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Stuff Gay People Like: Architecture

Instead of boring plains, gay people like to live where there are things above and around them, wrapping the view-plane like a cozy hug. That means hilly places, like California, or forested places, like Massachusetts. But what gay men like most of all is living under 30-story buildings – which make up the least flat landscape you can think of – in a city wrapped in hills, under a cover of permanent clouds and fog, in a region blanketed by hundreds of miles of breathtakingly tall redwood trees

Pride on a budget for the young, queer and broke

The economy sucks. Your job doesn’t pay what it did, and gas prices – yikes. They say the rich are getting richer, but in your little gay universe you’ll do whatever it takes to get a deal this Pride weekend and still have fun.

Stuff Gay People Like: Copying lesbian haircuts

Stuff gay people like affectionately refers to these and all other hairstyles moving through a gender-neutral social phase as “bottom-tops.” Soon, each style will diverge into numerous manifestations as every kind of group adopts them differently; a slightly more restrained form of a hairdo will develop for straight men, a version with longer length will pop up for straight women and a $5,000-apiece highlighted adaptation will become popular in Hollywood.

Stuff Gay People Like: Giving compliments

We speculate that homophobia began 10,000 years ago in a Stone Age village – when…

Stuff Gay People Like: Therapy

Domestic arguments can get heated – parents and teenagers start cussing matches that wake up…

Photo from a trip to New York, by yours truly

Stuff Gay People Like: New York City

Gay people have lots of anxieties: getting old, STDs, Republicans, belly fat and running out…

Stuff Gay People Like: HIV panic attacks

Every gay man has it drilled into his head starting in early teenage years: HIV…

Stuff Gay People Like: Being socially liberal and economically conservative

It’s well known that the gay world is sworn against the Right Wing. But gay…

Stuff Gay People Like: Having a midlife crisis at 30

A straight boy has his first “girlfriend” when he’s 12, but the closest he’s ever…

Stuff Gay People Like: Foreign adoptions

It is known that gay people are among the world’s most traveled, forgoing 3-car garages…