Author: Jeremy A. Quist
-
Open and Closed: Gay in Prague
I know what you’re thinking. Gay + Prague = Porn. Believe it not, there are gay people in Prague who have not been in porn. Even young twinky ones. Mind blown? Prague has a very healthy gay community. Prague Pride is large and conflict-free. Gay bars don’t have to hide. I saw couples holding hands…
-
I Have Seen the Future and it is Queer: Gay in Stockholm
Scandinavia is well-known as a progressive bastion even among the generally progressive northern and western European countries. So I guess when I came to Stockholm I kind of expected the gay community to be strongly visible and easy to find. But I didn’t really find that to be the case. What I discovered was that…
-
We Two Boys Together Clinging
In the summer of 2014, I was walking along a road in Cluj-Napoca, Romania when I saw something surprisingly poignant. There was a bit of graffiti on a wall I walked past that seemed to sum up the gay experience for most of human history – not just in Romania, but across the world. It…