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May 8, 2013
Traveling the world in search of queer artist activists

Gay Star News talks to Miyuki Baker about her world travels in search of queer artists and activists

What are the queer communities like in South America compared to Australia? Singapore compared to India? South Korea to Turkey? Recent college graduate Miyuki Baker is finding out by traveling the world in search of queer artists and activists, like herself.

After graduating from Pennsylvania-based liberal arts college Swarthmore, Baker won a $25,000 (US dollars, €19,000) Watson Fellowship that allows her to travel the world pursuing a particular project.

April 25, 2013
Scott Mills on Eurovision and why Sam Fox should represent Britain

Ahead of his coverage on Eurovision for BBC3, gay Radio One DJ Scott Mills tells GSN he wants to see former Sun glamor model Samantha Fox, sing in the competition for the UK in 2014

For the uninitiated, the Eurovision Song Contest is the continent’s most baffling contribution to culture. Some countries take it super-seriously, others (step forward the UK) treat it as a bit of a joke and, as a result, tend to lose. Embarrassingly. For Europe’s gays meanwhile, Eurovision – good or bad – is the perfect excuse for a party.

April 18, 2013
Power gays: Ryan James Lock, brand strategist

GSN meets an Ibiza-based brand strategist, our new dream job

Continuing our series devoted to meeting LGBT people around the world that are launching businesses, growing brands, leading their communities, or just doing interesting things, in this issue we catch up with Ibiza-based brand strategist Ryan James Lock.

What does a brand strategist do?

April 5, 2013
'People think we are powerless and voiceless, but we have enormous power'

Sunil Pant has come along way from not even knowing the word for gay before he was twenty to getting LGBTI rights recognized by the Supreme Court in Nepal, and he's not going to let current troubles hold him back

It's not an easy time for Sunil Pant, founder of the largest LGBT rights group in Nepal, Blue Diamond Society (BDS). A government office has sat on the renewal of BDS's license, holding-up funding so that staff haven't been paid for months. LGBTI activists are also being harassed, which Pant links to the same government officer.

February 13, 2013
Alternative gay lifestyles: Reiki healer in northern Thailand

After ten intense years of human rights work in London and Hong Kong, Mark Allison now runs a healing and coaching practice in Pai, a small town in the mountains of northern Thailand

During a break from a career in human rights work, Mark Allison made the spontaneous decision to buy a restaurant in Pai, a small town in the mountains in northern Thailand, with his partner. That decision led him to Reiki healing, a greater sense of fulfillment and and a new career as a personal coach.

January 11, 2013
Alternative gay lifestyles: tarot reading in Thailand

Originally from Liverpool, Bobby Seven now lives permanently on a beach in Thailand and earns a living from tarot card reading

Last year Bobby Seven, 34, left his life in Britain to live on a beach in Thailand permanently, earning a living as a transformational tarot card reader, online and in person. He lives on Had Tien beach on Koh Phangnan island, next to hippy holiday resort The Sanctuary.

As part of a series on alternative gay lifestyles, Gay Star News asks him about his life and what messages he has for the gay community back home.

Did you feel you had a 'sixth sense' from a young age?

December 20, 2012
One more sleep until the end of the world, five more sleeps 'till Christmas

A Mayan prophecy predicts the world will end tomorrow but who cares when Santa's on his way?

I don't know what I feel most upset about? The Mayan prophecy that the end of the world is nigh at the exact time of year when we can all be excused for greed, gluttony and excess or the fact that if it really does all end in hellfire and brimstone, then I've wasted a shed load of money on Peppa Pig and Spider Man action figures (not for me, but for my nephews and nieces).

December 2, 2012
Tales of San Francisco

After two days in San Francisco, GSN falls in love all over again

I first fell in love with the idea of San Francisco while reading Armistead Maupin’s iconic Tales of the City series.

Originally serialized in the San Francisco Chronicle, the first of the Tales of the City novels was published in 1978 and, through the portrayal of characters such as Mary Ann Singleton, Anna Madrigal, and Michael Tolliver, captured a time, a world, and a sprit that was so far removed from my experience that it seemed almost magical.

October 4, 2012
Scott Mills on Uganda, irritating celebs and naked Tom Daley

In an exclusive interview with Gay Star News, the gay Radio 1 DJ talks about future documentaries and sending drunken tweets to Rihanna

Gay DJ Scott Mills has spoken frankly in an exclusive interview with Gay Star News.

Sat on a sofa in London’s West End, we chatted to the Radio 1 DJ about the worst place in the world to be gay, sending drunken tweets to Rihanna, and Tom Daley in his swimsuit.

You haven’t talked about your sexuality very much in the past, is your book a departure from that?

September 28, 2012
Memoirs of a Gaysian

Gay Star News interviews Australian author Benjamin Law about his book, Adventures in Gaysia, that explores different aspects of queer life in Indonesia, Thailand, China, Japan, India, Malaysia and Burma

With vivid depictions of a transexual beauty pageant in Thailand, a gay nudist hotel in Bali, the ugly forefront of the fight against the HIV epidemic in Burma and a happy-clappy Sunday service at a ‘gay cure’ church in Malaysia, Adventures in Gaysia has more color than a Pride march in Mumbai. It’s also hilarious and serious.

Gay Star News talks to Australian magazine journalist and author Benjamin Law about the inspiration, the ups and downs and why there’s no need to take notes on penises.

Why did you decide to write this book?

September 24, 2012
Leather, beer and bears - gay day at Oktoberfest

GSN pays a visit to Munich’s world famous festival celebrating beer and lederhosen

I always get a bit distracted at airports, searching for a decent coffee, trying on aftershaves... I was pretty sure that my Lufthansa flight to Munich was departing from Gate 19 in London Heathrow’s Terminal 1, but maybe I’d read the sign wrong? I looked around and there was a reassuring number of young guys in lederhosen (the traditional Bavarian leather shorts). Oktoberfest here we come!

August 23, 2012
Graingerboy on clubbing, his music, ME and gay life

‘Shadowformerself’ is the debut solo release from gay UK artist Simon Grainger

Simon Grainger is best known as a fixture of the Balearic music scene during the 90s when he played live keyboards and backing vocals for Ibiza sunset band A Man Called Adam.

These days Grainger records under the moniker of Graingerboy and has made his home in Leeds in the north of England. Gay Star News caught up with him to talk about his music and growing up gay.

What was it like growing up gay in the UK in the late-80s?