This Midwestern gem of a city, often overlooked for larger destinations, has much to offer the LGBTQ+ traveler. The host of the 2014 Gay Games, Cleveland’s queer community continues to… Read More

Bathhouses, like gay bars, have been around for what seems like forever. They pre-date gay bars. Men have been enjoying intimate moments with one another in saunas, hammams, and baths across… Read More

credit: La Casita CDMX With a metro population of over 22 million, Mexico City is the largest city in North America. CDMX is the center of gay life in Mexico, where clubs, backroom cruisi… Read More

The Nomadic Boys enjoy a fun time in the sand. (Photo: The Nomadic Boys) GayCities wants to help LGBTQ+ travelers discover different cultures, explore new frontiers, and connect with our… Read More

Photo: Na Dam SpaAimed at reducing HIV transmission in the 1980s, sweeping reforms decimated San Francisco and New York City‘s once-thriving bathhouse scene. Only recently has San Fran… Read More

A gay couple in Philadelphia’s Gayborhood. Photo courtesy of Jeff Fusco/Visit PhiladelphiaStand at the intersection of 13th Street and Locust in Philadelphia, and you’ll gaze upo… Read More

Tokyo Rainbow Pride. Photo by Takashi Aoyama/Getty Images.From the discrete apartment-size bars in Shinjuki Ni-chome to sprawling retail developments that give Beverly Hills’ Rodeo Dri… Read More

Puerto Vallarta is expanding its offerings with high-end accommodations and dining options. Photo courtesy of Casa CupulaThere is a renaissance happening in Puerto Vallarta, a top Mexican va… Read More

Literature is filled with great fictional bars, bartenders, and drunks—and cheers to them all. But, in 2018, when I started writing my narrative nonfiction book about Coogan’s, a… Read More

(Photos courtesy of Glad Day Bookshop)The founding of Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto in 1970 was an act of activism.  Before Jearld Moldenhauer set down roots for what would become the… Read More

Hot leather daddies were in full force at CLAW.Spring is in the air in Cleveland, and that means another long weekend of fun at CLAW (Cleveland Leather Awareness Week), the annual convention… Read More

WALNUT CREEK — A real estate titan has added a choice slice to the footprint of a high-profile shopping mall in the East Bay, an indication that retail centers remain viable despite co… Read More

From the gay sauna scene in Minneapolis, Atlanta and Chicago – New Gay Bathhouse Articles Should Bathhouse Ban be lifted in Minneapolis? About 50 people [...] The post New Gay Bathhous… Read More

Two blog posts were recently published chronicling the baths. First essay by Simon Smith on the exclusively men-for-men parlor in Guangzhou sheds light on LGBTI life in China and offers a m… Read More

July 3, 2016 The gay community in Toronto received something extraordinary on the eve of Gay Pride. The current Police Chief apologized for their role in the bathhouse raids 35 years ago. Fo… Read More

This week’s TowleREAD selection comes from author and historian Jim Downs, whose new book Stand By Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation, reexamines gay culture in the 1970… Read More

HIV's "Patient Zero" was exonerated long ago The news over the past 24 hours has exclaimed over and over: HIV's Patient Zero Exonerated How scientists proved the wrong man was b… Read More