Tag: pride

Beloved queer crooner Spencer Day is a busy guy, no more so than during pride month when he’ll performing in clubs from LA to SF to NYC. “My birthday happens to fall on the Stonewall anniversary, which is fun,” he told GayCities in early June. Catch him in San Francisco at Feinstein’s at the Nikko June 14-15. And then he’ll perform at Rockwell Table & Stage Sunday night June 16. The shows will include material from his recent album “Angel City” and a...

Whether you want to play it subtle and classy or fabulous and loud this June, Macy’s Pride Collection is overflowing with accessories to help you step out in style. Come July, you’ll want to keep these lovely pieces handy for weekends, summer outings, and celebrations of all kinds. Queerty picked out a few of our faves. Go ahead, express yourself. The entire Pride watch collection is out of this world, but this Gucci number is beyond. It’s got Swiss three-hand Ronda quartz...

Pride season is officially here & the phenomenal DJ duo of Toy Armada & DJ GRIND are celebrating the best way they know how; with ferocious new beats. Their brand new podcast Just Say Yes features classic summer anthems alongside some dance classics that they’ve reimagined in their own unique style. They feature their new single with Brian Kent, “Just Say Yes,” plus their latest remixes for Katy Perry, Ariana Grande, Sia...

Welcome to Seattle, the scruffy city of the Pacific Northwest that knows how to stay warm by generating body heat. And who’s this enjoying fetish night at CC Attle’s? Why, it’s hunky muscle dad Terry Miller, accompanied by an acclaimed local Aquarius named Tom. Let’s see what these party pros are cooking up for pride. TERRY: Completely homosexual!TOM: Total faggotry. Queer supremacy. TERRY: Queer Bar! And Nark Bar for queer pride. That’s at Grim’s bar, it’s a takeover by Nark. TERRY: Don’t do the...

Proud citizens of Delaware mingled with the most diverse of its community, as the “first state” kicked off its first official Pride Parade last weekend! Kicking off the Pride festival in Dover DE, this was truly a landmark event for the state of Delaware, which is home to the extremely LGBT friendly Rehoboth Beach. As this year is the 50th anniversary of the landmark Stonewall riots, pride organizers decided to move the festival from August to June this year,...

Over the weekend, Los Angeles scene dove into summer with the return of Summertramp. Celebrating its 9th year of speedo clad debauchery, this brainchild of nightlife maestro Andrés Rigal is like an astroturf oasis in the middle of Downtown LA’s concrete wasteland, kicking off pride season a week before the official parade. The monthly Sunday soiree offered a number of inflatable pools and slides to cool down from the warm rays, hot DJ sets, and even hotter boys & men...

Brenda Howard (left) marching for LGBTQ rights / Image via Facebook & AdvocateYesterday, I posted a story about LGBTQ advocates Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson being honored with statues in New York City. While there was some unnecessary transphobic pushback to the article, there was also a justifiable correction to the post. Namely, I had called the two “the mothers of Pride,” and that’s simply untrue. But who is the real mother of Pride? Well, let me educate myself,...

A trio of straight lads in Beantown is trying to start a Straight Pride Parade. Unsurprisingly, the Internet jumped at the opportunity to nip it in the bud. You know we love a fresh roast, so when Chris Evans chimed in, we were living for every syllable of his tweet.“Wow! Cool initiative, fellas!!” tweeted actor Chris Evans. “Just a thought, instead of ‘Straight Pride’ parade, how about this: The ‘desperately trying to bury our own gay thoughts by being...

Photo by Brianna Mills on UnsplashI’m a 24-year-old Black gay man living in America with the dreams of being a recognized writer. There’s a lot going on there. But as vocal as many of those subsections are (who hasn’t heard of loud and proud black men, gay men, Americans, and writers?), I’ve found myself being silent. Scared of sharing my voice. My light. So this Pride season, I find myself questioning what does...

Two weeks ago the city council of Dublin, California voted 3-2 to reject a proposal to fly a pride flag over city hall during the month of June, Pride month. According to ABC, in response to the vote, Dublin Mayor David Haubert said: Issues were raised during the council meeting in May because residents felt if the rainbow flag were to be flown, so should other flags that identify residents of other subgroups. Residents who attended the meeting posed questions...

Meagan Fitzgerald (left) was proposed to by her now-fiancée Kelly Heath recently and she shared the good news during a live news segment. Screenshot via NBC video.Pride Month is among us and it is a great time to celebrate who you are and know that who you are is enough. This was the message that NBC news anchor Meagan Fitzgerald shared on with June 3rd viewers as she announced that she recently got engaged to her fiancée, Kelly Heath,...

Image via ASOSUnfortunately Their Target Audience Of Fellas Aren’t Feelin’ The Look! Talk about Pride month, right?! Fashion company ASOS, recently released some men’s crop tops and the internet is, of course, not having it! The brand is calling their male crop tops, “moob tubes” and selling them for fifteen dollars as a part of their “reclaimed vintage” line. The design is ultra femme. Being born and raised in the city of Chicago, I’ve actually already seen quite a...

Over the weekend, SoCal kicked off pride month with the Laguna Beach Pride Festival. The laid back nature of this seaside hamlet belies its rich LGBT heritage, most notable for electing the nation’s first openly gay mayor, Robert F. Gentry, in 1982. And while Laguna Pride may not be as big and boisterous as its neighboring Los Angeles Pride, it succeeded on serving up a chill crowd, intimate performances, and a bevy of boys boasting beautiful beach bods. A Laguna local...

In 1995, Billy Bean gave up the game he loved for the man he loved. Playing for the San Diego Padres, the lefty outfielder fell in love while on a road trip to Miami. Given what he felt at the time was a complete antipathy to gay ballplayers (to this day, not one MLB player has come out), he felt he had little choice but to retire at the end of the season to live more openly as a gay...