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Sir Ian McKellen parties with shirtless twunks in London

The 85-year-old actor attended an event with 10 DJs and a darkroom - we have the details.

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Destinations: When in Bangkok

Bangkok, Thailand, has been called everything from the Venice of the East to the Capital of Sin, but only recently has it been raising eyebrows as a cosmopolitan destination. The mantra "anything goes," once applied only to the city's naughty nightlife, now extends to everything from shopping and art to hotels and spas. Add a karma-driven culture and relaxed views on sexuality and gender and you have a gay mecca in the making.

GLAAD media award equalpride nominations

Arts & Entertainment

Advocate, Out, Plus nominated for 2025 GLAAD Media Awards alongside biggest queer films and TV of the year

The Advocate's reporters Ryan Adamczeski and Christopher Wiggins also scored nominations for Outstanding Print Article and Outstanding Online Journalism Article.

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Global Gayborhoods: Berlin

Some cities, like Tokyo dazzle. Others, like Delhi sweep you through their cultural undercurrents until you surface back home, gasping and delighted. Berlin, more than any, seduces -- and there is a massive queer ex-pat community to prove it!

Camp Value

Destinations: When in Bangkok

On Being Gay by the Strait

Viennas Got Balls

I encountered a city determined to maintain its rich cultural heritage all the while forging the foundation for a modern European center, fostering young artists, and rolling out the red carpet for tourists, especially LGBT visitors.

The Story of Jim French and Colt

Jim French died June 16, but we're glad to have his story in his own words, the way he would want it.

Leatherman Eric Paul Leue Is Out to Abolish Sexual Shame

The director for sexual health and advocacy at Kink.com is a kinky leatherman from Germany, ready to (consensually) beat the internalized shame out of America.

How ACT UP Shook the Straight Power Structure

Sarah Schulman has written the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and AIDS activism in the U.S.

Advocate, Out, Plus nominated for 2025 GLAAD Media Awards alongside biggest queer films and TV of the year

The Advocate's reporters Ryan Adamczeski and Christopher Wiggins also scored nominations for Outstanding Print Article and Outstanding Online Journalism Article.

The Stories Behind 4 Gay New Orleans Landmarks

Just in time for Southern Decadence, historian Frank Perez tells us the tales of vibrant gay New Orleans.

Love In Putin's Russia

Life for gays and lesbians in Russia is clandestine and convoluted. But the country is inscrutable to the West, so it may be impossible to seek civil rights advances like anything we'd imagine. Photographs by Davide Monteleone

PHOTOS: The Book of Butch

The creator of the online magazine Mascular, Vincent Keith, takes that same title for a new book of his photography.

Russian Artist Slava Mogutin Backs Olympics Boycott

The artist has asylum in the United States, and he calls the Winter Olympics Putin's "pet project and propaganda vehicle."

The Bay Area Body

"Body, Body, Bodies" presents 27 artists who take on the body for your pleasure and edification in a new exhibit in San Francisco produced by the Queer Cultural Center for the National Queer Arts Festival 2014.

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darkroom

The 85-year-old actor attended an event with 10 DJs and a darkroom - we have the details.

Some cities, like Tokyo dazzle. Others, like Delhi sweep you through their cultural undercurrents until you surface back home, gasping and delighted. Berlin, more than any, seduces -- and there is a massive queer ex-pat community to prove it!

I encountered a city determined to maintain its rich cultural heritage all the while forging the foundation for a modern European center, fostering young artists, and rolling out the red carpet for tourists, especially LGBT visitors.

Jim French died June 16, but we're glad to have his story in his own words, the way he would want it.

The director for sexual health and advocacy at Kink.com is a kinky leatherman from Germany, ready to (consensually) beat the internalized shame out of America.

Sarah Schulman has written the most comprehensive political history ever assembled of ACT UP and AIDS activism in the U.S.

The Advocate's reporters Ryan Adamczeski and Christopher Wiggins also scored nominations for Outstanding Print Article and Outstanding Online Journalism Article.

Just in time for Southern Decadence, historian Frank Perez tells us the tales of vibrant gay New Orleans.

Life for gays and lesbians in Russia is clandestine and convoluted. But the country is inscrutable to the West, so it may be impossible to seek civil rights advances like anything we'd imagine. Photographs by Davide Monteleone

The creator of the online magazine Mascular, Vincent Keith, takes that same title for a new book of his photography.

The artist has asylum in the United States, and he calls the Winter Olympics Putin's "pet project and propaganda vehicle."

"Body, Body, Bodies" presents 27 artists who take on the body for your pleasure and edification in a new exhibit in San Francisco produced by the Queer Cultural Center for the National Queer Arts Festival 2014.