Gay New Yorkers flock to Fire Island, an LGBTQ+ resort destination, during the summer. Many take residency in second homes or time shares there, and visitors make joyful memories they won’t forget until next time…
Three years before the 1969 Stonewall Inn riot in Manhattan, there was watershed moment in the LGBTQ+ rights movement at a diner in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. On a hot August night in 1966, a riot at Compton’s Cafeteria…
Across central Florida, the 49 victims killed and dozens more survivors of the massacre at a gay-friendly nightclub were remembered with the unveiling of a 44-foot (13.4-meter) -wide mural, the ringing of church bells and an overnight vigil at…
The Birdcage was my introduction to drag. I was just a kid when my family and I serendipitously stumbled upon the movie on television one night, and the opening scene entranced me. Six beautiful ladies were dancing and singing…
Amateur photographer Alan Light had no idea he was capturing a special moment in LGBTQ history when he brought along his camera to various Pride festivals in the late ’80s and early ’90s. “It never occurred to me at the…
The world wasn’t ready for this much gayness in 1999. Erick McCormack, who played Will Truman on Will & Grace, spilled some very interesting tea at The Magic of Will & Grace panel in New York City, which took place earlier this week…
Although camp is difficult to define, it probably doesn’t need much description. Ever since 1956 – when former teenage drag queen Little Richard began performing his tribute to anal sex, “Tutti Frutti”, while wearing a six-inch pompadour…
Copyright © 2024 | compassQ Media