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THE GREAT GAY BEYOND
With so many great techno clubs these days run by Georgians, it’s no wonder something extra special is up in Tbilisi. Makuna and Mimi send us a blow-by-blow of their night out, from disco-and-drag dive Success Bar to Eau de Cologne, a darkroom-happy queer rave. Despite Georgia’s homophobic government, they say the early morning hours still get hot and faggy. Talk about a gay agenda…
Read moreFrom its Cruising Village to its douching station, poppers yoga workshops and “pink pussy VIP” lounge, Whole Festival has become a crazed barometer of queer culture in Europe. Plus, of course, a weekend of sick music at a charming East German strip mine-cum watering hole. We thought we’d ask a few people ourselves, ‘Hey babe, how’s your Whole??’
Read moreOldyungmayn serves up a peak summer mix that’s slutty and fast. The Egyptian-Palestinian deejay is on a quick rise in Berlin, where he was recently granted gay asylum thanks to his bassy, freak-forward techno sets…
Read moreK8 Hardy makes an art form of lesbian swagger. Whether dressing up as different camp characters in her videos and performances or painting a massive Maxi pad, the ex-riot grrrl and downtown NYC dyke diva serves horny humor and chutzpah. And as a born-and-bred Texan, she takes her boots very seriously. Lovers, be prepared to do the same!
Read moreAndrej Dubravsky’s sexy paintings of big guys getting it on recently pissed off the right-wing, fat-shaming Slovakian Minister of Culture, so he’s doubled down and scaled them up. We caught him after a long, sweaty day of work in the garden, where he was busy feeding his cocks and hens…
Read moreIt was a super-gay night under the stars at a Communist-era tango school in one of Warsaw’s darkest and cruisiest palace parks. Faggy Polish cinephile Karol Radzizewski screened a selection of underground queer films and early 2000s studio porn and then Kem Collective turned up the heat on the dancefloor, where we raged until the sun came up…
Read moreHow do you say ‘power vers’ in Arabic? Just ask Marwan Kaabour, creator of the ‘Queer Arab Glossary’…
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