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Out Came Iceman
A retronym is a word like “landline” that renames a familiar item when something new comes along. With the advent of the cellphone, we learned we’d been using landlines…More
Transgender Day of Remembrance
In honor of Transgender Day of Remembrance today, OutRight is releasing the first in a series of eight short videos that challenge people of conscience to examine bigotry and…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
“Time to Go Home”
WritersReadOnline.com is a live series in which writers read their essays aloud at the Cell Theater on West 23rd Street in New York City. Founded by Ed McCann, himself a writer and…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
Up in the Air
“We cannot stop looking at this new Delta ad,” declared the headline of a clever piece by Andrew Richdale, senior editor of Afar.com. We surely don’t need to convince…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
File Under: When These Things Write Themselves
Could this be one of those times when one segment of the population can only see something hilarious, while another (the majority?) can’t see it at all? The image went…More
Power and Pathos in Hellenistic Greece
When we think of the ancient Greeks, we think of the body beautiful, particularly the male body, and all those graceful gods and Herculean heroes. But a new exhibit and…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