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When Cabaret Crooner Michael Feinstein and comedian dame edna unite on broadway, wigs will fly.
 
It’s either the most daring move in show business or the biggest prank ever pulled on the Great White Way. Out singer Michael Feinstein, the keeper of the Great American Songbook, has joined forces with beloved Australian icon Dame Edna Everage for an all-new Broadway show, All About Me. continue reading »

Go-go boys are a many splendored thing: attractive, shirtless and often well-hung. It’s hard not to sneak a peek when in the same room with a gyrating beauty. We all do it, turning these fine gents into fine pieces of meat. But take a step back and look at the evolution of the species and you’ll have a whole new view of the go-gos, one that will change how you leer at those boys on the bar.

Go-go boys are a staple in New York’s gay nightlife, their ubiquity almost negating their ability to arouse. But it wasn’t always that way, for go-go dancers can trace their lineage way back to the early 1960s, when women began dancing at bars like New York’s Peppermint Lounge. Artist Ronnie Cutrone, known to some as the first true go-go boy, said that Trudy Heller’s club was “the haven, the womb of go-go dancing.” The men kept it classy, he says, dancing in white shirts and vests. continue reading »

Next Magazine style guru—and Bravo reality star— Patrick McDonald gives the scoop on the final Fashion Week at Bryant Park (it’s heading to Lincoln Center) and the fabbest looks for fall/winter 2010. continue reading »

We catch up with Little Boots on the eve of her U.S. release and tour
 
Considering she was seated in the front row at the DKNY show in the tents at Bryant Park a few weeks ago, you’d think Victoria Hesketh—the woman better known as Little Boots—would be all about Fashion Week. But it was one of only a few shows she caught. “I was in the studio, so that was a priority.” continue reading »

Drag queens, bartenders, promoters, performers, DJs and go-go boys. Their job is to booze, dance and party all night. So you may be surprised at what Wilsonmodels catches them doing when they gather on their night off. continue reading »

Actor Bobby Steggert, star of the new gay musical yank!, proves hard work and determination in this town still account for something.
 
For Bobby Steggert, the fresh-scrubbed, irresistibly sexy star of shows as disparate as 110 in the Shade and The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, Stephen Sondheim’s iconic lyric about show business survival, "Top billing Monday, Tuesday you're touring in stock...I’m still here" has lately proven to have a ring of truth to it. But this costar of the prematurely shuttered revival of The Kennedy Center’s sensational production of Ragtime—in which he won rave reviews as Mother’s Younger Brother—has rebounded by starring in the upcoming Off-Broadway production of Yank!, which began previews at The York on February 16. continue reading »

Raven O Spreads his wings and shares his story in a new one-man-show, One night with you.
 
In Native American folklore, the raven is a trickster. With his devilish smile, sultry voice and checkered past, it would be easy to see alt-cabaret star Raven O in that mythological role. Arriving in New York in 1989 (after winning a one-way ticket in a dance contest in his native Hawaii), he took roost in the East Village, singing in seedy clubs and cabarets and befriending luminaries like Grace Jones, Keith Haring and Joey Arias, who is now a lifelong friend and mentor. By the early ’90s, though, Raven fell prey to drugs and resorted to hustling to feed his habit. The bleached-blond bard—who emerged from his addiction to star in acclaimed shows at Bar d’O, The Box and Las Vegas—revisits the good and bad times in his new show, One Night with You, coming to the Bleecker Street Theater on February 23 and March 2. continue reading »

More than just a collection of erotic drawings, the legacy of New York’s queer art scene demands—and deserves—preservation. Herein lies The quest to document our history in pencil, ink and watercolor.

Today, anyone looking to see a naked man doesn’t have to work too hard.  If you can’t find a porn website to your liking with a cursory search of the Internet, then check out any gossip blog for the latest celebrity sex photos. We live in a city where the only thing coming between the world and David Beckham’s mega-penis on a billboard in Times Square is a little piece of Emporio Armani underwear. continue reading »

Richard Klein looks to unite the LGBT workforce on his new professional networking website, dot429.

As gay culture moves from the Meatpacking’s back alleys to Midtown’s boardrooms, so too does the way in which gays communicate and network. Which is why Surface Magazine publisher Richard Klein developed dot429, an innovative new online community that specifically aims to connect LGBT professionals. continue reading »

The transport group’s new intimate staging of mart crowley’s play, The Boys in the Band, helps solidify the work’s relevancy and legacy more than 40 years after its debut.
 
Since its opening in 1968, Mart Crowley’s seminal gay play, The Boys in the Band, has had a colorful and controversial history. Critics have called it stereotypical and self-loathing. But on the eve of an innovative revival, playwright Mart Crowley is sanguine about such concerns. continue reading »