Every June the same fight breaks out. Here is why the leather, the harnesses, and the pups belong there more than the corporate floats do.Like clockwork, it arrives. Sometime around the first week ...

A field guide to one of the gay community's most joyful, most misunderstood, and quietly most liberating subcultures.Walk into the right bar on the right night and you might spot them. Someone in a...

There is a moment every June when someone, somewhere, asks why we have to be so much. So loud. So shirtless. So sweaty at 2am on a sidewalk in heels that should be illegal. So feral. Here is the an...

International Mr. Leather has been living its life publicly, loudly, and without apology since 1979. And if you're not paying attention, you're missing one of the most consequential queer instituti...

Bimbofication is a kink. A subculture. A whole aesthetic universe, depending on who you ask. At its core, it's the fantasy, or in some cases the active practice, of transforming into something soft...

  We posted this on Bluesky a couple weeks ago: "plz stop thirsting over AI 'models' — there's plenty of hot real humans. thank you." Some agreed. Some got defensive. A few sent AI thirst traps i...

We turned a physical preference into a personality type. It’s time to drop the script. In queer spaces, language moves fast. Sometimes we adopt labels so quickly we forget to check if they actually...

Rethinking flirting, hookups, and self-connection without alcohol. For many queer people, alcohol is more than a social lubricant, it’s infrastructure. It shapes how nights begin, how confidence is...

gay sex is everywhere again.not hidden. not euphemized. not quietly implied. it is being talked about. joked about. debated. commodified. censored. desired. feared. celebrated. and a lot of that vi...

And what to do if you’re not feeling included. If there’s one sexual activity many gay and queer men love, it’s group sex, threesomes in particular. I am a threesome fanatic, an aficionado, if you ...

There’s something about fall that makes everything feel a little more dangerous — the air’s colder, the nights are longer, and the hookups hit harder. The boys are outside (but only barely), the dr...

With the Folsom Street Fair taking over San Francisco this weekend, we chatted with writer and creative Leo Herrera about how desire, protest and history converge on the city’s leather-lined alleyw...

Amtrak Police are running sting operations in Penn Station bathrooms, reportedly even using Sniffies to bait people. Since June, dozens have been arrested for so-called “public lewdness” — with 23 ...

Steven Phillips-Horst’s piece maps out today’s queer sex landscape: optimized hedonism, new pharmaceuticals, hookup apps as cultural stages, and nightlife that blurs wellness with excess. But what ...