Summer in Orlando Shines with an All-New Theme Park, Unforgettable Experiences, and Major Sporting Events

posted Sunday, June 8, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Travel

Orlando dials up the excitement this summer with a lineup of new experiences — an all-new theme park, the return of an electrifying stage show, an immersive speakeasy dining experience, themed accommodations perfect for families, and star-studded global soccer matches. NEW ATTRACTION EXPERIENCES Universal Orlando Resort Universal Orlando Resort’s highly anticipated theme park, Universal Epic Universe, […]

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Room 100 – Sid, Nancy, and the night punk rock died

posted Sunday, June 8, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Room 100 chronicles the tragic story of Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen, punk rock’s very own Romeo and Juliet. Through a wealth of archival material, plus new and exclusive interviews from rock luminaries such as Television guitarist Richard Lloyd, iconic photographer Robert Bayley, and PUNK magazine co-creator John Holmstrom. Critically acclaimed true-crime writer Jesse P. Pollack’s book is […]

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Canada’s First Rainbow Registered Residential Rental Building, Story of Midtown Toronto, Now Open

posted Saturday, June 7, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Activism, Community, Real Estate

Hazelview Properties has announced the opening of Canada’s first Rainbow Registered residential rental building. The Rainbow Registered accreditation is given to businesses and organizations that meet stringent standards to ensure that 2SLGBTQI+ customers feel welcome. While numerous businesses across the country hold the accreditation, the Story of Midtown Toronto rental property at 73/75 Broadway Ave is the first residential […]

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Nobu Hotel Toronto is now open and offering introductory rates for summer stays

posted Friday, June 6, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Travel

Nobu Hotel Toronto is now officially open, and welcoming guests. After debuting Canada’s first Nobu restaurant last summer, this marks the full launch of the country’s first integrated Nobu property, bringing together the brand’s signature hospitality, culinary excellence, and design-forward living – founded by Chef Nobu Matsuhisa, Robert De Niro, and Meir Teper. The boutique […]

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Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told is a rule-breaking, sweat-soaked, genre-busting story of outlaw love

posted Tuesday, June 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Deep House: The Gayest Love Story Ever Told takes place in 1996, with Jeremy Atherton Lin having just met the boy of his dreams, a mumbling, starry-eyed Brit. Simultaneously, amid a media frenzy, US Congress prepares the Defense of Marriage Act, denying same-sex couples federal rights including immigration. The pair steals away to remote forests and vast […]

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Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness

posted Tuesday, June 3, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

Sick and Dirty is a blazingly original historical review that details the persistence of queerness on screen, behind the camera, and between the lines, during the dark days of the Hollywood Production Code. From the 1930s to the 1960s, the Motion Picture Production Code severely restricted what Hollywood cinema could depict. This included “any inference” […]

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The South is an intimate story about inheritance, loyalty, and love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The South is a luminous and intimate novel about the weight of inheritance, the bonds of loyalty, and the awakening of love, set against the backdrop of a changing Malaysia. The story unfolds during a visit by the Lim family to their rural clan estate after a long absence. Jay, in his mid-teens, and his […]

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The Giveaway: The Clay Blackburn Story – collective tales about bisexual Berkeley raconteur

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Giveaway tells the story Clay Blackburn, a poet, book scout, and sometimes detective, who cruises the mean, and sometimes not so mean, streets of Berkeley. With his accomplices, a soldier of fortune, a “defrocked” FBI agent, and a smooth and sexy con man, he lives a life of bisexual sensation with a little crime […]

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The Stalker – a down on his luck, self-entitled young man cons women into his delusional life

posted Tuesday, May 27, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

The Stalker follows a young man who combines boundless self-confidence with perpetual failure and ineptitude, as he tries to manipulate his way into a better life, preying on women in New York City in the early ’90s. An Untalented Mr. Ripley, a Dumb American Psycho.Robert Doughten Savile, aka “Doughty,” is the son of a once-wealthy, […]

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I Remember Lights – a tale of queer life and love in Montreal during the 1960’s and 70s

posted Sunday, May 25, 2025

by: Bryen Dunn in Books

I Remember Lights depicts a time when the world promised everything to everyone, however irresponsibly. In summer 1967, love is all you need…but some forms of love are criminal. As the spectacular Expo 67 celebrations take shape, a young man new to Montreal learns about gay life from cruising partners, one-night stands, live-in lovers, and […]

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