I sometimes ponder which better represents NYC.

Occasionally, we are blessed with afternoon thunderstorms in the summer, yielding a beautiful view after they have passed over; having washe...

Monday and Tuesday will be fun for local car owners as film crews take over chunks of parking spaces on three main north/south arteries. On...

By Tony Adams I appreciate the scuttled efforts of those who tried to support my run for gaytravel.com's travel guru but had trouble v...

By West Village Bill I've been marveling at all of the guys I see wearing a plain white T-shirt out and about this summer. Is it mostl...

Sometimes you see something and are left scratching-your-head-speechless.  Do you respond with snark? Sarcasm? Sympathy? Or just plain silen...

If you wear a leopard coat in a black and white picture, that's all the audience will look at.  -- Brooklyn's Shelley Winters

Hey QNYers, One more week of this! (See my earlier post for details about this.) It looks like I'm in second place, but a few dozen...

by cscfon At a diner in Chelsea that is popular with and usually filled with gays. Woman One: So it turns out he’s straight AND he has ...

By Charlie Vázquez One of the joys of networking in the queer people-of-color writer’s world is unearthing new talents from the fringe—wheth...

Baad Lamb Cooking Brussels sprouts, red and golden beets, ginger, garlic, scallions, shallots, turmeric, and a habanero

By Tony Adams Mike is in the running to become "Queer of the Year". I really can't think of anyone else more suited for this...

From Tony Adams Dear readers, I'm in the running for a six month gig as the new "Gay Travel Guru" for Gaytravel.com. I...

These triathletes get up early! Five-thirty Sunday morning, and many New Yorkers are just getting home, or heading to a 24 hour diner, or e...

by Maurice Michaane The cast and set of "The Roaring 20's" - The 14th Annual Doctor's Fund Benefit for the Elmer A. Lindsa...

Perry Brass hangs out in Southhampton, 1976. Note: Mark Spitz mustache . Sometime in the mid-60s and into the 1970s, Sunday became “the” ga...

By West Village Bill This Tuesday,  Rufus Wainwright  will be performing a benefit concert for Celebrate Brooklyn! at the Prospect Park Ban...

By now I'm sure most everyone has either seen or heard about the Improv Everywhere's "Princess Leia adventure" on the NYC ...

Normally, the idea of apartment hunting in New York is enough to put most people all the way to Crazy Town.  The hunt for Monica and Rachel...

By Tony Adams I bring you this report not only because it describes a possible hate crime but because of the fascinating comments it acq...

Back during Pride Week I posted a piece announcing the inauguration of the Phoenix’s queer live music night and the success of its kickoff. ...

By West Village Bill Shubert Alley was overtaken by pooches and kitties yesterday during the 12th annual  Broadway Barks . BB is an event ...

So this is what she was referring to when she issued the invitation to " come up and see me sometime. " The Upper West Side mansio...

by baad lamb 1975. Pop radio. Year of the Captain and Tennille and the Three Degrees. The meteoric rise of Barry Manilow, and the beginnin...

Green Lantern, DC Comics Overheard this afternoon as I was walking the wall at Midtown Comics in Times Square, picking up my weekly stash: ...

Check out the ordinarily more reserved  New York Social Diary for the most delicious photos anywhere of the annual drag invasion on Fire Is...

by cscfon Three true Jersey Shore girls on the E train. (They are all overly tanned and vividly bleached. Each is showing midriff and their...

Now where did we put that igloo? Ahhhhhh, that feels better.

As you probably know, New York City is experiencing its second heatwave of the season (not counting the three July days we had in April).  I...

By West Village Bill I left Park Slope on Saturday, and I'm now in the West Village. Woot! Man, did the move itself ever suck. I...

The summer parade of free events has arrived. Just get yourself outside, and live music and dancing and party-crowds will be impossible to ...

Last year, just after the opening of the newly gentrified High Line, my very first exploration there gave me this tantalizing peek onto the...

Tuesday night Bill and I attended a SAG advance screening of   The Kids are All Right .  Written by Lisa Cholodenko (who also directed) and ...

by cscfon At a restaurant in Hells Kitchen during lunch. Two effeminate men chatting. Man One: If you had told me that at 35 I’d be bur...

When they saw what he was wearing under his kilt! (more after the jump)

Our group, the champion Gotham Knights rugby team in front of us, some flaggers behind us, and that crazy gyrating kid in the assless pants ...

By Father Tony I love these people. You can hear the kindness and wisdom in their voices. They are the real Catholics. The ones who have ...

By Tony Adams Perfect way to end NYC Pride: The Pier Dance. The final event of a festive weekend. Just waking up now, in time to catch a f...

Necessity is indeed the mother of invention—and in this case reinvention—as a queer East Village monument launches itself into a new zone of...

The recent weather having turned my brain to tapioca, I hadn't bothered to check the battery on my camera before getting to the March.  ...

By Tony Adams This year's PRIDE , the official magazine of InterPride , is available all over the city. It contains an article by you...

Original Marchers in front of the Stonewall Inn, June 27, 2010 (l to r:) Bob Spiegel, Roberto Camp, Rick Landman, Jim Fouratt, Mark Segal...

By Tony Adams Part of the proceeds go to support Marriage Equality New York: New York, NY – (6/7/10) The Fugitive Kind (Michael Page, A...

Joe (the blond on the left) was a friend of mine through the freelance makeup and hair stylists industry. I was glad to run into him on Chri...

By Tony Adams You are invited to march with the queer New York bloggers, writers and digital activists in the 2010 NYC Pride March on Sunda...

By Tony Adams Last night was delightful! We are pleased to invite you and a guest to join us as our guests on Thursday, June 24th at 8:0...

Perry Brass and his sister Nancy at Riis Park, early 70s.  My first summer in my new apartment in the East Village, 1967, I learned how ...

If you're in the mood to dance with hot furry men after the Tom of Finland show (and who wouldn't be?), come to the Canal Room tonig...

TOM OF FINLAND : Untitled (preliminary drawing), undated; graphite on paper (left) RICHARD PRINCE : Untitled (original), 2009; original ill...