Dixon Place Presents HOT! The 14th annual New York City celebration of queer culture. The grandmother of LGBT performance festivals features new works by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered artists including theater, dance, music, poetry, fiction, performance art, and homoeroticism for the whole family! Each year audiences flock to what amounts to an annual survey of New York City’s ...

Severity, nature of anti-gay persecution divide rights groups, activists, journalists

One year ago this week, two young men, variously reported to be between 16 and 18, were hanged in Mashad, Iran. The initial reporting stated that the youths, Ayaz Marhoni and Mahmoud Asgari, were gay lovers executed for their homosexuality. Quickly, however, human rights groups, most prominently Human Ri...

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The term "romantic traveller", once used indiscriminately by Spaniards to describe any foreigner with a passionate interest in Spain, seems particularly applicable to Jason Webster. Though alert to the ugly, absurd and ki...

On a Sunday, March 5, 1899, Bishop Thoburn delivered his first sermon in a worship service held at Teatro Filipino in Manila to about seventy American soldiers and fifty Filipinos. This event marked the official beginning of the Methodist missionary work and Methodism in the Philippines.

In 1900, after the victory of Admiral George Dewey’s fleet over the Spanish Armada and "Almost b...

My Super Ex-Girlfriend is a strange hybrid: part kiddie superhero adventure movie; part romantic sex comedy.

Ivan Reitman, who directed it, had his biggest success with the two Ghostbusters films, which combined laughs with some sexy moments.

Clearly he's hoping lightning will strike twice with My Super Ex-Girlfriend, but the laughs are fewer here and, strangely, an air of mea...

Even in downtown Las Vegas on the steps of the Regional Justice Center, it's a phrase that causes a stir among passers-by. But in the oppressive midday heat of July 13, about two dozen self-described sex workers massed for a grassroots demonstration to lobby for their civil rights, human dignity and a little vocational pride.

"Any time a woman takes control of her own sexuality, she can ...

This shouldn't be surprising. "Relative to much of the skin of the human body, the fingertips have a high concentration of nerve endings, equipping them as centers of tactile sensation" (source ). Much like the fingers, a person's sexual organs carry a high volume of nerve endings, which are responsible for the degree of pleasure or pain a person may physically experience. Because of the rela...

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The bookmakers who decided to hand out just a pound for every 50 wagered on Seve Ballesteros missing the 36-hole cut would not have reconsidered their measly 1-50 odds after watching the great man hit his opening tee shot, an uncertain drive ballooned right. And yet, by the time he doffed his cap to an adoring...