Day: April 5, 2018

Tim Owen travels by camel to Wadi Rum, Jordan. After a few days in Aqaba, Jordan, we drove to Wadi Rum for our Bedouin excursion. We were met on the outskirts of town and directed to the tourist parking by one of the guides. And by outskirts I mean the first building we came to, […]

Alexia Santamaria is the co-author of popular blog www.cheapeats.co.nz, the Auckland guide to eating great food without going bankrupt. Melbourne is undoubtedly one of the best cities in the southern hemisphere for dining. You can get everything from fabulous cheap Bahn Mi sandwiches from a hole in the wall to four-hour degustations in gorgeous high end settings. […]

Guest editor Tim Owen visits Mumbo Island on Lake Malawi… and comes back a changed man. It wasn’t until the small wooden jetty on the mainland came into view at the end of the long weekend, that I realised just how deeply Mumbo Island had touched me. I wasn’t so deeply touched by the movie […]

Ever since Ancient Greece ceased to exist, humankind has been searching for the new Gay Capital of the World, and we can say without a second thought that this capital is definitely New York City. However, if it’s your first time there, you really have to get a pen and paper and write everything down […]

More than a year after the first reports of Chechnya’s ‘gay purge’, most of the men taken by authorities have still not been found and are feared to be imprisoned or dead. Article by Jesse Jones, StarObserver.com.au More than a year after the first reports of gay and bisexual men in Chechnya being tortured in […]

Grindr has said HIV status will no longer be shared with other data as of the app’s next update – whenever that may be – and defended itself, calling the app a “public forum”. Article by Laurence Barber, StarObserver.com.au Gay dating and hookup app Grindr has been sharing sensitive data that includes users’ HIV status […]