How-to

Guides that answer the actual question

How Fire Island works, where to drink in Manhattan, which circuit weekends are still running, Gay Days, ski weeks, and how to move cities without losing your PrEP or your social life.

Summer how-to

Fire Island 101: getting there and how it all works

LIRR to Sayville, the ferry, the Pines vs. the Grove, Low Tea, shares, and the big weekends: everything a first-timer needs.

Read the guide →NYC nightlife

The top Manhattan gay bars, by neighborhood

Hell's Kitchen, Chelsea, the Village and beyond: 24 Manhattan gay bars that are open right now, what each is like and when to go.

Read the guide →Circuit 101

The top US circuit parties (and the global ones worth the flight)

Winter Party, the Black Party, Purple Party, the Pines Party and more: what's running in 2027, what quietly died, and how to do a weekend right.

Read the guide →Orlando + Anaheim

Gay Days at Disney: how it works

Red shirts at Magic Kingdom, the host hotel, pool parties, Lightning Lane and the West Coast versions: your Gay Days game plan.

Read the guide →Winter trips

Gay ski weeks: Aspen, Whistler, Park City, Mammoth

The four big North American gay ski weeks for 2027, which pass covers each mountain, and how to plan.

Read the guide →Cape Cod

Provincetown 101

Getting to P-town from Boston, the theme weeks (Bear Week, Carnival), Tea Dance and where to stay.

Read the guide →Desert

Palm Springs 101

Men's resorts, Arenas Road, the best season, and what happened to White Party.

Read the guide →Florida Keys

Key West 101

Duval Street, men-only guest houses, Fantasy Fest and how to get to the end of the road.

Read the guide →Relocating

The gay guy's moving-cities playbook

Neighborhoods, PrEP, friends, housing and the first 30 days: how to land in a new city and actually have a life there.

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City guides

New York CityHell's Kitchen after work, the Village for history, Brooklyn for the late, weird and wonderful.Los AngelesWeHo for the strip, Silver Lake for the dives, DTLA for the warehouse nights, Long Beach for the beach.San FranciscoThe Castro for the history and the 18th Street crawl, SoMa for leather.ChicagoNorthalsted for the strip, Andersonville for the locals.Miami & Fort LauderdaleSouth Beach for the weekend, Wilton Manors for the week.Washington, DCDupont for the history, 14th and U for the nights out.AtlantaMidtown's 10th & Piedmont, the Ansley bar cluster, and Pride in October.BostonA small scene in the South End, and a summer that moves to P-town.PhiladelphiaThe Gayborhood: rainbow street signs and everything within six blocks.New OrleansThe Bourbon Street 'Fruit Loop', the Marigny, and Southern Decadence.SeattleCapitol Hill: dense, walkable, on the light rail.DenverColfax bars, mountain weekends, and Aspen Gay Ski Week a few hours away.DallasThe Cedar Springs strip in Oak Lawn, and Purple Party every spring.HoustonMontrose, two-stepping at Neon Boots, and Pride in late June.Austin4th Street bars, Red River music, and an August Pride.