#gay travel reviews

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Chateau Westport - Washington

Chateau Westport | 710 S Hancock Ave, Westport, WA 98595 | (360) 268-9101 Your home on the Washington Coast. Chateau Westport, located on the beautiful Washington Coast offers comfortable rooms just steps from the Pacific Ocean. Their oceanfront property offers an abundance of rooms to choose from including – ocean-view suites with saunas, kitchenettes, and dog-friendly rooms. Take a short…

[misspaoline]

"From his suave charm to how he smokes a cigarette, Matt Bomer captures a perfect 50’s movie star aura when on screen. Yet, whenever Hawk is forced to keep Tim at a distance, Bomer delicately conveys Hawk’s underlying melancholia hidden beneath his seductive veneer. Meanwhile, Jonathan Bailey equally impresses with his work as the blissfully romantic yet gradually hard-headed Tim.

The miniseries mainly hinges on the central performances of Bomer, Bailey, Alladin, and Picketts. Also, when the series is set during the McCarthyism era, it becomes full of tense intrigue"

[roysexton]

A Tale of Two Closets: Maestro and Fellow Travelers

Gay film and television drama always includes suffering. A lot of suffering. We in the LGBTQIA+ community don’t get a lot of Julia Roberts/Hugh Grant frothy rom coms. Hell, we don’t get any Marvel epics, Disney fables, sci-fi adventures, or even glitzy musicals of our own. C’est la vie. But sometimes in the suffering, Hollywood gets it right. That is indubitably the case with…

[thequeereview]

TV Review: Fellow Travelers ★★★★★

Created by Oscar-nominated Philadelphia screenwriter Ron Nyswaner, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon, the eight-episode Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers is an exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction. With a nuanced gay love story at its centre, it is a captivating, sweeping, and deeply moving epic that takes in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and follows its repercussions in…

[thewhizzyhead]

hi i just got this is how you lose the time war and i fully plan on starting it after class woo get ready for this bitch to be emotionally eviscerated

[unproduciblesmackdown]

more summer stock review quotes from ones i looked up b/c the goodspeed instagram posted excerpts (though there's some secret middletown press one that i guess was/is print only). emphasis added by me for the queer agenda which is the whole focus of my excerptions, but the whole review is informative & fun

Jane’s principal suitor, Orville Wingate II, turns out to be a talented musician who is ostensibly gay, and his father, a banker, has been transformed into his mother, a penny-pinching land hoarder. [...] Gloria and Jane are played by Arianna Rosario and Danielle Wade, respectively. The two share resemblance and physical possibilities, but their characters are so very different that the plot begins to make sense when Gloria quits as the lead and later re-emerges as a show producer. We are shown that she has the same sort of initiative as Jane has about the farm. I think this is a brilliant stroke of invention by Steinkellner. [...] Jane’s first-grade sweetheart, Orville Wingate II (Eddie Bracken in the movie), is played by Will Roland, who delivers an interesting performance as the overwhelmed son of a tyrannical mother who ultimately shows his mettle and makes a move on the show’s composer and arranger, Phil Filmore (Phil Silvers in the movie), played by Gilbert L. Bailey II. The two men are delicious together, singing and dancing duets as their friendship grows first into a professional arrangement and then turns into who-knows-what. The production allows them to discover that “This is their Lucky Day.” A third romantic relationship comes about when Orville’s hideous mother, divinely played by Veanne Cox, reveals a secret passion for a Shakespearean actor who has been blackmailed into taking the lead in Joe Ross’s musical extravaganza.

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and some bonus fun quotes here lol

Love, of course, ensues between the central characters as the question of will the show go on pulsates throughout the troupe.  Catastrophe is averted at the last moment as sorted couplings work themselves out to produce…ta da…the requisite happy ending. [...] Will Roland, the archetype of teenage angst in the original Broadway productions of Dear Evan Hansen and Be More Chill, is a joy as Margaret’s coddled, frumpy, and good-hearted son Orville.

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(also via that first review i'm presuming i was one song off with This guess, and that the piano number between orville & phil is "lucky day" as is suggested. time to listen to it. right then so instead of the song abt banger music and dancing to it with your little sweetie, it's the song all about how lucky you are b/c you're so happy b/c Then Of Course You Happened Along, not framed around anything else lol. hell yeah)

[whisperingofthepages]

Shoestring Theory by Mariana Costa

Pages: 400 Publisher: Angry Robot Released: 8th of October 2024 A queer, madcap, friends-to-lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers time travel romance with the future of the world at stake, this charming fantasy tale is sure to satisfy fans of Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree. The kingdom of Farsala is broken and black clouds hang heavy over the arid lands. Former Grand-Mage of the High Court, Cyril…

[afabstract]

4 Minutes Review: Great-Tyme Thriller? Not Quite.

Bible Wichapas Sumettikul and Jespipat Tilapornputt star in "4 Minutes," where foresight into the future sparks a whirlwind of romance and suspense.

Follow us on Twitter | Instagram When the creators of ‘4 Minutes’ dropped the trailer for their time-traveling (sort of) thriller, you couldn’t make out what the plot was about, which was a great sign – good trailers shouldn’t give the story away. But now that I’ve seen the 8-episode long series starring Bible Wichapas Sumettikul and Jespipat Tilapornputt as Great and Tyme, I am still not sure…

[bookstattoosandtea]

IG & Blog Tour, Exclusive Excerpt & Giveaway: You Can Save Me by R.L. Merrill

Blog Tour, Excerpt & Giveaway: You Can Save Me By R.L. Merrill Carnival of Mysteries Series From author R.L. Merrill comes the follow-up to You Can Do Magic, Winner of The Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers’ Choice award and Finalist in the North Texas Romance Writers’ Carolyn Contest. Sixties folk singer Dane Donovan vanished from a desolate highway rest area in 1979. Forty years later, he’s…

[madlovenovelist]

Book Review – ‘Vows of Empire’ (#3 The Bloodright Trilogy) by Emily Skrutskie

Two leaders facing off against each other in a war… but can their love for each other fix it all? Genre: YA, Science Fiction, Romance, LGBT+ No. of pages: 288 Gal and Ettian have never been farther apart. Once, they were roommates and best friends, each suffocating under a secret of galactic consequence. When Gal’s came to light—that he was heir to the Umber Empire and all of its brutal…

[perlukafarinn]

endings that are better for dean than dying young and bloody:

opening a bar (as shown to be a fantasy of his)

opening a gay bar (my preferred ending)

working with kids, potentially at a home like sonny's

working as a mechanic, eventually specializing in vintage cars

becoming the new bobby, helping the next generation of hunters

being a stay-at-home dad with his husband castiel as the breadwinner (cas doesn't work either he just steals money from rich assholes using his powers and calls it being a breadwinner)

(he's with cas for all of these btw in case that wasn't obvious)

spending like a good decade traveling the world via angel express and enjoying his retirement from hunting

becoming a rock star with a cult following, a significant portion of which love sharing around conspiracy theories that he's actually a serial killer who faked his own death and started fresh with a new identity (no one seriously believes this)

becoming a sheep herder (it's the closest thing to a modern-day cowboy he can get. he gets to wear the hat and everything)

moving to hollywood and becoming an actor under the pseudonym jensen ackles

becoming a successful writer purely to spite chuck, outselling the supernatural series easily and receiving rave reviews for his refreshing style and devastating depictions of childhood trauma and breaking the cycle of abuse

building a space ship and searching the galaxy for intelligent life

literally anything other than what happened on the show

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1 Hotel South Beach - Miami Beach, FL

1 Hotel South Beach | 2341 Collins Ave | Miami Beach, FL 33139 | 1-(305) 604-1000 “We operate from a very simple premise: nature is beautiful, and we want to keep it that way.” ~ 1 Hotels  Your South Beach retreat is inspired by 600-feet of beach on the Atlantic Ocean. Designed for comfort, using reclaimed materials, it is one-of-a-kind, naturally. 4 Pools Spa 4 Restaurant, Bar, and…

[thisisqueerly]

Film Review: The Lost Boys (‘Le paradis’)

★★★★ The Lost Boys (2023) is a powerful and politically resonant film directed by Zeno Graton. Set in a youth detention centre, the film explores the blossoming relationship between two young men, Joe (played by Khalil Ben Gharbia) and William (played by Julien De Saint Jean). Their love story unfolds against the backdrop of incarceration, raising questions about the value of freedom and the…

[deuterosapiens]

This is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

So, this is a book. A weird, strange and lovely little book. Let's talk about it.

I became aware of its existence thanks to a summary of it I happened to be recommended on YouTube. I thought little of it until it coincidentally showed up as a "You might like..." suggestion from Amazon and again, I thought little of it until this little thing that no one I know has heard of showed up in two separate bookstores while I was looking for something else. Coincidences, boredom and a pathological desire to Hoard books resulted in it going with me at the second.

It sat on my shelf for two weeks while I read Dune. It took me two days to finish it, which I regret horribly. It should honestly have been finished in a single setting, but life uh... gets in the way. Simply put though, I found it insanely beautiful.

So picture this: you have two time-travelers who belong to different factions at war to decide the fate of time. Or something.

The purposes of the Agency and Garden are a bit vague. Backgrounded and arguably unimportant. What's important however is that these two named Red and Blue are maddeningly determined to out-play each other in their respective faction's favor. What starts as a simple game of taunting, however evolves into the exact sort of relationship that one would expect. I don't consider it a spoiler as that's literally the premise.

Their correspondences take many forms: hidden messages revealed in the shape of ashes, the patterns of bubbles in boiling water. Letters are written in the sensation of taste, in the pyroclasis of a sinking Atlantis. The sheer creativity with which these two express themselves is staggering. There's a pleasant joy in watching these two read hidden secrets out of the innocuous.

While reading, I had a very particular thought. Filming this book correctly would be quite difficult. There is an animated masterpiece here though, if anyone dares attempt it. Getting even forty percent of it right could amount to some of the most gorgeous animation in Hollywood, and I don't say this at all lightly.

I had so much I felt I wanted to say about it, but in the end, now, I can only express that this little thing brought me more joy to read than I expected.

I adore these two little time-birds. I hope the best for them in their future (and past) endeavors.

[thequeereview]

Exclusive Interview: Fellow Travelers stars Noah J. Ricketts & Jelani Alladin "this miniseries is a revolution"

Ron Nyswaner’s exquisitely crafted work of queer historical fiction, Fellow Travelers, is a compelling and deeply moving epic miniseries that takes in the Lavender Scare of the 1950s and follows its repercussions in the lives of those directly affected through the following decades, taking in the post-Stonewall period of liberation in the 70s up to the devastation of the onset of HIV/AIDS in the…

[geoffwhaley]

Book 979: Heartbreak Boys - Simon James Green

Book 979: Heartbreak Boys by Simon James Green #england #friends #gayromance #humor #lgbt #lgbtfiction #lgbtromance #mmromance #queer #youngadult #youngadultromance

I snagged a copy of this book from NetGalley way back in April, but of course, my schedule went off the rails and I ended up missing the review deadline by a few weeks.* I’m glad I kept my copy and finally got around to it though, it was great! Heartbreak Boys is the story of Jack and Nate. It starts with a coming out, two horrible breakups, cheating, a lot of sass, an Instagram rivalry, and an…