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THE BRIEFING. Gay stuff.
The quirkiest town on the eastern seaboard now has a hotel that can match its sense of… let’s just say nuttiness.
Bang where you want it to be – Soho House is there, the new Thomas Heatherwick Little Island is just down there, all the fancy boutiques are everywhere – the totally refurbed Gansevoort is where you need to be in NYC.
Gorgeous, fun, sexy… and a killer location in London’s Glittering West End. What’s not to love?
A slick 1930s hotel upgraded so high you might get a nosebleed just off the main drag of Wenceslas Square
We loved Ewan McGregor as Halston in that Ryan Murphy thing. And we kind of watched the Balenciaga one a bit but not much. But what we will be glued to is a new Disney+ series about the life and times and loves and boyfriends and outfits and feuds of the Kaiser himself, one Karl Lagerfeld.
In today’s Oscar noms, in between the Barbies and the Oppenheimers and the Killers of Flower Moons is a film you might not have heard of. It’s called Rustin.
A major upgrade for one of the West Coast’s legendary hotels renders it even more deliciously nutty than before!
The little sister to Lisbon’s Torel Palace is younger, prettier and provides incredible views of the Douro, but don’t make us choose.
A strange new Gothic hotel for rock stars/rock fans right in the middle of Tin Pan Alley where they encourage noise but where the sleep is deep and restful.
Are you one of those people who collects clothes? We don’t mean a hoarder. We mean a connoisseur. Someone who knows what they’re talking about when it comes to clobber and who could never get rid of that original cotton lawn Vivienne Westwood smock shirt or that Richmond Cornejo zippy punky jacket.
If you should find yourself with 48 hours to kill - maybe you're in A&E or waiting for a Trans-Penine Railway train - then you could do a lot worse than buy the audiobook of the autobiography of Barbra Streisand.
A beautiful country-house hotel just got well and truly funkied up making it one of the coolest rural retreats we can think of. Oh and there’s a spa!
Penelope Wilton and Luke Evans star as The Queen Mother and her favourite gay staff member. Already a winner in our book. Add the fact that it comes from the prestigious Michael Grandage Company and you’re onto a sure-fire smash hit.
The grandest of grande dame hotels gets her groove back with a delicious refurb that makes her fit for a queen. Or queens, plural.
Soho is jumping again thanks to a little hidden gem from the people who brought you The Wolseley, The Delaunay and Fischer’s. All aboard!
If you thought Mykonos had reached capacity when it came to gorgeous hotels, it’s just gone way over the top with a pool we defy you to beat.
They’ve been telling us where to get off - in the nicest possible way - for over 40 years, so leave it to Rough Guides to come up with the last word on LGBTQ+ Europe.
An ancient town in Brittany has been completely made over thanks to the arrival of Mama and her cheeky design – and party! - ways.
They can’t blame you for drinking a cheeky Crystal Head cocktail when that cocktail is raising money for LGBTQ+ charity Kaleidoscope, surely!
The most palatial/modern room in the whole Iberia? It could well be. Just one of the attractions of this something old/something new palaceta hotel.
Spectacular doesn’t even begin to describe the most gorgeous hotel to ever grace southern Italy… And yes, of course it’s the work of two fabulously talented gay Londoners.
A strange brutalist building emerging from the almost-lunar landscape of this wine-producing island in the Azores surrounded by the wild Atlantic makes the perfect spot to try some amazing wine. And sleep.
As if the perfect party hotel with the chicest private beach on the whole island wasn’t enough, they then added Jason Atherton…
They’ve been telling us where to get off - in the nicest possible way - for over 40 years, so leave it to Rough Guides to come up with the last word on LGBTQ+ Europe.
Spectacular doesn’t even begin to describe the most gorgeous hotel to ever grace southern Italy… And yes, of course it’s the work of two fabulously talented gay Londoners.
As if the perfect party hotel with the chicest private beach on the whole island wasn’t enough, they then added Jason Atherton…
Bring out your inner Meghan Markle… No we don’t mean start wearing unflattering camel coats and too much make-up. We do mean bag yourself a private jet to get back from your holidays because, even if you’re not a second-rate actress who married well, you can still afford to travel in style.
The most beautiful destination in the world – according to many – just got a serious shot of contemporary glamour.
Shiny and new and as sexy as all get go, Ibiza just upgraded itself thanks to the coolest new hotel on the island.
We’re nothing if not previous, so we’ve already put aside a decent chunk of 2024 – and considerable dollar bills for sensible yet stylish layering – for a jolly to what might just be the most exciting hotel opening of that year.
Is this the sleekest new hotel on the whole of the infamous gay party island? Undoubtedly. What a question!
Slick, sleek and pretty penny-pricewise. Is there anything wrong with Athens’ coolest new boutique hotel? That would be a no.
You may have read them. Or pretended to have read them. Or read about them. Well now you don’t have to because there is a new six-hour Netflix documentary series on The Andy Warhol Diaries
Super-cool and completely sustainable, The Alan changes the Manchester hotel scene for good
Orlebar Brown have launched their very first, very luxury loungewear collection, a very clever, stylish, soft-to-the-touch reaction to our NWOL (New Way Of Living).
A question for you: when is a boutique hotel not a boutique hotel? When it’s a super-boutique hotel, silly!
‘For ten glorious years, I had the best seat in the house,’ says Bruce as he introduces us to a skinny-as-a-whippet Chaka without so much as a weave…
A little slice of New York City right slap bang in the middle of London’s newly-glittering East End? Oh, go on then.
Colour, style and the most perfect location: just three things that make this our favourite designery Danish digs.
Michael Longhurst – Artistic Director of Donmar Warehouse, a place that isn’t afraid of a star turn - has roped in the loveliest gay in showbiz, Russell Tovey, and Omari Douglas off-of It’s A Sin (who we’re sure is also lovely but we haven’t had the pleasure) to star in his interpretation of Constellations at London’s glittering Vauderville Theatre.
A real oasis - and we don’t go to the ‘o’ word very often - of greenery and sustainability with views across the city that never sleeps... and never stops going on about how it never sleeps. Insomnia, much?
When it comes to musicals, we have a very definite top 5. In no particular order they are: Oliver!, Sweeney Todd, Chicago, Evita and, of course, Cabaret.
It may have emerged from the golden carriage horribly creased (well, they could hardly have a steamer in there, could they? It would have fogged the windows) but up close, in the current Royal Style in the Making exhibition at Kensington Palace, the wedding dress of HRH Diana, Princess of Wales is actually a bit of alright.
Across the road from Henry VIII’s favourite palace - and one of ours! Coincidence? We don’t think so - is a riverside building conceived for courtiers by King Charles II. Which means it’s plenty good enough for the likes of you!
The last time we were in or near a Butlins we were two-thirds up the driveway before the front passenger seat piped up, ‘Turn the car round Paul, we’re not staying here!’
Never mind your Bridgertons and your Emilys in Paris (what the hell was that?), what about the series and one-offs that seem to have been ignored? Except by us, that is.
When it comes to smart chat, it doesn’t come any smarter than as dished out by one Fran Lebowitz, the clumpy-shoes lesbian raconteuse of Old New York.
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