Ben Nelson

Looking for a place to blow off steam this summer?  Consider Palm Springs. Since the 1920s, Palm Springs has been the desert playground for gay men.  50s-era stars like Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter made the town their second home because it allowed them to escape the hustle and bustle of Hollywood and enjoy sexual freedom without fear of being outed.  It is that same sexual freedom that continues to be a popular draw for...

Raph Solo has released a brand new music video that shows a different side to the out artist.   He dances! “It’s all very tongue-and cheek,” he laughs. “I hope fans like the choreography and chutzpah.” In “Love Lives”, Raph Solo boldly declares that he is no less equal than any other person for who he is or who he loves. “I have worked very hard to gain the self-respect and acceptance I enjoy today,”...

For the first time ever, music powerhouses Nile Rodgers and Tony Moran are joining forces on an explosive new music single, “My Fire,” featuring Kimberly Davis. It’s an empowering track, meant to remind music fans that even on the darkest of days, there is a fire inside each of us that is ready to light the path forward to the place we’re meant to be.  It merges elements from Club, Disco and Funk for a next...

DJ Pebbles, the Australian pop singer who first broke onto the American pop charts last summer with “To Not Love You,”  performed her new single, “Heart Away from You,” two weeks ago at NYC’s The Monster and Rise.  She performed two rockin’ shows and crowds lit up at both, as did Pebbles’ social media the next day. When Pebbles posted photos from the shows on Instagram, she was surprised to find that a handful of...

Even famous DJs with incredible baby-brown doe eyes get ghosted. “I had been seeing someone and everything was going great,” recalls Joe Bermudez, the DJ phenomenon who has opened for Madonna and David Guetta and is world renowned for his Britney Spears and Rihanna remixes.  “Then one day, poof, they disappeared!   To this day, I’m not sure what happened.  They just stopped answering my texts.” He says he channeled his anger into the lyrics...

MTV’s The Real World’s Davis Mallory is getting ‘Loud’ this spring with the release of his purrrrfect title track from his new album. ‘Loud‘ is an upbeat summer dance song about hooking up with someone you quietly desire. It’s seductive R&B with a funky, chilled, head-swinging vibe and sex-soaked lyrics; much in the way of Zayn’s “Pillowtalk.” Davis calls it his Marvin Gaye’s “Let’s Get It On”. “It’s a bit outside of the norm of what...

Singer-songwriter Kenyth Mogan has released a new Spring music video, ‘It Was Love’, and it is one of his best musical works to date. Mogan’s vocals are crystalline and crisp in this lush love track, reminiscent of Savage Garden’s ‘I Knew I loved You’.  It can also be  likened to Mogan’s 2015 hit ‘Unlock Your Heart,’  a song that is up to nearly 1.5 million views on Youtube. ‘It Was Love’ was inspired by Mogan’s...

Lady Bunny returns to Stonewall Inn every Tuesday in May for a revamped version of Trans-Jester, her raucous stage act she premiered last spring.  This year’s show promises to be even more rowdy with new gags, including a witheringly funny and timely parody of Beauty And The Beast and Bunny’s unique thoughts on Caitlyn Jenner. With glitzy outfits, sky-high wigs and false eyelashes long enough to embarrass Tammy Faye Baker, Lady Bunny would turn heads even if...

Lina Bradford celebrated twenty years spinning tasty beats behind the turntables this Sunday at The Gilded Lily. Her illustrious career began at the now defunct Club Life on Bleeker Street. “DJs TPRO, Frankie Knuckles, Carlos Pertrus, Larry Levan, Junior Vasquez and Steve Travolta thought it would be a great idea for me to try my hand at DJing,” she recalls. That first night Lina threw down a tossed salad of hits from Nine Inch Nails to Murk...