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Dan Allen

Los Angeles

Travel and Culture Journalist at Freelance

Travel + film + art + queer history + Eurovision @NBCOut @CNTraveller @CBSWatch @LosAngelesBlade @EdgeMediaNet etc

Articles

  • 2 weeks ago | aol.com | Dan Allen

    Just as it turned 100 in 2016, America’s National Park Service (NPS) began to officially recognize the contributions that LGBTQ+ Americans have made to the rich and diverse history of the United States. Given the groundbreaking importance of New York City’s Stonewall Inn to global queer history, the National Park Service (NPS)  fittingly named New York City’s Stonewall National Monument as its first site dedicated to preserving LGBTQ+ heritage.

  • 4 weeks ago | nbcnews.com | Dan Allen

    May 30, 2025, 9:34 AM EDTFor many European gays, the festive Eurovision Song Contest each May marks the unofficial kickoff to the global Pride season. As usual, there were soaring highlights and scandalous lowlights among the competing Eurovision nations at the 2025 edition of the contest in Basel, Switzerland, this month.

  • 1 month ago | queerty.com | Dan Allen

    One of my first albums as a little gay boy was ABBA’s Greatest Hits. I didn’t know then exactly what drew me to them, and really, I still don’t. I just know I’ve never been able to get enough of their purity, honesty, catchiness, borderline campiness, or vaguely sad brand of Scandinavian happiness.

  • Jan 23, 2025 | nbcnews.com | Dan Allen

    The 41st annual Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday in Park City, Utah, with a heady slate of 90 feature-length films from around the globe. Each film will also screen in nearby Salt Lake City at least once during the festival, which runs through Feb. 2. Long at the forefront of breaking the best and most daring in LGBTQ cinema, Sundance will bring the goods again, with 15 dramatic and documentary features on the exciting and largely upbeat roster.

  • Oct 1, 2024 | nbcnews.com | Dan Allen

    Oct. 1, 2024, 7:57 PM UTCBy This Saturday in Los Angeles, a particularly eager queer history aficionado could join a walking tour of downtown’s LGBTQ heritage, listen in on a conversation with Radical Faeries co-founder Don Kilhefner, catch a preview screening of a docuseries about feminist trailblazers, attend a talk about Long Beach’s LGBTQ past, and cap off the day at the never dull Tom of Finland House with readings on the cultural significance of kink and voguing.

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