Houston’s Art Gallery Scene Is Prolific  With Several Gay-owned Spaces Worth Stopping By A leather bar isn’t the first venue I’d expect to serve as classroom for a gay history…

Actress Cherry Jones has played a host of authority figures during her storied career in film, TV, and on the stage: the President of the United States in TV’s 24,…

No matter where she goes, Lea DeLaria can’t escape her past as a convict. Thanks to Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black, which wrapped up its seventh and final season…

Star Trek: Discovery star Wilson Cruz is a trailblazer in LGBTQ representation on TV, stage, and screen, and that’s just part of his amazing career. Having made his first splash…

I’m waiting for a Genie to appear. A California-raised Indian- American, Amed Gurnani is by night a fierce, tall, rubenesque drag queen named Genie with a penchant for horror moviemeets-…

As cool and refreshing as her name implies, Peppermint (www.peppermintonline.com) is having a moment. A longtime fixture in NYC’s drag and LGBTQ nightlife scene, Peppermint (real name: Agnes Moore) went…

Sometimes an actor’s performance is so effective, powerful, and transcendent, it crosses all language barriers. Such is the case with prolific, versatile French actress Isabelle Huppert, who was nominated for…

I’m not sure how “start your engines” translates in Thai, but that’s exactly what I say to myself on the set of Drag Race Thailand. I’m watching a shooting of…

A favorite destination and home to expats, digital nomads, LGBTQs, and Thai Buddhists seeking enlightenment, Chiang Mai straddles the Ping River, juxtaposed against North Thailand’s mountains. While chilled out in…

Street food rules at Taipei’s beloved night markets, including super affordable specialties “coffin bread,” oyster omelets, the aptly named stinky tofu, Frisbee-sized crispy chicken cutlets, and of course, bubble tea.…