alcohol

alcohol

holiday gift guide

holigays

Holigay Gift Guide: Upgrading Your Home Bar

Nice glassware, nonalcoholic options, and fancy garnish tools will take your gay home bar to the next level.

ashni —

Dec 5, 2023

alcohol

comedy

Bud Light Is the Dykiest Domestic Lager — Change My Mind

All other American-style light lagers taste bad (and therefore are straight).

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Oct 27, 2022

alcohol

food and drink

11 Drinks if You Don’t Like a Negroni Sbagliato With Prosecco in It but Still Want To Be Gay

If you don’t want to order a Negroni Sbagliato with prosecco in it, there are plenty of other stunning drinks you can get your gay little hands on that also have a…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Oct 13, 2022

alcohol

gender identity

first person

15 Things I Drank in My Year of Not Drinking

Tasting notes: This one is real, like a hallucination. You can feel it, see it, and it leaves very little evidence of its passing through your body. Lingers barely on…

Nico —

Dec 30, 2021

alcohol

sobriety

book features

The Book That Made Me Get Sober: Leslie Jamison’s “The Recovering”

Reading The Recovering was like reading a diary full of thoughts I would never have been brave enough to write down. I felt something I’d only ever felt once before,…

Analyssa —

Sep 30, 2021

alcohol

happy hour at home

food and drink

Happy Hour at Home: Let’s Get Spritzy

The best thing about spritz mixology is that you can pretty much just top off anything you have in a glass with ice and then top it with seltzer and…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 28, 2020

alcohol

happy hour at home

food and drink

Happy Hour at Home: Kitchen Scraps and Pantry Items for Fancy Cocktails

Today’s Happy Hour at Home is very straightforward: I’m gonna give you some easy tips-n-tricks for kicking cocktails up a notch by using scraps and other things you already have…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 14, 2020

alcohol

happy hour at home

food and drink

Happy Hour at Home: Welcome To The Gay Club

I miss the rare fucking times of being in a room full of entirely queer people. Dancing and shouting together. Even the messy nights, the crying nights. So here’s how…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

May 7, 2020

alcohol

happy hour at home

food and drink

Happy Hour at Home: How to Make Your Own Beach (In Three Easy Steps)

A fake gay bar on a fake gay beach — WHY NOT!

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Apr 23, 2020

alcohol

happy hour at home

food and drink

Happy Hour at Home: On Koselig, DIY Spa Days, and Boozy Spicy Hot Cocoa

Norwegians have this word — koselig — that imperfectly translates to “cozy” in English. To be koselig is to be connected, grounded, immersed, intimate. It’s a hard thing to accomplish right now,…

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Apr 16, 2020

alcohol

dessert

food and drink

Happy Hour at Home: Margaritas in Every Color

Making pretty, fruit-filled margaritas (and margarita-adjacent drinks) at home with the ingredients you have RIGHT NOW.

Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya —

Apr 9, 2020

alcohol

mental health

first person

Marching at the End of a Very Long Parade: On Being A Queer Alcoholic

I got sober alone, in a village about an hour north of Kampala, Uganda. I had moved there for a job opportunity, naively confident I, as an openly queer person…

Sagaree Jain —

Jul 18, 2019