We are Family, especially in Poole!
More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from previous op-sex relationships. Where better to
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Chichester Chaps!
History, culture and sexy Sussex guys! Adrian Gillan hails homo heaven – in classy Chichester! Modern Chichester is built slap-bang
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Steam me up, Scottie!
Great Scot! Adrian Gillan takes the high road for a queer cultural treat in Scottish capital, Edinburgh! And all a
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Genoa Guys
It gave the world Christopher Columbus, Niccolò Paganini and… pesto sauce! Adrian Gillan savours the odd palazzo ‘n piazza, plus
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Man Hungry? Food Zurich!
Delicious food, tasty men! Bent’s Adrian Gillan bites off as much as he can possibly chew at the annual Food
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We are Family, especially in Hastings!
More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from previous op-sex relationships. Where better to
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We are Family, especially in Margate!
More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from previous op-sex relationships. Where better to
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Cheltenham Chaps!
England’s ultimate ‘spa town’? Adrian Gillan gets steamed up by classy Cheltenham’s Regency splendour, feisty fests and dishy guys, staying
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Danke Düsseldorf!
Horny Herrs! Adrian Gillan enjoys Düsseldorf’s colourful history, culture and scene – old and new, side by side on the
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Hooray for Harro-gay-te!
The North of England’s ultimate spa town! Adrian Gillan gets steamed and cream-tea’d up – by happy Harrogate’s Georgian grandeur
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We are Family, especially in Belfast!
To be sure, so it is! More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from
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La Palma: Isla Bonita!
Sounds like a Madonna song? Adrian Gillan samples the natural beauty – human and otherwise – on the sultry Atlantic
Read MoreJump for Joy: Swiss Ski Boys!
Mere downhill skiing no longer thrill? Adrian Gillan explores the winter wonderland south of Bern, joining lush local lads to
Read MoreStratford Anew: 5 fresh reasons to revisit The Bard’s home town!
Think you know gay old Stratford-upon-Avon?! Bent’s own little Bard, Adrian Gillan discovers a clutch of new attractions and hotels,
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Mad about Malaga
Manly and Moorish! Bent’s Adrian Gillan flies Monarch to get hot ‘n sweaty with those mucho macho Med men in
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Men in Rennes!
Capital of the proud region of Brittany in northwest France, Adrian Gillan enjoys the history, culture and feisty scene in
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We are Family, especially in Cardiff!
Oh Boyo! More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from previous heterosexual relationships. So
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Bologna Boys
Where the boys are as saucy as the food! Adrian Gillan savours pastas and porticoes, towers and testosterone in student-swollen
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Brighton anew: fresh fun things to do!
Think you know gay old Brighton?! From the just-opened British Airways i360 observation tower to a stunning new Open Air
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So ‘dam good!
by Adrian Gillan for Bent.Com Distinctive city of contrasts: Amsterdam – the “Venice of the North”! Adrian Gillan enjoys
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Travel – We are Family, especially in Edinburgh!
By Adrian Gillan Great Scot! More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from
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Travel – Cyprus: playground of the gods
It bore Aphrodite but won’t bore you! Adrian Gillan samples the ancient history and present pleasures on the Eastern side
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Travel – All aboard: the Grand Train Tour of Switzerland!
Switzerland’s trains are almost as famous as the country itself! Bent’s Adrian Gillan enjoys both, choosing to rail it
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Travel – We are Family, especially in Torquay!
More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from previous heterosexual relationships. So where
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Travel – Zurich Pride 2015
Bent’s Adrian Gillan is far from neutral about the sizzling Swiss sights and scene in Zurich – not least
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Travel – Fabulous Fethiye!
History, culture, nightlife: Adrian Gillan flies Monarch to Dalaman and falls in love with nearby Fethiye, jewel of the Turkish
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Travel – We are Family, especially in Bournemouth!
More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from previous heterosexual relationships. So where better
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Travel – Meet me in Miami!
Adrian Gillan steers you around the Art Deco, be-palmed, sea-view chic that is Miami – during its famous annual Beach
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Travel – The Canterbury Males!
Roll over, Chaucer! We’ve our own Canterbury tale to tell! Brimming with ancient heritage and heavenly student hoards, Adrian Gillan
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Travel – Paris with Kids!
Paris is great for gay people. Paris is great for kids. Paris is thus doubly great for the increasing number
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Travel – Nearer to Nendaz!
Stunning Alpine scenery plus skiing, spas and sexy guys! Adrian Gillan is far from neutral about the snowy glories of
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Travel – It’s a Schladming thing!
Adrian Gillan falls in love with those dashing daredevil downhillers in the Schladming Dachstein part of the wider ‘Ski amadé’
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Travel – Lanzarote hotties!
Done Gran Can? Wanna beat the winter blues? Adrian Gillan gets sweaty on volcanic Lanzarote, the easternmost Canary – not
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Travel – Gay Valais!
Chocolate ‘n cheese, mountain ‘n lake, money ‘n men: Adrian Gillan is far from neutral about the active summer outdoors
Read MoreTravel – Hotlanta!
From the American Civil War to Martin Luther King, Adrian Gillan explores historic, cultured, buzzing Atlanta – capital of the
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Travel – Man oh man oh Manchester!
Adrian Gillan hits Canal Street in manic Manchester. Arguably the gayest street on Earth – amidst arguably Earth’s most perfectly-proportioned
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Travel – Swede extremes are made of these!
One-man pillage Adrian Gillan ram-raids buzzing Stockholm’s blue-eyed blonds before heading north to the unique, remote Treehotel in Lapland, high
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Travel – Bodrum Boyz!
History, culture, nightlife: Adrian Gillan falls in love with Bodrum, jewel of the Turkish Riviera… On a beautiful peninsula where
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Travel – Sexy Swiss Ski
Stunning Alpine scenery plus spas, guys ‘n booze! Adrian Gillan is far from neutral about the snowy glories of
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Travel – We are Family, especially in Brighton!
More and more gay families now include children – adopted, biological, maybe even from previous heterosexual relationships. So where better
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Travel – Coasting it in Dorset!
Bored of Bournemouth, that gay mecca of Dorset’s East? Instead, Bent’s Adrian Gillan hugs the lovely coast, and blokes, of
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Travel – Ostend Weekend
The Belgian Brighton? Adrian Gillan jumps on Eurostar and falls in love with Ostend – ‘Queen of the Belgian Coast’
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Travel – Tune into Tunisia!
A short flight from home but a whole world away, Adrian Gillan falls in love with Tunisia… Founded in the
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Travel – Thank you for the music, Brighton!
Voulez vous? And does your mother know? Bent’s own little dancing queen, Adrian Gillan, takes a chance on the UK’s
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Travel – Stratford-upon-Avon: Shakesqueer hits 450!
Adrian Gillan visits Stratford-upon-Avon to celebrate Shakespeare’s 450th birthday. But was the Bard really bent? 450 years after his birth
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Bent Travel – Disneyland Paris
With a cheery giant Mickey (and friends) parading beneath fairytale castles… all set amidst white-knuckle rides… us gays have long high-indexed on the
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Travel – The lowdown on H-Town
From downtown high-rises to laid-back districts: Adrian Gillan flies United to land in Houston! America’s fourth largest – and number
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Travel – New York, New York
Sights, lights, nights! Adrian Gillan flies Virgin Atlantic to get Bent’s gay guide to the Big Apple! So good, you
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Travel – Turn it up, in Tenerife!
Adrian Gillan feels winter heat in and around Playa de las Americas in south western Tenerife! Tenerife is the largest
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Travel – Plastered in Paris
Adrian Gillan gets Gallic, and perhaps just a teeny bit phallic, in the glorious French capital. The French capital truly
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Travel – Elegant Eastbourne
Brighton boring? Adrian Gillan heads mere miles down coast to find Eastbourne far from retiring! Of course it’s hard to
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Life with The Lyons
Death, dysfunction and loneliness: Adrian Gillan enjoys the European premiere of The Lyons – the venomous dark comedy, with its
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Travel – Bella Verona
Home to countless real-life Romeos, not to mention one or two gents, it’s more bars than Bards in World Heritage
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Travel – Crazy Cardiff
Oh boyo! Adrian Gillan catches Welsh rarebits down in crazy, sexy Cardiff! Dream of yummy lads in scrums; or strapping
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Travel – BrightonRocks!
Bent’s Adrian Gillan explores the sights and homo haunts of the UK’s queerest seaside resort. Randy royal raver Prince Regent
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Travel – Bootiful Boys!
So much more than Delia Smith, Alan Partridge and tasty turkey! Adrian Gillan checks out those bootiful boys in East
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Travel – Fit ‘n Swiss!
Photo: Graham James. Chocolate ‘n cheese, mountain ‘n lake, money ‘n men: Adrian Gillan is far from neutral about the
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Travel – Alberta: Edmonton & the Canadian Rockies
Home to the Canadian Rockies, it’s even where they shot Brokeback Mountain! Adrian Gillan visits the province of Alberta for
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Bent Travel – Mumbai guys!
It’s not all “slumdog” in buzzing Bombay – or Mumbai, as now known! Gay ban recently lifted, Adrian Gillan flies,
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Travel – FAB FAL!
Bugger Bondi! Adrian Gillan far prefers the handsome surfer types wafted in by warm Gulf Stream winds all-year-round down in
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Travel – Breathless in Venice
Gaping gondolas! Adrian Gillan visits one of the most genuinely unique, beautiful – and frankly unlikely – cities on Earth!
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When in Rome? Men in Rome!
by Adrian Gillan for Bent Spread across seven hills, the grandeur of Ancient Rome still bedazzles! And as for the
Read MoreSEXY TEXAS
How ya’all doin’ ya’all? Adrian Gillan rates raunchy ranchers in Fort Worth and pumps barrels of creamy man-oil in Dallas
Read MoreTravel – Terrific Dubrovnik
Jewel of the Adriatic! Adrian Gillan enjoys history, food and men in Croatian gem, Dubrovnik! Undisputed jewel of the Croatian
Read MoreTravel – Hello Sailor: Gay Portsmouth & Isle of Wight!
Ahoy me boys! Manly mariner Adrian Gillan drifts into dock for a naval binge in Portsmouth – plus the neighbouring
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Travel – Hot in Ottawa!
It may be winter in the Canadian capital, but Ottawa’s history, culture and men leave Adrian Gillan all in a
Read MoreTravel – Barca Boys
You know… that place near Sitges! Adrian Gillan visits the Catalan capital of camp and cool and finds Barcelona still
Read MoreNewquay nookie!
Photo: Newquay PR team. Who needs Hawaii? Adrian Gillan far prefers the gorgeous surfer boys wafted in by warm
Read MoreTravel – Edinburgh
Great Scot! Adrian Gillan takes the high road for a queer cultural treat in Scottish capital, Edinburgh! From medieval Old
Read MoreQueer Windermere?
Adrian Gillan enjoys the extreme non-scene on and around England’s largest natural lake, Windermere. The Lake District’s majestic fells, spectacular
Read MoreQueer Canaries
Bent’s intrepid Adrian Gillan explores some high-contrast Canary Islands – indisputably gayest Gran Canaria; plus quiet little La Gomera, reached
Read MoreDelhi good!
India’s gay ban has just been lifted! Adrian Gillan flew direct to buzzing capital, Delhi. First populated hundreds of years
Read MoreIbiza Geezer! – By Adrian Gillan
Already mad about Mallorca and Menorca, Adrian Gillan samples that gayest of Balearics: Ibiza! It attracted artists in the 50s,
Read MoreHello Sailor: Royal Caribbean Cruises
Adrian Gillan enjoys the big cruise experience aboard gay-wooing Royal Caribbean International’s amazing Brilliance of the Seas. 90,000 tonnes; 300
Read MoreTravel – Gay Vegas
Adrian Gillan hits the sights, spas, shows ‘n scene in shimmering Las Vegas. You don’t so much visit “Vegas” as
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