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Tony Award winner and Emmy nomineeAlan Cumming will perform in concert March 17 at XL Nightclub & Cabaret in Manhattan. The evening will benefit the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission (IGLHRC). Show time is 8 PM. A 22-year-old organization, IGLHRC ”works tirelessly both on the ground and at the United Nations level to promote [...]
Alan Cumming one of our most dedicated gay activist will be performing a concert in NYC to benefit the International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission. Tony Award winner & Emmy nominee Alan Cumming will perform on March 17th at XL Nightclub & Cabaret in Manhattan. Cumming won the Tony Award in 1998 for his [...]
IT’S been a while since New York welcomed a large new gay venue to its club roster. In late January, a triumvirate of gay night-life doyens — John Blair, Beto Sutter and a relative newcomer, Brandon Voss — opened XL at the far end of West 42nd Street. It is a veritable one-stop shop for [...]
It’s a crisp, sunny Monday afternoon, and I’m heading to see the new XL Nightclub located in The Out NYC hotel in Hell’s Kitchen. I walk west down 42nd Street and it occurs to me that I’ll probably never be going to this place again under these same circumstances. Brandon Voss and Beto Sutter greet [...]
I was one of the first people to write about the Out NYC, the 127-room gay resort hotel that’s been planned for West 42nd Street for several gay years now. I have no idea when that thing is going to finally open, but who cares? I hear the dance club that’s part of the [...]
New York City gay bars come and go, but it’s been years since the city saw the opening of a major gay nightclub. This will all change later this fall when the spectacular, 14,000-square-foot XL Nightclub, Lounge, and Cabaret opens in the western reaches of Hells Kitchen. If the name sounds familiar, the club is [...]
In early 2012, the Out NYC, a straight-friendly hotel for gays, will open in the far-west reaches of Manhattan. The homo playground will include 105 guest rooms, a 24-hour restaurant and—as of this fall—XL Nightclub, a new 14,000-square-foot boîte. The club is a collaboration between ’90s megastar promoters John Blair and Beto Sutter, and the [...]
Following last month’s legalization of same-sex marriage in the State of New York, New York City is set to welcome its first gay hotel, The Out NYC, this fall 2011. The 105-room boutique property, which is being developed by Parkview Developers, will be located in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood and will feature an 11,000 [...]
About 15 hotels in the city have trotted out special packages targeting same-sex couples, but none have catered exclusively to this group—until now. The Out NYC, which is being built on 42nd Street between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, appears to be the Big Apple’s first same-sex property. The 105-room hotel owned by Parkview Developers will [...]
Six years ago, after Ian Simpson Reisner, a developer in New York, spent a few pleasurable nights at the Axel Hotel Barcelona — part of a small chain of upscale hotels aimed at gay visitors — he was struck with an idea. Enlarge This Image Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times Ian S. Reisner, left, one [...]
