The 2022 summer music scene will seem practically normal this year after a long, lonely, pandemic-induced drought. You’ll find plenty of opportunities to enjoy some live tunes close to home this year, but why not [...]
Dancing on our own. Listening to "Chromatica" on repeat. Watching "Drag Race." Who doesn't love those gay days? But riding on all the biggest roller coasters under a flurry of colored light with all queers [...]
Small acts of resistance and community building are what have made LGBTQ+ history, and while that history may not be as well documented as we would like, you can still get out your map and [...]
As travel rebounds and some international borders open to US residents — especially, or exclusively, if you’re fully vaccinated — you’ll need to pack more than a suitcase to ensure safe trips during the pandemic’s [...]
By Bill Malcolm If you love architecture, then a visit to Chicago is a must. The amazing array of varied wonderful architecture is incredible (see picture). You can take a walking or boat tour with [...]
BY AJ TRAGER AND BTL STAFF For LGBT and allied Michiganders, access to beautiful and historic vacation destinations is often only a few hours away. From in-state sights -- Traverse City, Saugatuck and Lansing -- [...]
There aren't many places in the United States that suggest romance more palpably than the jewel of southeastern lowcountry, Charleston. This beautifully preserved bastion of pre-Colonial commerce lies at the confluence of the Ashley and [...]
By Shelby Clark Petkus The Ninth Gay Games will be coming to the Great Lakes this August with the Cleveland Gay Games. Considered the "LGBT Olympics," the event first began in 1982 when Dr. Tom [...]
By Jerome Stuart Nichols Each summer for the past 32 years, queers, freaks and friends from around the world converge on downtown Chicago to shop, eat and dance during the Midwest's largest street fair, Market [...]
By Andrew Collins One of the most historic and beloved public food markets in the country West Side Market is in the heart of Cleveland's LGBT-popular Ohio City neighborhood. Photo by Andrew Collins The host [...]
By Andrew Collins The historic downtown of Niagara-on-the-Lake, a charming Wine Country community 90 minutes southwest of Toronto by car. Photo: Andrew Collins The historic downtown of Niagara-on-the-Lake, a charming Wine Country community 90 [...]
By Andrew Collins Jonathan Stalcup leads one of his fascinating architectural tours of historic Savannah. Photo: Andrew Collins. The dignified city that General James Oglethorpe put on the map in 1733 has weathered the [...]
By Andrew Collins Out Of Town Summer may signal the end of high season at New England's beach resorts, but September and October are the perfect months for visiting the region's largest metropolis, Boston, along [...]
by Andrew Collins Out Of Town It's amazing how easily you can feel completely removed from crowds, urbanity and the busy pace of modern life, even when you're within 50 miles of several major cities. [...]
Ash Cave is a recess cave in the Hocking Hills. Photo: Chris Azzopardi The first time I navigated the windy roads through the Hocking Hills, the surrealness of it all - Ohio, really? - [...]
By Carol Tanis Co-owner Sally Howard calls the popular Campit getaway "a Saugatuck summer home without the Saugatuck prices." Located in Fennville, just south of Saugatuck, the outdoor resort offers a variety of accommodations: tent, [...]
by Andrew Collins Out of Town Beach vacations come in many forms, especially in the context of gay and lesbian travel. Years ago, LGBT travelers seeking summer fun at the shore tended to focus on [...]
by Andrew Collins Out of Town The unofficial gay and lesbian summer beach resort of the Mid-Atlantic states, charming Rehoboth Beach is situated along a sweeping, sandy stretch of the Delaware shore that's within a [...]
by Andrew Collins Out of Town Once one of the country's preeminent industrial powerhouses, with a population of nearly 700,000, Pittsburgh http://www.visitpittsburgh.com has - like many similar American cities - changed considerably over the past [...]
By Andrew Collins Out of Town Few cities have grown faster and more dramatically in the past half century than Phoenix (pop. 1.4 million), which currently ranks as the sixth-largest city in America. It's also [...]
By Andrew Collins The view from the Lava Lava Beach Club cottages, on the Big Island's Kohala Coast. Photo: Andrew Collins Out of Town Roughly twice the size of the rest of Hawaii's islands [...]
by Andrew Collins Out of Town In 2000, Vermont became the first state to legally sanction civil unions for same-sex couples, and in 2009, the state extended full marriage rights to gays and lesbians. Although [...]
By Andrew Collins Out of Town I spent 15 days touring Alaska with a friend earlier this summer, my second extended trip to the country's largest state in the past three years. My previous trip [...]
