Our Scene
The whole world’s a stage, but for many it’s a runway. I certainly feel that way, every day. Especially now, as temperatures drop, it lends itself to the opportunity to…
Business: New Gild Jewelers Your Name: Jen Bellefleur Job Title: Co-Owner Give us a brief overview of your business and what services you provide the community: We’re an artisan jewelry studio, making…
Hailing from Utica, MN (pop. 291), Utica Queen recently skyrocketed to international fame after killing it on the latest Emmy-winning season of RuPaul’s Drag Race. Ethan Mundt, otherwise known as Utica…
Few things stress me out more than being in the kitchen. My cooking space always feels inadequate in some way for the grand culinary ideas I have in my mind,…
With the holiday season looming and the leaves showing off their yearly glamour, our favorite local pageant-winning drag queen is busy: Miss Richfield 1981 has just wrapped up another successful…
Endless applause can now be heard rumbling from inside our theaters. Finally, the unexpected hiatus of live performance is at its end and it couldn’t be more exciting for performers…
Our Affairs
A cry for help causes a bespectacled newspaper reporter to duck into an ill-lit alley. Here, with only randy tomcats and spotted banana peels bearing witness, this rescuer doffs his…
Sensation: The Madonna, the Mayor, the Media, and the First Amendment Arnold Lehman Merrell$35 SENSATION minutely chronicles the uproar (death and bomb threats) over the 1999 opening in the Brooklyn Museum of the…
“We’ve certainly achieved a number of really important victories that I was not certain I would see in my lifetime,” says Cleve Jones. “Of course, most obvious among them would…
In mid-October, the Texas legislature passed HB25, a law that bans transgender students from competing in K-12 sports according to their gender identity. This was the fourth attempt to get…
How did you prepare for Y2K? Did you know someone who could take “What if’s?” exponentially higher than a moon shot? Have you ever even seen a 50-lb sack of oatmeal? Did…
Bessie Smith: A Poet’s Biography of a Blues LegendJackie Kay Vintage $16.95 Kay, a child of color adopted by white parents, raised in a Glasgow suburb, became poet, playwright, and…
Our Lives
Silky Tie-Ups by Liberator. Two four-foot-long, silky-soft sashes perfect for light bondage experimentation—or, for experienced players, something different than the usual rope. Slip one end of the sash into the sewn-in…
A cry for help causes a bespectacled newspaper reporter to duck into an ill-lit alley. Here, with only randy tomcats and spotted banana peels bearing witness, this rescuer doffs his…
I was raised in a culture of alcohol, violence and firearms. A man’s merit was based around these things. Substance abuse, fistfights, football, hockey, hunting—these seem to be the pillars…
Over the past 18 months of global pandemic, millions of Americans, stymied from their regular work, were abruptly tasked with finding a new way forward—through hobbies, side gigs, cross-country moves—to…
Authentic Gibeon Meteorite RingJewelry by Johan Give your special someone a slice of the stars with this Gibeon meteorite ring! This space ring design is available in solid 14k gold,…
So… I met this guy – at a party. Real cutie. Really into me, like I’m really into him. He invited me to his home. I accepted. He touched me…
Our Homes
In celebration of the forthcoming Small Business Weekend, our wonderful friends at Parc—the thoughtfully curated shop of simple, minimalistic pieces and unique goods from like-minded independent designers and makers—is throwing a…
No matter what you drive, there’s always something to give that special person in your life to make mobility better for them. What do we suggest? PET TRAVEL PRODUCTS: Traveling…
Interior Design Hacks for Budget-Conscious First-Time Buyers Upon the initial walk-through of the first home I’d buy, my head was consumed with designing that space, top to bottom, exactly how…
“Deck the halls with boughs of holly” sounds simple in theory, but when it comes time to start decorating for the holidays, many people don’t know where to start. That’s…
The home is a living thing. We mean that literally and figuratively. Literally, because all physical things are made up of atoms, and atoms are alive. And figuratively, because the…
In order to find LGBTQ Pride, you have to search to celebrate it. In the months since the COVID-19 Pandemic put all of us in lockdown, our community has been…
Online Exclusives
Mustache culture has lost its historical edge over the past few years as the peak-and-valley trend has taken on a new identity as a marketing gimmick. Thanks, hipsters! (Even though…
Pete Buttigieg may now be the Secretary of Transportation, but it wasn’t that long ago that many of us were asking, “Who is this Mayor Pete guy?” A new Amazon…
I didn’t expect to find myself blinking back tears less than five minutes into John Heimbuch’s performance of Gilgamesh, but that is exactly what happened. I can’t tell you exactly…
“5Q” is an online-only column featuring five questions about stage productions in the Metro Area. Periodically, “5Q” will take the form of an interview with actors, directors, writers, etc. to…
Big Gay News
Phys.org reports that gay men experience increased discrimination in the labor market during times of economic recession, with significant discrepancies in pay and offers of job interviews compared to heterosexual men,…
Reuters reports that Botswana’s Court of Appeal on Monday upheld a 2019 ruling that decriminalized gay sex, a decision hailed by gay community as establishing the southern African country as a “true…
Gay City News reports that on November 23 a unanimous three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals of Indiana reversed a trial court’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Joshua Payne-Elliot against the…
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