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Exploring kinky Europe 2016
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Exploring kinky Europe 2016

Upcoming leather and fetish events

September 7, 2016
Europe and beyond: Best bear events for 2016
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Europe and beyond: Best bear events for 2016

Woofy annual gatherings from Reykjavik to Beirut

September 1, 2016
Exploring kinky USA (and Canada), 2016
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Exploring kinky USA (and Canada), 2016

All the leather and kink you can find right at home

March 29, 2016
Bear’s guide to North America, 2016
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Bear’s guide to North America, 2016

The greatest, hairiest get-togethers and events on the continent

March 23, 2016
Discover Sydney’s steamier side
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Discover Sydney’s steamier side

Beneath Mardi Gras glitz lies the harbour city’s horny underground

January 29, 2016
Cruising Vietnam
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Cruising Vietnam

Roving hands, eager promoters and one of Asia’s best saunas

January 22, 2016
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Vietnam from top to bottom
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Vietnam from top to bottom

Friendly people, beautiful beaches, pulsing cities

January 18, 2016
Culture vultures love Melbourne
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Culture vultures love Melbourne

This chic, arts-loving city with year-round cultural events is Australia’s most European city

December 18, 2015
Gaixample and beyond in queer Barcelona
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Gaixample and beyond in queer Barcelona

Decades after Gaudi, Picasso and Dali, the Catalan capital still offers its own unique take on life, diversity and a good time

November 23, 2015
Hamburg’s infamous Reeperbahn echoes its ‘hello sailor’ past
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Hamburg’s infamous Reeperbahn echoes its ‘hello sailor’ past

Take the seediness in stride to explore Hamburg’s lively side of LGBT nightlife

October 16, 2015
Madrid’s ‘boystown’ seems almost the perfect gay village
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Madrid’s ‘boystown’ seems almost the perfect gay village

Making the most of Chueca after dark means adapting to a different pace of nightlife

September 28, 2015
Lübeck: Mann, Marzipan and Nosferatu
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Lübeck: Mann, Marzipan and Nosferatu

Explore the home of a queer literary genius, a confectionary legend and the occasional vampire

September 25, 2015
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Seven rules for not being ‘one of those’ expats in Berlin
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Seven rules for not being ‘one of those’ expats in Berlin

Are foreign ‘artists’ and other short-term residents ruining Berlin?

September 18, 2015
Searching for kink in gentrified London
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Searching for kink in gentrified London

Pull up your school shorts and thank Sir for ‘six of the best’

September 11, 2015
Singapore more accessible to queer travellers than ever before
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Singapore more accessible to queer travellers than ever before

The ‘pragmatic’ city state has a thriving, underground LGBT scene

September 7, 2015
Kabuki to Takarazuka: the queer history of Tokyo’s theatres
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Kabuki to Takarazuka: the queer history of Tokyo’s theatres

Ponder Kabuki’s hidden gay past, then thrill to an all-musical, all-female spectacular queer favourite since 1914

August 14, 2015
Hong Kong Pride
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Hong Kong Pride

One territory, two attitudes on equality

July 31, 2015
Queenstown to Christchurch
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Queenstown to Christchurch

The subtle queer flavours of New Zealand’s south

July 6, 2015
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