Fire Island

Fire Island Pavilion Is Rebuilt And Ready For Another Try! Here's The Dish

The Fire Island Pines' famed Pavilion club burned down in 2011, but after the input of a lot of effort and cash, it's up and dancing again. Tony Fornabaio--the hot NYC gay party promoter who's managing the place--just told me how the Pavilion shall rise like a gay phoenix. Hi, Tony. So the club i ... More >>

Extra Show Added For Liza And Alan Cumming!

Last year in Cherry Grove, Daniel Nardicio presented Alan Cumming and special guest Liza Minnelli in concert, and it became the buzzy event of the whole gay summer. Those two were pretty delectable together. (And there was that Cabaret connection, so seeing them do a cabaret act made "duh" kind of ... More >>

Film Forum's NYC Celebration Contains Multitudes

New York's star moment

I Won Best Writer/Blogger! (Applause, Applause)

It happened at the Odyssey magazine Nightlife Awards at xl on Saturday, with hosts Frankie C and Bianca Del Rio. Of course some other people won things too, and each time, Bianca was quick with the banter. When the Fire Island spot Sip n' Twirl won something, Bianca cracked, "because the other pl ... More >>

Cheyenne Jackson As An Adult Film Star

No, he's not dressed for the Spartacus party in Fire Island. He's dolled up for his part as Mandrew, a hot new porn star, in Broadway's upcoming play The Performers. In the play, tabloid journalist Lee (Daniel Breaker) has come to Las Vegas--home of the Adult Film Awards--to interview his high sch ... More >>

Brooklyn Pour Announces Second Round of Brewers

After announcing 40 brewers a couple weeks ago, Brooklyn Pour has added its second round of brewers, bringing the total so far to 60, already breaking last year's total. The event takes place on Saturday, October 6th, and you can find tickets at the Brooklyn Pour website.

Underwear Photos From Fire Island!

Fire Island is a land of high culture where all the cognoscenti indulge in tony pursuits like underwear parties and cabaret concerts--thank God! And here's proof--some feisty images from Daniel Nardicio's underwear bash at the Ice Palace (which I hosted), plus a fully clothed shot from Nardicio's p ... More >>

Liza In Fire Island! My Inside Report From The Front Row

She was there! Onstage! At the Ice Palace in Cherry Grove, Fire Island, as presented by Daniel Nardicio (above photo, yellow shirt)! Doing two shows! And I hear she got a nice week in Fire Island with her friends, so it was a lovely experience all around. But let's start at the top. On Fri ... More >>

Judy Garland's Last Film Revisited

The 1963 melodrama I Could Go On Singing was given a showing at the IFC Center last week as part of Ira Sachs and Adam Baran's series of monthly events, Queer/Art/Film. And I was stunned to see the film's parallels to Judy's own life. Judy plays a wildly successful singer who goes to London to per ... More >>

Fire Island Update! I Was There!

This past weekend, it seemed like every single person on the island approached me with their own version of what--or who--they think caused last year's fire at the Pines. Whatever theory you plug into--and whether or not you're convinced that the insurance money in escrow will cover the massive rec ... More >>

Joan Rivers Hates Tom Cruise A Lot!

This is from Joan's hilarious new book, I Hate Everyone...Starting With Me: "First of all, he's always got this shit-eating grin on his face, like he just got a note from his managers telling him that Mimi Rogers and Nicole Kidman are extending their confidentiality agreements. "Second, in TV int ... More >>

Live: Lee Ranaldo Plays It Straight At Glasslands

​Lee Ranaldo Glasslands Gallery Saturday, December 17 Better than: Another '90s band playing a '90s album start to finish. There wasn't a whole lot of noise from Lee Ranaldo's new quartet under the cloth clouds at Glasslands on Saturday, but there was plenty of crunch. Removing the art ab ... More >>

New Orleans Greets Me In Style

Battle of New Orleans​ In honor of my trip to New Orleans to promote my book amidst the "Southern Decadence" weekend, Gambit weekly assigned Lauren LaBorde to interview me about my woozy yet stimulating experiences on Bourbon Street as well as on various red carpets around the globe. The resu ... More >>

Nudists Want a Little, Naked Piece of Coney Island

​Hasn't Coney Island seen enough of sorrow, tribulation, and nakedness? Perhaps not. The American Association for Nude Recreation would like Coney Island to have a designated nude beach for reasons including Coney Island's accessibility via mass transit as well as the opportunity to "attract m ... More >>

The Best Art of 2010

Village Voice art critics pick their favorite shows of the year

Was Oak Beach, Long Island, a Serial Killer's Dumping Ground for Murdered Hookers?

Oak Beach: This is going to suck for property values.​Cops continue to investigate the discovery of three bodies and a "set of skeletal remains" found on a stretch of road along Oak Beach in Long Island, dumped out of a car by someone authorities suspect may be a serial killer. As we mentioned ... More >>

Stonewall: Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. July 3, 1969, Vol. XIV, No. 38 Gay Power Comes To Sheridan Square by Lucian Truscott IV Sheridan Square this weekend looked like something from a William Burroughs novel as the sudden specter of "gay power" erected its brazen head and ... More >>

THE WRITE STUFF

A bicentennial tribute to a great American

Clip Job: The Gay Agenda Exposed! In 1966!

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. April 7, 1966, Vol. XI, No. 25 Pop Goes Homosexual By Vivian Gornick Last August there appeared on the cover of the magazine One a photograph of a young man dressed as an ancient Roman warrior in a toga and thonged sandal-shoes; on t ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Concert Writer Speaks!

Talking with the smart Jeff Daniels and plotting our Tonys revenge.

Cher and Chaz Jokes From Bruce Vilanch

"I am Chastity Bono," said funnyman Bruce Vilanch on entering the stage at the Fire Island Dance Festival, which he MC'd. "I'm in transition." The event raised money for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, presenting various dance troupes doing short pieces, interpersed with Vilanch emitting ha-has ... More >>

"Facts of Life" Sweetie Costars with Gay Porn Studs

Meeting Mindy Cohn in Fort Greene. Side trip to Nashville.

We Are All Mary Jo Buttafuoco!

Rob Roth Here's a candid shot of me reading Mary Jo Buttafuoco's new book, Getting It Through My Thick Skull, which I devoured like sour candy! I even adored the subtitle, "Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need To Know."

Clip Job: How Gay Is It To Be Gay?

Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesOctober 11, 1962, Vol. VII, No. 51The Homosexual's LabyrinthBy Stephanie GervisJust how gay is it to be gay?How gay is it to be a sexual oddity, a social pariah, a moral "deviate," a menace to American youth, a lawbreaker, an unemployable, a thre ... More >>

Deconstructing The New Ikea in Red Hük

If they come you will build it

Parties With a Girl Flavor: Dyke Nightlife

Can't dykes all just get along?

Pegging Goes Big: Straight Men Get It In the End

More het guys are discovering the pleasure of bending over

LOVERS’ ISLE

Charles L. Mee creates romance for all stages

Thursday

Bob Kohler, Gay Rights Pioneer, 1926-2007

The Unreality Show

Idol's Carrie channels Christ in Atlantic City. In do-me heels. Get real (like David Hyde Pierce).

Wish You'd Been There

How the boldfaced and the beautiful spent their summer vacations

Gay Until Penetration

Hetero men grapple with being taken for fags

NY Mirror

Your Labor Day Gonna Suck, Too?

Recreating a vacation, while never leaving the city

Digging Clams

A Chowder taste-test reveals it's not all in the cup

One-Handers

Celebrities theatrically pleasure themselves on Broadway

Syphilis Relapse

Cases soar in the city

Post-Straight

How Gay Men Are Remodeling Regular Guys

Still Bearing Witness

Five Years Later, Flight 800 Still Poses Questions

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Music

Libertarian Belle

Gale Norton Rings in an America Where Polluters Police Themselves and Environmentalists Go Extinct

September Mourn

So, How Was Your Summer?

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Search and Recovery

The Kennedy Dialogues

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Mr. Mayor, you are so cute, the way you continually fuck with my schedule!

China in Clinton

Manhattan's Last Great Emporium Addresses the Balance of Trade

The Last Days of Gay Disco

The current disco revival conceals its homo soul