"What did you do in the Great Recession, Grandpa Out There?"

American Brotherhood Weekend produces three new leather icons in New Orleans

"You’re born naked. The rest is all drag," said RuPaul to me in an interview in this publication about 15 years ago. That’s more true than ever these days. Clothes -or the lack thereof- mark a variety of LGBT queer-whatever fun sexy events this week. As the moon shifts, the Pride calendar fills, so strip off your inhibitions and enjoy life out and proud.

A few words remembering porn pioneer Jack Wranger, who may or may not created the 1970s clone look. Plus low and highbrow trannie madness and a big turnout for photographer Don Bachardy.

As GLAAD looks for new leadership, the agency’s critics are voicing their concerns about what role it should play in a rapidly changing media landscape, where major newspapers are folding and online sites and blogs are rushing in to fill the vacuum. "Is GLAAD obselete?" wonders media critic Cathy Renna.

Out There takes to the road in this week’s column.

It’s the reason there are porn stars everywhere you look! It’s the reason there are pre-parties and after-parties and just plain old party parties every night this weekend. It’s the reason my back-of-the-issue column is right smack up front! It’s the GayVN Awards!

Looking at the world through green-colored glasses.

Tony Award-winning actress reprises her Broadway role as Florence Foster Jenkins in ’Souvenir.’

Out There goes dancing, well, watches some... A new LA ’Ab Fab?’ Read on.

Out There was about & around Our Nation’s Capital last week while workers were busily constructing the inauguration stage in front of the Capitol, and there was something palpable in the air: change is a-coming.

Early 20th-century artist-illustrator "J.C. Leyendecker" created a world of sophistication and male beauty in his drawings for magazines and commercial advertising.

On a brisk, wintry summer Saturday night in San Francisco, Out There celebrated the warmth and vitality of the local arts scene at both a popular, sceney private-gallery party and the opening of a major triennial offering by a local arts institution.

During LGBT Gay Queer Homosexualist Pride week every year, Out There is always proud to put on our party dress and proclaim, "Welcome, LGBT tourists, to the gayest little cowtown in the wild old West!" Oh, we weren’t always so gung-ho. Prior to our current incarnation as a San Francisco cartoon character (along with the rest of you), we lived several past lives in New York, Baltimore and Philadelphia.