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Los Angeles-based fitness guru and entrepreneur Kenta Seki will be familiar to the hundreds of thousands of his fans who’ve been motivated to lead healthier, happier lives by his positive personality and challenging workouts. Having starred in more t

I’M WRITING THIS FROM my home office in Idaho, where snow-capped mountain ranges are the view from my new office window (so unlike our Los Angeles office). I’ve got two dogs at my feet and one on my lap, a cat trying to cover the keyboard, and a Slac

MOVE OVER, PARIS, and watch out, Milan. The world has taken notice of Lagos, Nigeria, as a serious force in fashion, and it’s easy to see why. The city is home to a slew of innovative designers who pride themselves on blending modern and traditional

THE FIRST TIME I moved back to New York City (that time from Miami) on a snowy Halloween day in 1993, it was less than a week after accepting the challenge of being founding editor in chief of Poz, a magazine I fully intended to help make a seismic d

I’VE ALWAYS LAUGHED at the sections in many popular magazines that exclaim in sheer amazement, “Hey, look, celebrities are just like us!” Who else would they be like? The stars are just people too, right? We asked some of our famous friends a simple

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MOZHDEH MATIN’S SLOW luxury fashion brand, Mozh Mozh, works with female artisans in Native Peruvian villages using local textiles (like alpaca) and innovative and traditional techniques to conserve Peru’s historical indigenous fashion. The result: Mo

The first time I laid eyes on Mike Ruiz, back in 1997, when he walked into my office to show me his photo book for a possible assignment, I remember thinking, He’s the photographer? We should be shooting him. But there he was, looking like a Tom of F

“So, you voted?” The mail clerk pointed to my sticker. It was 2016 and I was absolutely 100 percent “with her,” ready to see Hillary Clinton break through sexism and the ultimate glass ceiling by becoming the first female president. I’d been a Hillar

When Vida premiered on Starz in the spring of 2018, it blazed a trail for Latinx and queer people like no other show before it. The series, which will air its final season beginning April 26, has taken on issues affecting Latinx culture, LGBTQ identi

GROWING UP IN MILAN, Mich., our model Evan James Betts planned to be an athlete. However, these days the 31-year-old has become one of New York City’s hottest fitness models and trainers. Some of you might recognize him as the ambassador of Fiji Wate

AS PRIDE EVENTS WORLDWIDE ARE CANCELED or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, event organizers are refocusing their efforts to meet an entirely new set of challenges ahead. The International Association of LGBTI Pride Organizers (InterPride) and

D.J. Pierce is known by a few different names. The actor, producer, and dynamic stage performer was born Darius Jeremy Pierce and created the famous drag persona Shangela Laquifa Wadley—known simply as Shangela to most of the world—after competing on

Emily Estefan is an artist. Sure, that can be said of any multitude of singers and musicians, but what strikes me as most astonishing about this young singer’s course is how aggressively—fiercely—she’s taken that path without regard for naysayers or

Depending on your cinematic perspective, even before the current pandemic, early Sunday mornings on New York City’s subways can be like an extinct Krell-like set piece from Forbidden Planet, or that no-one-else-around experience where you imagine mee

Ever feel like you need a vacation from being queer? I have. Spend 25 years living in New York City’s Chelsea gayborhood, followed by another three in Fort Lauderdale, and it can sometimes seem as if your entire adult life has been but 30 seasons of

Raised on California’s Fort Mojave Indian Reservation, Natalie Diaz spent four years playing pro basketball in Europe and Asia before finishing her MFA, then promptly set the poetry world on fire in 2012 with When My Brother Was an Aztec, her debut c

One of the main things I love about the fitness industry is that it’s constantly evolving. Yes, a push-up is still a pushup, but now with the boost of technology, there are myriad new ways to work out and stay healthy. Even now, in a time of mass clo

YES, OVER THE PAST YEAR OR SO, we’ve all heard all about CBD creams, CBD drops, CBD water—CBD everything. It’s as pervasive as Starbucks. So it’s not a total surprise, then, that CBD-infused beauty products have also been trying to attract customers

IN THE 1980S AND ’90S there was a particular kind of Is-this-really-happening? Berlin circa 1930s cabaret/circus show known as a New York City Susanne Bartsch party. Although I’d always been partial to the monthly extravaganzas Bartsch hosted at the

IN ALL MY YEARS AS A SINGLE GAY MAN, I’ve never seen a generation love its gadgets more than today’s hookup culture. That’s no shade—believe me, that’s no shade. I have them all: Grindr, Scruff, Chappy, Tinder, you name it. But in these ever-changing

PUTTING OUR BEST FACE FORWARD isn’t always easy, is it? Well, this is one time you’ll want to be brow beaten! Many of us have learned to achieve clearer skin through diet, exercise, and rest (and now social isolation). But there are other ways to ste