandmother, this self-taught chef has made a name for himself in the celebrity circuit. From…
At the end of a high school reunion party, Parker and his ex-girlfriend, Jess, reminisce about old times. But reminiscing about the past, leads to confusing feelings in the present. Interested In is a coming of age series about the painful, steamy, fumbling encounters of a recently out college student, Parker. We follow his journey, in Philadelphia,…
It’s a brand Ru Year, and the Queens of Season 13 are ready to bring it to the runway! Don’t miss the SEASON PREMIERE Friday at 8/7c on VH1! 👑💅
The Christmas premier of the much-anticipated Wonder Woman sequel caused the gays to squeal – partially for the outfits, and partial for watching women kick some ass. But unfortunately, the movie wasn’t all it was hyped up to be. While Gal Gadot looked amazing in both her Wonder Woman outfits as well as her 80’s…
Join Philly Black Pride as we celebrate the 14th Annual Kwanzaa Collaborative, which is a virtual event. The cultural celebration starts at 6pm, joins us for this annual community event where we honor or Ancestors, celebrate our Elders all in the name of Umoja (Unity). This celebration of life, love and culture is truly a…
Do you put gin in your eggnog? Sounds like Icon does…. How weird.
Icon and Onyx have gathered around the Yule log to see if they can guess the Christmas song playing. Think you can?
Parker goes to his first Grindr hook up and explores a new connection with Chase. Interested In is a coming of age series about the painful, steamy, fumbling encounters of a recently out college student, Parker. We follow his journey, in Philadelphia, as he begins to find himself after “the closet.” During his first openly gay hook…
Vinchelle and Iris Spector turn it out from JocksPHL
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Do the holidays stress you out? Does your family annoy you? Icon and Onyx retell their Christmas Memories and what annoys them.
Enjoy informative TEDx style lectures on a variety of subjects, followed by steamy burlesque performances… by the same people. We’re proving that women can be both sexy and competent adults. Featuring Philly’s own HoneyTree EvilEye
Join Eric Jaffe on December 16th (the 6th night of Hanukkah) at 7pm as they tell one of the greatest Jewish stories of all time: The Miracle of Hanukkah! We’ll sing, dance, eat latkes, and play dreidel! There may even be some special celebrity guests! Grab your favorite Manischewitz and I’ll see ya there!
Parker and his bestie, Danny, gab about boys over Froyo. Interested In is a coming of age series about the painful, steamy, fumbling encounters of a recently out college student, Parker. We follow his journey, in Philadelphia, as he begins to find himself after “the closet.” During his first openly gay hook up, Parker realizes he has much…
Oh No Don’t EAT THAT!!! Onyx and Icon try the #GhostpepperChallenge. Watch and see who can’t handle the heat!
Can Icon and Onyx put on face in less than 10 minutes? Find Out!
Catch up with the cast from The Black Diaries!
Freshly out of the closet, college sophomore, Parker goes home with Jordan, a boy from his class. But Parker might not be ready for the gay hook up scene. Interested In is a coming of age series about the painful, steamy, fumbling encounters of a recently out college student, Parker. We follow his journey, in Philadelphia, as…
Are you ready to meet all of the new Queens competing for the crown on RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13?! Start your engines! #DragRace #DragRaceRuVeal. RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 13 premieres Friday, Jan 1st on VH1.
HRC’s Municipal Equality Index (MEI) demonstrates the ways that many cities can—and do—support the LGBTQ people who live and work there, even where states and the federal government have failed to do so. The Municipal Equality Index was designed by the HRC Foundation to help residents learn how inclusive their city’s laws and policies are…
Join the Pennsylvania Commission on LGBTQ Affairs as we virtually speak out on issues affecting the LGBTQ+ community here in Pennsylvania. We heard from LGBTQ Pennsylvanians about their experiences on issues such as: discrimination, education equity, aging services, access and quality of health services and housing among others. This is our opportunity to hear from…
The most common question, are you a #Pepsi fan or #CocaCola fan? Philly Queens Onyx and Icon do some blind taste tests to see if they can tell the difference.
With so many worthy businesses in need these days, it can feel overwhelming to figure out where to direct your support. For a little guidance, look no further than the Best of Gay Cities 2020. The competition has highlighted six Black-owned, LGBTQ businesses in the Pride In Black Ownership category to support during this season of giving…
What does a Queen carry in her purse? Condoms? Chocolate? A bag of Nails? Find out in this hilarious video as Onyx Ondyx and Icon Ebony-Fierce go through their purses.
The first night of our two night HIV/AIDS awareness fundraiser for local charities like the Mazzoni Center and AIDS Fund in the Philadelphia region.
Regular news got ya down?! Gay News will tell you everything you need to know!!
Check out the amazing queens performing for CODE RED Friday Night Donate to CODE RED Venmo @michael-tambon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XHZ9mvS7Bs
Donate to the PGMC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rloPCYhjBHU Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus This free one-hour virtual concert features brand-new virtual choir performances created just for this event, solos and small group performances, plus the best from past PGMC Holiday Concerts! You won’t want to miss out, so we hope that you bring your bells and holiday cheer and…
Haaz Sleiman, recipient of the qFLIX 2020 XL Artistic Achievement in Acting Award, and Mike Mosallam, recipient of the qFLIX 2020 XL First Time Director Award, talkback with film critic Gary Kramer during our closing night awards presentation. Enjoy!
Scott Evans, recipient of the qFLIX 2020 XL Artistic Achievement in Acting Award, and Mike Doyle, recipient of the qFLIX 2020 XL First Time Director Award, talkback with film critic Gary Kramer during our closing night awards presentation. Enjoy!
From the Bike Stop: Help Save the Bike Stop The 2020 year has been more than devastating to the members of our community on a level that is hard to describe. We closed our doors on March 16, 2020 and walked away from a place many of us call home in hopes that as the…
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Welcome to Motel Montana! We hope you enjoy your stay, and we appreciate all your love and support. Donate to indiegogo
Since March, artists and communities around the world have been innovating the ways in which they create, connect, and support one another. It’s time to celebrate the amazing art and activism we have seen in this new digital age with the Philadelphia Digital Nightlife Awards!
A parody of Where are You Christmas in honor of continuing to follow all COVID-19 regulations. Shot and Edited by Justin Fortmeier Lyrics by Bev
Today we are raising money so that we can provide families at home free, quality programming throughout the holiday season! We are also getting new books, publishing another Drag Queen Story Time book of our own, and we support local LGBTQIA+ artists through our program!Paypal: [email protected]: @Ian-Morrison-1
Ben Bauer receives the qFLIX 2020 XL Rising Star Award and answers the probing question of film critic Gary Kramer.
Join Lambda Legal’s legal experts for a discussion and Q&A about what’s next for LGBTQ people in the 2020 Election, today’s Supreme Court arguments, and beyond.
Today is the day. While we likely won’t have a clear winner by the end of the night, we are ALL winners for having gotten this far. Join Angela Giampolo and State Representative Brian Sims as we discuss the importance Pennsylvania will play in this election and go over early voting details and polls.
Shoot your shot. Tell the world your deepest darkest thoughts anonymously. Let me tell the world for you. Submit here: tinyurl.com/ebonysconfessions. Every Tuesday on FB and Twitch!
Black Diaries LIVE SEASON ONE FINALE w/ Paula Deen-White, Marcha Pisces, Icon Ebony-Fierce, Sir Donyx, Zephyra Rivers, Deleqúa, & Sapphira Cristal
Matthew Mitlas is getting ready to *gasp* CLOSE THE LIBRARRRYY! From 10:30-11:30 for Stonewall Yoga. Donations accepted to Stonewall SportsFollow Matthew: Facebook Twitter Instagram
Digital marketing software startup selected as the first-place winner of Citizens’ Bank Small Business Community Champion $20,000 GrantContact: Nathalie Swann, [email protected] Philadelphia, PA, June 8, 2020 – Vitris, a local Philadelphia digital marketing software startup, has won the Citizens Bank Small Business Community Champion Award. The first-place selection awards Vitris for their dedication to assisting…
State Representative Brian Sims screams and curses at PA Republicans after it was discovered that many of them were positive for COVID-19 while at the same tie denying the threat exists, and unknowingly exposing members of the PA house and their families. UPDATE from Brian Sims IT WORKED! It appears that Speaker Mike Turzai will…
Opera Philadelphia is now presenting the rarely-heard Prokofiev work, The Love for Three Oranges at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia for only a few performances.
Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O19 continues with George Frideric Handel’s 1744 operatic masterpiece Semele at the Perelman Theater.
On Saturday, September 21, actor, singer, writer, songwriter Anthony Rapp performed songs and told anecdotes about his life and career at New Hope’s Bucks County Playhouse
This is Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann’s 30th and final season at the helm of the McCarter. Gloria: A Life is restaged for the McCarter by its playwright Emily Mann.
This Young Frankenstein is a musical retelling of the hit 1974 film with Book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan, with Music and Lyrics by Mel Brooks.
Broadway Philadelphia is presenting the touring company of the hit musical Hamilton at the Forrest Theatre until mid-November.
The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, is now presenting Carter Calvert and Sally Struthers in Always … Patsy Cline until September 7.
“Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another.” – Thomas Merton
A fantastic tented structure, The Grand Chapiteau, has landed at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center housing Amaluna until August 25th.
BalletX is presenting Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s full-length dance, The Little Prince at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia until July 21. The Little Prince is a world premiere created especially for BalletX and for its dancers.
John Tartaglia is an American puppeteer, actor, singer and dancer who hosts a Sunday program on Sirius XM’s On Broadway on channel 72
Off the top of your head, what was playing on Broadway in 1982? Some of you may not have even been born. Here’s a quick answer: Master Harold … and the Boys, Torch Song Trilogy, Agnes of God, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and, among others, CATS.
Winner of nine Tony Awards, the 2011 musical comedy The Book of Mormon returns to Philadelphia’s Academy of Music.
Paula Vogel’s Tony-award-winning play Indecent is now at the Arden Theatre Company until June 23. First produced in 2015, it reached Broadway in 2017 earning three Tony nominations and winning for best direction of a play for Rebecca Taichman and lighting design in a play for Christopher Akerlind. It appeared on PBS as a Great Performance presentation in 2017.
The classic thriller Dial M for Murder will be at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, until June 15.
Legally Blonde: The Musical has found itself a home at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia until July 14. This Legally Blonde: The Musical is an exciting, joyous event which can hold its own against anything Broadway can offer.
The McCarter Theatre Center of Princeton, New Jersey, is now presenting David Hare’s drama Skylight at their Berlind Theatre until June 2.
The McCarter Theatre Center presented Mark Morris Dance Group, and the MMDG Music Ensemble at the Matthews Theatre in Princeton, New Jersey, on May 17, 2019.
On May 9, Pennsylvania Ballet presented a triple bill of ballets at Philadelphia’s historic, magnificent Academy of Music.
The double bill consisted of Riders to the Sea by Ralph Vaughan Williams, after the play by John Millington Synge, and Empty the House by Rene Orth with libretto by Mark Campbell. The two operas had as a theme mothers, one being good, the other evil, and the ways they dealt with their sons’ deaths.
Opera Philadelphia is now presenting Puccini’s classic opera La boheme on the Academy of Music stage until May 5.
The legendary pianist Emanuel Ax presented works by Brahms, Benjamin, Schumann, Ravel, and Chopin at his Monday, April 22nd, recital at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center.
The Australian Chamber Orchestra appeared on the Richardson Auditorium stage in Alexander Hall on the Princeton University campus on April 11.
Middletown: The Ride of Your Life is now playing at Bucks County Playhouse, New Hope, PA, until April 21. It will later transfer to Delaware Theatre Company, Wilmington, DE, May 28-June 2, 2019.
Two celebrated artists, violinist Midori and pianist Jean Yves Thibaudet joined forces on Monday, April 15, for a recital at the Matthews Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center
The national touring company of the Broadway smash Anastasia is now playing at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music until April 14
Momix brought grandeur, brilliance, and spectacle to the McCarter’s Matthews Theatre on Saturday evening, April 6.
Shakespeare’s late comedy, Measure for Measure, is now being presented by Philadelphia’s Lantern Theater until April 21.
The Tony-Award winning Best Play, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, is now onstage at Philadelphia’s historic Walnut Street Theatre until April 28.
The McCarter Theatre Center is now presenting (in association with The Old Globe) the world premiere of Ken Ludwig’s The Gods of Comedy through March 31.
One of the most successful musicals of all time, Miss Saigon, the tour, is now playing at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music until March 31.
Famed playwright August Wilson’s one-person memoir written and performed in 2003 How I Learned What I Learned is being presented by Arden Theatre Company at The Bob and Selma Horan Studio Theatre in Philadelphia now through April 14.
Curtis Opera Theatre in partnership with Opera Philadelphia and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts presented its students in a staged production of Mozart’s masterpiece Don Giovanni at the Perelman Theater.
Kate: the Unexamined Life by Playwright Rick Foster is now being gloriously realized by Janice Stevens at the Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3 now until April 7.
Arden Theatre Company is now presenting August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean on their F. Otto Haas Stage, now until March 31.
Famed illustrator and gay icon Edward Gorey once said in an interview about his own work, ‘Ideally, if anything were any good, it would be indescribable.’
BalletX is presenting its Spring Series 2019 at The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia now through March 17.
The Kimmel Center’s Broadway Philadelphia season continues with the now classic musical Rent with Book, Music, and Lyrics by the late Jonathan Larsen
Ernest Thompson’s beloved modern classic On Golden Pond is now at the Bristol Riverside Theatre in Bucks County, PA, until February 10.
Celebrated playwright Ken Ludwig’s A Comedy of Tenors is now playing at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre until March 3.
Originally developed at the Contemporary American Theater Festival in Shepherdstown, West Virginia in 2017, then further developed at the Portland Stage Company, The Niceties, a play by Eleanor Burgess, is presented in association with Huntington Theatre Company and Manhattan Theatre Club at the McCarter Theatre Center where it will be performed until February 10, 2019.
It was unique in its day because of its form: the play began at the end of the story and ended with the beginning. A contemporary play which follows this format is The Last 5 Years.
David Mamet’s 1992 play Oleanna is at the Walnut Street Theatre’s Independence Studio on 3 until February 17.
The McCarter Theatre Center presented The King’s Singers on Wednesday, December 19, 2018. This concert celebrated the fact that The King’s Singers are celebrating their 50th anniversary, which they’ve named GOLD.
The Wilma Theater is now presenting BalletX’s Fall 2018 season until December 9. There are three world premieres in their Fall season: Yonder, a Skype Ballet, by Wubkje Kuindersma; The Last Lifeboat, by Marguerite Donlon; and Napoleon/Napoleon, by Cayetano Soto.
Roald Dahl’s beloved children’s classic Matilda is now a hit musical Matilda: the Musical now playing at the Walnut Street Theatre until January 6.
The one-man show, Every Brilliant Thing has returned to the Arden Theatre Company for an engagement which will run until December 16.
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is the theatre masterpiece with music and lyrics by the legendary Stephen Sondheim, with Book by Hugh Wheeler.
A starry cast delivers an unforgettable performance of Paul Rudnick’s play ‘I Hate Hamlet’ at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, until December 1.
Pennsylvania Ballet performed three dances by three different choreographers for their short November 8-11 season at the Merriam. All three works had death as their theme, at least in part. All three works were performed with recorded music.
It’s time to break out your fanciest suit / dress and come enjoy an evening helping out the LGBT community of the greater Philadelphia area!
Danny Quadrino who plays Mike Teavee in the touring company of the Broadway hit Charlie and the Chocolate Factory took time out one recent afternoon to chat about his career, the musical now in Philadelphia, and how he has accomplished so much in his young life.
On Tuesday, October 23, 2018, Princeton University Orchestra presented Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, with Ivan Fisher, conductor, at Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall.
Ian Morrison, otherwise known as Brittany Lynn, is a long time Philadelphian
Francisco Cortes, who describes himself as a Mexican Immigrant and gay Philadelphian. Marathoner and Golden Girls extraordinaire, is the new Director of GALAEI, a queer Latin@ social justice organization
Aiden James is a local singer/song writer that has national appeal
Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Centre in association with Hartford Stage is presenting Detroit ’67 now until October 28. It is a timely play well worth seeing.
You’ve heard us mention how awesome Basic Witches The Musical is in the past, but now in this political climate, you can show your support for the trans community AND learn something along the way!
The McCarter Theatre center of Princeton, NJ, hosted BalletX at their intimate Berlind Theatre for two nights
Dan Marinari is the current Mr Leather Philadelphia
Zach Cossman is Brad Majors in The Rocky Horror Show at Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA. The Rocky Horror Show has become a season staple at the Playhouse.
Phil Cochetti is the Head Bear in Charge of Happy Bear, a weekly bear happy hour at Tabu.
Elicia Gonzales is the Executive Director of the Women’s Medical Fund, and co-founder of SEXx Interactive, and former Executive Director of GALAEI.
Mark Allan Segal is an American journalist. He is the president of the National Gay Newspaper Guild and the founder and publisher of Philadelphia Gay News. Segal is originally from Mount Airy, Philadelphia and attended Germantown High School and Temple University.
Originally from Tennessee, VinChelle is a local drag performer
Arden Theatre Company presents Once. This production for the stage is directed by Terrence J. Nolen, the Arden’s producing Artistic Director. Once is the initial production of Arden’s 31st season, and it is not to be missed.
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Love Never Dies will soon be at the Academy of Music as part of the season’s first presentation of Broadway Philadelphia. Sean Thompson, who plays Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny, will be returning to his hometown. He was born, raised, and educated in Philadelphia. Sean recently took a few minutes out from his busy schedule to talk to me about Love Never Dies, his early life, education, career, and personal life.
In association with Hartford Stage, the McCarter Theatre center is now presenting a stage adaptation by Douglas McGrath of Edith Wharton’s classic novel, The Age of Innocence.
Opera Philadelphia is now presenting Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, at the Academy of Music until September 30. It is part of their Festival O 2018. This new production has much to recommend it.
Irving Berlin’s American masterpiece, Holiday Inn, is now playing at America’s masterpiece, the Walnut Street Theatre, until October 21.
Czech-born Sir Tom Stoppard’s 1988 play, Hapgood, is now onstage at the Lantern Theater until October 14. It is the play’s Philadelphia premiere.
An evil stepmother, a sea witch, a wicked witch and that witch from Hansel and Gretal come together on halloween to fight for the title of Witchiest Witch!
What does Blithe mean?
There has been a lot of turmoil in the gayborhood recently. Back in June we reported that Tabu Sports Lounge was moving to the iCandy Building. We talked with the owner of Tabu – Jeff Sotland.
Legends come and go, yet many remain legends long after their deaths. In the musical, Million Dollar Quartet we have four: Elvis Presley; Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash; and (the still living) Jerry Lee Lewis
Out singer-songwriter Tom Goss appeared at The Rrazz Room in New Hope, PA, on July 28.
Out and proud singer/songwriter Matt Alber appeared at New Hope’s Rrazz Room on Friday, July 13th.
BalletX, Philadelphia’s bold and sassy modern dance troupe, presented three world premieres on July 11 at Philadelphia’s Wilma Theater.
‘Why is it more proper to relieve our hunger and thirst than to rid ourselves of melancholy?’ asked Benedict de Spinoza. Why indeed, when you can take your dancing feet right on over to the Bucks County Playhouse.
Broadway Philadelphia is now presenting Disney’s Aladdin: The Hit Broadway Musical (aka Aladdin) at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. If you haven’t yet seen anything this season, then you must see Aladdin.
The new musical Half Time opened June 12 at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Milburn, NJ.
The 72nd Tony Awards hosted by Josh Groban and Sara Bareilles will be broadcast this Sunday evening. I had the opportunity to chat with Frances Egler, who is the Tony Awards voter for the Kimmel Center.
Beginning in 1987 as the play Pyjamas Pour Six by French farceur Marc Camoletti, it was then translated and rewritten in 1991 by Robin Hawdon, and retitled Don’t Dress for Dinner. It enjoyed a long run on the London stage.
The Arden Theatre Company closes its 30th season with a new production of Fun Home.
Opening night on May 23 was a wild affair, with an audience so responsive as to be like, totally mind-blowing, man. Every movement on the stage provoked applause from the eager, mostly young, audience, and they had every reason to applaud. This re-imagined Mamma Mia! is a winner.
An Act of God, which recently appeared on Broadway to critical acclaim, now enjoys a spanking-new production with a cracker-jack cast at New Hope’s legendary Bucks County Playhouse.
Pennsylvania Ballet has announced the promotion of ten dancers for the 2018-2019 season
An Ohio native, James Ihde came to Philadelphia in 1993, when he began his association with Pennsylvania Ballet as an Apprentice. James Ihde will now retire after a twenty-five year career with Pennsylvania Ballet. This weekend, James will dance his last performances, culminating in his final performance Sunday afternoon in George Balanchine’s Jewels.
The McCarter Theatre Center presented pianist Jeremy Denk in recital. Mr. Denk’s program included Mozart’s Rondo in A Minor, Prokofiev’s Visions Fugitives, Beethoven’s Sonata, and Schubert’s Sonata in B-flat major.
At first glance, you may think, ‘Do we need an old chestnut like Carmen?’ If it’s Opera Philadelphia’s new Carmen, then the answer is yes, yes, and yes!
The three ballets presented under the title Grace and Grandeur were Marius Petipa’s Paquita, Christopher Wheeldon’s For Four, and George Balanchine’s Theme and Variations.
Since it was first performed in 1982, Noises Off has proven to be a success with audiences from London to Broadway. The Walnut’s production of the play is first-rate, with a starry cast, so don’t miss it.
I recently had someone reach out and tell me, ‘You’re too skinny. I just don’t find you a great Mr Philly Leather.’ I’m not letting it get me down. I’ve learned how to process comments about my body like this and I certainly don’t believe that someone has to be a certain size to be a titleholder.
The three films under discussion are Daddy, Still Waiting in the Wings, and All Male, All Nude.
The Kimmel Center’s Broadway Philadelphia presents School of Rock The Musical at the Academy of Music until April 1.
qFLIX Philadelphia, The LGBTQ+ Film Festival, took over several Center City Philadelphia venues during the festival run March 19-25, 2018. qFLIX Philadelphia presented feature films, short subjects, a concert, award ceremonies, and gala opening night and closing night festivities. Of course, it being an LGBTQ+ event, there were parties.
Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye is now at the F. Otto Haas Stage at the Arden Theatre Company until April 1
The masterpiece Swan Lake is now at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia until March 18
Fresh from its Broadway run, the smash hit musical Something Rotten! is now at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia until March 4.
The well-known tale probably existed before the Brothers Grimm and might be most known through Walt Disney for those who are not balletomanes. The immortal classic with choreography by Marius Petipa and music by Peter I. Tchaikovsky needs no explanation and no introduction for ballet lovers.
The celebrated pianist Daniil Trifonov and estimable baritone Matthias Goerner presented a song recital at Matthews Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center/
Modern master and composer George Benjamin’s opera, Written on Skin is now being presented by Opera Philadelphia at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music only until February 18. Written on Skin is an extraordinary work of considerable beauty which should not be missed.
Sweetumses, this week’s All Stars put my balloon knot all in a twist. My cat Phi Phi coughed up hairball after hairball after hairball, but when the dust settled, everybody felt a little bitch better. So let’s fire up the jets and get in the tub.
Stones in His Pockets, a play by Marie Jones, directed by Lindsay Posner, is now at the Berlind Theatre at the McCarter Theatre Center until February 11.
Hey now. It’s All Stars. Get your fame on. Let’s play. I just watched episode two with my corgis Kremy Ma, Uniqla, Minerva, and Shan’t, and we have a few thoughts. But we’re gonna keep it cute. Like Meemaw Ru, we do sassy but we don’t do bitchy. But also we also aren’t sure of the difference. Ochre?
Call Me by Your Name is one of those films that will take you unaware. Perhaps it’s due to it being (somewhat incorrectly) labelled as a gay love story, and a complicated one at that, since it does involve a minor and an adult in a same sex relationship.
The Arden Theatre Company is presenting a version of the Ibsen play by Simon Stephens at their intimate Arcadia Stage until March 4.
A Christmas Carol is a holiday tradition for many over the years, bringing much joy to those who see it. Try to see it this year. It may be the start of a holiday tradition for you, too.
The celebrated Menier Chocolate Factory production of The Color Purple, the Musical is now at the Forrest Theatre. Based upon the novel by Alice Walker, The Color Purple, the Musical, has a book by famed playwright Marsha Norman, with music and lyrics by three famous musicians, Brenda Russell, Alee Willis, and Stephen Bray. John Doyle designed the set, musical staging, and directed this production.
I’ve always been a tomboy. From elementary school on, any time I picked my own clothes they were always oversized and typically from the boys department. At some point during college I realized my attraction to women and identified as a lesbian until recently. The label never quite felt right, but I couldn’t put my finger on why that was. Denial was easier than working through it. I did not have many resources and wasn’t comfortable discussing my dysphoria. As I entered adulthood, I began to present myself in a very androgynous way. This helped ease the dysphoria a bit, but only temporarily.
Stray dog, dog catcher, apple seller, FDR, orphans, Judge Louis Brandeis and Sandy. It must be the classic Broadway musical Annie now at the Paper Mill Playhouse
I think it was 5 or so, and knowing I wasn’t a ‘girl’ in the way that the other girls in kindergarten were. I didn’t know what the alternative was though, so I just went along with it. I think it probably wasn’t until middle school that I was even introduced to the possibility of trans and non-binary identities, but I didn’t openly identify as nb until sophomore year of college.
There is no better time to give thanks for all that technicians, stagehands, producers, actors, dancers, singers and musicians do for us. The Arts, at their best, provide us with the means to feel and know in a totally different way, and to realize that we are neither powerless nor dumb, and that we have the potential to be great. Find love and joy in the Arts since the Arts bring out the finest qualities within each of us. This holiday season share your joy with your loved ones by taking them to a show, concert, or performance, or by buying them tickets of their own.
I first realized it when I was around 10 or 11, I definitely looked like a little boy in my basketball shorts with these braids. One of the guys working at a store called me a boy and I didn’t correct him. It sounded right when he said it. It felt right.
Ralph Malachowski reviews Finding Neverland at the Academy of Music
Oscar Wilde, notorious bisexual, playwright, poet, novelist, and genius had a short but illustrious career during the last decade of the nineteenth century. Celebrated actor Michael Cumpsty leads a young and sprightly cast through this amazing comedy.
It was around 4 or 5 I didn’t really fit into my gender and being that I lived mainly with my nieces and aunt’s I never truly had male leadership in my life. By the age of 13-14 I began crossdressing and displaying female tendencies. By age 16-18 I began seeking hormonal treatment.
I would say i started realizing i didn’t relate to my birth in my early teens. I never wore the typical girl clothes or played with the usual girl toys.
The Amazing Kreskin appeared at The Rrazz Room in New Hope Saturday, October 14. Those of us who are of a certain age recall Kreskin from his many television appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and many other talk shows of the era, where he would do, well, amazing things.
Men in red satin corsets, bustiers, high heels and nylon stockings, living only for pleasure … The average lives of men living in the mansions of Solebury, PA, you say? Not this time. We are speaking of the snappy reinvention of The Rocky Horror Show
The American musical theatre classic Cabaret is now at the Arden Theatre. The story was first written by Christopher Isherwood, which was turned into a play by John van Druten, which later became a musical with book by Joe Masterhoff, music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebb.
Stephen Sondheim’s, Burt Shevelove’s and Larry Gelbart’s classic musical, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is now at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia until October 22.
A world premiere musical is now at the Bucks County Playhouse until October 1st. Rock and Roll Man is a great new musical which tells the compelling story of Alan Freed, the DJ who became famous for playing ‘Race Music,’ eventually coining the term ‘Rock and Roll.’ It is a great evening of rock and roll.
Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute is being presented by Opera Philadelphia now until September 24 at Philadelphia’s Academy of Music. Opera Philadelphia’s festival, named O17, is an intense, immersive experience of five new opera productions and related programs which began September 14 and ends September 25. As their advertising states, ‘For 12 days, our city is a stage.’
They based their opera on the novel, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, by Peter Ackroyd. Elizabeth Cree, a co-production with Chicago Opera Theater, is an Opera Philadelphia O17 Festival production.
What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?
From now until October 8, the Lantern Theater Company is presenting the Philadelphia premiere of Lolita Chakrabarti’s drama, Red Velvet.
If you’re looking for a show that will make you feel something… HOME is for you!
It’s been just roughly 6 months since I saw Glister last and boy has it grown!
Looking to be the best G-uncle or Parent for your tiny tot? Take your family to see Aunty Ben this weekend!
It’s that time of year again, where I get to spend 3-4 paragraphs gushing about Gunnar Montana’s latest piece of performance art.
Global Energy Race is a 10K and 5K race that aims to get people moving … in 38 cities, 21 countries, on one day.
Many plays have been set during the holidays. Often, holidays are when families and loved ones gather to enjoy each other’s company and to celebrate their bonds. This isn’t always the case. One such play which explores the darker side of family relations is Jon Robin Baitz’s drama, Other Desert Cities, now at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope until September 2.
We thought we would give you guys 10 relationship tips that help us. Of course, we aren’t experts and nowhere near perfect but we definitely have a few tips. All of which has helped us keep our relationship strong, especially in the age of social media.
Good news! A fabulous touring production of Wicked has just landed in Philadelphia at the Academy of Music and you have only until August 27 to see it. Don’t miss it.
Rarely performed because of the large cast, The Bucks County Playhouse is presenting this musical until August 12. It is the largest musical ever presented on this stage and well worth seeing.
With the huge Boys of Summer Swimsuit Party just a week away, Bev meets up with the producers, Calvin Joshua, Matt Rowe and Steve McCann to talk about the event, it’s history and how it’s changing for the future.
Be careful what you wish for; be very very careful. This might be the lesson behind the modern day fable, The Nerd, now at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, until July 15.
Winner of five TONY Awards in 2015, Fun Home will be at Philadelphia’s Forrest Theatre until June 18, a presentation of the Kimmel’s Broadway Philadelphia season.
A lot of people keep asking me my opinion on the new flag and I was not going to say anything about it, but I just want to give you kids a little bit of insight.
What happens when you throw Shakespere, Glitter, and Punky Rock Music in a blender? You get genius that is Glister!
Before AIDS nearly decimated an entire generation of gay men, before just about anyone had heard of skin lichens, herpes, HPV, or shingles, there was a sexual revolution
The dancers at the Saturday evening, May 13th, performance of Pennsylvania Ballet’s program titled RE/ACTION were uniformly splendid. One could not say that the season ended on a high note because there were so many high notes throughout the season. The evening was quite simply, a joy.
The McCarter Theatre Center once again hosted a Pride Night on May 18th. This night, the production was Lynn Nottage’s drama Intimate Apparel.
May 24 was the opening night of Gypsy at the Arden Theatre Company of Philadelphia. The demand was so great during previews that the run has already been extended from its original closing to June 25th
I rarely pay for a massage, so when I do, I want to make sure it’s worth it. Thank goodness Matt Taylor of TTtherapy had my back (literally!)
IBA is turning 10 and celebrating in style on Wednesday, May 10th
The press corps was invited to the Parry Mansion to meet the cast and director of the world premiere of Clue: On Stage which opens the Bucks County Playhouse season.
For the twenty-fifth time, Shut Up and Dance will be presented April 29 to benefit Manna, whose motto is “Delivering Nourishment, Improving Health†to those who are battling life-threatening illnesses.
Philadelphia’s first pride event of 2017 starts now. Philadelphia Black Pride is from April 27 – May 1, 2017.
What’s his favorite toy? How awesome is AdamMale.com
Hedwig and the Angry Inch had a long, successful run on Broadway. It is now touring with Euan Morton as Hedwig,
Jessica Lang Dance will perform at Philadelphia’s Prince Theater until Sunday, April 9 as part of the Next Move Dance season
Applications now available for IBA/DVLF LGBTQ Business Scholarship & PNC Bank LGBT Business Award
Forget Magic Mike, and start looking forward to this handsome team taking off ALL OF THEIR CLOTHING!
Bev sits down with the hardest working queen in Philly – Brittany Lynn
The McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey, presented the world premiere of Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig, and directed by Artistic Director and Resident Playwright Emily Mann, it was one of the finest plays of this season.
Wilde’s last play The Importance of Being Earnest now at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia is a sparkling, true production of this masterpiece.
The classic Kander and Ebb musical, Cabaret, will soon be arriving at the Academy of Music, as part of the Broadway Philadelphia at the Kimmel Center season.
Bev sits down with RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philly queen – Mimi Imfurst
Bev sits down with Satine Harlow
IBA hosts Third Annual Women in Business Panel Discussion: How Mentorship Shaped My Career
Jose Llana is a Filipino-American singer and actor best known for his roles on Broadway – a singer, actor, and out gay man
Bev invites Anita Manhattan, best known for her work with ActionAIDS and Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus
Like the postal carrier motto, neither rain, nor snow, nor dark of night could postpone my reviews of three exemplary, yet very different events recently presented in Philadelphia
There are many perks to blogging for PGC, and one of my favorites are the pre-screeners I get to watch before Qflix Film Festival hits Philly,
Fox’s Empire broke new ground for the network and infused the world of hip-hop with soap-opera that was not only a celebration for the world of music, but also exemplified another piece of culture for the network as the channel to turn to if you love a good EARGASM.
Everyone wants to be in it, and no one wants to be without it, but what happens when love isn’t a two-way street? What happens when love is altruistic, all-consuming, and almost always unappreciated?
I watched the first episode of Feud – and despite not knowing who these people were, I loved it!
EXCLUSIVE interview with Deborah Cox staring in The Body Guard in Philadelphia
Gioacchino Rossini’s opera Tancredi will be presented by Opera Philadelphia at the Academy of Music until February 19
I spent countless hours listening to all of my favorite albums of 2016, over the course of the last couple weeks. You saw in last week’s post, “The Good, The Bad, The Ugly”, who didn’t make the cut…
The acclaimed New York City theatre company, Bedlam, is presenting both Hamlet and Saint Joan in rotating repertory at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre Center until February 12.
Living legend Neil Simon’s 1993 play, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, is enjoying a terrific revival now at the Walnut Street Theatre
Annie Baker is a young playwright who has amassed an enviable collection of awards: The Pulitzer Prize, Obie, Lucille Lortel, and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
JUNK’s 7th annual one-night-only winter themed extravaganza fundraising party SNOWBALL.
We went out and talked to a few local gay trainers to ask them how to get on the right track….and how to stay on it!
While I’m skin care junkie and I love to try tons on products. I have found four great products and easy steps that you need to keep or get your skin looking right for the New Year.
Everyone is (secretly) gay in Lake Homo High, a popular serialized sketch comedy show out of NYC that’s coming to Philadelphia’s Good Good Comedy Theatre for one show on Saturday night.
Cirque Eloize is bringing its newest production, Saloon, to the Merriam Theatre for a limited run as part of Broadway at the Kimmel.
Now streaming on Showtime On-Demand: Madonna, Queen of Pop, brings her REBEL HEART Tour for fans to either relive, or experience for the first time.
Calling all ‘Dancing Queens’! The Broadway musical Mamma Mia is headed for Philadelphia, and it’s coming to the Merriam Theatre December 27th through the 31st. Andrew Tebo, who plays Harry Bright in the show, talked a bit about the musical, his role in it, and his life in the performing arts and as a gay man.
Holiday Party reaches recorded attendance
Swedish pop star Tove Lo was smart about the orchestration of launching a follow-up album. After her infectious sleeper breakout hit, ‘Habits (Stay High)’, and debut album, Queen of the Clouds, debuted in 2014, the rise to international success grew rapidly.
It’s time for the most emotionally refueling evening of the year! Code: Red let’s do this!
Undoubtedly this is also the time of the year where many of you will pack my inbox with your holiday etiquette, floral, and table setting, woes! Never fear … Mr. Queer is here! … with some simple helpful tips to keep this season a delight!
Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams sang ‘I Finally Found Someone’ in 1996. The hit play by gay playwright Jonathan Tolins explores another man in Barbra’s life, and that fictional story is fabulously told in Buyer and Cellar, now at the Bucks County Playhouse
You’ll be singing ‘Ding, Dong! The Witch is Dead!’ at the Walnut Street Theatre
Colby Q. Lindeman has appeared on the cover of Next Magazine, and has worn only underwear for an advertising campaign in winter in Times Square, as well as being a dancer.
Chicken Bone Brain is Sanders’ newest work commissioned by the Pennsylvania Ballet. Brian Sanders was easy going, yet intensely focused about his work, so it was a great opportunity for us to hear more about his world premiere, his own troupe, Brian Sanders’ Junk, and what we can look forward to this week and beyond.
I’ve said it before, but let me remind you – Gaga is the new Madonna in regard to pop superstardom and the magnitude in which fans idolize their icon
The 7th annual Beauty Ball is this weekend and I got a chance to have a sit down with one of the current producers, Ryan Wyrofsky. We decided to have a little ‘trial run’ to get us ready for Saturday.
I was excited for a gay thriller with the promise of some skin and sin. How could this movie not be awesome!?
Interviewing Brian Sims is always a treat, especially because he can pack so much into 15 minutes! Brian Sims talks Yuengling, voting for people other than the presidential candidate, voting Third Party, and eating in Philly!
What happens when fatuous, self-involved and selfish people with way too much money drink too much then talk politics and religion
Yes, that Geno, the man who owns the cheese steak joint you tell your touristy out of town-ers to shoot to in south Philly! Did you know he’s a gay man that donates a shit ton to local homos (and non-homos!).
The Legend of Georgia McBride, a new musical by Matthew Lopez, is now at their Arcadian Stage in Philadelphia until November 27. Opening night was October 19, and it was an evening filled with joy and expectation. By the audience’s reaction, the actors mightily pleased their audience and brought them to their feet at the musical’s conclusion.
The William Way Community Center held its annual fundraiser, Indigo Ball. I am ashamed to admit but this was actually my first Indigo Ball so needless to say I was excited to see what it was all about.
I took Eric Thomas to the scariest place in Philly – Eastern State Penitentiary’s Terror Behind the Walls
A Philadelphia based queer Latinx company shows us that we are one people – one heart.
Sensual pleasure copulating with rigid religious dogma is the driving force of Bathing in Moonlight, Nilo Cruz’ new play at the McCarter Theatre in Princeton, NJ.
The Walnut Street Theatre opens its 208th season with Rogers and Hammerstein’s musical, South Pacific. By all accounts a great production and you have only until October 23 to see it.
It was a night of extravaganza! The 2016 Philly Drag Awards, the brain child of the infamous RuPaul’s Drag Queen and Philly favorite, Mimi Imfurst, took center stage last night at Voyeur Nightclub
I love theatre that makes good use of it’s space… and An obviously Foggot does it so well!
In this fine production directed by Kathryn MacMillan, there is no shortage of strong acting and strong characters. As the title character, theatre legend Mary Martello is Mrs. Warren. Winner of five Barrymore Awards, she did not disappoint her audience
I ended my weekend of Fringe with perhaps the heaviest of pieces.
Sean Green & Garrett Olthuis team up to tell the story of the love cycle.
Gunnar Montana does it again, taking all of the audience’s emotions and using them to fuel an evening of magic!
Raul Mendez will soon make his American stage debut as Father Monroe in Nilo Cruz’ Bathing in Moonlight at Princeton’s McCarter Theatre.
Disco gays of a certain age may remember the song MacArthur Park by Richard Harris. The lyrics included leaving a cake out in the rain, and how things will never be the same again. Well, there is a new musical titled Cake Off, now playing at the Bucks County Playhouse
Original from Philly, Angel moved to Orlando only to survive the worst mass shooting in recent history at Pulse Nightclub.
The delicate balance of a gay marriage is explored in Chad Beguelin’s Harbor
Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s version takes Gilbert and Sullivan’s well-known storytelling a step further, exploring a ‘post-gay’ vision of this classic comic operetta.
Just in time along comes Charles Busch’s 2010 off-Broadway hit, The Divine Sister, now onstage at the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, until August 13.
Missing Cafe 12, AND Cake and The Beanstalk? Good news, Arterial Agents is here for all of your Coffee needs!
Reel in the Closet; Women He’s Undressed; and Bear City 3
QFlix Philadelphia, celebrating its 22nd year of bringing LGBT films to the public, enjoyed a stellar opening night at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theatre July 5.
Jamaica: A Musical Comedy is now at The New Freedom Theatre until June 26. Written in 1957, it boasts a book by E.Y. Harburg and Frank Saidy, music by Harold Arlen, and lyrics by E. Y. Harburg.
Andrew O’Reilly, dance captain for Riverdance: The 20th Anniversary Tour at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, spoke recently about his life as a single gay man, dancer, and all-around adventurous chap.
We’re all torn up, we’re all going through bouts of tears, but together we can overcome grief, fear and anger and use our vast numbers to support our brothers and sisters.
You will never see a better production of Sister Act, now at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia. The Walnut Street has outdone itself. With each character cast from strength, this is the musical to see this month. Simply put, there isn’t a bad performance to be seen the entire night.
With a dash of imagination, and a whole lot of talent PGMC put together a show that I haven’t stopped talking about.
Playwright Anton Chekhov wrote ‘Not a cosmetician and not an entertainer. (A writer) is a man bound by contract to his sense of duty and his conscience … the writer should be just as objective as the chemist.’ How apt a statement when compared to a play set in a beauty salon.
Based upon the beloved 1911 children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden,a play with music, is now playing at the Arden Theatre until June 19.
The fourteen dancers in this newly-reborn company presented a program of new and newer works.
For every play presented, the McCarter schedules a Thursday night pre-play party for the LGBT community. Tonight’s play was ‘All the Days,’ by Sharyn Rothstein, presented in the beautiful Berlind Theatre. But first, let’s talk about the party.
When you need to raise awareness and funds for an epic show, you need to put on an epic fundraiser!
The Queens are stepping up and getting mixed up with the ladies of Armadillo Acres
Don’t get me wrong, I love me some gay pizza, but it’s nice to switch it up every once and a while…
he infamous Bianca Del Rio, from Season 6 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, has released a brand new comedy show called the ‘Rolodex of Hate Comedy Special.’ And we wouldn’t be a proper gayborhood without a few viewing parties.
Get ready for the 3rd Anniversary of Bearlesque one tweet at a time!
Seven Sickening Queens got together a year ago and decided to step up the Drag Community. Their Anniversary is coming up, and they’re celebrating like only true foxes can.
Calling all gays and other fabulous fans of musical theatre. Actor, dancer, singer, director, producer, choreographer, and Broadway legend Tommy Tune will appear at the Rrazz Room at the Prince Theatre for three shows May 6-7
More commonly known for leaking documents via WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning’s (Christina Manning’s) story is much deeper than your ‘standard’ treason story. ‘…Bradley Manning” explores many themes that all audience members can relate to.’
Our favorite mustached queen Mistor Fahrenheit (Ryan Henaghan) has put together the sickest Drag sale ever! And all proceeds are going straight to Charity!
Australians are hot to begin with, add to the fact that these Aussies will be performing magic in the buff, and you’ve basically just fulfilled every fantasy I’ve ever had.
With ICandy’s 5 Year Anniversary party right around the corner, PhillyGayCalendar sat down with co-owner and events director, Michael DePiano, to dish about the party, the new lounge, and of course the performers.
Our Instacrush of the week this week is the infamous Tommee Boom. He’s been a part of the local community for years, and in fact, was one of our first calendar models back in the day. Today you can see him snapping pics of him and his boyfriend Anthony as they travel to all the sexy tropical locations (we are SUPER jealous!)
ICandy’s 5th Anniversary Party will be full of Kings, Queens, and who lot of fun!
The incredible Aurora Whorealis took over as quiz master at Tabu – here are a few tips to help any new host
Boys in not so much clothing show off their physical prowess through dance and body movment. Imaginiatve staging and lighting work together to complete an amazing show.
Last Friday, Bearlesque did Disney! All the amazing performers you have come to love took a turn at being your favorite animated characters.
Whether you know it or not, you have seen his work and liked his instagram pics. This week we are crushing on the Garrett Matthews (@garrett.matthew). Known for his breath taking photos of some of the most famous drag queens in the country, Garrett always has his camera on hand capturing the local community. We often see him at voyeur at the shows crouched in the corner getting the shots that made him famous.
Peter and the Starcatcher is the prequel to the Peter Pan stories set during the reign of Queen Victoria. In other words, how an orphan boy became the fabulous fairy known to this day.
San Francisco-based drag queen and filmmaker Peaches Christ will make her Philadelphia debut at the next What Makes Me Pissi, a monthly drag cabaret at L’Etage. Showcasing the big personality of Pissi Myles, the show combines song, dance, comedy, and other ‘zany antics’ for an evening of hilarity and debauchery. Past guests have included drag legend Lady Bunny, parody queen Sherry Vine, and RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8 contestant Bob the Drag Queen.
Aaron Anker talks about the ballet, being an apprentice, Ian Hussey and Shut Up and Dance
Name a mystery drama with a flamboyant gay, a strong, athletic woman dressed in men’s clothes, and a strapping young man who skis through a snowstorm to save everyone’s life.
The do’s and dont’s of Botox…Plus the Questions you’ve wanted to ask.
This week we are crushing on the infamous Hugh E of Philly Chit Chat (@phillychitchat). Hugh E has been snapping pics all over the gayborhood and all over Philadelphia for years. What started as a hobby turned him into a celebrity, often being featured on the news.
Part Viewing Party, Part Album Release Party, Part Shit Show.
Beautiful: The Carole King Musical will be appearing at the Philadelphia Academy of Music March 22 through April 3 as part of the Kimmel Center’s Broadway Philadelphia series. John Michael Dias is a member of the Ensemble in this Tony, Grammy, and Olivier winning musical.
Pennsylvania Ballet is presenting the world premiere of a new Don Quixote March 3-13 at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia. Angel Corella, the company’s Artistic Director, has re-created a new version of the ballet.
See all the juicy pictures and details below!
She makes a robot look gorgeous and has a friendship so close with Zsa Zsa St. James that I’m a bit jealous… meet Iris Spectre.
75 glorious minutes of scantily clad, sweaty gay men doing yoga followed by a free 45 minute cocktail social
Grindr isn’t the only one that can provide instant gratification!
Brent Antonello, of the hit VH1 show Hit the Floor talks about his role and new gay story line.
This week we are crushing on the very sexy Dwayne Townsend (@dwayneatownsend). He is a Zumba Instructor, trainer, professional dancer, body builder and all around good guy. You might also recognize him as one of our calendar models and from Boys of Summer.
Steve Grand is a singing phenomenon and is now appearing ‘live’ in the New Jersey/New York/Pennsylvania metro area this month.
Stephen Sondheims musical Assassins will be performed at the Eagle Theatre in Hammonton, New Jersey, until February 21.
Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story was presented by the McCarter Theatre Center on January 29 as part of the McCarter Theatre’s 2015-2016 Signature Series
Love her or hate her, you are always talking about her – she is the infamous Satine Harlow (@satineharlow).
The quickest growing Drag troupe takes on Love, and Cupid’s Downfall.
A Queens Gotta Eat – 17+ queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race are going on a national tour.
Historically, the first 3 months of the new year see more relocations than the rest of the year combined, how can you dominate when you’re ready to move!
What can we say about Rudy Flesher (@njrugger45). His profile says it all. Queer, Comic & wordsmith, Actor, Social impact consultant, Pit bull parent, Vegan,Martha Stewart gone horribly wrong. What else could you ask for
Who doesn’t love a sexy boy? We scour the city all year long to bring you some of the hottest local guys.
Everyone loves a good video and we do our best to collect all the great local videos being made in the community – and you responded!
Looking back at all the blogs from 2015 – here are the top posts.
Judy Gold talks about her Philadelphia appearance, her podcast and her future wife
This week we look at Will Smith known as @shutupwill. Will grew up in West Chester and moved to the city about 3 years ago. He is currently going to school at Jean Madeline and works at Parc – so make your dinner reservations today! He loves to snap pics in the gayborhood as well as The Barbary, Dolphin or anywhere with cheap beer and whiskey – plus he loves taking shirtless pics in the mirror!
You know you’ve wondered, she opened up to us about her whereabouts!
Look back to a fun 2015 and see the most popular photos of 2015!
Kemar Jewel is at it again, this time he’s mixing Theatre and Voguing!
I like everything, but for the first time in a while, I LOVE a piece of Theater. The Three Maries is genuinely a treasure that I’m still smiling about.
An updated orchestra plays my holiday favorites and I couldn’t be more happy!
This week we look at Sean known as Skydancer Sean. Not only is he incredible hot, he’s also amazingly talented. Sean is the 2015 Atlantic Pole Championships Winner and he fills his Instagram with his amazing skills and dance performances. It’s is amazing what he can do when he seems to defy the rules of gravity.
Men are complicated, as we all know. But few men are more complicated than James Bond, Agent 007. I had a chance to see it and I found much that might interest our GLBT readers, or, for that matter, our straight allies.
Ariel Versace is not just a drag queen, she is one of the most notable (notorious?) fish queens Philly has to offer.. and from the look of her Instagram, she LOVES selfies. You can catch her hosting Fish Tank at Tabu and performing pretty much everywhere within the Philadelphia Metro area.
Head Buck and choreographer Tommy Schimmel has a designed a show touching on holiday traditions that incorporate dark and gritty masculine movement.
Playing for a record-breaking six-week run in Philadelphia in 2014, The Book of Mormon returns to thrill audiences until December 27 at Philadelphia’s Forrest Theatre. J.R. Bruno is the dance captain/swing for The Book of Mormon. He had the opportunity before opening night to speak about his role in the show, and his Philadelphia audiences.
40+ performers take to the stage, not to battle it out, but to raise awareness… AND money!
Bill Cain’s play, Equivocation, is being presented in its Philadelphia premiere at the Arden Theatre Company until December 13.
Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre is now presenting A Christmas Story, the Musical until January 10.
This week we are crushing on Ruben – He is one sexy Puerto Rican Philadephian, and an orthodontist assistant by day/ selfie pro by night.
New York is expensive, DC is filled with Traffic… Why aren’t more people running to AC?
This week we are crushing hard on Jenn Tran. If you want to see some snaps of some of the sexy ladies in the gayborhood, this is the account to follow. As her profile says, she’s “a girl who likes girls who likes girls.”
This week we look at Chris Strider. As his bio says, he’s a Professional Filmmaker & Video Editor. In his over 900 posts, he is often posting from Tavern on Camac and Boxers, as well as other photogentic location in the gayborhood. And he’s never to far from a #GayPhilly tag.
“Life didn’t cast me, so I cast myself!”
His show was so fierce, I was nearly cumming… then when he asked me to hang out, I really came!
Well thought out and written, wonderfully realistic set and costumes, impressive lighting for the venue, responsive audience, intense story that left me thinking post show.
Not enough naked man in your life? Fear not… La Dolce Spina is here for you!
Because let’s face it, abs are nice, but brains are better!
30+ Queens in one venue, and nobody popped a tuck!
Broadway vet, Krysten Cummings and ANTM (America’s Next Top Model) contestant, Corey Wade Hindorf on Stage TOGETHER! #TalentExplosion
Mary Zimmerman’s staging of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is now on the Arden stage in Philadelphia until November 1. She retold many of the myths of Ovid in a production that was nominated for a Tony when it was presented in New York City.
… our thirst for a night filled of well behaved Halloween fun.
Don’t get excited, I’m not recapping the drama, I’m stopping it.
Chris Balbi interviews, Devil Drag regular and Philly’s Queen of Destruction, Champange Showers about her experience in drag as she exits the spotlight after the next Devil Drag show at Front Street Dive, this Wednesday, October 28th.
Philadelphia continues to step up it’s live performance game with the addition of this AMAZING group of men, Bradley’s Bucks!
Dinner Theatre meets Drag Show in a unique murder mystery!
Franky Bradley’s nailed it with Franky’s Foxes, and their ready to hit it out of the ball park with their next original show
Ryan Michael and DJ Chris Urban team up to bring back the All Male Revue!
Picture it! The bar is closing, those harsh lights come on and Mr Right-Now is nowhere to be found. So what’s a gurl to do? Obviously, late-night carb binge.
Northern Liberties has another new hot spot that is sure to keep a stranglehold for some time on all bragging rights to everyone’s palette.
The Pope is Coming. Stop Whining and Let’s be Awesome Together!
How do you make the tired tale of “coming out†relevant in 2015? Add uber catchy pop songs sung by amazingly talented people and stick them on a hyper-realistic, by fringe standards, stage. Add some fun light cues along side campy moments that turn into some overly dramatic moments and you’ve got the Fringe show with the longest title (I checked) – The Pop Musical Diary of a Gay Man.
Farrah Krenek is a brilliant woman with some powerful insight. She’s going to make a great ambassador for the State of the Girl’s Series
Last Thursday, Cycle 6 of Philly Drag Wars ended with a fierce battle, and while the competion was hot, in the end, one queen was crowned. We have a PhillyGayCalendar exclusive, Vinchelle aka Shea Butter Werk’s first interview after her win of Mimi Imfurst’s “Drag Wars.”
When the two week stretch of Fringe rolls around I look for something different. I want to feel grossed out, turned on, distressed, fascinated etc. I want to be taken to the edges of my comfort level; I’m reminded of my favorite sub-genre of performance and Purgatory certainly satisfies my need to feel uneasy.
With their latest show ‘Mean Girls,’ Haus of Ham proves that they’ve got the patience and perseverance to be long lasting troupe here in the ‘hood.
Matthew Ricciotti, Manager of Voyeur Nightclub, will be leaving for a new job next week. His impact on the community is immeasurable and he will be missed.
Are your tastebuds ready for the next big thing in Philly? Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran (Barbuzzo, Jamonera, Lolita, Little Nonna’s) have ventured into the heartland of Wisconsin (Turney’s hometown) for inspiration for their retro-American restaurant, Bud & Marilyn’s.
A local Philadelphia guy goes from mild life on a farm to being the newest adult film model, and it’s not all it’s cracked up to be
It’s not often that a free, sponsor-less event with no affiliation pops up, so when it does… take advantage of it!
Rentboy.com was recently raided as part of a state prostitution investigation. What is escorting still illegal?
Seriously, this amazing building isn’t used to its full potential, and R. Eric Thomas is making it his mission to change that!
Two smoking hot ladies, countless shots of whiskey and a welcoming Irish pub – It’s Devil’s Dance, another GayFest entry written and directed by Chelsea Sanz.
In June, we reported the the infamous gayborhood landmark, Gay Pizza, closed their doors. We are excited to announce that Gay Pizza is reopening!
Okay, not totally the spectators’ fault, but it’s a joint effort.
The Beard Gang, a movement that has exploded in popularity all across the world in the span of a few years, has been the symbol of masculinity and pride for some time. But let’s not forget where the beard craze originated in pop culture.
The bond between mother and son is a very special one. Some would say that it’s sacred. Unfortunately these rules don’t apply for stand-up comedian Bertie and her son Matt.
GayFest 2015: ‘From White Plains ‘ – Michael Perlman’s intense drama From White Plains is a hard-hitting tale of revenge, redemption and, ultimately, forgiveness.
Looking for somewhere to help kick that hangover this weekend, or a quiet, or not so quiet, place for good noms and good company? Check out our countdown for our favorite places to brunch in the Gayborhood.
Alejandro Morales nails a quick 5 question interview about his latest project!
Stay classy at the F#@king Catalina Wine Mixer! You might be thinking, “what is that?” Well it’s a Stonewall fundraiser you definitely will NOT want to miss.
The best way to avoid a #transhealthfail is to teach health care providers about transgender identities.
The 12th Annual Boys of Summer Swimsuit Party weekend is here, so for those debating on going to this amazing event, here are 10 reasons you can’t miss it!
For Tina Montgomery and Junior Brainard, a local trans couple, their happy ending is coming in October. While their story may be different from the traditional fairy tale, it brings to light some of the new variations of ‘family.’
The cast of “Heathers: the Musical” gives you their insights as to why you NEED to see this show!
PhillyGayCalendar is proud to announce, Cory Wade, from America’s Next Top Model, will headline boys of Summer on August 8, 2015 at Voyeur Nightclub.
Congrats to GayFest for hitting season 5!
Franky Bradley’s – You like it on the bottom, but you’re gonna love it on top!
How far will the BuffBoyzz go in a Bathhouse?
What happens when your alter ego is in more demand than the person that created it? What happens when your alter ego is more liked than you are? What happens when nobody wants you, they just want your alter ego?
Dr. Jen Dietrich talks Atomic Cosmetics’ new line of lipsticks named for some of Philly’s finest Queens.
You know how it goes – no rest for the wicked! Every summer I try to snatch a break and take a little time off to reflect on how I’m going to conquer even more of our amazing city
So rumors have been spreading over social media that iCandy Nightclub is closed but don’t worry, they are OPENED
Chris Balbi reviews “Beautiful Something,” the opening film for Philadelphia’s QFLix, Philadelphia’s LGBTQAI film festival.
Chris Balbi sits down with ‘Divine/Intervention’ cocreator and director (and the man behind Mimi Imfurst) Braden Chapman to talk about his new play about the life of John Waters’s larger-than-life drag queen and friend, DIVINE.
Chris Balbi sits down with Jenna Pinchbeck, the creator/ photographer behind #OutLoudAtLast.
PhillyGayCalendar gives you our top five picks for the best outdoor spaces for post-work or weekend brunch.
As of last night, the famous 13th Street Gourmet Pizza, better known as ‘Gay Pizza’ or ‘Homo Hut’ is closed!
After a month of taking PrEP, Chris weighs in on the side effects of this addition to his morning routine.
PhillyGayCalendar counts the top 10 people you can expect to see on Sunday during the PRIDE event at Penn’s Landing.
Our lovely lady-boy, Brittany Lynn is serving up Philly’s next rising design star, Brandon Bermudez, as he talks about celebs, fashion, and his upcoming show at the Trocadero.
Chris Balbi sits down with two cast members of “bare” to talk about the show and what it means to grow up and be yourself.
Our resident adventurer, Chris Balbi, explores the new LGBTQ exhibit at the constitution center, William Way LGBT Community Center Presents: Speaking out for Equality: The Constitution, Gay Rights, and the Supreme Court at the National Constitution Center.
Blogger and adventurer, Chris Balbi, sits down to chat with Howard Louis about his upcoming album (Having Stung Moves On…), his inspiration, and his man.
Looking for something to do during those warm summer nights or less-than-beachy days? How about a visit to the Walnut Street Theatre?
Looking for some last minute beach/ park reading this holiday weekend? Ralph Malachowski reviews ‘Can’t we talk about something more pleasant?’ author, Roz Chast’s memories of her parents.
On Friday May 22, Brittany Lynn, Honeytree EvilEye, and Joey Martini are showcasing the newest faces in drag, cabaret, and burlesque who will share the stage with some of the best performers in the tri-state area.
Looking for something to read on the beach, in the park, or during the warm summer nights? Ralph Malachowski reviews Elliot Tiber’s book about changing times, mother from Hell, and the love of his life in the late 1960’s.
Ian Morrison, aka Brittany Lynn, sits down with Bee Reed, one of the producers of Devil Drag, a new and wilder drag show at the BrainSpunk Theater in Kensington.
In the second part of Chris Balbi’s journey to getting PrEP he takes on some interesting waiting room characters, a cotton swab, and trying to remember the questions he wanted to ask in the face of his own anxiety.
Beginning in September 2014, Angel Corella became the new Artistic Director of the Pennsylvania Ballet. An internationally famous dancer for many years, he is now responsible for the direction of the company. Mr. Corella took time out from his busy schedule to talk about his past, the present, and the future.
Blogger, Chris Balbi, fills his hole at Big Gay Ice Cream which just opened up at South and Broad!
Chris Balbi journeys into some new relationship territory and opens up about his experiences about PrEP.
For a limited run, a new production of the Broadway musical ‘Kinky Boots’ has just had its press opening on April 29 in Philadelphia at the Forrest Theatre. This new production of the Tony-award winning musical by Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper will banish all traces of the blues from your mind.
Blogger, Chris Balbi, reviews the hilarious and much anticipated April edition of Bev’s Bitchfest, Bev’s Birthday Bitchfest.
Brittany Lynn talks with Brooklyn Ford who started the hashtag #SupportLocalDrag about how tipping a queen starts at home
Am I seeing double? This week, the queens were Siamese…if you please. Oh and Latrice Royale was large and in charge!
Remember when being bisexual was considered a trend or a phase. How do bisexuals see themselves today?
Recently, Logo’s NewNowNext website listed 10 Reasons Why West Coast Gays Are The Best Coast Gays. Let’s be honest – they are full of crap!
I’d type a long introduction paragraph introducing Paul Blore, but you’ve probably already met him or at least been to one of his events. His next project ‘I’m From Driftwood’ is approaching rapidly, so I felt its as a good time to reach out and see what else he’s been doing!
Something Stupid happens in Philly every Wednesday night… and while it may be labeled as ‘stupid,’ rest assured it’s actually something quite hilarious!
Last week I had a rare opportunity to take in a musical that’s not produced very often – Tick Tick Boom. I had never seen the show before and only knew one song but my partner in crime convinced me that if I loved the pacing and energy of RENT, I’d love Tick Tick Boom.
‘Dirty Dancing: the Classic Story Onstage’ is now at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia until April 5. It is being presented collaboratively by the Shubert Organization and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts’ Broadway Philadelphia.
Knock, knock. Who’s there? Stand up comedy queens. Oh fer real? Where? This week, the ladies tried their hands at comedy…and generally crashed and burned.
In May 2015, Philadelphia will host a most unique and first-of-its-kind conference – SEXx Interactive: a Journey for the Mind, Heart and Body. We sat down and talked with Timaree Schmit.
Now that Gay Marriage is legal, it’s time to win all of those wedding competitions we were previously excluded from. First up is the 104.5 8th Birthday Wedding Competition.
I’m sure you have heard the expression ‘Bottomdelphia.’ Every bottom in the city whines that just like a Tupperware drawer, Philly is just a bunch of bottoms that can’t find their top. But is this really true?
One of my favorite things about Philadelphia is the variety of quality entertainment in various venues (most with bars!) It affords me the opportunity to explore new venues and new pieces of art for pretty damn cheap. One of my favorite new forms of entertainment is ‘Light the Lights’ a cabaret that makes use of the uber talented local voices,
A Short Jew in the Body of a Tall W.A.S.P. (A Gay Melodrama in 13 Acts)reads the same way reality TV feeds our appetite for the sordid.
Spoof! There it is! This week, the queens tried their hands in remaking some of Ru’s classic hits. Oh, and Kandy Ho sucked again.
This week I got to chat with the winner of Miss Everything, Sapphira Cristal, about her recent success!
Devyn Rush was born and raised in New Hope. Although still a young woman, she has been on stage in several musicals, been on American Idol, performed in cabaret shows, been a spokesperson for a national cause, and is a yoga instructor.
Holy Bearded Lady Batman! This week, the queens served up their best Kathy Bates American Horror Story realness and tried their hands at Shakesqueer.
I had heard of the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus before, but never really payed them much mind. Then I saw the words ‘Diva Sing-a-Long’ and things cleared up quite quickly, I knew I had to make my way to the show.
Kaleia Brown talks about the competition, her love of Patti Labelle and her concern being the only transgender contestant.
All aboard the shadiest flight of your life! Glamazonian Airlines is now boarding Section 229 Nevamind.
The Delaware Valley Legacy Fund puts together a fantastic brunch called HEROES. I wanted to know more about the nominees, and tried to reach out to the ones I could make connections with. I was fortunate enough to speak with Ian Morrison last week
Annually, DVLF puts together a fantastic brunch to honor individuals whose work and leadership advance the rights of the LGBT community called HEROES. I talked to Reginald T. Shuford, Esq. the Executive Director at ACLU of Pennsylvania.
Welcome to Season 7 Drag Racers! Sashay & Chante could not be more happy to be back to guide you through another xtravaganza of drag realness.
So virgin stripper Bobby took me to the back room and casually stuffed the $20 I slipped him into his shoe for safe keeping.
Maureen McGovern is putting the final touches on her new show, ‘Sing, My Sisters, Sing!’ which celebrates women singer/songwriters. On a recent snowy morning, this star of musical theatre, performance, and cabaret talked about her new recordings, her tour, her cabaret appearances, and a whole lot more.
Until last night I was a strip club virgin. Never set foot in either a female or male strip club. So after some research I knew I needed $1 for just the tip and $20 to go all the way…to the back room.
Last week’s Philadelphia premiere of Samuel D. Hunter’s play The Whale at Theater Exile was packed with an eager crowd anticipating the show the Village Voice referred to as ‘Vibrant and provocative’.
I had the pleasure of meeting one of the most honest and passionate performers I’ve ever encountered; Lascivious Jane.
If you missed the ‘Into the Woods’ craze, you’re clearly living under the worlds largest rock
OK ok… so its time again for ICandy’s Annual Valentine’s Day Stoplight Party. You know, the one where you wear Red for taken, Yellow for open, and Green for single while you peruse the party floor for your perfect match?
Opera Philadelphia is presenting the East Coast premiere of ‘Oscar’ at the Academy of Music. ‘Based on quotations from the writings of Oscar Wilde and his contemporaries,’ as the program notes, this new opera had its world premiere in Santa Fe in 2013.
I had heard rumors of a ‘Faux Queen’ competition swirling around the ‘hood for quite some time, but I always thought to myself, if I wanted to see over-painted women lip-syncing, I’ll just take a stroll down Market Street.
She’s wild, she’s funny, she’s brazen, she’s Margaret Cho and she’s coming to Philadelphia. Marget Cho will be appearing at Helium Nightclub from March 1-4 and shows area already selling out. We sat down with Margaret to ask her some questions about Philadelphia, sex and ask her some questions some of our fans had for her.
With Valentines Day right around the corner, many are looking to plan romantic evenings with their partner, but what happens when you are single. Well never fear, we have you covered. There are two amazing charitty Bachelor Auctions occuring to help find you love, if only for one date.
Winner of a Grammy, two Emmys and a Guinness World Record, comedienne, actress, author, and diva Kathy Griffin talks about Anderson Cooper, Chris Christie, Kelley Osbourne, and what LGBTQA means to her
Did you know underneath their monster exterior, those ‘sharks’ were really just two hot ass twinky dancers? Meet Bryan and Scott!
So I hear you’re attending Saturdays Jocks Vs Nerds Ball! Don’t tell anyone I told you, but I hear there may be a few princesses in the room too! No matter the disposition were here as always to answer your style needs.
We’ve had many months to mourn the loss of the lesbian bar Sister’s and it’s time to welcome something new to the neighborhood. Hello Franky Bradley’s and welcome to Chancellor Street.
Modern Family’s Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Desperate Housewives Actor Tuc Watkins recently got into it online over an accusation that the gay couple on Modern Family is ‘the equivalent of blackface.’ Local roommates Alejandro Morales and Michael Kelly weigh in on gay male representation on the boob tube.
OurNightOut is one of the most popular events the city has every month, but what do you wear? Columnist David Alexander Jenkins gives you some tips!
If you follow Youtubers Austin and Aaron Rhodes you will have already seen their emotional coming out video – It left a sour taste in my mouth.
I recently had the opportunity to talk with one half a married, power porn couple. You might know them as Billy Santoro and Seth Santoro, and together they’ve been getting you off for a couple years now.
Yes, Facebook is a wonderful, useful, time-filling outlet that has embedded itself into our daily lives but, no, it doesn’t mean everyone has mastered the art of a proper status.
Recently Lou Cutler broke barriers and became the First Trans Man Crowned ‘Mr. Gay Philadelphia.’ and now he’s letting us in on his back story and emotions! Let me tell you, His story is nothing short of AWESOME!
Every office has a holiday party. Often they are scarier then you want to admit. Blogger Chris offers 10 ways to survive drinking with the boss
The holiday season has begun, and for the next few weeks many of us have a hectic schedule. From attending the annual office party to the traditional holiday festivities with friends and family, we all need to put together outfits that will provide comfort and style.
Judy Gold is the proud mother of two children, and enjoys a loving same-sex relationship with her partner. She won two Emmy Awards for her work as writer and producer on The Rosie O’Donnell Show. In addition to being a glamorous woman-about-town, comedian, writer, producer, and actress, Judy Gold is also a daughter, and thereby hangs a tale.
DVLF put together last nights TOY Fundraising event in the smartest way possible. They combined good will, great food, and shiny winter landscape to create a warm and perfect fundraising environment that housed one of the longest Silent Auction tables I had ever seen.
I thought it was going to be just another lazy Sunday, lounging around Cafe 12 drinking a gingerbread latte and catching up on work, but then my calendar pinged and I was reminded that I had signed up for an adventure, not just an adventure, a Qventure.
The Kinsey Sicks have self-identified as ‘America’s Favorite Dragapella Beautyshop Quartet.’ They will grace the stage of the Rrazz Room in New Hope from December 4 through 6.
Last month a lesbian couple made headlines when they went to a Sperm Bank to become pregnant instead the bank erroneously gave them sperm from a Black donor, prompting a lawsuit for $50,000 in damages.
I am frequently asked how many grams of protein and what type of supplements should a person consume to build muscle?
A new campaign is sprouting on Twitter / Instagram called #weareALLclean where users take shower selfies…..check it out!
Meet Chris Newcomer, he’s back in Philadelphia for a brief break of parading around the United States with the 16th tour of the Musical Chicago. He took a few minutes out of his crazy schedule to sit down with me and answer a few questions for PhillyGayCalendar.
CODE:RED was one of the largest AIDS / HIV Awareness events to hit Philly last year, and this year is going to be bigger! I sat down with the event’s creator Michael Mikel Tambon (Drag name Cherry Pop) to talk about his journey and how CODE:RED is working to make Philadelphia a better place.
Will and Anthony Nunziata have appeared several times at New York City’s 54 Below. Now, the twin brothers will sing up a storm in New Hope at the Rrazz Room on Saturday, November 29. I managed to catch up with Anthony Nunziata recently. He spoke about twin brother Will, their career, and Anthony’s solo appearance in New York City on November 28, the day before their New Hope premier appearance.
Cherry Pop and Brandon Robert present the second annual World AIDS day charity event CODE:RED on November 29th, 2014. I had a chance to talk to both Cherry Pop and Brandon Robert about the event, their insights will make your day!
As a society, we’ve come to love labels; they define what is, and what isn’t while creating a more black and white world. It should come as no surprise that relationships have come to possess there own book of labels.
Just a few days ago, Philly AIDS Thrift (P.A.T.) announced their excitement via Facebook … they were about to donate their one millionth dollar!
You probably assumed that the busy season for Philadelphia events was long past. I quickly realized I had committed myself to 3 different events, and of course they were spread across the city – without further adieu, this is what you missed.
Celebrated actor, writer, and wit Robert Dubac will bring two of his shows to the Bucks County Playhouse this November, ‘The Book of Moron,’ and ‘The Male Intellect: an Oxymoron?’.
Anna Trebunskaya will be performing at Ballroom with a Twist, which will take over the Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA, from November 4th through the 9th.
We’re extremely grateful and want everyone to understand that this was a community effort. We couldn’t have done this without the support from our friends and allies.
Opening a new bar In Philadelphia is tough, but if you ask my opinion I’d say Boxers PHL is here for the long run.
Mary Wilson was part of the musical phenomenon known as the Supremes. She has had a remarkable solo career spanning decades, with several recordings and appearances both here in this country and abroad. I had the opportunity to talk with her recently about her special feelings for her friends in New Jersey and Philadelphia.
Nicholas Rodriquez, a young actor who has played Jesus Christ, Tarzan, and a gay activist and lover on TV, will soon be starring as Sir Lancelot in the Two River Theater production of ‘Camelot.’ He recently spoke about his future role and the other things that matter to him.
This New Hope resident will be presiding over multiple Thursdays this fall at New Hope’s Rrazz Room. He spoke about the shows, his career and what’s next – and current – on the horizon for him in and around New Hope.
With the newest fad to hit Philadelphia, many of this city’s LGBT community have taken up intramural sports. I had the privilege of sitting down with Jeffrey Sotland to discuss the newly developed Out Philadelphia Athletic League or, OPAL.
If you happen to be a reader of a certain age, you will remember Women’s Liberation, the Equal Rights Amendment, and the impact made by Gloria Steinem and Ms. Magazine. It is this struggle from those turbulent times which comes to light in ‘9 to 5: the Musical,’ now playing at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia until October 19.
The QFlix Film Festival recently graced Philadelphia film buffs with an offering of many different genre’s of film. One of the dramas being showcased was the 2013 Simon Savory directed Bruno & Earlene Go To Vegas.
Jason Graae and Faith Prince will be appearing October 4 at the Rrazz Room in New Hope, Pennsylvania. Their show, titled “The Prince and the Show-boy,” will bring them together for a one-night only event.
Carbohydrates could be the one thing making you gain those unwanted pounds on your body and Carbohydrates have been given a bad reputation and are blamed for “sabotaging” people’s diets!
The singer, actor, and composer will be appearing twice in less than a month here in Bucks County. Both performances will feature material from his new recording, which also happens to be the title of his shows here: “A Lovely Way to Spend an Evening.”
The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, Pennsylvania, hosts an array of jazz greats, including Lea DeLaria, from September 18 through 21 during their Jazz Fest 2014.
Facebook recently started forcing Drag Queens to change their personal profile names from their stage names to the legal names. Members of the drag community and some of our allies are calling this “dragphobic” and an assault on the gay community. I’m going to go out on a limb here – and tell you I think drag queens causing a stir over this is, well stupid.
I started out the 2014 FringeArts Festival by seeing dicks, abs, and acrobatics with Suspended by Brian Sanders’ JUNK. Sound good, right? I love all three of these things, but melding the three into a single cogent performance may have been an impossible undertaking.
What a great night of Philadelphia gay theatre. I just saw Two Street: A Tale of Star Crossed Mummers as part of the Philadelphia Fringe Arts Festival. The show was held at the Church of the Crucifixion at 620 S.8th Street in Bella Vista, better known as the home of Luna Theater Company.
On September 18-21 Philadelphia is hosting OutBeat: America’s First Queer Jazz Festival. ‘If it wasn’t for hustlers, gangsters and gamblers, there’d be no jazz.’
One could easily say that ‘Blond met blond’ this Labor Day weekend at the Rrazz Room in New Hope. Rex Smith appeared on Saturday, August 30, while Adam Pascal appeared on Sunday August 31. What is on the minds of these cuties, and why the battle of the blonds?
The new 2014-2015 season is now under way as far as subscribing is concerned. A few venues have already begun their seasons. Here is a rundown of some of our favorite venues.
A few days ago, I ran across an article about a trans teen ending his life. Immediately, the article put forth messages and language that was insensitive, unaffirming and contradictory.
Is the gayborhood disappearing?
The last couple of months have been marked by a series of ‘lasts’ for Notorious OMG – the artist, activist, philanthropist, and general renaissance (wo)man also known as Rudy Flesher.
Picture it. 7 PM on a Saturday night in Philadelphia. I’d just slipped into the entrance of L’etage, ascended an unassuming flight of stairs and once I reached the top I was transported to the 1920’s with soft lighting and decorative papered walls.
He’s an amazing character actor from Die, Mommie, Die, Pyscho Beach Party, and even the Addams Family Values
The community was sadden a year ago when Sisters, the city’s only lesbian bar, closed its doors. But manager Denise Cohen is working to bring a new lesbian space to Philadelphia
In 2014 sex is still the elephant in the room no one ever wants to address. Well one pioneer in starting and continuing the conversation is Dr. Timaree Schmit, a noted sexologist with a Ph.D. in Human Sexuality Education.
‘Better than a hand job.’ These were the words of judge Carol Ann Carol Ann at the opening show of the 12-week stand-up competition ‘The Last Laugh.’
On Saturday evening, June 28, 2014, in Philadelphia it was “reigning” royals. At a special pageant, the city’s best and brightest competed for the title of Mr. and Miss Q Spot Philadelphia 2014. In a very close competition in which had us all on the edge of our seats, Stevetta Vinowski and Alice Wills edged out the competition to take the crowns.
You’ve been hitting the gym trying to get your body right to show it off in the summer. Well, be prepared to show it all during this year’s Boys of Summer party in August.
The winner of the 19th Annual Mr. Philadelphia Drag King Competition hosted by the Liberty City King is Jimmy Two Finger.
An ever growing cadre of alternative gay parties have been taking form – One of the most successful and steadfast of these parties comes packed as a grittier dance party called NSFW, formed by Paul Blore & Marquise Lee.
Last Saturday was the annual Mr Gay Pride contest. We sat down with the winner Lou Cutler
Philadelphia’s gay communty is always growing bigger and better – and now we can announce the arrivale of Big Gay Ice Cream.
With June declared as Pride Month by President Obama and the kickoff of Pride Weekend here in Philadelphia, I thought I’d prepare myself for the glitter filled celebrations by digging in a bit to what Gay Pride means to me. And, for me, the weekend meant block parties, parades, festivals, friends, family and an all around celebration. But it also meant a lot more to me. Something that I’m proud to tell you about
At one point or another at least several times in our lives we all make a commitment to getting healthy, joining the gym and working out. While our motivation may be high that particular New Year’s Eve, before our champagne even loses its fizz, we are already deciding that we might be better off saving that resolution for the following year!
Last week ended the current cycle of Drag Wars All Stars. Local drag queens who had competed in previous Drag Wars competed for the title of All Star. The competition was fierce but in the end, only one queen could take the crown – and the winner was….Bev!
Dating is especially difficult in this technological day and age. It’s funny – it seems like the more ways we get to connect to each other, the more barriers go up on making that connection genuine.
The 6th Superbowl of Drag is over. We have a new Drag Superstar. The one…the only…Bianca Del Rio! She has been crowned QUEEN!
I have always been a hopeless romantic. Ever since the first time I saw Sleepless in Seattle when I was 6, I have tried to turn my life into one big gay Nora Ephron-esque rom-com.
Everyone talks about going on a diet. Sometimes you just need a few healthy life changes.
On April 26th, 2014, Edie Windsor returned to her hometown of Philadelphia and her alma mater, Temple University, to be recognized for her role in overturning a significant portion of the federal Defense of Marriage Act.
Now sissy that walk! This week the queens competed in their last challenge showing off their acting and dancing skills in RuPaul’s newest video.
News coming from Ukraine that Russian nationalists are distributing pamphlets to Jewish residents demanding that they register their names, addresses, and pay a $50 tax in much the same way the Nazis did in 1938, the precursor to the Holocaust. This news immediately threw me into a panic! Could this possibly be happening again? In 2014?
If there’s anything we learned this week, Drag Racers, it’s that all that glitters is NOT gold. Can we say, Darienne Lake?
Dearly beloved…we are gathered here in the presence of YES GAWD. This week the queens became drag mothers as they beat the faces of grooms to be.
Our girls dish the shade on the drag queens plus read RuPaul on her decision to censor herself.
The fight for gay rights continues to progress before our eyes as many individuals emerge at the forefront by disclosing their sexuality to the public. Their courage is inspiring, especially when taking into account that there was a time, especially in Hollywood, when being gay was a huge taboo.
DOUBLE TROUBLE!! This week we were blessed with three hours of RPDR. Can you even stand it? Between both episodes, the queens had to work their sales pitch game and tickle our funny bones with their comedic talent.
We talk to Amber Hikes from Stimulus about her newest party – Back 2 Basics
On Saturday, March 22, the Forrest Theater hosted the 22nd anniversary of Shut Up and Dance. Each year, the dancers of the Pennsylvania Ballet create this one of a kind, one night only performance and donate all of the proceeds to the Philadelphia based charity, MANNA.
Oh no she betta don’t! This week, the queens read each other to filth and tried their hands at creating a crazy, sexy, cool rap.
Calling all Basic Racers! This week, our queens showed off their tight snatch…GAME!
The girls perform Shade: The Rusical – some should have won Tony’s – other should sashayed away. Which were you rooting for?
The gayborhood is constantly growing and changing and we are excited for a new addition to our family – Boxers Sports Bar.
This weekend, HBO’s new series Looking concluded its first season. It has been touted as utterly authentic and refreshing with the best mustache on television since Tom Selleck. But does it show gay men in the best light?
Hey Drag Racers! Sashay and Chante have something to scream about. It’s this week’s episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race. The queens worked out some Mommy Dearest realness.
To celebrate the infamous Brittany Lynn’s birthday, she will be the target of a roast. We sat down with her to talk about where she’s been.
We talk with owner and founder of Igloo Desserts as they opened their second location in the gayborhood.
Sashay and Chante: are back and ready to ANALyze Ru’s new crop of queens
Its been over 30 years since the New York Native became the first newspaper to run a story about the “gay cancer” or what would become known as AIDS. What if anything could ‘Dallas Buyers Club’ contribute to the public conversation and understanding about HIV/AIDS that hasn’t already been identified?
Michelle Visage’s dopple ganger, Katy Perry knockoff, poor man’s Latrice Royale and more.
Local artist Gunnar Montana has created a show to capture the feeling of the season. Hybernate is the newest project from the artist that brought you Drag Me to Hell this fall. I went to meet Gunnar at one of his rehearsals to get a sneak peek at his upcoming show and ask him some questions about what we can expect.
I’m a huge fan of CBS’ reality show The Amazing Race, where teams of two race around the world for a million-dollar prize. Several months ago, a friend introduced me to a new Philly resident, whom I recognized immediately: Luke Adams, a deaf and openly-gay man who twice ran the race with his mother, Margie. The next season of The Amazing Race will feature some of the most competitive teams from previous seasons, including Luke and Margie.
I recently was ‘gifted’ with an introduction and now a budding friendship with one of these amazing individuals who is about to realize his very own special dream as a published author.
By now I’m sure many of you have heard of The Welcoming Committee (TWC). If you haven’t, allow me to be your virtual tour guide – they are a group making a splish splash around Philly hosting a slew of events all around the city.
This year, despite a boyfriend-less Valentine’s Day, I’m actually looking forward to February 14th. Three words: House of Cards. Netflix’s brilliant marketing strategy has ensured that couples and single folk alike will be binge watching Robin Wright-fierceness in the comfort of their homes. In that spirit, here are two homemade popcorn recipes to complete your TV (laptop?) watching experience.
Russia has come under massive amounts of scrutiny as of late regarding its legislation towards and treatment of the LGBT community. It is important to know where you stand, but it is even more important to be able to articulate why.
As Michael Sam, a defensive lineman, began to speak, he balled up a piece of paper in his hands. “I’m gay,” he said. With that, Mr. Sam set himself on a path to become the first publicly gay player in the National Football League.
A Massage Therapist’s hands are trained to act as ‘scanners’ to help you feel your body, which leads to a client’s overall body-awareness hitting a higher level.
We demand our beloved celebrities’ use their huge star power to help us gain equality and civil rights, but spew venom the moment they do it on a grand stage.
If you could form play-doh balls in preschool, you could make meatballs.
Some believe that our voices are loud and finally being recognized because of our visibility in the arts, television and politics. Some believe that there’s too much dissention when pitted against the rampant body image issues and the ongoing masculine versus feminine debate that draws lines in the sand towards unification.
Krystal mainly uses her bike for running errands, with an average of 20 miles per month – not too shabby! That’s at least 600 calories burned per month! Thank goodness Krystal wears a helmet, especially since she rides in the rain and was almost doored a couple times!
Hummus, in my mind, exists in that sparsely populated category of truly guilt-free food. Low in carbs, high in fiber and protein, I can consume prodigious amounts with nary a passing concern. Consequently, I, like many gays I know, keep a container of hummus in my fridge at all times.
Gay travel is being defined as we speak. Hotels, airlines, and tour operators are all putting out feelers in order to corner their share of our market and, make no mistake, ‘We’ are most definitely a ‘market’.
When you take into account the number of guys who use Smart Phone dating apps, like Scruff or Jack’d, to “Hang Out” (aka Fuck) and the divorce rate with people who are currently on their second or third marriage, one must wonder: does love even exist anymore?
Is ‘coming out’ a ‘sacred process’? Yeah, I guess – but when you are a public figure, fighting for the rights of your constituents, and you take public actions, especially via social media, that demonstrate that your ‘private’ life and your ‘political’ persona don’t equate to a confluent picture, you’re being hypocritical. You’re lying.
As we look back on PhillyGayCalendar’s blog and columns in 2013, there’s a LOT of amazing work that our super talented team presented. Here’s a review of some of our top stories of 2013.
The time you’ve spent putting your best efforts forward at bettering someone else’s life is futile if they’re not willing to listen.
Our obsession with the labels ‘top’ and ‘bottom’ seem to stem from some sort of internalized means to justify our sexual actions, to define our intercourse into neat, tidy linguistic boxes. But real sex isn’t like that.
The memorial for Dennis Clegg, the well-respected Philadelphia area athlete and swim organizer, will take place on January 4, 2014.
Michael’s winter-inspired soup is sure to warm you up even on the coldest nights of the new year.
Besides Dennis Clegg’s former leadership role with Fins, Clegg organized many regional LGBT swim meets and was the Fins’ representative for Team Philadelphia.
Deals seldom manifest themselves. You must do a bit of research and never assume that any price at any time is firm. You also need to speak to real people and sometimes more than one. The trick is to study your destination a bit, do some research, network a bit and make a deal. It’s not rocket science but supply and demand.
Phil Robertson said a lot of really inappropriate things to GQ but is what he said really going to matter in the near future? Wasn’t Mandela laid to rest almost two weeks ago? There are so many more important things taking place in our world.
Yes, Rosa Blanca isn’t exactly in the gayborhood so to speak, but if you’re looking for a good bite and a nightcap at 1 AM on a Friday, you really can’t ask for anything better than a Garces restaurant that serves fried cheese and a variety of empanadas. No shade to the Midtown II, but it’s absolutely worth the walk to 7th and Chestnut.
For the past two months, local singers have hit the stage of Tabu Lounge and Sports Bar in a competition to be named Songbird – the best singer in Philadelphia. Sixteen contestants started the journey over eight weeks ago, competing in weekly elimination rounds in front of local judges and an opinionated crowd at Tabu.
The design of a good cookbook should be just as inspiring as the recipes. From Martha Stewart to homemade bread, these five volumes are a staple in any foodie’s kitchen.
Flight was a white gloved, veiled hat, coat and tie affair. (Seriously!) Air travel was special, elegant, hospitable and really fun. Now, one feels like being part of a herd of cattle prodded into a very small barn. To be blunt: FLYING SUCKS.
‘Auld Lang Syne’ is a song of remembering everything that brought you to the point you’re at in the beginning of the New Year by asking the question ‘Should old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?’
Before we are given the choice to SYMPATHIZE MAH STATUS, perhaps we should consider what sympathy is to begin with.
FOOD is the basis of our greatest pleasures and essential to sustain life for us humans, animals and plants. Food was one of the primary reasons for the exploration of our planet. Did you really think it was the passion for geography?
There is a lot going on in the world today that causes me a great deal of upset. And I find it harder day by day to keep silent about a great many of these issues. And I turn now to this blog to get something off my chest that I just can’t contain any longer. It’s time for an adult conversation about The Sound of Music, Live!
Dear Pope–Let me be frank: you seem like a totally cool guy, but you’ve got to get your minions in check.
Trolls are notorious for talking big shit behind the computer screen but they’re pussies in real life.
Somehow, we’ve convinced ourselves that a pesto can only be made when fresh basil is in season and that we must use expensive pine nuts. Not true. As long as you add enough garlic, parmesan cheese, and olive oil, you can make a pesto that is relatively inexpensive and luxurious, no matter the season.
A century ago, there would have been no conversation like this. Fifty years ago no one would have listened to the receipt story. Twenty five years ago a story like this would have not have been interesting enough to print.
The evening benefits Quince Productions, a Philadelphia gay-focused theater company, and includes performances from thirteen local singers, along with a happy hour and contests.
Many gay people find themselves dreading extended family interactions for one reason or another. Maybe your coming out wasn’t terribly celebrated by your great Cousin Peter, twice removed, or you really don’t want to discuss how being gay isn’t a choice with your Grandma Patsy and that you really won’t find a girl one day which will magically convert you…the list goes on.
Whereas Philly is American History, San Francisco is American Future. For the world’s LGBT Community, it is fantasy, dreams and reality combining.
‘Some people say we are living in a post-homophobic culture,’ Brad Windhauser says. ‘We might be getting better, but we aren’t there yet.’
Leaden delivery, unconvincing chemistry, and slow progression are just some of the problems plaguing the film. Familiar plot devices are lazily placed atop this potentially fascinating story, castrating the emotional ties and sexual undertones.
Dee Mulligan, a resilient Cancer, is originally from Connecticut, but currently resides in a cozy corner of South Philly. Dee’s been riding her bike for fun since a child.
Why buy packaged granola when you can make your own at home? Our favorite Philadelphia gay park ranger (for real) and SPOONING columnist shows us how!
Being ‘Gay’ is simply choosing to live a different ‘Life Philosophy’ than some and San Francisco is one of the best places on Earth to express that Philosophy. One can feel it here in Philly in the Gayborhood for certain. In San Francisco, you feel it everywhere in and around the city.
If you ignore the signs that you are being played, you might as well tattoo “Wipe Your Feet On Me, Hunty!†on your forehead.
When I reviewed UNDRESSING ISRAEL: GAY MEN IN THE PROMISED LAND, I was expecting another documentary about “coming out†and all that goes with it in the year 2013. I was totally delighted to find myself watching a happy report on joyful, comfortable and handsome Israeli men talking about their successful lives in Tel Aviv, living life in the open, serving in the military (compulsory) honestly, loving, marrying, having children and simply being who they are.
Thin-crust Roman pizza and unique popcorn (think pickle-flavored and chocolate peanut butter) are on the menu at two new eateries in the hood.
Every Friday in November leading up to Thanksgiving, Noe Espinosa will be hosting Fit to Feed, a series of circuit training classes, to benefit Philadelphia-based MANNA, an organization that provides therapeutic nutrition to those in need.
Roasting potatoes takes a bit of patience, but let’s be honest: your friends are never on time for brunch, anyway.
Gunnar Montana wowed audiences with a new dark show called ‘Drag Me 2 Hell’
Even if you don’t believe in the psychic powers of Miss Cleo, there are a few things that you should consider during Mercury Retrograde.
Northern California Wine Country is not really “gay friendly†but rather “gay assumed and straight friendly.”
Check out PhillyGayCalendar blogger Andrew’s second installment of his must-listen songs of the week!
Feel like you simply can’t add on one more thing to your Friday night? Do you need a day just to treat yourself to some peace and reflection? There’s a reason why we over-schedule ourselves: to avoid that alone time we so desperately need.
Romantic, sophisticated, picturesque, distinctive, and not so much just a ‘boystown’ as the ladies find this area worth flocking to as well. Currently there is a campaign billing Niagara-by-the-Lake as the perfect ‘Gay Wedding Destination.’
Michael, PhillyGayCalendar’s resident recipe blogger, helps us settle into the cool evenings of fall with this tasty and easy Southwest Mac and Cheese!
Like Philadelphia, Chicago is honest and genuine everywhere. Some other famous and wonderful cities like New York, Paris, and Rome can actually become a distraction in themselves, whereas Chicago, Illinois is simple, direct and proud of it.
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming-out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens throughout the month of October. Today’s column features Rochelle Johnson.
Y-HEP’s programs are numerous. Their care for the entire person literally supports and encompasses body, mind, and spirit.
PGC blogger Andrew Clark throws down some of the best new hits from The Saturdays, Bright Light Bright Light, Tegan & Sara, Panic! at the Disco, and The Robert Glasper Experiment.
Based on the national press that West Philly’s Curio Theater received in the past month, you’d think they were staging ‘The Tempest,’ not Shakespeare’s iconic love story ‘Romeo and Juliet.’
Having ego doesn’t make you like Meryl Streep’s character from the film ‘The Devil Wears Prada.’ We’ve got to demystify the notion of ego in order to reclaim it.
This work of ‘fiction’ explores what so many of us fellow Philadelphians already know–our city is a prime location to entertain and host our LGBTQ friends and associates!
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming-out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens leading up the city’s OutFest celebration in October. Myrna Rodriguez, a PhillyGayCalendar blogger, received an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College. She is an instructor at Rowan University and Gloucester County College. She has been published in Philadelphia Stories Magazine.
Don’t be misled by the marketing for gay cruises, which of course will only have hot, attractive men showing off their tans in well-staged photos. In reality, passengers range from 21 to 80+, from skinny to portly.
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming-out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens leading up the city’s OutFest celebration in October. Josh Schonewolf is a local promoter who organizes Ratchet at Tabu and Songbird.
It is like a constant loop in our heads: if you don’t look a certain way, you’ve got a problem. If you can’t get a six-pack, you’ve got a problem. If you don’t have pecks the size of grapefruits, you’ve got a problem.
Our newest edition of SPOONING features an easy, hot treat that is sure to clear your sinuses and warm your body!
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming-out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens leading up to the city’s OutFest celebration in October. Andrew Clark is PhillyGayCalendar’s newest blogger!
Joshua Keith-Gaddy stars in the Tony Award-Winning musical IN THE HEIGHTS, which plays at Philadelphia’s own Walnut Street Theater through October 20, 2013.
PhillyGayCalendar’s Dan Mangini interviews trans advocate Kat Delancey about her past work, her future, and her exciting PTM Advocacy Award.
Playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney explores themes of race, sexuality, and Yoruba mythology in the area premiere of his new play.
Arizona is every bit as scenic, interesting and individually/culturally unique as any part of the planet you can think of: hot, dry, clean, with clear skies and a blazing sun much of the year.
The Healthy Development Lab is seeking women in relationships with other women to participate in an online study to aid in understanding female health and sexuality.
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens leading up to the city’s OutFest celebration in October. Bryan Buttler is PhillyGayCalendar’s editor. An educator and writer, Bryan lives in Center City Philadelphia.
Our newest edition of SPOONING features a quintessential fall favorite with a cool twist: an easy apple pear crisp!
If you’re going through a little QFest withdrawal, these three sexy films will be a perfect addition to your DVD collection.
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming-out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens leading up to the city’s OutFest celebration in October. Pete Haas is a Philadelphia area native having lived in Delaware County for most of his life. Highlights of said life include a ten year stint in the Boston area, fifteen years in a veal pen…uh, software company cubicle, plans to finally move into the city, and lots and lots of singing and theater.
This Sunday will be a very Gay drunken affair as over 10 thousand (mostly) men in red gingham shirts and tight lederhosen will pour into an enormous tent in glorious Munich to dance the night away to the sound of brass bands and all kinds of great music!
When you’re at Little Nonna’s, the newest restaurant by 13th Street entrepreneurs Marcie Turney and Valerie Safran located in the heart of the Gayborhood, you’ll feel like you are in good hands.
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming-out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens leading up to the city’s OutFest celebration in October. Tina, AKA Timmy Tenderloin, is the winner of Mr. Drag King Philadelphia 2013.
PhillyGayCalendar’s own Brian Martenis, an International Incentive Travel Planner, shares some insider foodie trends with our readers!
PhillyGayCalendar celebrates the coming-out stories of Philadelphia-area LGBTQ citizens leading up to the city’s OutFest celebration in October. Dave Bautista, 32, was born in the Philippines, raised in Jacksonville, North Carolina and moved to Philadelphia in May 2009. He is a Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a consultant for a private rehab facility as a Detox Counselor.
PhillyGayCalendar had the chance to catch up with Frank Schierloh, a Philadelphia-based actor and performer, who stars in the upcoming FringeArts festival production of Bat Boy: The Musical.
Although many will miss Chip Alfred’s work at Equality Forum, there is no doubt that the community will continue to reap the benefits of his talent as he joins Philadelphia FIGHT.
The Philadelphia Fringe Festival is in full swing, running Sept. 5-22, 2013. There are a number of shows with gay content or are of interest to LGBT. This includes several shows for the transgender community, and not just drag! Take a peek at some of what they have to offer.
SPOONING is a new biweekly column at PhillyGayCalendar featuring recipes for the home cook and food enthusiast. This installment features the sweet, smokey, and masculine-scented shishito pepper, sautéed and served warm!
The ‘Tres Gay’ Cote ‘Azur should be seen and experienced at least once by everyone, especially those of us with our extraordinary sense of what is truly enchanting.
Many reacted strongly to the news that the owners of Giovanni’s Room would be selling both the business and its physical storefront. Although there is the possibility that a new owner could purchase the business and continue operating the establishment as a gay bookstore, the chances are unlikely.
You’re walking to the Gayborhood when BAM! You’re surrounded by perky undergrads with clipboards, trying to get you to donate money to an organization. Is it me, or are these fundraisers not only annoying but ethically corrupt?
Pina Bausch, the well-known choreographer and subject of the recent documentary film Pina, once said of her dancers, I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them. I couldn’t help but be reminded of Bausch’s style as I watched the open rehearsal for Tangle Movement Arts’ production of Break/Drift/Resist, which plays as part of the 2013 Philly Fringe Arts festival.
If your life is feeling like an episode of Hoarders, this fall may be the perfect time to try some of these strategies.
The premiere work will feature a seven-women cast that will navigate a forest of aerial equipment, chase each other across the stage, and explore how groups adapt, transform, and absorb shock.
Fly in, check in and vacation like a couple on this Very Special Island! ‘A little piece of northern Europe in the southern Caribbean’.
The absolutely absurd play The New Century, written by Paul Rudnick, is, for the most part, unquestionably self-aware of just how campy and ridiculous it is. However, right along with the camp is a heartfelt pulse of what it means to be human, what it means to be gay, and how these elements collide.
Someone Brought Me is the type of work that reminds us why we go to the theater: to be moved, to be transported, to be reminded that, no matter how unrealistic the world on the stage may be, there is a part of us that relates to the story.
The talk-back panel discussion with members of the cast of COLD and of the LGBTQ community in Philadelphia will discuss the changing realities of gay acceptance in public places, the play itself, and what it means that Philadelphia has lost it’s only lesbian bar.
Denise Cohen’s birthday is August 14, which, this year, is highly ironic. Cohen was the manager of the now shuttered Sisters, Philadelphia’s only lesbian bar, which closed earlier this week on August 12.
Both Frank Schierloh and Katherine Perry, who play the characters of Michael and Tam, respectively, are the true winners of Sarah Gafgen’s production.
‘I’m still here,’ proclaims Linda, the weary and worn protagonist of Sarah Pappalardo’s drama Cold. Linda may be here, but The Birdhole, the bar that her and her former lover, Helen, own in a gentrified section of Chicago, is far from ‘here.’
In my humble opinion, San Juan, Puerto Rico is the perfect ‘Gay-Sun-Destination’. I really do love Puerto Rico and San Juan in particular on several different levels, some very personal.
GayFest hosts the Philadelphia premiere of Paul Rudnick’s new outrageous comedy, directed by the festival’s producer, Rich Rubin.
Audiences familiar with GayFest may have seen Talbott’s work in previous years; the festival produced ‘Slipping’ in 2011 and “Mike and Seth” in 2012.
After a popular reading at 2012’s GayFest, Sarah Pappalardo’s drama returns in a fully-staged production featuring a host of regional actors.
The play, which the Chicago Tribune called ‘an important new gay play,’ makes its Philadelphia premiere at this year’s GayFest.
According to lesbian partners Blair Berger and Jessie Parker, they weren’t searching for a marriage license. However, a Rachel Maddow blog post and a leap of faith brought the women to a profound day of celebration.
This year’s QFest juried Best Documentary winner is well-deserving of the prize: this beautifully-filmed story of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker’s spiritual journey is passionate and moving.
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Rich Rubin, the producer of GayFest, Philadelphia’s LGBTQ theatre festival, promises a celebration of the performing arts that has something for everyone.
This tightly-knit documentary explores the collaboration and friendship between AIDS researcher Dr. Mathilde Krim and Hollywood actress Elizabeth Taylor, both who are credited with the founding of amfAR, the country’s first AIDS research foundation.
There’s a lot more to former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey than just being a “gay American.” This insightful documentary shows that one’s past afflictions can, at times, be divine interventions.
Leave everything you know about Divine at the door: this well-crafted documentary presents the drag superstar, also known as Glenn Milstead, as an actor with a lot of heart, soul, and desire.
If there’s one thing to expect from Charlie Vaughn’s “totally rocking superstar extraordinaire” comedy, it is to expect the absolute unexpected.
About the only reaction you will have after watching this Berlin-based, hallucinogenically-driven thriller can be summed up in two words: quit trippin’!
Goes With Any Outfit!
The highlight of this darkly humorous mocumentary about a gay couple’s nightmarish birthday party for their adopted daughter is, surprisingly, an astonishing dramatic performance from Helen Shaver.
The Real Most Interesting Man In The World
The horrific murder of 15-year-old Larry King by his 14-year-old classmate Brandon McInerney is heart-wrenchingly examined in this Philadelphia premiere of Martha Cunningham’s documentary at QFest.
‘The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country – and we haven’t seen them since.’
Jamie Kastner’s insightful documentary suggests that there was more than just glitter, disco balls, and drugs behind the 70’s greatest creation.
Breaking The Girls Review
The opening film of QFest 2013 is a bubble-gumy sweet, campy high school ride that questions the all too familiar stereotypes associated with gay culture and identity.
Attorney General Kathleen Kane addressed the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania at the National Constitution Center about why she will not defend the Commonwealth in the landmark case filed by the ACLU to repeal Pennsylvania’s version of a Mini-DOMA.
All right, let’s go right there, shall we? What’s under a genuine Scot’s kilt? My first time out in a kilt was memorable / fun!
It’s not that hard not to be an asshole but sometimes people don’t realize they have the problem
One of the reasons I like Portugal so much as because of its individual style and exquisite beauty. It seems that something new and enchanting is found around every corner. Gay life in Lisbon is laid-back and very friendly. Just make sure you have some good walking shoes.
Atlantis: According to Plato ‘Was a great continent larger than Libya and Asia together’. It was populated by a very wealthy and advanced civilization. It is said that the peaks of sunken Atlantean mountains today form the Canary Islands, the Azores, Madeira and Cape Verde. At the bottom of the sea, glorious palaces and temples are still waiting to be discovered.
In thirty two days, I’m getting gay married to my favorite person in the world. I get to stand up in front of our friends and family and make this big public commitment to the person I love most in the world. Psyched is an understatement.
Admittedly there are parts of the world that are more reputedly gay-friendly than Spain and certainly Madrid and Barcelona have the Spanish market cornered on gay bars, clubs and lifestyle but very few areas are as special as the south of Spain.
This past weekend I had the opportunity to attend an old friend’s show: Oz! Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Taking place at Stewart Middle School, this one night only event was produced, casted and stared by drag queen Aida Snatchwell.
Each has a definite ‘gay presence’ but only a handful of genuine gay clubs, bars, and restaurants.
Generally one thinks of Switzerland in terms of mountains, cheese and chocolate. While this is true, one could also think of it in terms of Gay women and men. German, French and Italian yet all Swiss!
I won’t belabor you with in depth recaps about your recent media involvement or even about this most recent incident when you were reportedly arrested in an attempt to solicit a male prostitute – as you, unlike the rest of us, were present for it all. I would like to focus less on your actions and more on the things that it seems you are not doing – or perhaps unable to fathom.
Last Saturday I was on a panel with a bunch of grown-up smarties about archiving, affect, and activism at Giovanni’s Room. I spoke for a little while about zines and my involvement in the Philadelphia zine community. The event went well, and I learned a lot from the other presenters.
Cologne Pride is one of the largest gay and lesbian events in Germany as well as all of Europe. In recent years there have been over one million participants in Cologne with even more expected this July.
Forearms are usually one of the forgotten muscles to train and if we don’t give them the right attention they could end up making us look like T-REX.
Visit the Land Of Oz!
Hot Dark-haired men and the best hummus in the world – Yum!
Ain Gordon is an Obie award-winning playwright and actor currently in residence at Painted Bride Art Center in conjunction with Place Philadelphia, an eighteen month project at the Bride intended to unearth unknown stories of the city to share with the community through the Bride’s tradition of collaborative experiential art.
Hey Drag Racers! Well, I hope you had a sweet tooth this week because the ladies served up some candy coated realness. Oh and Roxxxy’s a bitter bitch.
New Orleans and I have had an interesting relationship for years and it is not always a good one. A feminine (to me) city, she can be very stately and refined with glorious food, white pillared mansions, pale gloved ‘ladies’ and an elegance all her own.
Beyond the critical acclaim he has received for images that transform who we are inwardly, lies an artist whose sensational appetite for discussion around the tabooed and outer box focus has lent not just this country but the world over beauty and meaning and new truth, through breathtaking vantages on our dailies that give pause to new realms of possibility in what we believe we know is so.
Stand up and salute – the girls this week made over some hunky Marines
Take a trip down under to check out how gay Sydney really is
A look into how one man, Jeffrey Beaver, is now the voice of the six million people murdered during the Holocaust and his work with The National Holocaust Museum!
My very first night in Amsterdam was magical. There are four official ‘gayborhoods’ but that is changing day to day as in any city.
I should be writing chapters for the book project that I’m working on, but I’m going to take a minute to put down some of my many thoughts on today’s facebook/tumblr explosion over the cases for marriage equality that the Supreme Court heard today.
Here’s a true story. Last night, I was hanging out at a pretty chill bar, having some beers and just having a nice time. Three guys and a girl come in and sit near me. One guy comes over to me and starts talking to me. I know where this is going, believe me.
This week the queens designed their own scent and created a commercial to advertise it. Plus, who could forget the matching game using a slew of underwear clad hotties…Yum!
My first visit to Rio was some-time ago and my last trip reinforced my theory that in much older cultures like Brazil, and certainly Rio, ideas and traditions don’t change as quickly as they do in the rapid-fire US of A.
The last time light streamed through the front windows at 254-56 S. 12th Street was in 1965. Now iCandy is letting the sun shine in.
This week the queens used their comedic prowess to read each other and roast EVERYONE!
Hey Drag Racers! This week, the queens had to bravely use their own voices to sing a ‘We Are The World’ inspired melody.
Funny thing about London … Being Gay was fairly well accepted for centuries in the British Capitol – Shakespeare, Richard the Lionhearted, Sir Isaac Newton
Hey Drag Racers! This week, the Snatch Game returned, Jinkx Monsoon dominated the bunch and Alyssa Edwards was instructed to rupologize for her embarrassing performance.
My love of satire is deep and abiding and being able to racially joke with ‘white’ folk gives me life. Go Seth. Go prime time TV. Kinda.
Gay Paree is gayer then you might think
This week had a surprising ending – making RuPual Drag Race History!
There are a lot of hardships when you come out, but sometimes it teaches you valuable life lessons
Hey Drag Racers! This week on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queens broke into two teams to perform a child-friendly but splendidly delicious variety show. Plus, why was Alyssa Edwards dethroned? Sashay and Chante have the T.
Queer Embraces : A unique project underway to bring about conversation over the silences and erasure of queer histories!
Philly makes a lot of lists, but often not on the good lists. Well they are all wrong and here is why!
IT’S BACK! Last night, one of the hottest events in Philly premiered their second season, Drag Wars 2.
This week on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queens practiced their lip-syncing skills, and paid homage to queens of seasons past.
Japanese Noh theater with Western Children’s stories in A Minor Cycle: Five Little Plays in One Starry Night at The Painted Bride!
The time has come for Philly’s restaurant week to show newbies, cheap people, fun adventurous people, and out-of-towners what they’ve been missing at amazing restaurants. M Restaurant is where I went for restaurant week, and there is still time for you to make a Rez.
Sashay and Chante are back, exclusively on PhillyGayCalendar, to dish about season five of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Check in weekly for all the ultimate tee and shade from these two queen bees.
How much do you love sugar? You might want to think again!
In the city of brotherly love, it’s not all too often that the LGBT community is offered a new weekend hang out, but Friday night premiered the Grand Opening of Club Devotion (formally Shampoo) for its monthly LGBT night.
CRUISING (aboard a ship) and what is good, bad and very ugly about the experience.
Philadelphia Magazine, publisher of G Philly, published an article about the Philly A-Gays – are they out of touch?
How can we expect to have a spectrum within trans-communities, if we are incessantly forcing people to look ONE way. or be ONE way.
A Man On the Move!
Last July I was invited to tour, experience and review a number of hotels, restaurants and attractions for the Mexican Government Tourist Bureau. Many are most welcoming to the Gay Market, our tastes and attention to detail. Here are my current top 5
Because Mr. SEXO is the epitome of sexy, beacasue hee is sexually appealing and body positive, becasue he embodies confidence to be unapologetically sexy, arousing and sex positive – I felt it only necessary to ask the ‘hard’ questions.
We fucking love you. We really do. Sometimes we couldn’t exist without you. But, seriously. Let’s talk about some things you do that give me the gay hives.
The concept that massage is not an important tool in staying healthy and that it is simply a “spa experience” is incorrect.
When I heard the word activist, I used to think more along the lines of those real life superheroes such as Martin Luther King Jr. or Harvey Milk. Examining the word further, I began to realize that each one of us, at one time or another in our lives, can define ourselves as activists.
The Gayborhood is quickly becoming a foodie’s dream come true. Marcie & Val’s empire, Fuel, El Vez, Philly Cupcake, Vintage, Zavino are some of the super successful Gayborhood staples. It’s time for Eat A Pita’s time in the spotlight!
The holidays are already stressful – but when your family isn’t gay friendly it can be a nightmare.
Already sick of the cold, Brian tells you the best places to go to get all warmed up.
The intersection of power, privilege, and ignorance can be a perilous epicenter. As it stands, privilege, when abused and not perpetually checked, can develop into an albatross of mental stagnation and ignorance. When that level of encumbrance meets power, it’s a guaranteed cataclysm.
Mike and Marga Make Queer Comedy will take place on Saturday at The Painted Bride – and I sat down with them to get the scoop.
Every once in a while, the wild gays of the Philly gayborhood, venture outside of the ‘norms’ of drinking, bars, and close quarter club life to take on a more artistic view on life and leisure. Singer Howard Louis is attempting to do just that.
On July 1, 2012, Willow Smith, an American singer, songwriter, and actress released an official music video for her new song ‘I Am Me’. The moment it hit the web, opinions went flying.
After weeks of contestants dancing, singing, flaming, and joking, the finalists for Circus of the Stars 3.0 have finally been announced.
Recently investors are looking to rebuild a long forgotten Gayborhood right in the heart of Atlantic City New Jersey.
From pregnant nuns to fire eaters, the talent was diverse across the board. But there was never shortage of sharp critiques and tense contestants.
After an astounding 22 years of serving the public her amazing food, that she cooks her damn self, Carman’s Country Kitchen will unfortunately close on December 16.
Another amazing week, where there were TWO winners this week!
Brat Productions’ rock’n’roll Fringe double-header features science fiction, transformation, and soul love.
Matt O’Neil covers the Opening night of the new weekly talent show – Circus of the Stars, back for its third go.
Often when a debut filmmaker takes on too many roles in a production, it takes its toll on the final product. Not so with Patrick Wang, the force behind the acclaimed indie In the Family. For his work as the writer, director, producer, lead actor, and distributor of the sensitive drama – his first feature – Wang has received awards at several film festivals and the film was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature.
Look out below, because The Philly Fringe Festival is upon us.
First staged in January 1996, Jonathan Larson’s groundbreaking rock opera Rent has established itself as a capstone of the modern musical. Earning three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for its original stage production, Rent has taken on a life of its own in America’s pop culture and has garnered a massive cult following of devoted fans dubbed ‘Rent-heads’.
Holly Hughes’s hilarious 1983 lesbian film noir comedy holds up well with this new staging, the first Philadelphia performance in over a decade.
Ten years after the landmark play The Laramie Project was produced, Moisés Kaufman and other members of the Tectonic Theater Project returned to Laramie, Wyoming to check in on what has transpired since the 1998 murder of gay college student Matthew Shepard.
Barely noticing the Texas ice storm raging outside, two lifelong friends – Mike (straight) and Seth (gay) – hole up in a fancy hotel room and talk into the wee hours of the morning on the night before Mike gets married.
Set in the late 1990s, Three’s Company-style hijinks afflict the three gay roommates of The Crumple Zone during a bleak Christmas in their Staten Island apartment.
Some gym goers get too crazy strengthening major muscles group and ignoring the small ones, such as the shoulder joint muscles.
This past July 4th, marked 28 year old Edward Strojan’s2 year anniversary of owner Haddonfield, New Jersey hotspot, The British Chip Shop.
Home schooled for years by a domineering mother, a sheltered teenage girl takes a step toward independence by getting a job and moving in with her gay father and his boy toy boyfriend in this gleeful coming of age comedy.
The professional accomplishments and internal struggles of virtuoso upright bassist Jennifer (formerly John) Leitham are detailed in this polished documentary.
The relationship between two oddball best friends – Nate, a young gay film student, and Margaret, a 52-year-old aspiring comedian – experiences growing pains in this low budget charmer.
Between frequent nosebleeds and bathroom breaks, two young lesbians fall in love on the streets of New York City in this bizarre, meandering romance.
This informative documentary recounts the disturbing mid-90s court case in which John Ward, who served eight years in prison for murdering his first wife, sued his ex-wife Mary for custody of their daughter on the grounds that she was an out lesbian.
A delightfully crusty Olympia Dukakis steals the show in this crowd-pleasing comedy about two geriatric lesbians, together for 30+ years, who flee to Canada to get married and avoid being separated.
The opening film of QFest’s 18th year is a sweet comedy filled with easy laughs and genuine emotion.
Rounding out a week of promotions for free HIV testing here in Philly, Greg Louganis stopped by for a visit to my favorite local Philadelphia casino, Parx
Ana Matronic and PGC had a phone chat to talk about how to relax during a national tour, the process of recording an album, and what to do next time you’re in Old City.
The Actor/Writer/Composer behind BRAT Productions’ “SAGA: The Rock Opera” sat down with PhillyGayCalendar to talk about the inspiration and process behind his latest musical creation. Here’s his story.
Many of you may be familiar with her interactions on hit Bravo show Real Housewives of New Jersey, but did you know Teresa Giudice was also a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice, and with her new book Fabulicious! Fast & Fit, now also a THREE time New York time best seller.
What happens when you bring dozens of cupcakes to be judged? Find out!
Let me introduce you to Miss Philly Gay Pride.
Every once in a while I get the chance to meet up with some really amazing people. Recently I had a huge opportunity to meet up with three of the biggest stars to grace the reality television world, Drita D’Avanzo from VH1’s Mob Wives, Real Housewife of New York Ramona Singer, and of course Tracy Dimarco from the Style Network’s Jerseylicious
Where are you when watching seamen run all over the deck? The Big Gay Boat Party of course!
The pride season each year kicks off with one my favorite small town parties, the New Hope Pride festival!
Ok gays and girls, time to shake off the winter dust, come out of your hibernating slumbers, and throw on those booty shorts you’ve been saving all winter because the pride season has begun!
Thursday, May 10th, The Media Theatre is hosting a bus trip from the Gayborhood to see their rave-reviewed performance of “Spring Awakening.” PGC talked to one of the lead actors about acting, the Media Theatre production, and how babies are made.
This past Sunday, Philly hosted its first ever Big Award Show. From the minds of Brandon Barlieb and Mimi Imfurst, the show set the stage to award the city’s top establishments and performers.
RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 4 is over….a queen has been crowned.
The Voyeur stage is no stranger to a variety of stars that have graced Logo’s hit reality show RuPaul’s Drag Race.
This week, Ru failed to crown a queen and Sashay and Chante are pissed!
This sexy muscle boy dedicates his life to helping you achieve your best beach body
The 80s hitmaker behind the freestyle/dance earworm “Catch Me I’m Falling” chatted on the phone with PGC’s Alejandro Morales in advance of her appearance at this Friday’s Adesso 80s Dance Party.
Large and in charge. Chunky yet funky. This week we said goodbye to one of our favorites – Latrice Royale. Hope you all sopped her up like a biscuit.
Each year there comes a time when the hottest babes come together for one night. With balls tucked, breast drawn, and wigs pinned in tight, Dragapalooza was underway Saturday night.
Everybody loves a diamond in the rough. In this situation, the rough is the Pennsport area of Philadelphia, and the diamond is Federal Donuts. Federal Donuts is the underdog company that sells their gourmet donuts, fried chicken, and coffee. Sounds amazing, right?
Hey Ladyboys! On this week’s episode, the queens turned daddies into mommies and worked some pregnant realness. Oh…and Kenya stopped by…briefly.
Happy Birthday to the youngest club in town, ICandy! It was a packed house so thank goodness they decided to finish renovations to the liquid lounge.
Sitting down with some hot college jocks is every gay’s dream. Asking them personal questions about their sex lives can be considered a fantasy. But guess who has two thumbs and got to sit down with Temple’s gymnasts Dash Sears and Evan Burke? This guy!
RuPaul for President! This week the ladyboys tried to convince America they should be the first drag President of the United States. And Michelle Visage is black.
This week on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the queen’s were paired up with their polar, or bi-polar opposite for a duet. And, Willam puked.
A packed night of drag to celebrate local drag artist Porcelain’s birthday also brought RuPaul’s Drag Race powerhouse Sharon Needles into town for a night of so much weird.
Honey, it’s always sunny in Philadelphia, but that don’t mean you can’t find some shade. This week, the girls practiced their ‘reading’ skills and created their own ‘dragazine.’
This week on RuPaul’s Drag Race, the girls were challenged to design a gay pride float with a message… and a fabulous ensemble to go with it!
You haven’t lived until you have tryied Ms Goody’s White Trash cupcakes
When the relationship is stale, on its last lung, and begging for hospice, how do you end it?
Ian Morrison is the hardest working lady performer in Philadelphia, or, at the very least, the tallest, no ifs, ands or butts.
Have you ever wondered about the unassuming, humble silver fox that runs Phillygaycalendar.com?
What a disappointing snatch! This week the girls put on their best celebrity impersonations.
The 14th Season of popular reality trainwreck Dancing with the Stars will also feature Jaleel White and Sherri Shepherd.
This week the girls worked out their best prison chic fierceness.
If you’re going to be the next drag superstar, you better bone up on your acting chops. This week, the queens performed an infomercial.
What do you do when you have nothing but a bottle of alcohol and a nice outfit for the year’s most hallmarked holiday? Go to ICandy’s stop light party of course!
I stumbled on the cutest bakery, just off of South Street in Philadelphia. I had to check it out, ever since I saw the Facebook post about their HOT WING COOKIES. So last week, I headed down to South Street.
Tuesday was the finale of the Circus of the Stars contest at Tabu.
This week the queens impressed us with their wrestling prowess. And guurrrllll was I worried Kenya wouldn’t survive!
Hey Drag Racers! It’s that time of year again. That magical time when boys become ladyboys and everyone’s throwing shade. Once again, Ru has selected 13 queens from around the country to compete in this year’s drag extravaganza!
Spoiler alert! Our lips are not sealed, so don’t shauntay stay and read ahead unless you know who sashayed away. Proceed only if you’re ready for the good, the bad, and the hunty. No shade.
Collaborative Stage Productions bring Alphabet City to Hammonton, NJ, for a staging of Jonathan Larson’s posthumous hit rock opera. More than a decade after Mark and Roger were “living in America at the end of the millenium,” does RENT still pay off?
A local blogger makes the most of his kitchen nightmares.
Comic/nurse/queer health advocate Kelli Dunham tells PGC a little bit about herself and this Saturday’s “Queer Bodies, Queer Selves” at William Way.
Speaking to Graham Norton, Madge says she sees herself in the pop icon of the moment. To ABC News, it’s a different story-ish.
When the NYT called her “a living, breathing bonfire” they were not mincing words.
The meme that launched a thousand parodies.
Sims’ campaign rings up considerable funds leading up to this Spring’s primary election.
The limited engagement of “I love being me, don’t you?” will run at the Painted Bride from Jan. 10-14.
This weekly talent show, starting on January 10, 2012, promises to be the best night out since sliced bread.
Oh my sweet gherkins!!!
The Notorious O.M.G. mixes up a potent brew of sex and circus.
Brad wants shoes. Musto wants to sign more books. What’s your resolution?
The neighborhood I call home now actually isn’t all that bad. It’s certainly not as bad as some who live up this way make it out to be, and while it’s clearly downscale from the bourgeois bohemian precincts of the Gayborhood, it’s comfortable, tranquil, and not all that difficult to get to from the center of town. So why do I feel like a fish out of water?
The holiday season is a time of friends, laughter, gifts – and loneliness. Oh the joy of not being able to be with one’s self! Whether we are coupled or single, loneliness sooner or later will make an appearance in our lives. The holiday season seems to exaggerate feeling lonely, especially when we assume everyone else is having a jolly time.
We all need to fit in and belong. When you start a new job, you want to fit in. When you join a new group, you want to belong. When you arrive at a dinner party, you want to feel welcomed. This is normal. We all need to feel part of our communities. But why do we often feel like outsiders?
I’m a 17 year old slowly falling for someone who has just told me that they are HIV+. Both the decision to stop the relationship from happening and to keep going seem to be wrong. (Either I put myself at risk, or potentially wreck his emotional state.) I don’t even know who to listen to about the risks though. Some say if I kiss him, I’ll get HIV and some say I won’t unless I have open cuts in my mouth. Just how risky is all of this?
Local trans artist/performer and activist Rae Drew sat down to a slice of pizza with PGC’s Alejandro Morales to lend some insight into his reckoning with identity, life transitions, and his latest project.
Imagine: You’re out with your special someone for dinner at an elegant restaurant in town. Plush upholstery and soft lighting set the mood for a romantic evening. Then, all of a sudden, your waiter breaks into song, crooning a Cole Porter tune to you and your fellow diners.
The hottest photo of the week was these three sexy ladies from the Stimulus Black and White party this weekend
In case you missed the U.S. Mr. Gay festivities this past weekend, here are a few notable moments.
The most popular photo of the week were Brian and Ricky from the Glow Party
The popular sex columnist is under fire — and sparkles — from trans community activists.
Friend of the Calendar R. Eric Thomas talks about social networking, storytelling, and his upcoming one-man show “Will You Accept This Friend Request.”
The term “bullying” doesn’t do justice to the recent hate-fueled beating of an Ohio teen, and with the aggressor receiving a mere three-day suspension, no kind of justice is yet in sight. The larger question looms: How can we protect queer youth?
Jesus hung out with sinners whose behavior he clearly did not approve of. But he reserved his strongest disapproval for those other sinners who would condemn them. He did not say, ‘Hate the sin but love the sinner,’ but he did say this: ‘Let him who is without sin cast the first stone’.
The Hip Couple that live in my building invited me to a very civilized Sunday afternoon of brunch followed by perusing an “Open Studio” of resident artists’ galleries. I was super excited! I love brunch and art! Especially when it’s all located on gritty Spring Garden Street in sunny Philadelphia.
Outfest was fabulous, but what would be more fabulous then then these two guys working the gayborhood!
The phrase “We are everywhere” has become something of a cliché, but truth to tell, many of us still don’t quite grasp all the implications of that truth. Here is one: We are managing to get along in neighborhoods that are far from LGBT Meccas.
You know how you walk by a joint on the regular and never try it. You see the joint, but just never get around to going in. Perhaps it’s on some out-of-the-way street that’s on your way to someplace that has nothing to do with food. Well, I’ve been walking by Meme at 22nd and Spruce for a solid two years now and haven’t thought of going there for dinner.
The most popular photo of the week was this hottie from the OUTFest after party at iCandy
The Project Runway contestant and HIV awareness advocate talks to PGC about reality competition, confronting his demons, and what brings him to the City of Brotherly Love and Sisterly Affection.
Interview with Michael Beachem of the inaugural class of The Mint Voyagers
Colman Domingo could have been like one of the characters he played in ”Passing Strange,” Mr. Franklin – a gentleman who keeps part of himself in shadow in order to spare himself pain and conform to the world’s expectations. Instead, spurred on by a love-filled upbringing in West Philadelphia, he has chosen to live fully as himself, exploring – and expressing – all the multifaceted reality of his own identity, not to mention those who shaped him and the people he encounters in the world. He tackles all of those all by himself in his solo play ”A Boy and His Soul.” Now Domingo, who has won critical acclaim for his ability to portray a wide variety of fully-fleshed-out characters, is bringing his autobiographical play to the city that shaped him.
If only men came with warning lables: ‘Warning, this guy is subject to run up your credit, sleep with two or three of your friends, and has a tendency to disappear in the middle of a relationship.’
Interview with Kyle Flood of the inaugural graduating class of Mint Voyagers
Interview with Mr. Liam Dacey, member of the inaugural class of the Mint Voyagers
People are obsessed with eating chicken that like to take it up the butt, well, take beer cans up the butt that is.
Interview with Tawana Grayson, member of the inaugural class of The Mint Voyagers
I was so stoked to be asked to help judge the ‘chef’ competition of the Gayborhood Games last Saturday night!
Interview with Kennedy Godette, account vist by night and, of course, the weekends….
Interview with Paul Blore, graduate of the inaugural class of Mint Voyagers
Interview with Jason Lewis, political aficionado by day, activist by night and, of course, the weekends….
Who says the Republican Party is full of right wing nut jobs hell bent on destroying the middle class by crucifying the tax code and obliterating the progressive civil rights movements of minorities by entitling the rich and special interests groups while raping the poor of basic human services in order to send our country back into the dark ages of a bleached white, suburban, empty shell of a country where Stepford wives are the norm and fake smiles only mask the hatred of white bread conformity forced upon them by pseudo-Christian Sharia law?
Helen Richardson, lawyer by day, activist by night and of course, on the weekends…
It all started with the best intentions. A group of 9 gayz in Asbury Park for a fun-filled evening of dinner, dancing and “mary”-ment. It was the worst of times… it was the best of times….. OY!
New leaders from our community are off and running, trying to make changes, bring a breath of fresh air and make a difference to all of us in Philadelphia’s activism community.
Tough as nails with a manicure to match, Mob Wives’ Drita eats real housewives for breakfast.
As much as we fear rejection, it’s still a normal part of life, especially in dating and relationships. Every time you ask someone out on a date or hold back asking, consider just how much the prospect of rejection is influencing your behavior.
Gay teendom isn’t just about coming out anymore in Daniel Talbott’s smart exploration of love and grief.
Adapted from the lesbian pulp novels of Ann Bannon, this stage play evokes a bygone era in the West Village before the Stonewall Riots.
This podcast is extra special amazing awesome. sat down with the lovely Bethany to ask her about her experiences as an exotic dancer
How many guys have you seen working out at the gym and showing off those huge biceps and big chest, but wearing long sweat pants in every season of the year, including the hot summer? They look hot until they strip down at the locker room to change and then …Surprise! You knew it! They suffer from a popular condition, CLS (chicken legs syndrome), I call it the lollipop syndrome, because as yummy as they look, after a few licks the only thing left is the stick, but that’s another steamy story…
Outstanding costuming and scenery-devouring performances all but guarantee a highly entertaining experience in this dragtastic science fiction farce.
Stuck in end of summer doldrums? Fear not! There are no fewer than 15 gay plays and shows coming up at the end of August and the beginning of September. There’s a little something here for everyone. Check the end of this article for a quick summary of shows and dates.
A po-mo exploration of community and pride tickles the funny bone and inspires reflection in Jonathan Tolins’ play, staged as part of Quince Productions three-week festival.
The partnership of City of Brotherly Love Softball League and The Trevor Project at first seemed like an unlikely pairing. The C.B.L.S.L. won the bid to host this year’s softball world series in Philadelphia, and The Trevor Project is the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.
Monday night an event at the William Way Community Center drew a crowd of curious activists waiting to glean information about one of our cities unique pushes for equal rights.
The SlutWalk protest marches began on April 3, 2011 in Toronto, Canada and became a movement of rallies across the world. The rallies began when Constable Michael Sanguinetti, a Toronto Police officer, suggested that to remain safe, ‘women should avoid dressing like sluts.’
For those of us that have come out of the closet and move away from hiding our sexual identity to those that are around us, the memory of what it means to be in the closet becomes more distant with time as we become more comfortable with our sexuality. However, in doing so and moving past the closet, do we also in turn distance ourselves away from those that are still in the closet?
The man behind the upcoming Fringe show “James Bradford is… THICK!” talks comedy, songwriting, and reality television with PGC.
When top brass says “jump” you ask “how high?” When top brass says “shoot” you shoot. When top brass says, “protect your brothers” they never said “just the heteros”, they meant everyone! And no one had a problem, nor should there have ever been a question about your sexuality in the military.
I remember going to the barber for a haircut with my father when I was a boy. I grew up in Rising Sun, Ohio, a small town with a general store, a lonely post office, and only one barber. I must have been about 9 or 10 years old. I don’t remember much about the barber himself or the shop except for the traditional, red and blue swirled barber’s pole and the smell of overly-applied aftershave. The most significant part about getting a hair cut was being touched by a man.
The best (and the rest) of QFest 17.
Reviews of two perfect documentaries covering lesbian marriage and the history of drag!
A Bronx family struggles to maintain unity as a father returns home from prison and a son transitions into womanhood.
A lesbian drama centering around love, jealousy, abuse, drugs and music.
This was an amazingly acted, beautiful look at the complexities of gender identity. I dare you not to love this movie.
I love Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. This was no Hepburn/Grant screwball comedy. Sorry, gays, just sayin.
A pleasant romantic comedy stretches to fit the big screen with the help of its lovelorn star.
The newest addition to the Eating Out series hits its mark while a promising horror comedy stalls out.
Who, and i am not just talking to the lesbians out there, has not been in and out of love? Let’s review.
Who has not had teenage angst while dealing with coming to terms with their sexuality, belonging and family? Well, I mean, I know I did.
Science fiction and soap opera collide in an engrossing drama from writer/director J.T. Tepnapa.
Movie review of lesbian QFest opening night film!
It’s the big opening night for Philly’s queer film festival, and we’re digging into more trailers to see what’s in store.
What do you get when five non-profit organizations, a handful of volunteers, and two trail blazing super heroes come together in the basement of an inner city church? “A mash up,” called Q-Spot. “It’s like community center meets nightclub, minus the alcohol and plus extra fun.”
We’re poring over the trailers of the upcoming film fest to see what stands out. Ready. Set. Snap judgment!
Porn Star François Sagat will be at QFest 2011 on Saturday, July 16,
As per being a Political Science major, I am often challenged to view the world from a completely different point of view separate from my own preferences in order to fully understand political questions. That said, I am well aware that not everyone is either learned nor interested in anything politically related and would rather stay away from all talk or reference to such topic so as to keep face, but that certainly doesn’t mean that when push comes to shove they don’t have an opinion after overcoming the utter embarrassment they have of not exactly knowing what’s going on in the world, which is ok in normal everyday life, but doesn’t grant you the right to make false accusations as if you do know the in and out intricacies of US affairs.
PGC talks to the organizer of this Friday’s “Rise” fundraiser for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Check out the most popular photo of the week from the Dyke March
The U.N. Human Rights Council has successfully commissioned a “global inquiry” into the treatment of members of the LGBT community.
New York pol Roy McDonald does the right thing, emphatically.
Less than 300 tickets remain to the Phillies’ annual Gay Night.
A rumored clash between the Independent Hotel and Q Lounge may spell the end for this glammy corner bar.
There is a part of our body that we’d love to have it bigger, thicker and meatier… our chest, but having a nice toned chest does not consist on lying down on the bench and doing bench presses like a maniac
I’ve recently finished a long stint bartending – So what’s a gay gal to do with her new found freedoms and even gayer lifestyle?
When was the last time you did something new that you talked about for weeks to come? Are you tired of the same old faces and scene? Do you want to take advantage of gorgeous summer weather dancing your ass off to the best music from the last three decades all the while enjoying the views of the waterfront? Let’s go. I mean it. That’s an order. Oh, and save a dance for me.
Let’s talk about marriage and children
Being arrested can be frightening, but what are your rights when the cops come to your door.
If you’re reading this, I have some news for you. You haven’t been Raptured. I know. I’m as surprised as you are. I was all set to ditch my pudgy corporeal form and get whisked up to heaven in an incorruptible, and presumably toned, body, to spend the rest of eternity chugging mimosas and learning to play rock songs on the harp. Alas, we were not the chosen ones, and now we’re stuck here to face the storms, earthquakes, hurricanes, and whatever other geologic activity and weather patterns that once represented natural phenomena but are now gleaming signposts of the approaching apocalypse.
Losing someone close to you can be devastating, but complications come when legal issues arrise
Fans of innovative theater will thoroughly enjoy NYC’s most recent transplant At The Hand of My Mother currently playing at Powerplant Productions in Old City. At The Hand of My Mother tells the story of a deaf Oralist community in Ireland at two moments in its history.
So what’s love got to do with it, Tina? To quote Ms. Turner, ”It’s physical, only logical, you must try to ignore, that it means more than that.”
I’m not a huge beach guy. I mean, it’s really pretty to look at. But even when I go with the most seasoned beach lovers, I still get impatient, sweaty, coated in sand and just generally irritable. A walk down to the ocean really just involves jellyfish, seaweed and shells ripping up my feet. Sorry. I can deal, I just don’t love it.
Debra answers legal questions this week about a gay couple adopting their first child and advises a visitor about how to deal with Philly parking lots
The summer is coming very soon, and we all want to be in the best shape possible to flaunt our sexy bodies at beach. We can’t deny that we find attractive a nice, round, juicy butt, and regardless of your sexual position, you can have a BIG BOTTOM too.
If you want something done right, send a lesbian, gay man drag queen to do the job. I review the weekly Dollhouse Review with Mimi Imfurst
One of your recent polls asked: ‘Which causes you the most anxiety around sex?’ and I was surprised by my own answer: ‘the psychology.’ I have always really enjoyed sex, and sex with my current boyfriend has been the best I’ve had to this point. However, we’ve been together for about a year and a half and I it is gradually getting harder to focus on the act and keep my mind from wandering. I start thinking about what I’m thinking about… I’ll be approaching orgasm thinking ‘Is it sick for me to picture having sex with someone else right now? What does that mean about our relationship?’ What do you recommend for the overly analytic fornicator?”
Hey drag racers! RuPaul has chosen America’s next drag superstar. Do you think Raja was the right queen for the job?
Several of you beloved readers/listeners have tipped me to the latest findings from OkCupid: a series of awesome charts that demonstrate a variety of fascinating correlations between lifestyle, age, appearance and sexuality that uses the millions and millions of OKCupid’s dating site members as subjects.
As a member of a family consisting of siblings that cover the range of autism from Aspbergers to Manic-Depression to Downs syndrome, I have witnessed the cruel and hateful things that can and are said to belittle a person simply because they are different and have spent too many nights worrying about my own siblings’ personal safety at school.
Spring is the best weather for being gay, in and out of drag. Not only because you can read people for trying to wear the same Old Navy summer clothes they tried to adorn themselves with last year (and always too early-gays start wearing flip flops the second the winter ice melts), but also because it’s pageant season!
A little while back, I wrote a bleeding-heart essay about the use of the fag word in comedy. After that, life somehow continued and I kept on doing comedy, performing at the shows I co-host as well as a handful of open mics in the city. And the homophobic crap really never stops flying.
If you are of a certain age – somewhere around mine, say – you probably wrestled with your sexual orientation as you came of age, much as I did. Many of those in my generation worried whether our parents would accept us if we told them we were gay or lesbian. Many of us felt profoundly alone in being attracted to members of our own sex, and most of us feared that our classmates in school would pick on or ridicule us if we revealed our secret.
Should I unfriend him?
As my first assignment for the fabulous PhillyGayCalendar, I went to Camp Tabu at, well, of course, Tabu, in the gayborhood.
Hey drag racers! This week the ladyboys were hooked up with some manly jocks to transform into their drag sisters.
There is a common, immature fantasy about relationships that reduces love down to dependency and assumes our insatiable neediness. Many of us love this fantasy and in fact are quite addicted to it. I like to call it the Knight-in-shining-armor syndrome or the Jesus-boyfriend disorder. We pretend there is one, unique, and perfectly looking person destined by divine graces who will finally love us rightly, so then we can feel whole and complete forever. (Insert sounds of angelic choir here.) Think of it as Jesus meets Cinderella. By definition, it’s about relationship as savior and assumes we all need saving.
This Wed, April 6th at 8pm, Pussy Faggot! comes to the Trocadero for an inaugural visit to the City of Brotherly and Sisterly Love. The brain child of former Philadelphian, Earl Dax, Pussy Faggot! promises a tantalizing array of drag, performance and visual arts, DJs and provocateurs thrown together in a cacophonous symphony of revelatory experience. If you are looking for an event sure to send you flying over the hump or simply warm you up for a promising spring weekend, this is the event for you.
This week’s challenge involved creating 3 separate looks, including one outfit made entirely out of hair.
In case you haven’t noticed from signs sprouting in windows, there’s a primary election just around the corner. In addition to deciding whether Mayor Michael Nutter deserves a chance at a second term in office, we will be voting for candidates for City Council, row offices and judgeships. I had the chance recently to meet one of those judicial candidates, and I think you should get to know him better too.
I’m meeting my boyfriend’s parents for the first time. They don’t know we’re both HIV+. I’m out to virtually everyone I know while he’s out to what seems like only me. When’s a good time to tell them I’m positive?
Soon-to-be-sex savvy Philadelphians gathered at the Danger Danger gallery on March 11th for ‘Dancing With Myself: A Celebration of Solo Sex.’ The event was masterminded in every sense of the word by Screw Smart, the self-described queer, sex-positive sedutainment group that has been spicing up stages and demonstration rooms since its inception in 2009. (That’s sex-education-entertainment for those of you looking to rock the scrabble board later tonight.)
It’s time to lip sync for your life! This week, the ladyboys recorded their own versions of Ru’s new song in different genres, before performing it in front of a live audience.
I’m sick of hearing about disclosure before engaging in sex. I’m an HIV+ gay male. It’s my disease, it’s my business. What’s the big deal?
Get that V Shape with pull-ups, learn about B-complex vitamins, gain the benefits of hummus and chow down on a delicious turkey mushroom burger
The girls give their Don’t Ask Don’t Tell messages and Sashay and Chante salute!
There’s nothing more powerful than the approval, support, and encouragement from a parent; conversely, there’s nothing more devastating than a parent’s neglect or absence. This idea holds especially true if you’re a gay man trying to create sustainable relationships with other men.
This week the contestants had to read each other and then had the chance to become stand up comedians. Find out what Chante and Sashay have to say!
Hey Drag Racers! What do you think of Season 3 of RuPaul’s Drag Race? Check out what we think and then sound off!
There has been more farewell shows at Q Lounge than Cher has ever seen-yet the doors remain open. Just to dispel the myth-YES! Q LOUNGE IS REMAINING OPEN!
The other night at a comedy show, two of my peers used anti-gay epithets from the stage. And it wasn’t in the context of some brilliant bit of satire. It was just, "What a faggot" and "that guy’s being a fag." I sat through three utterances and then I got up and walked out. Before too long, I had to come right back, though, because I was set to host another comedy show at the same venue afterward. It was awkward. One of the comics who used the epithets offered an apology, but I didn’t let him off easy, because he said things like "You didn’t have to walk out" and "I’m sorry you were offended."
It was just Valentine’s Day, which is supposed to be the most romantical of days, right? Then why did my brother just get dumped by his live-in girlfriend and why have two of my coworkers just broken up with their boyfriends in the last week? What gives, yo?
Welcome readers to my first fitness page. I hope that you follow my advice to build a better lifestyle through knowledge of training techniques, healthy foods, supplements and nutritious recipes.
How would Carrie Bradshaw put it? “Friendships are like strappy sandals. They carry you through life, they bring comfort, they broadcast the colors of your personality to the world, but sometimes, even your favorite pair of strappy sandals can wear out, or worse, go out of style.”
It’s not often that a rock musical asks it audience to ponder the end of days. Yet Coming: A Rock Musical of Biblical Proportions not only challenges assumptions of good and evil, but offers original music and choreography to gets its point across.
Community activists have a history of mainstreaming the marginalized, sheltering the dispossessed, and empowering the powerless. Gloria Casarez has followed this path all the way to City Hall, where, as Mayor Michael Nutter’s director of LGBT affairs, she has one foot in the corridors of authority and one still in the activist tradition.
Gordon Schwinn, the lead character in William Finn’s ‘A New Brain’, is fighting to stay alive from the moment he first sets foot on stage. The musical, which is being given an invigorating, insightful local production by Plays & Players, follows Gordon as he faces hospitalization and surgery for a seemingly terminal brain defect, all while struggling to continue his craft of songwriting and balance his fraying relationships. Just another fun-filled evening of singing and dancing, right?
So, it’s 2011. Janurary is off to a roaring start and the city is full of crisp air and new beginnings. It’s hard for me not to get overwhelmed, walking around with wide-eyes and thin skin all the time. I love this city. The rush and noise of it Market Street, and the quiet of the Free Library. I love the smells of Reading Terminal Market and finding small pieces of the city to make mine. There are things about the city that are new and scary to me, but I love those things for how deeply they make me feel, for new experiences, for taking me outside of my comfort zone and giving me perspective.
Now that “don’t ask, don’t tell” has been officially buried, it’s worth reflecting on a significant difference between the LGBT civil rights movement as it has evolved and the one that made it possible for me to live as I have as an African-American so far.
Though snow blankets a massive swath of the nation, this month of January is possibly harshest on the Great White Way, as productions shutter for good rather than face the cold post-holiday season of decreased attendance and diminishing returns. This year was particularly unkind, cutting down shows both star-studded and barebones. Indeed, the only sure-things right now are the warhorse family musicals and, improbably, Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark, which, at a cost of $65 million and counting is Broadway’s most expensive show ever. Budgets and special effects are considerably more modest a few miles southward where Philadelphia’s Mauckingbird Theatre Company’s production of [title of show], a musical with 4 actors, one instrument, and no airborn superheroes, opened on Wednesday.
For a long time I felt this way. Thankfully my fiancee is the shit and we both kind of admitted being scared of only being with one person for the next 50 years, so we made some “changes”. It has honestly made our relationship stronger and more loving to “date as a couple” (in her words). Anywho….thought you might want to give
That’s right: I’m a homemaker. With Dick off working all the hours God sent, leaving early in the morning for real estate or construction duties, coming back in the afternoon for a costume change, and then leaving again to wait tables until nighttime, it’s up to me to keep the house running as smoothly as possible. Unfortunately, I am pretty ill-equipped for the job
If you’ve walked on 12th Street in the gayborhood in the past few months, you probably noticed a new restaurant has recently opened its doors! Tweed Restaurant opened late last year at 114 S 12th Street, the third restaurant in this location in at least that many years. After a list of failed restaurants in the same location, it bears asking, “Is this location cursed?”
I chatted with the VIP’s of the Gayborhood to see what they had in store for the gay kids in 2011.
The number one New Year’s resolution this year among my pals seems to be to find love. To settle down, stop fucking around and to find “The One” and I not against any of that except that I find that most gay men act like drowning victims when it comes to approaching relationship. Clinging for dear life onto the first sign of an available man like white on rice as if their ovaries have gone bad and they would never be able to have sex past the age of 40.
Happy New Year! It’s time for a change – time to join a gym and break-up with your boyfriend. Maybe you already broke up over the holidays. I seem to recall hearing a statistic about more relationships end during holidays than other times of the year. “Honey, happy holidays and by the way I’m leaving you.”
In the spirit of the holidays I asked the gay royale of the Gayborhood who’s been naughty and who’s been nice, and what they hope to find under their tree this holiday season.
There’s a perception that men are drawn to simple graphic, visual sexual images and women are drawn to stories with elaborate settings and complex dynamics between the characters. Whoever put this collection of short erotic stories together totally agrees with that… but they also like a good finger fuck.
How important is manscaping when you are in a relationship?
John Caputo is Q Lounge & Kitchen’s jack of all trades. As general manager and managing partner, the 32-year-old does it all — from booking DJs to planning events. His goal: to get the community out at Q Lounge every night, not just Friday and Saturday. It’s a 7-day-a-week job…and it doesn’t always leave much time for dating. But a former Philadelphia Mr. Gay with years of industry experience under his belt just might be the hometown hero we’re looking for.
There’s a major revolution going on, kids, and its time you became apart of it. It began in South Philly…
I’ll keep it short and simple: why is my girlfriend so clingy?
Grindr is addictive. It has become a worse distraction for me than Facebook. It is as if I don’t already have a thousand other more useful things that command my attention. But every time my eyes flicker to my iPhone, I can’t help but press that yellow square bubble with a black mask in the center.
Imagine some terrifying and unnecessary hypothetical situation where you are forced to choose between being able to experience the pleasure of sexuality and being able to experience the pleasure of music.
If my boyfriend and I we were characters in a newspaper comic strip, we would be The Lockhorns, as opposed to the cherubic ”Love Is…” nudists. That’s just about all you need to know going in.
I am in awe of how we return to loving and opening to new relationships after all the endured hurts, missed opportunities, and past failures. If you’re too young to know yet or have been lucky enough to be spared – warning, warning – heartbreak is on the horizon. Sorry to be the messenger, but everything ends. And if you’re a bit older, having already experienced the loss of a lover or two or many, you too can point to scars that conclude with reasons.
In honor of Transgender Awareness Week, even the most heart-of-gold LGB person may not fully understand how difficult it is to be a transgender person. Coming out is only a small fraction of the quiche. That’s why I’ve decided as my own little ode to Transgender Awareness Week to list Thirteen Easy Steps to Becoming Transgender!
So, a couple of years ago, I had the awesome pleasure of attending Philly Zine Fest. One of the most interesting people I met was my table-mate. This cool, queer, femme comic book artist with a cursive (!) typewriter. On and off, I kept up with Sassafrass Lowry’s various projects through blogs and the zine community, but recently was hugely impressed with the scale and scope of a book she compiled about queer homelessness. I think it’s such an important issue, relevant and often overlooked. Sassafrass was kind enough to answer some of my questions.
I’m about to talk some shit on Cee-Lo’s catchy-as-hell tune, Fuck You. Gasp and clutch the pearls, but it’s happening.
Last Saturday night, Mr. Gay USA opened to a trilogy of Gaga songs with sexy dancers, an amazing drag performance and a complimenting brass section behind her. Stunning performance aside, is there a need for a Mr. Gay USA? How is this night going to be different from any other big party that comes to Voyeur?
Our twenties are all about transformation. We choose careers. We enter into long-term relationship(s). We rent/buy our first apartments. We win Mr. Gay titles. Well, maybe that’s not all of us. But 20-year-old Michael Probe can boast such an accomplishment…and he went through a transformation all his own to score the sash.
Queer in small towns isn’t the same as gay in a city like Philadelphia. Community is less about sharing resources and stories, about forming friendships and families, and sustainable long term partnership in small towns. It’s more about survival, and what you sacrifice for some sense of identity.
Let me introduce you to Night Kitchen Bakery. Owned by Chef Amy and Johnny Cakes. This dynamic duo, husband/wife team just love the gayz! But enough about them, let’s talk about their cakes, their brownies, their cookies, their endless list of awards.
Carrie, now showing at Underground Arts at the Wolf Building, tells the familiar story of a ridiculed teen with telekinetic powers. The Brian De Palma film and Stephen King novel by the same name depicts the protagonist in a dramatic light, portraying a tale of hurt and revenge. Erik Jackson’s stage adaptation accomplishes the same task, but with a lot more humor.
I sat down with the amazingly funny super lesbian Suzanne Westenhoefer as she got ready for her show in Philadelphia on Saturday
Listen up all you beautiful lesbian ladies of Philly – Come out to the Scene Party
Once while on a first date, I was asked, ”What do you want when having sex?” I made a couple of jokes about sex, trying to avoid having to be vulnerable. Then he launched into an overly confident speech about his accomplished sexual prowess, while mentioning his penis size more than once. I thought, who are you kidding Stud? You’re just as sexually uncertain as anybody.
My most recent stop in the Gayborhood was Amis. I’d been for dinner and have heard people rave about their brunch. Amis was A MISs for brunch.
The recent bullying and suicides of Tyler Clementi, Asher Brown, Seth Walsh, and Billy Lucas four gay teenagers whose lives were cut short is just senseless. It is disheartening to learn that in this day and age, our youth are still plagued by homophobia that is rooted in ignorance.
In two weeks I will be walking around Fairmount Park to support and remember those who are infected or affected by the HIV virus. I have certainly been affected by the epidemic. I took my first HIV test when I was seventeen. I remember feeling so nervous and thought that my life would be over if the test came back positive. But nonetheless, I couldn’t quite wrap my head around living with HIV.
Like Carrie Bradshaw and Monolos, books are what makes me happiest. I love books. The texture, the smell, the sound of pages turning. I love the static quiet and still air in bookstores and libraries, even comic book shops. I love the way standing in a room of books makes me feel like nothing is out of my reach. That I could learn anything, with enough time and effort, become a self-educated expert on any subject. As a card-carrying member of the gay lady club, of course GLBTQ fiction and history hold a special place in my heart.
. When dating, we risk exposing ourselves to new strangers. We risk being judged. Worse case scenarios, we prepare for awkward dinners, bad conversations, and occasional rejections. “You’re a nice guy but… there’s no chemistry.” It’s no wonder many of us hate dating.
Actor/writer James Ijames has a busy year. The out Philadelphia transplant and Temple University grad appeared in a number of regional theater productions, including a celebrated staging of Tony Kushner’s epic Angels in America, in which Ijames played Belize. Later in the year Maukingbird Theater Company premiered The Threshing Floor, his one-man show about out writer James Baldwin. In August, he was announced as one of 5 finalists for the F. Otto Haas Award for Emerging Theater Artist. The recipient will be announced on October 4 at the Barrymore Awards. He was gracious enough to talk with me about his year, his play and what being gay and a person of color means to his art.
Dear Timaree, I have a problem that I think other men might have as well. I like hand jobs and blow jobs, sometimes in the same session. Is there a really good, slick lubricant I can put on myself that doesn’t taste like diesel fuel to my partner? Keep up the fabulous work.
Everyone is angry over the recent suicide of the young gay man at Rutgers – but yelling isn’t helping!
How many of us took Boyfriend 101 in school? I bet the number is low. (Drunken, late nights experimenting with other boys don’t count). We plan for our education and prepare for our careers, yet when it comes to relationships some of us give more conscious thought to buying a new pair of jeans. I often meet men who say they want a relationship and yet have few skills and limited awareness about how to create it. It seems many of us gay men know little about emotional exchange, vulnerable disclosure, or power struggles. If we want good relationships, then we have to ask ourselves, what is healthy relating and how do we nurture it in our lives?
There’s a 400 sq ft restaurant on the corner of Camac and Locust that will change your life. I love this fact because the prior tenant of this tiny little corner space was another life changing phenomenon.
I’m in the process of coming out as lesbian and need some help. I’m in my early thirties and have never even approached being involved in the gay scene. I started to realize my orientation a few years ago, but was very traditional-minded and never thought I would be able to live any other way. But it’s important to me that I not waste any more time and begin living the life I want. I found stuff online about how to come out to your friends and family and while the conversations have not always been easy, I feel good about being able to be honest. What remains for me is finding lesbian and gay friends and learning how to approach women. I don’t know any gay people my age in my social network, other than a couple acquaintances. How do I go to a lesbian bar and meet people?
The power lesbians of 13th Street (Valerie and Marcie) who also own Lolita, Grocery, Bindi, Open House, Verde, and Marcie Blaine Chocolates debuted their latest home run – BARBUZZO! Honestly, these women have the Midas touch! One might be tempted to call them overachievers. Personally, I think they passed that when they opened their 4th business on 13th Street! I think after a 7th business we need to admit, they’re on a quest to rule the world, or at the very least the gayborhood!
I met most of my best friends on OKCupid.com. True, it’s ostensibly a dating website, but there’s such a thin line between friends and more than friends, it seems as good a place as any. It’s full of guys I like and who are like me, plus as an added benefit it’s one of those reputable dating sites where you won’t see someone’s junk before learning their name.
Last Saturday night I witnessed an act of violence that shook me to the core. A transwoman approached us dripping in blood after having been attacked in the gayborhood.
’54: All Together Equal’ opened this week at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival, showing the talent of young Temple University students. The play is a series of 17 vignettes inspired by the hit musical, “Show Boat” addressing the theme of equality.
I moved to Philadelphia a little over a week ago from a small town in southwestern Virginia. Philadelphia isn’t the only city I’ve lived in, but it’s certainly the biggest. I knew that I loved Philly the first time I visited, and when I knew that I wanted to move.
Isn’t it funny how everyone raves about masculine bottoms but no one talks about the sissy top? I recently heard the term ‘Social Bottom.’ The term really struck a chord with me and I have been pondering on it till now because, OMG, I am a social bottom.
At some point during the week of September 13th, gay owned and operated Philly Cupcake will begin giving the passers-by on 12th Street a Cupcake Peep Show! Not even a year old and already getting so big! Philly Cupcake is expanding into an additional 500 square feet of space on 12th Street.
When you enter the cavernous warehouse performance space currently housing “Sanctuary” the extremely sexy new piece by out choreographer Brian Sanders’ JUNK, the ushers dutifully warn “If you sit in the first two rows you’ll get wet. Very wet.” This writer is too much of a gentleman and the piece is far too good to stoop to doubling that entendre. Resisting, however, will be hard. Er, difficult.
There’s a conspiracy happening in the gayborhood. It’s a conspiracy to fatten up the gays! They’ve put 10 – that’s right 10 dessert centric eateries in a 6 square block radius!
As long as you’re discussing interesting studies, might we get your thoughts on this little gem related the female enthusiasm for sex to red wine consumption. Also, what is the Female Sexual Function Index?
At one point during “Drunk Enough to Say ‘I Love You’?”, Caryl Churchill’s caustic allegory currently on-stage at the Walking Fish Theater, one character discovers an ability to control the fates of others. He suddenly declares, “God must have so much fun!”
I understand that your shows and parties are also fundraisers to help you in your running battle with the owner of Albert’s on Grant Avenue in the Northeast, where you had been operating the first successful gay nightspot in the Northeast until Albert Buoncristiano locked you out in a rent dispute. I sympathize with your plight and understand the frustration and anger you feel at how he has treated you. I would, however, like to offer a suggestion at this point…
Quince Productions is hitting hard once again with a double feature of sorts of Just Say Love and Beirut. Lucky enough to catch them both in one night, directors Daniel Student and Rich Rubin take the audience on a pleasant trip.
For 35 years, Billy Carroll has been doing just that. Moving crowds and telling stories with musical combinations, manipulating energy levels to provide unforgettable nights. He is a DJ that specializes in versatility, and, like a true renaissance man, he refuses to pigeonhole himself. Billy has traveled the world from Philly to LA to China, and his formative years afforded him the unique opportunity to moonlight as a guest DJ at perhaps the birthplace of the true music scene, the legendary Paradise Garage.
I review the glittery-yet-subdued space that is Q Lounge + Kitchen at 13th and Locust. I am pleased to report that not only were my assumptions proven correct, the new owners have dramatically improved the restaurant they inherited.
A 6+ year relationship ended early last year, and recently i’ve moved toward becoming “official” with one person after spending a year on my own, exploring, etc….She’s very sweet and we get along great and we have a mutual friend whom i have always been very friendly/flirtatious, but nothing has ever happened. Lately they go out on weekends and talk about me…. I’m just wondering if this is dangerous territory for me, despite the potential awesomeness that could (and most definitely would) ensue. If this turns threesome-y, I want to know potential dangers, etc…I don’t need to do ANYTHING to make it happen, I’m asking you basically if you were me what would you do?
As a DJ, I very rarely go out to listen to other DJs. Some might call me jaded. They’re probably right. But, no matter what social anxieties dog me, I always make it an effort to hear Eddie Elias. Simultaneously dark and uplifting, DJ Eddie Elias is a unique force in New York’s dance music scene. He’s been gracing Philadelphia with his unique flavor for just about a year at Voyeur, the city’s most upfront nightlife experience, with largest dancefloor and best sound in the city, hands down.
Is there an update to the rule of how many dates you should go on before having sex with someone? I don’t just ask to be funny- it’s really easy to mess up and hook up too quickly or to waste a ton of time. Is there a magic number that will keep you safely between a short-term hookup and the friend zone?
There is systemic problem of minimizing females in movies in favor of a male-centric and male-oriented model of filmmaking. And it’s not just in the slasher flicks, shoot ’em ups and the dumb frat comedies. It’s even kids movies.
With over 120 feature films, short films, parties, panels, programs and other miscellaneous events to choose from over the next two weeks, planning your Philadelphia QFest itinerary can sometimes be a daunting task. In an effort to help your ticket-buying decisions, I have listed five particularly exciting screenings below, featuring some of the year’s most acclaimed gay-themed films. These five are NOT TO BE MISSED!
Kelly Burkhardt is the Managing Director of TLA Video, Programmer for QFest 2010 as well as a local film maker of such films as Tremble and Spark. She has been working with Qfest since 2003 and has a true love of film. How better to give PhillyGayCalendar a rundown of the best films for the ladies for the 2010 QFest Film Festival
It was in 1979 that Ed Hermance moved Giovanni’s Room bookstore from a building on Spruce Street where the Kimmel Center sits now to its current digs at 12th and Pine. Woody’s, one of the oldest gay bars operating under the same name in the city, opened the next year, and from those seeds, a regional Mecca grew.
I saw this documentary about people who think they’re in love with objects. This one woman even married the Eiffel Tower. Are these people serious? Do they just want attention? And what do you say to those who say that allowing gay marriage will let people like this marry their furniture or cars? Isn’t this proof they’re right?
How I spent Philadelphia Gay Pride 2010.
It’s a big weekend for pride, and our collective pot is filled to brimming with festivities to choose from. For your Arts & Entertainment pleasure, Alejandro humbly submits these two must-see events that feature the work of local members of the LGBT community and also raise funds for charitable causes.
My friend just got engaged to someone I think he should break up with. All the times I’ve hung out with them, this guy’s given me the creeps. I think he’s weird and not very nice and a total step backwards for him. I never said anything about it to him when they were just dating. But now that it’s so serious, I feel like I HAVE to do something. How do I bring this up to him? If this goes badly and they have to divorce, I would feel terrible to have just stood by and let it happen.
Interested in your take on this article: Teenage kicks: Is internet porn creating a damaged generation? With just a few clicks of a mouse, modern teenagers have easy access to hardcore and often violent pornography. But are we raising a damaged generation as a consequence?
I’m a lesbian who having an affair with a married woman. She says she loves her husband as a friend but she’s never been really attracted to him. We’ve only been involved a short amount of time and she’s only ever been known as a heterosexual, so she’s not ready to throw everything away for me yet. And that’s fine with me too: I don’t need a serious relationship now either. But I do want to keep seeing her and I want to keep it quiet. I know you don’t approve of deceit, but you have to have some knowledge about dating in secret. What do I do and not do to keep this under wraps until we have a solid plan about what we want?
With more openly gay role model these days, is diva worship still relevant? Also writer Michael Montlack tackles the subject with his new book.
Lady Gaga and Cyndia Lauper do a makeover on a shocked fan. A harried receptionist at the American Sperm Professionals of America accidently drinks some of her company’s product. And then there’s the latest installment of the outrageously popular Gaga Vlog hosted by Lady Bling Bling and her associate, Focus.
Most of the Best Actress winners in the past decade have walked away with a failed relationship. Is this a curse?
May the best woman win! With five drag queens left in the competition, the time is ripe to add some RuPaul’s Drag Race recaps to your calendar. And this week, there was no lack of ripe fruit on the runway, as Ru introduced her squirrelfriends to the ‘mos of Stonewall Riots past.
Friendship as much as love of music is the glue that binds the singers in PGMC to one another and to the organization. It’s quite fitting, then, that next month, we will present a concert that focuses on how that glue works – and what happens when someone comes unstuck.
I have a dilemma that seems silly even to me. I’ve been dating the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen. No, she really, really is. Her personality is also really great. She’s sweet and smart and thoughtful. I’m totally smitten. I don’t know how I landed her, but we’ve been seeing each other for about 2 months since we met through friends at a party. But as much as people envy my luck at having such arm candy, it’s kind of hell. Everyone in the world is competition now. She gets hit on constantly, by both women and men, even right in front of me. She’s good about it and politely shoos them away. But these people eyeball me like, “who’s THIS piece of crap?” It’s incredibly stressful and I feel as though at any second I might end up in a fight with one of them or dropped for someone more attractive. And I don’t want to seem too clingy or jealous to her, especially not this early. What am I supposed to do?
“I was reading a CNN article on 10 years of Viagra, and they said that prior to the drug, options for ED treatment included ‘penis injections.’ Is that as awful as it sounds? What’s in these things?”
I got on top off him and laid him down as my body language said: ‘I understand the freak in you, now please take me and don’t go slow.’ Beaming with confidence and a boner to match, he ripped open a Trojan. Round one was finally in commencement – underwear helmet and all.
Like many, I was trying to find something different to do on this Valentine’s Day. So my girlfriend and I went to a WWE Raw wrestling match at Wachovia Center. Not everything new one does has to involve infidelities, group sex, latex and mingled fluids.
About 3 years ago, I noticed this red bump on the head of my dick. It didn’t hurt or itch. It actually looked like a little pimple. I went to the doctor eventually. It came back that I had “HSV2” … they told me it was the genital herpes virus. I was kind of freaked out, but mostly I was confused. I didn’t know what that really meant or what was going to happen to me.
A successful palate cleansing gives you the required distance from your former lover and sets the tone for the next few dates. After all, nobody wants the imprint of their ex’s dick as the last impression of somebody hitting the spot down there.
Do you find yourself snacking or going back to your bad eating habits? Have you skipped a day or two or week at the gym? Have you not gotten 8 hours of sleep every night like you said you would? People fail because they want things and they want them now.
This cupcake bakery made a splash from the day it opened last fall, transforming a nondescript hole-in-the-wall bakery into an explosion of pink and French Provincial.
I get that the event is, in essence, our nation’s annual holiday of Straight Man Fest, even though absolutely everyone watches it. We all eat wings, let out particularly stinky farts and yell at our flat screens. I dig it. But this year’s ads had an unmistakable pattern of trying to empower straight men (through shopping) that struck me as surprising. I had no idea the boys around me were feeling so castrated.
Eliminate processed foods, find out your BMR, limit salt intake, restore your body with the “good stuff and drink water .
I remember my first time hearing about Adam4Adam. I was a sophomore in college and as naïve as Rose Nylund. I didn’t know a single thing about the internet fucking “dating” culture and if I did I would’ve exited stage left – way left.
“My girlfriend and I have been dating for over a year and a half. We live together and have a great relationship. The problem is our sex life, which was great early on but has fizzled in the last 10 months. The main problem is her really low sex drive and it has become a major issue in our relationship. We never have sex more than once a week but the dry-spells have been lasting over a month more recently. I didn’t get fat, I didn’t get any worse looking, I didn’t stop treating her well, and I think our relationship in general has gotten a lot stronger over the last 10 months. I know her stress level is high but the low libido has been difficult for me to adapt to. I struggle to talk about this with her because although we DO discuss the lack of intimacy, everytime I bring up the subject, I feel like I put too much pressure on and make the situation even worse. I’ve found myself getting irritable and more on-edge with her because I want to have sex more often so I would do anything to help the situation improve. She’s only 26, Timaree… what the hell should I do?”
Follow their misadventures, feel their growing pains, float a mile in their loafers. Make friends with American Mary.
Judge Dan Anders currently sits as a Court of Common Pleas Judge. He recently talked to Get REAL about his experiences in law, politics and the LGBT community.
“I know you’re not like the Ambassador to Gay or anything, but maybe you have some insights: why do gay boys think they can grab women and sexually harass them and it’s ok because they’re gay? I have a few different gay guy friends who do this. We go out and they grab my boob in the midst of conversation, trying to be funny. Or they spank my ass as I walk by. It would be outrageous if a straight guy did it, but since they’re gay I’m supposed to be ok? What is up with that?”
There you have it; Lady Gaga in a nutshell. She’s fluent in Hitchcock, enjoys the phallus, keeps her double-entendres as subtle as a nine-iron applied directly to the forehead, is explicitly aware of herself and her perversion(s), and … she’s just like everybody else.
Is Tiger Woods destroying marriage, or is he doing what marriage is meant for?
Tony was born into an athletic family with a sports star father and equally able-bodied uncles and cousins. After college, Tony moved to Philadelphia and came out.
There’s nothing quite like a national awards show to remind me about the beautiful, liberal bubble of reason I inhabit. After a night that I only knew about in retrospect, America is evidently appalled by the semi quasi sorta- lewd performance of American Idol alum, Adam Lambert.
I don’t have to feel awkward or bad about being myself.
“I’ve had something weird happen a couple times recently. After my fiance and I have had sex, I started crying uncontrollably. It makes no sense! It was great sex! There was no pain. And I’ve never been raped or abused. It freaked me out and so my fiance was really worried. What is going on?”
I don’t believe you ever really get over an eating disorder and I constantly have to be careful… even today
In less than a week, we could witness yet another historic event in a year that has been packed with them: the first U.S. state to affirm gay marriage via popular vote.
Seems I can’t turn around without hearing news about a new hot party, event, club, exhibit, or activity. It seems that our local impresarios, promoters, and culturati must have heard all that grumbling about how tired the scene in Philadelphia had gotten and all at once decided that it was time to Do Something About It.
Awkward kids huddled together in gym class, their destiny determined by the order in which they’re drafted to a team. Non-athletic, flimsy boys die a little deep down inside every time a girl is picked before them. Where stereotypes and cliques are the ruling order, every terror of adolescence is played out in a game of grade school dodgeball.
Since June 2007, the Get REAL Project has been telling the stories of young gay, bisexual and transgender men in Philly. While continuing that mission, what follows is one in an occasional series of interviews with respected leaders in the LGBT community. Dr. Winn is a physician at Jefferson University and at Mazzoni Center and offered his perspective on some issues that affect our health.
The word voyeur can mean a few things: a peeping Tom, an observer of sensational or sexual subjects, and now Voyeur means Philly’s hottest Gayborhood destination! It will replace Pure as our favorite dance-the-night-away-spot. This is keeping with the many changes and additions going on in the Gayborhood!
In all of the articles you’ve written that I’ve read you’ve never shown any concern with the effect all this graphic sex talk has on kids. I see that your site says it’s for adults only, but you’re part of an overall system of in-your-face sexuality that I see and hear every day. What do you have to say to us parents who have the responsibility to protect our kids?
Timaree answers: “So what’s the deal with Caster Semenya, the runner who is undergoing gender tests? Why would it possibly take so long to establish if she’s actually a she? Can’t a quick look up the skirt settle this?”
Do you recall those golden years when the gay community was all one big happy family, united in pride and support for one another? Neither do I.
People come up to me all the time and say, “I work out every day for at LEAST and hour or more. I feel like I do cardio and weights for hours on end, why isn’t this weight coming off.” Find out my answers!
Local gay bookstore owner talks about fundraising efforts to keep the place open.
I felt like a hypocrite. I felt ashamed. How am I gonna be an HIV educator, teach someone about safer sex, tell them to use condoms, and then not do it myself? What’s the point in working here if I can’t practice what I preach?
If you are like me and adore summer you might need things to look forward to after Labor Day comes to pass. John Caputo, Mr. Gay Philadelphia 2008 and two business partners are already promising us something that will “bump up” the fun this fall. They have taken over Bump at 13th & Locust and plan to revitalize it for all of Philly’s cocktail sippers.
Looking for someone I can talk to on the phone about random things…just how our day was… Someone that I can walk down South Street with, go shopping, go out to eat, not be sexual with each other and both be satisfied…
The following tips will help you take your body a step closer in the right direction to making it look better. Whether you are getting ready for summer, want to stay in shape year round, or want to shape your body up for a special event (think Boys of Summer 2009!)… the following information should be a staple in your healthy lifestyle.
The 2009 World Outgames just wrapped up in Copenhagen. Among the international bevy of athletes flocking to the Danish capital was Ray Boyd, a Philadelphia rower (as well as an accomplished swimmer, runner, cyclist, triathlete, surfer) and Fins Aquatics teammate of mine.
What’s the reality in the search for aphrodisiacs? Are there really substances that can rev up a dead or dying engine? Has the search stopped since science discovered Viagra and Cialis?
Part of TLA Releasing’s Guilty Pleasures, Schoolboy Crush is a visually pleasing look into a Japanese all-boys’ school. After a messy break-up, Aoi hires a young prostitute, Sora, to “comfort” him. Soon, the biology teacher finds Sora in his classes at the all-male prep school.
You’ve got to help me settle a question: a super gross question. When is it necessary for a woman to douche? I’ve heard it’s not something to do on the regular, but I’ve done it a few times when I felt the so-called ‘less than fresh’ feeling. My girlfriend was saying that they wouldn’t be available in stores if they weren’t being commonly used. So what’s the deal?
Another tide has rolled in, bringing with it a slew of new barbecue places in Center City itself: Q Tequila and BBQ in the former Philadelphia Fish & Co. space in Old City, Devil’s Alley on Chestnut near Rittenhouse Square, and now Smokin’ Betty’s, the stylish new restaurant right in the Gayborhood itself.
Our own Jessica Smith reviews some of the great movies from QFest 2009. Plus she will be at the movies reviewing them as the week goes on, so check back often
Question: Bisexuals? What does this have to do with lesbians? Or gays for that matter? The gateway sexual preference? The thing is that homosexuals don’t get to choose, bisexuals do. Thus, did the author of this letter enjoy the taste of semen when she goes down on her girlfriend? Protect yourself. Several times over. The diseases these bisexual men and women pass are large scale.
I’ve been dating a girl who’s bisexual for almost two months now. I’m crazy about her, everything’s clicking, and a few days ago, we officially declared ourselves exclusive. Only problem is we haven’t exactly discussed any “ground rules” – if there are any to be made – covering her bisexuality. I know it goes well beyond some experimental phase and that she’ll always be very attracted to women. I’m okay with that and I certainly wouldn’t want to limit her or deprive her of something that she innately desires, and that I could never physically provide for her myself. But at the same time, I’ve never been in a relationship where other people are fair game, and I have no idea how I’d react to such a situation. Part of me says, hey, it’s just chicks, and that’s always hot, and the other says, um, why can’t I be enough? It’s a tough situation to hash out on my own. Care to help a brother out?
Of course, most of us are disappointed with the California Supreme Court’s ruling on the Proposition 8 case. Instead, we should be energized, because the California Supreme Court actually did us a favor: It handed the issue of marriage equality back to us so we can educate our fellow Americans.
I’m a cute, professional gay man in my late 20s, suddenly single after a two year long relationship. The problem was my boyfriend refused to come out, claiming that he wasn’t gay: that he was straight but just into me. That was fine enough for a long time because I loved him and wanted to be with him, but it became a big problem eventually because I already came out a decade ago and have no interest in hanging around the closet door waiting forever for him to come join me on the outside. I also let it slide because he’s Arab and wanted to respect the cultural differences but it wore on me and eventually I had to give him an ultimatum: be real about our relationship or split. We know how that conversation turned out. Was I wrong? Should I have been more understanding? I miss him and am horny as all get out but the random hook up scene is not making me feel any better.
Fifty teams. Three sports. One weekend. This Memorial Day weekend 2009, the City of Brotherly Love Softball League will host the Liberty Bell Classic; the Falcons Soccer Club will host [yes, another] Liberty Bell Classic tournament; and the Fins Aquatics Club will host Come Out and Swim, its 9th international swim meet.
This past Sunday saw Twisted Life kick off the summer party season with “One Big F&%$in Deck Party” presented by Twisted Life and hosted by Gage Kris. In case you weren’t there, I’ve compiled a handy listicle of some of the highlights.
If you have been out in the Philadelphia gay nightlife scene, you know Natasha Hulme. She has been bartending and hosting fabulous events for years, and she has some of the best stories that you will ever hear about Philadelphia nightlife.
The contests for District Attorney and City Controller are the headline races this time around, and there are also elections for Common Pleas and Municipal Court judges. There are mere days left before the May 19 primary, but that’s still enough time to bring yourself up to speed on what’s at stake.
Brought to you by the charmingly off-hinge imaginations of some of Philly’s Dumpsta Players and featuring work by local artists, Regeneration presents re-imaginings and re-purposed inventions from illustrative typography to ornate wig art.
“I can’t do it anymore: have sex with my partner, that is. When we first got together 8 years ago he wasn’t a health nut or anything, but he was normal weight and very attractive to me. A few years into dating, he started to let himself go: eating too much and never getting any exercise. Three years ago when it became legal here in New Jersey, we had a civil union and since we’ve been married he’s gained probably another 50 pounds. Not only am I not attracted to him anymore but the sex has gone downhill too. He can’t get erections as easily, they don’t stay hard and he’s lazy about how we do it. It’s just not worth it to me anymore. I refuse to fake interest. If he doesn’t care about his appearance, what else can I do?”
I love tennis. It has long been the only sport I can endure to watch on television. Growing up, quite out of character, I welcomed NBC’s mid-summer preemption of “Days of our Lives” in lieu of Wimbledon – an exchange of one sweaty drama for another. In 1993, I was 16, Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf won Wimbledon, and I was going to marry Steffi while having an affair with Pete.
Way back in January when the year was young and everything was new again (again), I answered the call of a rainbow tweet, and the months since have seen my name skyrocket from relative obscurity to supreme upper-tier obscurity, relatively. I’m speaking, of course, of my ongoing tenure as a columnist for PhillyGayCalendar.
If you haven’t been down East Passyunk Avenue lately, you probably are unaware of a quiet revolution under way in South Philly. Under the noses of the old Italian families who have defined the character of this part of the area, the old neighborhood has gotten more multiethnic, more diverse, and maybe even just a bit more upscale.
I was guest at an event on Easter called 101 Temptation. It was hosted by none other than PhillyGayCalendar and NightLifeGay.
It takes quite a lot to get me to battle the seething breeders of South Street, especially on a weekend, but Rich Rubin makes it all worth while.
“Laughing my ass off” has a whole new meaning.
“The girth of my penis is just four inches, so I cannot wear a condom. So I am not able to do safe sex. What should I do?”
With the financial collapse, it isn’t a huge surprise to see people start to leave for more stable positions. But rarely will you see a socially-conscious banker leave the industry to sing about peace. Yes, peace. The last thing most people find on the floors of the New York Stock Exchange.
Reasons why gay culture should not fade away when we still need it. For if that happens, where will future gay generations turn to when they go looking for who they are and where they belong?
For some reason when ever I think of that name the song Young American by David Bowie, but that’s a personal issue. The Ugly American [formerly La Vigna] is out of the way so you won’t just wonder by the place when you’re down town shopping or out bar hopping on a Saturday night.
I’ve head the name 12th Air Command so many times in the years I’ve been wondering Philadelphia. Everyone has something to say about the place. I’ve mostly heard horror stories about it. I was excited to go there having built up this huge idea of what the place was based on hear say
I’ve been with my girlfriend for a little over a year and we get along great. She’s really smart and cool and is an incredibly talented designer and seamstress. I’m constantly blown away by how creative and thoughtful she is. Sounds perfect, right? Except our sex life is awful. She wants it the exact same – every single time. What can I do?”
I descend on 17th and Chancellor at 10:30 looking either ridiculously ferocious or ferociously ridiculous, in a pin-striped fedora and a pair of oversized silver-colored frames that would make even Sir Elton John revolve in his hairpiece. Find out what happens next
Camac Martini Bar is a beautiful little spot located in the heart of Philly’s Gayborhood. The front of the building is a little bit misleading, from the appearance of the dark glass windows you might think it was a classic Philly dive, but when you walk in the door you’re immediately greeted by the glorious smell of brick oven Pizza and scented candles.
I went to Matthew Izzo’s official opening party, two weeks ago for March First Friday. I normally would apologize for the delay but Matthew seems to constantly evolve; thus everyday is an opening. The new space is bigger, warmer. It boasts a wide, wooden, retail floor on the ground level, with a seemingly vintage wood and glass display case, while the stairway boasts an inviting, colorful assembly of vintage art.
I’m a female and just started being in a relationship with a girl for the first time and I’m trying to figure out what is appropriate and what is not. The problem is my girlfriend is hanging out with a girl she briefly saw while we were in our “open” relationship phase. They go to the gym together, go to dinner, run all the time, etc. And this girl was heartbroken after my girlfriend told her she had to break it off with her because of her commitment to me. Now my girlfriend insists we all 3 go on runs together and hang out. I’m not comfortable with this because I get the vibe from the girl that she is still interested in my girlfriend. I don’t know what to do because my girlfriend claims she doesn’t like her in that way and that it’s strictly a platonic relationship. What should I so?
I am constantly amazed by kids who are aware of their sexuality and have the courage to come out at an early age. Society isn’t always as thrilled and accepting. Each year there are between 115,000 and 640,000 homeless and runaway LGBTQ youth in this country.
Spinning for well over 30 years, DJ Reenie Kane has helped shape what we know now as gay nightlife. An out lesbian with a partner (the beautiful and widely-loved Adele) of just as many years, Reenie has been making both gay and straight people dance with an eclectic mix and a music catalog that rivals just about anyone in the world.
Two words: mind blowing. Bangkok Love Story brought tears to my eyes while keeping me on the edge of my seat. The story moved at a perfect pace although it sometimes felt like the characters were going through an unlikely series of unfortunate events.
This past Oscar Sunday, Rittenhouse Square played host to The Red Carpet Oscar Party, decidedly not a mere walk through the park! The event was the brainchild of Desiree Hines and Mark Dahl, both of Traverse Arts Project, and both fixtures of everything fun and theatrical in Philly.
If you are into senseless gore and gratuitous nudity, then this is definitely the film for you. Writer and director Ryan Nicholson boasts some of the most bizarre murders ever filmed.
Like just about everyone else visiting this site, I believe gay and lesbian couples should enjoy the same rights, privileges, and protections straight couples get when they marry. But…
I have a weird question and I don’t know if anyone can really answer it. After years of being heavy… no, really, I was fat…I’ve turned my life around and gotten in shape. A nutritionist, 5 times a week at the gym and a lot of sweat later, I’ve lost 110 pounds. I’m now lean and living an entirely new life… and finding myself unprepared for the attention I get from men. Even though I’m 29 I’ve never really dated and I don’t know how to respond to flirting. It’s also hard not to resent these guys too because I know that 110 pounds ago they wouldn’t have given me the time of day. How do I make up for all those years of not being in the dating pool with everyone else?
I was out with some of my boys the other night and I see a hottie I really want to talk to. I make my way over, start chatting him up and then my friend comes over and cock blocks me. He starts talking to the hottie about some guy I used to date to make it sound like I have a boyfriend and then starts hitting on my hottie. It’s one thing if he’s trying to compete with me over the same boy but he doesn’t even end up asking for his number anyway. It’s like he just wants to stop me from getting it. If I mention something about this to him he acts like it’s my problem and I need to step up my game. What’s his deal?
A month into my very scientific investigatory Thursday Night probe, what have I learned? – That people who go out on Thursday Night are generally in a jovial mood and want to have a good time. Insightful? No. But quite true! Anyhow, this time around I’ve headed to our city’s popular lesbian club, Sisters.
Catherine and her girlfriend opened Teri’s last fall as a tribute to her mother Teri, who bought a former hosiery shop in the Italian Market’s then – dying lower reaches in 1994 with the dream of opening a new restaurant there.
“I love to bailar” is my Latina spitfire sister’s go-to party mantra. And she would feel right at home at Woody’s Latin Night, not just because she’d be partying with her big hermano, but because this weekly Thursday extravaganza boasts one of the loudest, sweatiest, and hip-swaying-est dance parties around.
“The event blends three main aspects of the Fins: swimming, social, and community service.” True dat. I joined the team just a year ago, and it was instant love. I can now run around a speedo in the middle of winter without blasting my heat up or freaking out my cats.
Being positive taught me to just let it all go and become who I really am. I had to accept myself before anyone else would. Now I’m in a pretty good place.
I’m a bisexual woman and I’ve been with my girlfriend for three months. I love her and everything, problem is I don’t love going down on her. She thinks it’s emotional distance, but I really don’t like the way she tastes. She has great hygiene, so that isn’t the problem. How do I tell her without her getting offended?
My second stop on the Thursday Night express also happened to fall on the very night of chic chick Cyoni’s birthday extravaganza. Bearing in mind both the general upper-crust atmosphere of Bump and the sartorial responsibility inherent in attending such a glossy occasion, I switched out my usual ratty jeans/second-hand tee uniform to attend the soiree in a subtly-hued stretch button-down paired with charcoal grey slacks and honest-to-gawd dress shoes.
We have seen an African-American man become elected into Office. Yet besides this revolutionary fact and far more importantly we now have won a president promising something novel: hope, peace and a return to those ideals that made America the Union it is today.
When the Southeast PA gay potluck group the Chester Country Brunch Bunch announced their 20th Anniversary Celebration, which will be happening in West Chester , PA on January 31, they announced that they hired the seasoned stand-up comic Nick Tarr to perform at it.
Black is not only beautiful, it’s also brilliant. But that’s not the message many educated, intelligent black men hear from the popular media. Just ask Gregory Walker, a cultural and civic activist who lives in Washington Square West.
Ever the intrepid busybody and accomplished drinking buddy, I’ve made it my mission to investigate Philly’s Thursday Night lineup, and report back to you the what where when and how much of the evening’s offerings. I do this in humble service to the community, and not because I like to go out and get hosed on weeknights.
My ex and I split up about 2 and a half months ago after a year and a half of being together. We broke up because he wasn’t taking our relationship seriously enough for me, canceling plans at the last minute and not being attentive. He is only the third person I’ve ever slept with. I know he’s seeing a couple people casually now but I haven’t been seeing anyone and I’m getting lonely. The last couple times I went out to the bars I really wanted to call him and see if he wanted to just hook up. My friends have talked me out of it, but I don’t think it’s a bad idea because I know it’ll be good and I feel safe with him and it’ll keep me satisfied until I find someone new. Who’s right?”
The truth is, I’m okay with messing with guys but I am not okay with being judged.
So from what I hear many are expecting much from 2009, whether it’s love, endeavors, or my favorite, FASHION! Word on the street is that many, notably both young and old, are coming OUT the closet now more than ever. Whether this statement is gossip or not, you can answer this hypothesis by simply glancing at your surroundings
So it’s 2009. Congratulations if you’ve made it this far in this climate and were still able to celebrate even if the merriment had to be somewhat fabricated. Personally, I felt none of it real or not. The gooey Christmas feelings and the New Year’s Eve elation of festivity were all completely wasted on me.
We call these vows “New Year’s resolutions.” The fact, however, is that most of these turn out to be New Year’s irresolutions – testaments to the triumph of habit over will.
It is not necessary for careful observation to see that no two persons use the exact makeup brand or application. Deanne breaks it all down for you.
Mr. Philadelphia Leather 2008 talks with PGC about his year as a titleholder.
His sound is pretty unmistakable, and chances are you have danced to his music whether you knew it or not. He has made an indelible mark on Philly. I had the chance to catch up with one of the most humble, professional DJs in our fine city just recently.
If your Halloween sucked, that’s too bad ’cause I had the best time ever spending Halloween with Elvira, “Mistress of the Dark”.
Leisha Hailey has a new band. Okay I’ll cut you some slack if you don’t know who Leisha Hailey is. You probably know her as “Alice Pieszecki on the L Word. If you don’t know what the L Word is, you may have to give back your toaster.
The gay, lesbian and trans community have more aid financially for education than ever before. Philadelphia’s rainbow community is no stranger to this with the Sapphire Fund’s Tony Sparacino Memorial scholarship going to Johnny Davenport
Roisin Murphy started her relationship with former boyfriend Mark Brydon by asking what is now a legendary question for her fans: “Do you like my tight sweater? See how it fits my body.” This quote would go on to be the name of the first album created by Moloko, the band that the two created after first meeting.
I normally try to stay away from what everyone else is discussing in the fashion industry, but did you hear about the “colorless catwalk”? And if you haven’t…what rock have you been under.
This past Thursday we were treated to what many people have come to call “The Sarah Palin Show.” I don’t know how many people tuned in to actually watch the debate, as much as see the Governor of Alaska instead of her SNL double! I treated the debate like Class A-entertainment. I dragged the dining table into the living room, had a friend over for dinner then whipped up the most American meal I could think of: steak, potatoes, Caesar salad and cheap, red wine from California.
Have you ever heard the story of the Two-Headed Folk Monster? Does it sound scary? Well, it’s not scary, but maybe you should be scared if you don’t have tickets to The Tin Angel on October 11th to see the dynamic duo Steph Hayes and Adam Brodsky.
One of one of my favorite DJs, and one of the cutest too is New York’s Joe Hickerson who has been steadily making a name for himself first in NYC and more recently across the US and Canada and will be here at Pure on September 25.
Friends and loved ones gathered Friday night at the Mazzoni Center in Philadelphia to honor the late Tony Sparacino. The tribute included the Sapphire Fund’s presentation of the First Annual Tony Sparacino Memorial Scholarship to student John Davenport, and the unveiling of a plague dedicating a procedure room in the Mazzoni Center in Tony’s memory.
The “In Bed With Butch” host talks about his provocative new calendar and the shows new season.
I’m open to broadening my horizons. I don’t cling to labels. It’s just about being open and taking care of yourself.
Thom’s Table reviews, the Prime Rib and Rouge near Rittenhouse and the new Bonefish Grill in Newtown Square
A lot of guys think of the top as the “man” – it’s this whole macho thing. I don’t buy it.
If you went to Pure on Friday August 15th for The Boys of Summer party you probably got to play with a nice pair…a nice pair of beach balls that is!
In this little space, I’m going to share my music-related thoughts here and there, from the DJ’s perspective. This week is Lady Gaga, Sundae hits the spot, the hood, and my Top Ten
The father of pop art and celebrity fame, for just being famous, would have been 80 on August 6 but his legend and legacy and his art lives on and on all over the world. There is perhaps no other source, quoted so often than Warhol.
I wasn’t aware of this but apparently every composer has a trunk (or foot locker if you will) of tunes.
The region’s sexiest men will be galloping through Philly at the Boys of Summer Party – what are you going to wear?
On Friday August 8th if you’re not lounging pool side or living it up in Rehoboth take yourself to Philadelphia’s Second Annual Mr Gay Philadelphia Competition.
The current play Richard Rubin is directing is “Niagara Falls,” by Victor Bumbalo.Niagara Falls uniquely depicts the story of a gay man home to surprise his sister on her wedding day. The brother’s visit is the catalyst of self realization for each character.
Bruce Hayes, the the first American Olympic gold medalist to come out of the closet as a judge at Mr Gay Philadelphia
Mario Lopez talked on his attitude about being hit on by gay men told People magazine in their annual most eligible bachelor issue, “Single & Sexy Men of 2008”
Gary talks to PhillyGayCalendar as he prepares to return to Philly.
Gay marriage in California is causing a lot of people to Go West!
Jessica reviews many of the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival movies
Chris and Don is a documentary that’s playing nationally at theaters everywhere.
I decided to hire Georgi of GP Productionz to design my attire. The ambitious, youthful, multi-talented, bachelorette now reigning in the heart of Philadelphia has provided her clientele with customized designs on just about every piece of clothing you could think of.
Once the lowly men’s footwear was relegated only to the beach, the shower room and the college dormitory and the college campus, now flip-flops have captured the imagination of designers across the industry.
At this year’s Equality Forum National Politics Panel, an attractive young man stood up and announced that he found it easier to be a gay man around Republicans than to be a Republican around the gay community. This is unfortunate.
Ladies and gents this is definitely something to get excited about! Fashion, photography, and music will be exhibited while the city hottest DJs will be spinning that House, Latin, Dance, and World-Rhythms tunes we oh so love
Color me colorful when it comes to clothing–and many other things in my life. I mean who wishes for a dull life. That’s what the world’s menswear designers are saying these days. Sure you’ll still wear a lot of basic black but you can always spruce it up with one, two or several colors any time.
Sometimes we just don’t know what to with our hair so we buy some! Hair weaving…its rewards and repercussions.
Pride isn’t just happening here in Philadelphia, check out some of the pride celebrations in LA, SF, Denver, Disney, Atlanta and more.
Pearl opens on Rittenhouse Square; Happy Anniversary to Beau Monde; and Stella Blu offers late night option.
It was hard convincing him I was for real. I had to keep telling him… “it’s not that I don’t want you, it’s that I don’t want it.”
I’m fascinated by achievements, especially when you’re at the top of your game. And, my guilty pleasure, too, is that I’m also fascinated by a certain type of celebrity. So I’ve had my attention towards the resurgence of interest in Rudolf Nureyev, one of the most flamboyant queers in the history of ballet.
Separation between church and state….really? are you sure?
Philly has a wealth of upstanding Queer DJ citizens. The good news is they all spin rather frequently in our fair city and around the way. You can catch a bevy of them at Emerge on May 2nd at Transit Nightclub and for a tasty bit of Emerge click here: Emerge Promo.
Interested in a little theatre to culture up your life but aren’t sure what to go see? I have a little sneak preview of some of the local plays you will want to check out.
Last night was an emotional victory no matter how you cut it. Pennsylvanians spoke and they spoke loudly. Pennsylvanians spoke not simply in choosing Clinton by a 10 point spread as the Democratic presidential candidate, but also by their demonstrated commitment to the political process. Clinton and Obama aren’t the only ones who are tired; we too survived seven long weeks of campaigning!
Ms. Chelsea Clinton made a second appearance in Philadelphia’s Gayborhood to urge the gay public to support her mother in today’s Primary election. I am just tired. These campaigns have become so Machiavellian. Allegations thrown left, conspiracy theories thrown right. And it is because we are tired of the current administration and we are fighting passionately.
After the last eight years, America desperately needs its next Great president. And fortunately, we will have the opportunity to vote for him. We can not afford to waste this opportunity in history. I will be voting for Barack Obama.
Thom talks about the GLBT film festival in New hope as well as the Lammy’s
This week is National LGBT Health Awareness Week. SafeGuards encourages our community to Take Charge of Your Health!
Hillary Clinton said to end her presidential campaign now would be as if “Rocky Balboa had gotten halfway up those art museum steps and said, ‘Well, I guess that’s about far enough.'” She went on to say, “[w]hen it comes to finishing a fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up.”
I was lucky enough to be treated to a personal appearance by Chelsea Clinton at Woody’s. Chelsea Clinton spoke out of convincingly personal experience, out of love for mother, candidate and country.
Two local forward thinking lesbian religious leaders will be honored by The Shalom Center at The Third Annual Prophetic Voices Celebration Sunday, April 6, 2008.
I think the current Democratic Party presidential race is proving that our democratic process does work. It is working wonderfully. Voters have been given opportunities to give their voice and to make decisions. The real key is that multiple points of view are being heard. Isn’t is a goal of a democracy to give a voice to as many people as possible? Shouldn’t we be embracing this thrilling, albeit complicated, process?
Well if you’re anything like me, you probably have an array of clothes you don’t even recognize, even though you just looked at them last year. Are you unsure of what colors you should wear and what’s still “in” and what’s not? Needless to say, below are a few tips to help you coordinate your wardrobe for Spring 2008!
Cheeks Studio in Upper Darby, PA was set up quainter than a boutique gay bed and breakfast on a Sunday morning for Steph Hayes’ live recording of her CD “Mostly True Stories.”
With the April 22nd Primaries quickly approaching, Pennsylvania is buzzing. While I’ll be featuring columns on Hillary Clinton leading up to the primaries, regardless of who becomes our president, I am ecstatic that the apathy shrouding this country for the last two terms is lifting and people are engaged in politics again. People care again. People are passionate again.
The place is out of this world. It is positioned perfectly on the corner of 12th and Sansom St. Its large glass windows wrap around the room looking out onto both Sansom and 12th giving a perfect perch for people watching from any corner of the room.
I told him I couldn’t do it that night – I was just too drunk and too sick – but he wasn’t stopping…I was trying to fight him off, but he was a strong guy and I was too weak.
I can’t remember the first time I saw Steph Hayes perform. As a matter of fact, I’ve sadly heard more swooning lesbians talk about her than I’ve seen her live.
Manny Lehman is the central part of many gay community members’ dance memories. He’s spun everywhere from Montreal to Miami; New York to LA. He’s headlined almost every circuit party on the planet. Matthew Ray of HX Philadelphia chatted with Manny from his dreary office in the cold Gayborhood while Manny lounged in his cabin on an Atlantis cruise. Lucky bastard!
What gets to me is gay men talking about trans folks like they’re not “real” men, or “real” women… I’m just like them. I’m not in-between or unfinished or confused…I’m just me.
As I look at the stamp mark on my hand from the door guy at North Star Bar I hope it never comes off. I want it as a reminder. If you were wondering to yourself last night, March 4, 2008, “Where are all the sexy bitches?” I can tell you Gay Philly they were at the MEN show.
Pietra is a gifted woman with many talents that range from designing clothes and home decor to make-up artistry and even photography. She holds a degree from Drexel University in Photography and is currently in graduate school for Creative Writing. For over five years Pietra has provided us with stylish, colorful, and mood changing designs at prices that will even make my wallet happy.
My dad was kinda your typical hard-ass conservative father. It’s all about family, getting married, having kids…about being a man. I guess that’s what he meant when he made fun of the gay guys he worked with—they weren’t real men.
Perhaps you think that you are the only Rockband playing, Bowie sing-a-long, Bob Mould loving or even rap loving LGBT citizen in the city. So maybe you still use that hair brush as a microphone belting out tunes in front of the mirror as you get dressed for yet another night out of repetitive club music.
But still, I was hearing it from everywhere else, boys like girls and girls like boys and that’s how it is. I started thinking to myself, maybe if I like boys, maybe I should have been born a girl.
Review of ‘Sara Felder’s JUNE BRIDE’
Kelly Burkhardt, the head programmer of the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, on the making of her new film Tremble and Spark
Whether you realized it or not purchases and interests in knock-off apparel and accessories are through the roof. Are knock-offs a good thing?
I’ve never been very good at this. Seems like I can’t figure out dating very well, but I can figure out how to have sex. I can figure out how to go meet in a club and hang out for an hour or two, then go fuck, but that’s not really doing it for me anymore
The Misanthrope is the play to see right now. The actors are magnificent and the clothing handsome and rich.
At that time, my whole world was my family and my church. When they talked about gay people it was always them, or those people. It was just assumed that no one in our world could be gay.
“Jeffrey” recently asked in an email: “Where should I go to get tested, and how are things going to go when I go in. I’ve been sexually active for about 3 years now. I guess I am really scared to go in. I just want to know what are the best places to go..
A recent disappointing incident prompted me to discuss the subject of this column. When you check your closet it’s time to make sure you have everything you need, and not just the basics. I can help!
Review of the new play ‘Age of Arousal’ inspired by The Odd Women by George Gissing. Directed by Blanka Zizka
Even if you’re not ready to be out to anyone else yet, just having that one friend know is a big help.
I don’t want to get sick; I don’t want to die. But it seems like I can’t control myself sometimes.
This time of year there is the usual array of brand new CDs and MP3’s of holiday songs of various styles that are released to the public. But there is one Christmas CD that should be interest to the gay community in Philly–the Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chor
If you’re not familiar with First Person Arts, they are a non profit group that helps foster real life stories into various genres for presentation. They regularly hold First Person Slams, in which individuals tell a 5 minute story.
Philly Roller Girls derby championship event, The Warrior Cup, was a little slice of heaven, wrapped in generous dollops of brute force, bounteous proportions of finesses and grace and a shitload of a great-ass time. It has something for everyone. You c
For those who don’t know – now you do, I am a Libra and unfortunately for you we are very observant. I’m sick and tired of folks making fashion additions or omissions without following ALL the necessary protocols of that change. Chile, if you’re going to
My gay family keeps it real for me.
A look at the pop culture image of gay men helping out straight people.
Get REAL Philly is a community-based project coordinated by Philadelphia Health Management Corporation and Mazzoni Center.
I don’t know about you, but my Gay-Dar evaluation is usually way off or, in most cases, simply dead wrong, especially among women! Here are some tips!
Do’s and Don’t of Halloween
Review of Sixty Years with Bruhs and Gean
Review of the new play, Dog Sees God
Some basic Do’s and Don’ts of fashion you all should learn, and commit to memeory
Five local DJs debate on how computer technology has affected the art of DJing
Fusion fitness is spreading across the nation and has landed here in Philadelphia. I checked out a few places that offer fusion training
I take a look at some of the great and not so great events at the Gay and Lesbian Fringe Festival
So I figured I’m probably the only person actually excited about returning to school this semester. I have my own reasons for my enthusiasm, but of course I had a little assistance from my back-toschool shopping.
Dan is currently in an improv group, The Ninjas
Longtime Philly improv troupe takes on the young female celebs who tramp it up for publicity.
It’s time to ditch those so not sexy sweat and itchy jamies, because I’m giving you tips on how to bring sexy back…into your home that is.
In writing a final review of the entire Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, I kept thinking to kick it off I’d start with… “I’m too sexy for this film festival.” But would anyone get it?
One of the challenges facing public health is making HIV prevention relevant to gay men today. As public attention and resources have shifted to other populations, communities of gay men that had been touted as early successes in the war on HIV, have begu
A spicy interview with the founder and CEO of the upcoming line, Heterophobiq, Carmen N. Williams.
Jessica reviews many of the Gay and Lesbian Film Festival movies
The 5th Annual Philadelphia Gay and Lesbian Theatre Festival host a myriad of plays. Here are some reviews of ‘Theatre District’ and ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’
Jaime Morales is one of the newest Personal Trainers at the 12 th Street Gym and I have asked him to write up an article for triathlon preparation.
Gay sports week is coming soon, watch for details and get involved!
Spring is slowly, so slowly coming up on us. I am excited about warmer weather and am already loving the longer days! It is nice to finish my day at the gym and still have sunlight to run my puppy.
Size matters in weight training but INTENSITY is key
A plan for re-inventing yourself in 2007!
Maintaining or beginning your exercise program during the holiday season is always a challenge. Here are some great tips to get started!
Some of us will spend a few too many hours on a plane, train, or automobile traveling for the holidays starting with Thanksgiving. Use that time to exercise that butt!
Last week, I attended a behind the scenes preview of the play Jeffrey and I immediately liked it. I had the pleasure of seeing the actors read through lines and the excitement of the crew. Seeing the full on production was very satisfying and exceeded my expectations.
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