Gay Cruise in Hawaii
Originally published in The New York Times on 4/5/2010. Read the original here.
RSVP Cruises, a gay-friendly cruise company, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a new sailing expedition to Hawaii.
The eight-day cruise launches from Honolulu on Oct. 30, on the Pride of America operated by Norwegian Cruise Line. The ship has 10 restaurants, multiple piano [...]
You Can Buy Gaydar at the Apple Store
Written with Brian Joseph Ferree and originally published in Details‘ March 2010 issue. Read it online here.
Jared had just locked himself out of his Brooklyn apartment. As he stood on the street waiting for his landlord, he launched a new app on his iPhone. Minutes later, the blond-haired, blue-eyed grad student was pants-down in a [...]
The Problem With Pro-Choice Men
Originally published on The Daily Beast on 2/5/2010. Read it in its entirety, with comments, here.
This weekend, Tim Tebow, the Florida Gators quarterback, will star in a contentious anti-abortion Super Bowl ad sponsored by the conservative Christian group, Focus on the Family. The ad comes just over a week after another man, Scott Roeder, was [...]
A Bus Tour of Gay Hollywood
Originally published in The New York Times on 2/2/2010. Read the original here.
Sure, everyone knows that West Hollywood is a gay-friendly neighborhood, with rainbow flags flying from restaurants and bars. But did you also know that the phrase “lipstick lesbian” originated at Peanuts, a “femme” bar on Santa Monica Boulevard? Or that there was [...]
I’m a Hustla
Originally published in The Advocate on 10/14/2009. Read the article in its entirety, with comments, here.
On October 11 the Hustlaball returned to New York, the city where it began. Now in its 12th year, the Hustlaball, according to its organizers, “brings the world of porn stars, hustlers, hookers, pimps, streetwalkers, flesh-peddlers, and other scandalous sorts [...]
Missing the Point
Originally published in The New York Post. 4/2/2009. Read the original (w/ comments) here.
FOR seven years, I read Missed Connections on Craigslist where would-be star-crossed lovers leave messages for those they’d been too shy to talk to. Living in a city as big as New York, I figured love could bump into me at any [...]
