GAY HISTORY OF ENGLAND
England is a great country for the traveler interested in gay history and culture. London is one of the great gay cities, and there are also places of gay…More
Author: Andrew Lear
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Gay History All Over the World
This week brought Oscar Wilde Tours a big honor: we won the Travvy silver award for best LGBT tour operator. Pretty amazing, when you think that we are just…More
Paris Is Still Paradise
I was in Paris just before the recent terrorist attacks, checking things out for Oscar Wilde Tours’ upcoming “Gay London/ Gay Paris” tour (August 20-28, 2016) and doing lots…More
Oscar Wilde Tours Makes History!
Oscar Wilde Tours has just completed its first full tour in Italy, a ten-day trip that explored an axis of gay cities and sights from Florence to Sorrento, with…More
Antinous, the Gay God
OSCAR WILDE TOURS is in the middle of our gay history and art tour of Italy, and one thing we’re exploring is the extraordinary relationship between Hadrian, Emperor of Rome…More
Nero’s Palace and Rome’s Gay History
Who was Rome’s gayest Emperor? That’s a tough one. There were rumors about almost every Emperor: Julius Caesar’s soldiers for instance joshingly called him “the husband of every wife…More
Gay Italy Tour Poised to Explore the Origins of Sexual Identity
WHILE I PREPARE for the first ever gay history and art tour of Italy (click here for more information), which I’ll be leading in five weeks, I’m finding even more…More
Gay Lovers Were Heroes of Athenian Democracy
WHENEVER I give a GLBT tour at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, I always stop to talk about this fragment from a red-figured Greek vase. It’s…More
Why Italy Is the Gay Place to Go
WHERE TO GO in Europe this year? That’s the question that confronted me as I started planning this year’s gay history trip for Oscar Wilde Tours. Last year’s tour followed…More
Revealed! Secrets of the Met, Hanging in Plain Sight
The following comes from Andrew Lear, an art historian and founder of Oscar Wilde Tours, which will be offering gay tours of New York, including the Met, starting this spring,…More