Tag: gay culture

While the term “daddy” has gotten more and more popular in the gay community over the past several years, therapist Matthew Dempsey’s latest YouTube video explores what actually makes a gay “daddy?” “Growing up gay, most of us didn’t have parents who shared that identity and could guide us through that experience as we stepped into adulthood. Enter the gay daddy,” Dempsey shares in the intro to the video. “Whether for friendship or romance, we can easily find ourselves drawn...

Bathhouses and gay saunas are maligned as ‘seedy’ but are actually relaxing, friendly and much needed, argues José Rivera When I first read that London’s biggest gay sauna, Chariots, would be demolished to make way for a luxury hotel, I was really disappointed. Yet another historical gay safe haven would be lost to the gentrification sweeping major urban areas like London, Manhattan and the closer Brooklyn locales, Amsterdam, and beyond. As Dazed put so eloquently ‘assimilation is definitely not liberation’. The stigma...

56 Dean Street Chemsex Lead David Stuart: 'Stop stigmatizing people who engage in chemsex and help them share their stories' It’s not a good idea to be angry as you stand before a packed room about to deliver a speech. But there I was. It was the recent book launch event for James Wharton’s Something for the Weekend, where the former British soldier bravely shares his chemsex story. And so before taking the microphone as the chemsex lead at London’s 56 Dean...