Ibiza Geezer! – By Adrian Gillan

Already mad about Mallorca and Menorca, Adrian Gillan samples that gayest of Balearics: Ibiza!
It attracted artists in the 50s, hippies in the 60s, the jet-set in the 70s and clubbers in the 80s and 90s. 150 miles south of Barcelona, the Spanish, Catalan-speaking Mediterranean island of Ibiza is constantly reinventing itself, currently developing chic spas [...]

Sisters Are Doing It For Themselves

By Simon Savidge

The Pipettes last graced our airwaves with the wonderful ‘Pull Shapes’ (which makes you want to dance your pants right off) back in 2006. Now years later the girls are back… though they look slightly different. Simon Savidge went to meet sisters Gwenno and Ani and investigate.
What is it with girl bands [...]

Johan’s Blog

Gym…it’s a tonic

At last, the sun is back again. No more snow! Instead, warm temperatures and guys wearing shorts and tank-tops once more. Hurray! As a result, the streets and marketplaces become a cat-walk and at last you can check what sort of guy you’re taking home before you get to the point of a [...]

Birmingham Pride and Pride Ball

For many the Birmingham Pride Ball signals the start of the year’s fundraising events around the UK and this year the organisers kicked off in style. Over 1000 guests from the LGBT community watched headliner Boy George thrill the audience, who were glad to see the boy back on top form, and giving the enthusiastic [...]

Bites 3

Gay Bars Come Direct To Mobiles

Gay bars are now available to all mobile phones across the world as Gaypedia launches its long-awaited mobile application.
Go to: mobile.gaypedia.com on any handset with 3G access
Gaypedia Mobile will identify users unique global positioning to provide them with a list of bars, pubs, clubs and gay venues within their local [...]

Queen of Clubs

A friend of mine recently told me how a gay bar he’d once worked at was turned into a straight bar by the brewery for financial reasons. It wasn’t necessarily a problem with falling sales, but rather an inability to meet the growth of straight venues also owned by the brewery. Gay venues, it seems, [...]

French Trio

French Trio
Bored of Paris? Adrian Gillan heads south to sample the art, design, fashion, culture and scenes of three lesser-known gay-wooing Gallic gems: Montpellier, Lyon and Saint-Etienne.
Montpellier: Often described as the “second gay city of France”, plus one of the largest student cities of the country, the capital of the Languedoc-Roussillon region – [...]

Pulling in my Puma – Pulling off my pants.

by Johan Volny.
There is still lots of snow here in the Czech Republic, but I’m already preparing for the spring.
First, I’ve booked some cheap flights to Gran Canaria for a few days in March. I have some friends in Maspalomas,so that guarantees me an apartment for free. Quite handy, actually! As such I’m hoping to [...]

Welcome to Boyztown Pattaya Thailand

Pattaya is Thailand’s main beach resort town, about 2 hours drive southeast of Bangkok on the Gulf of Thailand, and one & half hours from the International Airport.
It is a big, bustling town with tourists and resident ex-pats from all over the world. There are many gay and gay friendly hotels that will make [...]

Fantastic Fuerteventura!

Loved Lanzarote? Tried Tenerife? Done Gran Can? Adrian Gillan samples that other volcanic Atlantic Spanish island idyll off the African coast: glorious Fuerteventura!
It might not be the biggest Canary – it’s second to Tenerife on that count – but Fuerteventura is definitely the longest, measuring 60 miles from Corralejo in the north to [...]

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