In this edition of Weeklings!, I test your gay spelling credibility with seven words related to pop culture, gayness, reality TV and gay iconography. Can you spell these words? No lie: They're pretty tough.

In today's complex, post-everything culture, does the term "camp" still have meaning? Sitting down with me, Bruce LaBruce answered some questions about his essay "Notes on Camp/Anti-Camp" and "camp-categorized" a brand new list of current gay-related people and topics.

Jinkx Monsoon's brilliant impersonation of Little Edie revealed a fascinating cultural divide among the Drag Race contestants. Few of the queens knew who Little Edie was, and this difference paralleled differences in race, ethnicity, class and some broader, more elusive quality of gay identity.

A controversial Facebook page devoted to the practice of unprotected sex between consenting male partners (known as "barebacking") has sparked a dialo...

We wrote the book because we wanted to celebrate Tammy Faye Bakker, RuPaul and the many other pioneering spirits who have changed our lives. People who live life out loud and proud instead of subduing themselves to fit in -- these are the characters who have always inspired us.

YouTube sensation Randy Rainbow offers up the history of the word "gay" in just two minutes in this new video. Set to the tune of "Be Our Guest" f...

With 2012 being an incredibly historic year for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, it's only fitting that the cultural scene...

Having lived all over the country in several metropolitan cities, I have experienced and learned a lot about queer culture and diversity within our community, but nothing has shocked me more than what I learned in San Francisco. Gay men here mostly play by different rules.

Michael Arden may be hitting the stage of New York’s 54 Below nightclub for the first time this weekend, but the “Anger Management” star’s per...

To New York's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, Fire Island is known as a glittering paradise of sand and surf. But last wee...

I can sympathize with inveterate counterculturists who feel that something has been lost amid gains in LGBT equality. Back when gay life existed in a parallel world divorced from our jobs and birth families, a certain freedom reigned, allowing us to let loose and create and experiment.

New York City-based writer-director Adam Goldman has produced an intriguing new web series about gay life in the big city. Titled "The Outs," Goldman ...

If anti-gay people truly believe that being gay is a sin or abnormal, what then? Do they wish LGBT people would simply disappear? Imagine, for a moment, that there were no LGBT people on the planet. Just what would this world look like?

Gay people are cultivated and nuanced, with a fabulous and indisputable grasp of aesthetics, style, and design. Whether you are gay or straight, a familiarity with the miraculous gay canon is the key to creativity, joie de vivre, and not being a giant bore.

With 2011 having been a banner year for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights, it makes perfect sense that LGBT culture also saw a considerabl...

Actor, writer and HuffPost Gay Voices blogger Jeffrey Self has offered up his twist on the popular "Shit Girls Say" with "Shit Gay Guys Say." Amon...

One of the roots of sex addiction is an inability to cope with trauma and shame, feelings that LGBT people may struggle with as a community more so than their non-LGBT counterparts. However, gay sex addiction is no different from straight sex addiction.

In every city in America (and, I suspect, the Western world) there are drag queens, DJs, artists, and performers busting their asses every day to make gay culture happen. And for you to airily decree gay culture to be dead is a kick in the face.

Recently, in Vice Magazine, beloved writer, photographer, and filmmaker Bruce LaBruce wondered aloud that "gay culture is dead" (no, not "wondered if"... go read the title). And by the time I had finished reading, I was fuming.

On the day that lesbian and gay New Yorkers could finally legally wed their life partners, a thought occurred to me that I hadn't considered before. At the over ripe age of 35, I was now a spinster.