I don’t know about you, but my hometown city is a place I saw surprisingly little of despite living there for 18 years. My wasted youth was spent mostly beside a swimming pool, in an …
Read the full story »With the Berlinale (Berlin International Film Festival) happening this week in Berlin, the city is pretty much abuzz with celebrities and movie stars. This year’s movie festival features several big-name LGBT themed movies, the most famous being James Franco’s movie Interior. Leather Bar.
Franco is arguably the darling favorite for LGBT movie fans. His work as an actor often pushes gender boundaries many other modern actors avoid. Personally, I think that’s the attraction: his willingness to embrace gay themes.
Plenty of people have already discussed his work as an artist at length. Some pieces are quite controversial (like this jar of air) but there’s no denying his strange perspective on creative themes.
During the Berlinale, while Franco is briefly in town, he’s got an exhibit up at the Peres Projects gallery. Something worth checking out between all the movie screenings I’m attending.
GAY TOWN explores a variety of themes that are central to Franco’s artistic practice, mainly issues related to adolescence, public and private persona, stereotypes and other societal concerns such as society’s preoccupation with celebrity. Franco created most of the works for GAY TOWN over the past two years, making many of the works in hotel rooms, makeshift studios and other temporary locations whilst completing other projects, mainly motion pictures. Franco makes reference to several of his motion picture work and related projects in parts of the installations and other works on view in GAY TOWN.
I don’t know about you, but my hometown city is a place I saw surprisingly little of despite living there for 18 years. My wasted youth was spent mostly beside a swimming pool, in an …
I’m determined to travel more in 2013 and here are some of the places I plan to visit, some traditional gay travel destinations, some less so.
London, England
London is oh-so-gay and it’s also one of my …
I spent a weekend at the Sheraton airport hotel in Frankfurt recently. As a group of food & travel bloggers, we had the opportunity to sample some of the culinary creations from the hotel. With …
With a population of ten million in the city proper, and over twenty million when taking the surrounding metropolitan area into account, Seoul is one of Asia’s largest cities and it has a thriving nightlife …
Columbus, Ohio is one of those surprisingly über-gay cities in the American midwest. Being a massive university town with plenty of diversity, it shouldn’t come as a surprise at how open-minded and diverse the city …
In September I visited Toronto, Canada for the very first time. I didn’t know what to expect before I landed there, but as it turns out, the city is much more exciting than I could’ve …
While visiting family in Ohio this summer, I took a slight detour and opted to visit Cleveland for a few nights. With the help and support of Cleveland Tourism, I was able to enjoy a …
This week I had the chance to experience a new initiative by Westin hotels: New Balance Gear Lending. The promotion lets hotel guests rent workout clothing during their stay. You can rent running clothes and …
This is a guest interview with 30Traveler, a 30-something New Zealander who writes an anonymous travel blog. She has lived in New Zealand, Brighton (UK) and New York, is bisexual, and has been in a …
By Sophie Needelman
The Bay Area is known as a gay haven, teaming with liberal residents, colorful cultural gems, and enough food to keep you overeating for days. This dynamic region is home to the notoriously …
Orbitz’s Gay Travel version of their website is currently running a contest (Nov 1-30). I recently won a Facebook travel contest last month, so you can be sure I’m going to enter this one as …
Nearly a year after the passage of same-sex marriage in New York, the city is encouraging travel to the five boroughs over a two-month period beginning in June. The City is poised to welcome even …
I escaped Rimini for the day this past weekend and headed to Bologna to check out their annual LGBT Pride. Was a nice escape and great to see so many people out for it. I’ll …
