The Dinah 2019
By Megan Wadding, April 2019 Issue. Club Skirts presents The Dinah. The annual music festival and pool party weekend — aka the largest lesbian event worldwide — is about [...]
Features
Art After Stonewall, 1969-1989
By Judy McGuire, April 2019 Issue. With recent major museum retrospectives from Andy Warhol, Frida Kahlo, Robert Mapplethorpe, David Wojnarowicz and Hockney, LGBTQI art seems [...]
JoJo brings her magic to Phoenix Pride’s mainstage
By Colby Tortorici, April 2019 Issue. Fans of the singer JoJo are on the edge of their seats as they wait to see her perform at Phoenix Pride. Headlining Saturday’s show, [...]
Phoenix Pride introduces Latin Stage and other new features to festival
By Laura Latzko, April 2019 Issue. RuPaul’s Drag Race fave Ms. Vanjie.Photo courtesy of Phoenix Pride. The Phoenix Pride Festival is built on tradition, but it continues to [...]
The Missing B? (In LGBTQ)
By Michelle Talsma Everson, April 2019 Issue. In a 2013 Pew Research Center survey of LGBTQ Americans, 36 percent identified as gay men, 19 percent as lesbians, 5 percent as [...]
Tiki Oasis makes its Arizona debut
By Tom Reardon, April 2019 Issue. Growing up in Phoenix in the 1970s was a surreal treat, at times. For example, across the street from the Arizona State Mental Hospital on [...]
Transgender activist Monica Helms serves as Community Grand Marshal at Phoenix Pride
By Laura Latzko, April 2019 Issue. Monica Helms In creating the pink, blue and white transgender flag, activist, author, and speaker Monica Helms made her mark on LGBTQ [...]
Conscious Cooking: FnB’s chef Charleen Badman delivers visually bewitching, soul-soothing dishes
By Tom Reardon, March 2019 Issue. All photos by Jill Richards Photography. Tucked away in an easily overlooked corner of Old Town Scottsdale is a desert gem. A unique dining [...]
The Queer Agenda: Local drag collective celebrates one-year anniversary
Story and photos by Logan Lowrey-Rasmussen, March 2019 Issue. The Queer Agenda has been hard at work in the Phoenix Metro area not only raising money for various charities [...]
Undressing the Dressing Room: Former drag bar is now an eclectic eatery
By Jeff Kronenfeld, March 2019 Issue. Photos by Jeff Kronenfeld; some courtesy of The Dressing Room. With gleaming new towers packed full of luxury condos popping up faster [...]
Four Buffets That Bring India’s Culinary Delights to the Valley
By Ashley Naftule, March 2019 issue. What comes to mind when you think of Phoenix cuisine? Is it our award-winning pizzas, crafted by artisanal masters like Chris Bianco? [...]
Our “Gayvorite” Restaurants
By Michelle Talsma Everson, March 2019 Issue. When my bestie and I are out on the town too late to hit up more traditional sit-down joints, we meet up at “Gay Denny’s” [...]
Under the Hood: 180 Degrees Automotive’s Bogi Lateiner
By Ashley Naftule, February 2019 issue. How hard were Rosie the Riveter’s hands? Look at that famous symbol, and you’ll see a clenched fist, a curled arm, and fingers [...]
BDSM and Polyamory: An Inside Look
By Michelle Talsma Everson, February 2019 Issue. Writing a story about polyamory and BDSM is like putting together a puzzle without the box top to tell you what it’s [...]
Creative Trespassing
By Tom Reardon, February 2019 Issue. We’ve all been there before. The clock on the wall seems to be going in the wrong direction and whatever time your shift is scheduled [...]
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