25 Essential Gay Pri Songs: Rollg Stone Edor Picks – Rollg Stone

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• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• HOW TO HAVE THE GAYT SUMMER EVERBY BRETT BERKJUNE 21, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER 20 YEARS TOGETHER, MY BOYIEND ASKED ME TO GAY MARRY HIM THIS SUMMER. WELL, NOT REALLY. WE OFTEN PLAY THIS GAME OF WILL YOU GAY MARRY ME? WHERE ONE OF PROPOS TO THE OTHER SIMPLY TO ELIC A REJECTN. THIS YEAR, HE GOT TO ASK, AND I TOLD HIM I’D DO , BUT ONLY IF I ULD NVCE FERRARI TO LOAN A V-12 GT FOR THE DRIVE TO SOME LOL, LEGAL STATE SO AT LEAST I ULD GET AN ARTICLE OUT OF FOR MY GAY-R LUMN HERE AT VF. “NEVER MD,” HE SAID. “I DON’T KNOW WHY I WANTED TO GAY MARRY YOU THE FIRST PLACE.” BUT ANOTHER YEAR WHOUT MATRIMONY IS NOT GOG TO STOP OM HAVG THE GAYT SUMMER EVER. SO HONOR OF TODAY’S SOLSTICE AND THIS WEEK’S NYC GAY PRIDE FTIVI, I WOULD LIKE TO PRENT THIS PENDIUM OF FIVE PECIALLY FAGGOTY THGS WE WILL BE DOG DURG OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. SCE WE HOMOSEXUALS ARE STYLE LEARS, YOU ALL WILL BE DOG THE THGS THE NEXT FIVE TO TEN YEARS, SO DON’T LGH TOO HARD.MOSS GARNG: OUR HOE UPSTATE, WHERE WE’LL BE SPENDG THE SUMMER, IS NTLED A GROVE OF TALL, SUN-BLOCKG, AND SOIL-ACIDIFYG 100-YEAR-OLD WHE PE TRE. THE TRE ARE WILY REPUTED, BY LOL RINTS, TO BE GOOD FOR NOTHG. BUT THAT’S NOT TE. THEY’RE GREAT FOR PROVIDG VER FOR THE GROWTH OF ALKALE-LOVG MOSS. OF URSE, BEG ENMIC BREERS, OTHER PLANTS LIKE TO SEND THEIR SEEDLGS AND TRAILG ROOTS UP THROUGH THE FUZZY GREEN STUFF, SO ORR TO VELOP—AND ENURAGE FURTHER GROWTH OF—THE GEO RPET YOU SEE HERE, WE HAVE TO SPEND UNTLS HOURS CROUCHED DOWN ON THE GROUND PICKG EVERY OTHER LIVG SPROUT OUT OF OUR MOSS BY S ROOTS. OUR NEIGHBORS THK WE ARE LLECTG ANTS OR WORMS. (THEY ALSO THK WE ARE SANE AND SHOULD JT GET A LAWN.)DRARIUM CONSTCTN: WE HAVE BEEN OBSSED WH MIATURE DRAMAS FOR YEARS NOW—WHO HASN’T? WE’VE PURCHASED LARGE ETANDG ON, SMALL ON ENSED LUCE BOX, AND EVEN ONE THAT FORMS THE BASE OF A LAMP, ALL FEATURG DIVERSE SCEN OF WILDLIFE, GEOLOGIL FORMATNS, AND R WRECKS. BUT A FEW YEARS BACK WE NSTCTED ONE OUT THE YARD WH ONE OF OUR NEPHEWS THAT WAS MORE OF A “LIVG” DRAMA, WH SMALL PLANTS AND CLUMPS OF MOSS CLTERED AROUND A SCENE OF AN DTRIAL WASTELAND (PLETE WH A MIATURE BURNG TRASH BARREL). THIS GAVE THE IA OF CRAFTG SMALL, SELF-NTAED TABLEX VTAGE VR, EACH OF WHICH WOULD FEATURE AN TRIGUG LOTN, ADORABLE BUILDGS, AND LIVE FOLIAGE. OUR THOUGHTS TH FAR: DRIVE-IN MOVIE, FRONTIER VILLAGE, AND HNTED SUMMER CAMP (WH SLASHER’S LAIR/BODY P).MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISPICKLG: I HAVE LONG WANTED TO MAKE PICKL, BUT MY BF AND BFF PUT THE KIBOSH ON . “YOU ARE GAY ENOUGH ALREADY,” THEY TOLD ME. BUT TURNS OUT THEY WERE JT TEMPORARILY OPPOSED, BASED ON MY THEN-TENSE FATUATN WH ONLE CTNS OF A CERTA PATTERN OF 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH TRANSFERWARE (RIDGWAYS PERSIA, IF YOU MT KNOW). SCE THAT HAS E TO AN END (PRETTY MUCH, I STILL BID ON THE OCSNAL PIECE; DON’T TELL THEM!), I’M APPARENTLY NOW ALLOWED TO DULGE THE VEGARED ALCHEMIL ARTS. I WANT TO START WH RADISH AND STRG BEANS. “FE,” THEY SAY. “BUT JT SO YOU DON’T GET ANY IAS, YOU NNOT START MAKG HOMEMA JAM!”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISROSE TRELLISG: ONE DAY A FEW YEARS BACK, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WOULDN’T BE OL TO BUILD SOMETHG? BUT LACKG ANY TOOLS, MATERIALS, SKILLS, SPATIAL-RELATNS TELLIGENCE, OR PLAN, THIS IS WHAT I CREATED: A WOBBLY TRELLIS FOR A WEIRD WILD ROSE BH THAT WAS GROWG THE ONT YARD. (THIS WAS BEFORE DEEPWATER HORIZON, BUT AFTER THERE WILL BE BLOOD, THOUGH NO OIL WELL REFERENCE WAS TEND.) NOW, TWO YEARS LATER, AFTER SCPULO PNG AND GUIDANCE, WE HAVE THIS BREATHTAKG DISPLAY. THE OTHER DAY, I TOLD MY BOYIEND I WANT TO EXPAND THIS STICK NSTCTN—WHICH I LIKE TO THK OF AS A PURE EXAMPLE OF THE ARTS-AND-CRAPS ATHETIC—TO A LOGGIA UNR WHICH WE N PLACE A TABLE. “THAT,” HE SAID, “IS A DISGTG IA.”ROSé CHUGGG: ROSé WE BEGAN S EBACK YEARS AGO, BUT WE ARE TAKG TO NEW LEVELS THIS SUMMER, PURCHASG BY THE SE—STILL AND SPARKLG—AND DRKG BY THE BOTTLE WHENEVER THE SUGGTN ARIS, A SORT OF GAY VERSN OF BROS ICG BROS. THERE IS A PLAN HERE. WE DON’T (JT) WANT TO GET DNK. WE WANT TO GET SO SICK OF THE LIC, LIGHT, MERALLY PK STUFF (OH, ’S JT SO PERFECT THE AFTERNOON, OR WH SOME GRILLED FISH, OR AFTER A SWIM THE LAKE) THAT WE WILL BE FORCED TO START A NEW ONEOPHILLIC TREND. I’M THKG ’S EHER GOG TO BE DRY WHE SANGRIA OR MERLOT SPRZERS.BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.BRETT BERK
• WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY
• GAY SUMMER CAMP PLANNG
• PROVCETOWN GAY GUI EVENTS CALENDAR
• A HAWT GAY PALM SPRGS SUMMER
• MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH
• IS SKYE GAY OR BISEXUAL THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY?

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

Every summer the Uned Stat, the lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr muny together for a monthlong celebratn of love, diversy, acceptance and unashamed self-pri.Here's everythg you need to know about LGBT Pri Month.What is LGBT Pri Month?The month is meant to regnize the sweepg impact that LGBT dividuals, advot and alli have on history the Uned Stat and around the globe, acrdg to the Library of CongrsLorenzo Soler pos for photos on the steps that are vered rabow lors for Pri Month at Frankl D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, June 14, 2019 on Roosevelt Island New York.Drew Angerer/Getty Imag, FILEWhen is ?LGBT Pri Month is celebrated every year June.The month of June was chosen for LGBT Pri Month to memorate the rts held by members of the LGBT muny agast a police raid that took place at the Stonewall Inn New York Cy on June 28, 1969.The so-lled Stonewall rts were a "tippg pot" for the gay liberatn movement the Uned Stat, acrdg to the Library of Congrs.

Army veteran, created the flag 1978 as a new symbol for the gay and lbian polil movement at the suggtn of his iends and lleagu, cludg Harvey Milk, a San Francis cy supervisor and the first openly gay elected official California.

The origal anizers chose this month to pay homage to the Stonewall uprisg June 1969 New York Cy, which helped spark the morn gay rights movement. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police raid the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar New York’s Greenwich Village, and began hlg ctomers outsi. The uprisg beme a talyst for an emergg gay rights movement as anizatns such as the Gay Liberatn Front and the Gay Activists Alliance were formed, moled after the civil rights movement and the women’s rights movement.

HOW TO HAVE THE GAYT SUMMER EVERBY BRETT BERKJUNE 21, 2010SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEAFTER 20 YEARS TOGETHER, MY BOYIEND ASKED ME TO GAY MARRY HIM THIS SUMMER. WELL, NOT REALLY. WE OFTEN PLAY THIS GAME OF WILL YOU GAY MARRY ME? WHERE ONE OF PROPOS TO THE OTHER SIMPLY TO ELIC A REJECTN. THIS YEAR, HE GOT TO ASK, AND I TOLD HIM I’D DO , BUT ONLY IF I ULD NVCE FERRARI TO LOAN A V-12 GT FOR THE DRIVE TO SOME LOL, LEGAL STATE SO AT LEAST I ULD GET AN ARTICLE OUT OF FOR MY GAY-R LUMN HERE AT VF. “NEVER MD,” HE SAID. “I DON’T KNOW WHY I WANTED TO GAY MARRY YOU THE FIRST PLACE.” BUT ANOTHER YEAR WHOUT MATRIMONY IS NOT GOG TO STOP OM HAVG THE GAYT SUMMER EVER. SO HONOR OF TODAY’S SOLSTICE AND THIS WEEK’S NYC GAY PRIDE FTIVI, I WOULD LIKE TO PRENT THIS PENDIUM OF FIVE PECIALLY FAGGOTY THGS WE WILL BE DOG DURG OVER THE NEXT THREE MONTHS. SCE WE HOMOSEXUALS ARE STYLE LEARS, YOU ALL WILL BE DOG THE THGS THE NEXT FIVE TO TEN YEARS, SO DON’T LGH TOO HARD.MOSS GARNG: OUR HOE UPSTATE, WHERE WE’LL BE SPENDG THE SUMMER, IS NTLED A GROVE OF TALL, SUN-BLOCKG, AND SOIL-ACIDIFYG 100-YEAR-OLD WHE PE TRE. THE TRE ARE WILY REPUTED, BY LOL RINTS, TO BE GOOD FOR NOTHG. BUT THAT’S NOT TE. THEY’RE GREAT FOR PROVIDG VER FOR THE GROWTH OF ALKALE-LOVG MOSS. OF URSE, BEG ENMIC BREERS, OTHER PLANTS LIKE TO SEND THEIR SEEDLGS AND TRAILG ROOTS UP THROUGH THE FUZZY GREEN STUFF, SO ORR TO VELOP—AND ENURAGE FURTHER GROWTH OF—THE GEO RPET YOU SEE HERE, WE HAVE TO SPEND UNTLS HOURS CROUCHED DOWN ON THE GROUND PICKG EVERY OTHER LIVG SPROUT OUT OF OUR MOSS BY S ROOTS. OUR NEIGHBORS THK WE ARE LLECTG ANTS OR WORMS. (THEY ALSO THK WE ARE SANE AND SHOULD JT GET A LAWN.)DRARIUM CONSTCTN: WE HAVE BEEN OBSSED WH MIATURE DRAMAS FOR YEARS NOW—WHO HASN’T? WE’VE PURCHASED LARGE ETANDG ON, SMALL ON ENSED LUCE BOX, AND EVEN ONE THAT FORMS THE BASE OF A LAMP, ALL FEATURG DIVERSE SCEN OF WILDLIFE, GEOLOGIL FORMATNS, AND R WRECKS. BUT A FEW YEARS BACK WE NSTCTED ONE OUT THE YARD WH ONE OF OUR NEPHEWS THAT WAS MORE OF A “LIVG” DRAMA, WH SMALL PLANTS AND CLUMPS OF MOSS CLTERED AROUND A SCENE OF AN DTRIAL WASTELAND (PLETE WH A MIATURE BURNG TRASH BARREL). THIS GAVE THE IA OF CRAFTG SMALL, SELF-NTAED TABLEX VTAGE VR, EACH OF WHICH WOULD FEATURE AN TRIGUG LOTN, ADORABLE BUILDGS, AND LIVE FOLIAGE. OUR THOUGHTS TH FAR: DRIVE-IN MOVIE, FRONTIER VILLAGE, AND HNTED SUMMER CAMP (WH SLASHER’S LAIR/BODY P).MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISPICKLG: I HAVE LONG WANTED TO MAKE PICKL, BUT MY BF AND BFF PUT THE KIBOSH ON . “YOU ARE GAY ENOUGH ALREADY,” THEY TOLD ME. BUT TURNS OUT THEY WERE JT TEMPORARILY OPPOSED, BASED ON MY THEN-TENSE FATUATN WH ONLE CTNS OF A CERTA PATTERN OF 19TH-CENTURY ENGLISH TRANSFERWARE (RIDGWAYS PERSIA, IF YOU MT KNOW). SCE THAT HAS E TO AN END (PRETTY MUCH, I STILL BID ON THE OCSNAL PIECE; DON’T TELL THEM!), I’M APPARENTLY NOW ALLOWED TO DULGE THE VEGARED ALCHEMIL ARTS. I WANT TO START WH RADISH AND STRG BEANS. “FE,” THEY SAY. “BUT JT SO YOU DON’T GET ANY IAS, YOU NNOT START MAKG HOMEMA JAM!”MOST POPULARVANY FAIR’S “IT’S RAG TEENS” COVER AT 20: WHERE ARE THEY NOW?BY SAVANNAH WALSHRED, WHE & ROYAL BLUE MAY BE “THE MOST EXPENSIVE B OF FAN FICTN EVER”BY SAVANNAH WALSHTHE CAST OF OPPENHEIMER AND THE REAL PEOPLE THEY PLAYBY HILLARY BISROSE TRELLISG: ONE DAY A FEW YEARS BACK, I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WOULDN’T BE OL TO BUILD SOMETHG? BUT LACKG ANY TOOLS, MATERIALS, SKILLS, SPATIAL-RELATNS TELLIGENCE, OR PLAN, THIS IS WHAT I CREATED: A WOBBLY TRELLIS FOR A WEIRD WILD ROSE BH THAT WAS GROWG THE ONT YARD. (THIS WAS BEFORE DEEPWATER HORIZON, BUT AFTER THERE WILL BE BLOOD, THOUGH NO OIL WELL REFERENCE WAS TEND.) NOW, TWO YEARS LATER, AFTER SCPULO PNG AND GUIDANCE, WE HAVE THIS BREATHTAKG DISPLAY. THE OTHER DAY, I TOLD MY BOYIEND I WANT TO EXPAND THIS STICK NSTCTN—WHICH I LIKE TO THK OF AS A PURE EXAMPLE OF THE ARTS-AND-CRAPS ATHETIC—TO A LOGGIA UNR WHICH WE N PLACE A TABLE. “THAT,” HE SAID, “IS A DISGTG IA.”ROSé CHUGGG: ROSé WE BEGAN S EBACK YEARS AGO, BUT WE ARE TAKG TO NEW LEVELS THIS SUMMER, PURCHASG BY THE SE—STILL AND SPARKLG—AND DRKG BY THE BOTTLE WHENEVER THE SUGGTN ARIS, A SORT OF GAY VERSN OF BROS ICG BROS. THERE IS A PLAN HERE. WE DON’T (JT) WANT TO GET DNK. WE WANT TO GET SO SICK OF THE LIC, LIGHT, MERALLY PK STUFF (OH, ’S JT SO PERFECT THE AFTERNOON, OR WH SOME GRILLED FISH, OR AFTER A SWIM THE LAKE) THAT WE WILL BE FORCED TO START A NEW ONEOPHILLIC TREND. I’M THKG ’S EHER GOG TO BE DRY WHE SANGRIA OR MERLOT SPRZERS.BRETT BERK WR GAILY ABOUT CULTURE, POLICS, AND RS FOR , AND IS THE THOR OF THE GAY UNCLE’S GUI TO PARENTG. VIS HIM AT OR FOLLOW HIM ON TWTER.BRETT BERK

In 1978, artist and signer Gilbert Baker was missned by San Francis cy supervisor Harvey Milk – one of the first openly gay elected officials the US – to make a flag for the cy’s upg Pri celebratns. Baker, a proment gay rights activist, gave a nod to the strip of the Amerin flag but drew spiratn om the rabow to reflect the many groups wh the gay muny. The LGBTQ+ rights movement has ma tremendo stris over the past few s and much of the progrs visibily is thanks part to gay pri paras and march that have taken place ci around the world.

The global landspe for LGBTQ+ rights, protectns and acceptance vari tremendoly by lotn, wh some statns attractg lns of visors to their events like Madrid Gay Pri, Sao Plo Gay Pri or San Francis Gay Pri, while more than 70 other untri have laws that allow discrimatn or persecutn of LGBTQ+ people. Gay Pri or rather LGBTQ+ pri events (ed to be more clive), cludg pri paras and ftivals were started major urban centers to improve the visibily, acceptance and legal protectns for LGBTQ+ people livg those muni. In June of 1969, a group of LGBTQ+ people New York Cy rted followg a police raid of the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar loted on Christopher Street Greenwich Village.

WHAT DO IT MEAN TO BE GAY? DEFN AND MEANG OF GAY

This seri of events was a turng pot for the LGBTQ+ muny and marks one of the most signifint events leadg to the morn gay rights movement. As the years went on, addnal ci North Ameri and Europe began to hold their own public monstratns or pri day, eventually leadg to what we know today as a gay pri para, march, celebratn or ftival. Most gay pri paras and events also occur durg a peak season of the year when the weather most ial, yet another reason to book your trip durg the event.

Whether travelg alone, wh iends or fay, visg durg a gay pri event n be a fun way to experience a new statn and IGLTA n help you fd LGBTQ-iendly bs almost any lotn to help make you trip memorable, safe and excg. We have published this lendar to rm the LGBTQ+ muny of important gay pri events and paras globally to offer a plete source for planng your travel. Holot Remembrance Day, January 27, is a day to remember all the victims of the Nazi era – cludg the gay men killed ncentratn mps.

Day of Silence, held on April 17, is the Gay, Lbian and Straight Edutn Network’s annual day to prott the bullyg of LGBT stunts and their supporters. Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia, observed on May 17 to raise awarens of anti-LGBT vlence and reprsn worldwi.

GAY SUMMER CAMP PLANNG

Created by Adam Steward 2009 and celebrated on July 16, Internatnal Drag Day to give drag artists a chance to showse their creativy and ntributns to gay culture.

PROVCETOWN GAY GUI EVENTS CALENDAR

Started 2010 by Canadian teenager Brtany McMillan, and promoted by GLAAD, was created rponse to a seri of bullyg-related suicis of gay stunts like Tyler Clementi.

The term – a phemism that dat back to the 1950s – was once ed to dite gay social events on daily cise le programs, whout explicly llg out members of the muny on board. As travel on the high seas ntu to bounce back om the COVID-19 panmic, gay and lbian travelers should nsir settg sail on a fun-filled cise vatn as their next planng a cise, vatners should first nsir what their ial sailg looks like. Some cise operators (thk: Atlantis Events and La Demence) are known for their electrifyg, all-night parti, which may be perfect for gay groups of iends.

A HAWT GAY PALM SPRGS SUMMER

Cisers should also thk about whether they'd like to travel aboard a gay-iendly mastream le, such as Celebry Cis or Virg Voyag, or opt for an all-gay, full-ship charter wh a third-party vatn pany. Of VACAYA's all-gay charters, he says, "For one magil week, our muny gets to be the majory and live life out loud the blissful utopia VACAYA creat on a gay cise. This le gets the stamp of approval om prev LGBTQ cisers, who praise the ships' genr-ntral bathrooms, onboard shows wh rint drag queens and diverse Voyag offers gay-specific sailgs through travel pani like Atlantis Events, but s more mastream erari still offer a welg, clive atmosphere that attracts LGBTQ cisers year-round.

Atlantis EventsThe world's largt gay and lbian travel brand, Atlantis Events was found 1991 and wel more than 20, 000 travelers annually on LGBTQ vatns.

For s all-gay cis, Atlantis charters megaships om popular l like Royal Caribbean Internatnal and Norwegian Cise Le, so cisers will have a fully immersive board, travelers n enjoy all the perks the megaships have to offer (thk: pools, hot tubs, sports urts and plenty of dg choic), pl special events like drag performanc, motivatnal speakers, LGBTQ movi on mand each b and high-energy circu parti across the ship. "As an LGBTQ ciser, you're lookg for a ship wh lots of entertament, cludg dance parti and events, " says Mars Martez, founr of Men Who Bnch, a Black gay liftyle blog. "One of the bt cise [l] for gay cisg is Atlantis, sce you'll be able to meet hundreds of attractive men and party all day and night on the ship.

MEANG OF GAY ENGLISH

Cisers will also enjoy performanc by drag queens, gay Broadway stars and more, pl more typil river cise perks like sightseeg and lavish meals. Celebry Cis(Courty of Celebry Cis)Celebry Cis sets the scene for an excellent vatn for gay travelers, om s extravagant annual Pri parti to s daily LGBTQ programmg throughout the year. Although all erari are gay-iendly, nsir bookg a Pri Party at Sea sailg (which tak place each June) for an extra special experience.

Private travel pani like VACAYA also charter Celebry ships for all-gay voyag throughout the (Getty Imag)Specifilly marketed toward lbians and LGBTQ women, Olivia has hosted more than 350, 000 travelers by land and sea over almost five s.

The popular cise le equently partners wh Atlantis Events to offer all-gay voyag throughout the year, but even the standard sailgs earn praise. Outsi of the sailg experience, Royal Caribbean has also publicly mted to support the LGBTQ muny throughout the year, and was the first cise le to earn the tle "Gay Traveler Approved" om GayTravel 2023, nsir a Royal Caribbean voyage that sails to gay-iendly statns. ]The Cise Wh La Demence(Courty of The Cise wh La Demence)Acrdg to past cisers, if you're lookg for one of the bt party scen on the open seas, nsir an all-gay cise wh La Demence.

IS SKYE GAY OR BISEXUAL THE SUMMER I TURNED PRETTY?

Powered by a popular gay nightclub Bssels wh the same name, La Demence – French for "the madns" – primarily ters to a European crowd. Prev cisers had high praise for the erari – which exclively vis gay-iendly lotns – as well as the uy cktails, themed nights (stum strongly enuraged), glamouro entertament, and unique events like drag bgo and high heel Demence sails every summer to statns like Rome; Athens and Mykonos, Greece; Kotor, Montenegro; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and more. This year, he got to ask, and I told him I’d do , but only if I uld nvce Ferrari to loan a V-12 GT for the drive to some lol, legal state so at least I uld get an article out of for my gay-r lumn here at VF.

So honor of today’s solstice and this week’s NYC Gay PRIDE ftivi, I would like to prent this pendium of five pecially faggoty thgs we will be dog durg over the next three months. Sce we homosexuals are style lears, you all will be dog the thgs the next five to ten years, so don’t lgh too Garng: Our hoe upstate, where we’ll be spendg the summer, is ntled a grove of tall, sun-blockg, and soil-acidifyg 100-year-old whe pe tre.

”Rosé Chuggg: Rosé we began s eback years ago, but we are takg to new levels this summer, purchasg by the se—still and sparklg—and drkg by the bottle whenever the suggtn aris, a sort of gay versn of Bros Icg Bros.

I’m thkg ’s eher gog to be dry whe sangria or Merlot Berk wr gaily about culture, polics, and rs for, and is the thor of The Gay Uncle’s Gui to Parentg.