2018

  • Back to Nature in the barest sense of the word

    Back to Nature in the barest sense of the word

      Today, like every first Saturday in May, is officially Naked Gardening Day.  We have no idea quite who makes decisions like this, but we are guessing that they live in a warm climate somewhere. This idea, we are told, is to tend your portion of the world’s garden unclothed as nature intended.  This may be just window…

  • Otis and The Von Tramp Family are singing all the way to L.A. (and cycling too)

    Otis and The Von Tramp Family are singing all the way to L.A. (and cycling too)

      Otis Morgan a gay nurse from San Francisco is one of 3000 cyclists in taking part again in the  AIDS/LifeCycle from his hometown to Los Angeles.  The ride is 545 miles and takes seven days and a helluva lot of stamina. Over the past eight years, he has raised a total of over $150,000 for the cause benefits the…

  • What happens when Broadway Boy meets another Broadway Boy on a First Date

    What happens when Broadway Boy meets another Broadway Boy on a First Date

      The people at Theater Mania have produced this new series of videos that each feature a couple of ‘not unattractive’ gay Broadway performers who tell the stories of their first dates.   If you have a thing for ‘happy-ever-after’ stories then you will LOVE these.  And even if you are a tad cynical about romance, you will still find it hard not…

  • Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie

    Tiny Shoulders, Rethinking Barbie

      For all of its 59 years of life Barbie, the worlds’ most famous doll, has always been a controversial figure. When she was ‘born’ in 1959 Barbie was the first ever doll shaped as a woman, with breasts even,  as up to this point in time children’s dolls had only been babies.  Scorned by the male Buyers…