Paul Gallant

1 week ago | xtramagazine.com | Paul Gallant

In the early days of my coming out in the 1990s, I heard of an author, Edmund White, who wrote salaciously about gay sex. At the time, I desperately needed some salaciousness in my chaste gay life. Living in pre-internet rural Canada, my sexual, romantic and homosocial future was completely uncharted. Maybe this American writer, born a few decades before me, a rare out gay figure in the literary world, had a few ideas about how I should proceed.

1 week ago | pinktickettravel.com | Paul Gallant

The Parisian photographer who shoots under the names PhilipKA and PhilArty was born Philippe K. Afantchawo in Russia to a Russian mom and Togolese dad. Growing up, he lived in both countries before moving to Paris, France, to study. He got a degree in law, but photography was his passion. “Practicing law wasn’t really a vocation,” PhilArty tells Pink Ticket Travel. “So I studied photography in Paris.

2 weeks ago | pinktickettravel.com | Paul Gallant

From the Pacific to the Atlantic, Canada is 7,821 kilometres across, and at almost the halfway point is an urban centre that’s truly quirky and unexpectedly queer—at least for a visitor. The queerness wouldn’t surprise the inhabitants of Winnipeg, a city of about 800,000 hearty souls who elected an openly gay mayor, Glen Murray, back in 1998, at a time before equal marriage, when there were few out politicians in North America.

2 weeks ago | pinktickettravel.com | Paul Gallant

The woman behind the world’s most famous party for queer women is stepping down—and she’s hoping another producer will step up to keep the festival alive. This September, Mariah Hanson will produce her final edition of Club Skirts Dinah Shore Weekend (September 24 to 28, 2025), the world’s largest and longest-running music festival for queer women, nonbinary folks and allies.

2 weeks ago | pinktickettravel.com | Paul Gallant

Viennese drag queen Ryta Tale moved from the Austrian countryside to Vienna about 15 years ago, to pursue a career in musical theatre. Though a show-tunes lover might be tempted to reach for some comparison to Maria in The Sound of Music, Tale describes herself as “the Hannah Montana of the Viennese drag scene, being at home in both worlds, musical theatre and drag.” Tale has been featured in videos looking fabulous in some of the Austrian capital’s most opulent locations.