Derek Nelson, a spiky-haired beefcake from rural Pennsylvania, had just lost his job at the Hollywood Wax Museum when he was approached by a Hollywood producer with an intriguing proposition: Go-go dancing for gay guys. “Literally the next night, I’m on stage dancing in my underwear,” Nelson remembers. “The casting…

‘Good and cheap to get your kink on with your lover. Get the back view so you can enjoy the Mountain View in stand up dog position’ — The aspiration of hotel sex is to try new and exciting things, like anal in the shower or a pegging session with your Shape of Water dildo. Unfortunately, things don’t always go so smoothly. Sometimes you check yourself into a fluorescent hell that looks nothing like the relaxing spa you…

I’m at a health food cafe in L.A. and the actress Freckle is teaching me how to be more like her. Her secrets, she says, are tinted moisturizer, a blowout, smokey eye, a subtle lip and heels. Then she looks down at what she’s currently wearing. …

A roundtable discussion with today’s modern families — When I came out to my mom in high school, she sat shiva for my future, barely bothering to shower or change out of her pajamas for a week. I escaped to a friend’s house and pretended his family was mine. “Are you over it?” I’d call and ask; she’d…

A researcher discusses the first-ever large-scale study on Russian homophobia — In Russia, the “Gay Lobby” is seen as a social contagion — highly infectious and spreading fast. “Society believes we can multiply,” says Evgeny Osin, a professor at the National Research University in Moscow. …

Why it’s hot for the president to get fucked by Putin, dinosaurs and even his own tax returns — It’s been said that we’re having less sex since the election of Donald Trump. “After the Election, I Lost My Sex Drive,” an Elle headline revealed. “Donald Trump Is Destroying America’s Sex Life,” read another on Slate. But there’s a certain breed of writer whose erotic imagination was sparked by…

In a certain sense, Ai Weiwei’s new Oscar-shortlisted film, Human Flow, represents a departure from the artist’s usual incendiary style: It’s a sober look at the suffering of 65 million people forced to flee their homes due to conflict or persecution. …

After seeing Call Me by Your Name three weeks ago, Ramone, a 20-year-old from Guadalajara, Mexico, began posting photos of its star, Timothée Chalamet, on his Twitter account. …

‘Call Me by Your Name,’ Kevin Spacey and what counts as predatory behavior among gay men — There’s a part of the whole Kevin Spacey scandal I still can’t get over. In an interview with New York magazine, an anonymous gay man told reporter E. Alex Jung that whenever he would describe his sexual relationship with Spacey to friends, he would include a caveat. “Every time I’ve…