Pop Star Erika Jayne's Guide To Los Angles

Name: Erika Jayne
Profession: Pop Star
City: Los Angeles
Relationship Status: Depends who's asking
Sexuality: I like boys

What is the best date you ever had in this town? Why?
Let's just say it ended with me almost getting arrested.

What are some of the things you love most about your city/town?
The weather is pretty amazing and everything is available here.

What are some of your least favorite things about it?
The traffic is legendary.

Josh Zuckerman's Ashbury Park

Name: Josh Zuckerman
Profession: Singer/Songwriter/Musician
City: Asbury Park
Relationship Status: Single
Sexuality: Gay

What is the best date you ever had in this town? Why?

I had a great date at Cafe' Ole, this Spanish restaurant with nice ambient lighting and a very intimate setting. We then went to the beach and then to Paradise for a drink. It was such a magical evening because of the company I was with.

What are some of the things you love most about your city/town?

I love Asbury Park because of the artistic flair and the diversity it offers. It is extremely gay friendly and you can just be yourself. It offers a great music scene which is where I started out in the early years and continues to offer high standards of contemporary art.

Khalid's Amman, Jordan

Name: Khalid
Age: 20
Profession: Design student/model/writer
City: Amman
Relationship Status: Single
Sexuality: Gay

Where is the best public place for a gay person to make out in Amman?

That is a funny and so hard to answer kind of a Q! in Jordan it's very hard to make out, though it's easy to show DPF, like hand holding, touching… but making out, mmm, not sure though, if you have a car maybe though hehe. I once made out with this guy that I dated few years ago under this bridge, he was like "I need to experience something with you, let's make out here" and I was like mmm ok! It was exciting!

What is the best date you ever had in Amman?  Why? 

I never had that experience of the 'perfect date' yet, but I might've if I gathered all the ones I went through. I remember this guy that I went out with like a year ago, we went for this veggie sank, we walked to the ice cream shop then we sat on a side walk in a calm street under the street light. I knew the kinds of questions to ask, which led him to tear a little… a hug was made to be and holding his hand was just intense. It was a nice memory at a nice time…

Hot in the City: Cazwell

Name: Cazwell
Profession: DJ, Performer, MC, New York Nightlife Party Personality, Gay Icon
City: New York City
Relationship Status: Not single
Sexuality: Gay

What is the best date you ever had in this town? Why?

Sex first. Eat later. Besides sex builds an appetite.

What are some of the things you love most about your city/town?

I love that you can get anything you want at anytime. If you want to buy a dozen roses, you want ice cream , a falafel sandwich or a hooker. New York has it all 24/7. I remember where I came from in Massachusetts and how growing up we had to get to the store by 9pm when it closed if we had to buy something. I try to never take for granted what the city that never sleeps has to offer me.

I've always felt that new york gives you access to everything you need to make your dreams come true. you just have to stay on top of it.

Jack Mackenroth's Gay New York

Name: Jack Mackenroth
Age: 40
Profession: Fashion Designer, TV Producer and Host
City: New York
Relationship Status: Dating
Sexuality: Super Gay

What is the best date you ever had in this town? Why?

A guy took me on a midnight helicopter ride around Manhattan. We got pretty close to the buildings. It was pretty amazing to fly around the Statue of Liberty. I wonder what happened to him. He probably crashed.

What are some of the things you love most about your city/town?

I love that you can get anything you want delivered to your door at anytime. I can get a hooker, a bamboo plant and a diet coke all at 2 AM. Then I can make that hooker water the bamboo while I drink my diet coke. Good times.

I also love the subway. Manhattan is so compact that you can get anywhere in the city on the subway in less than an hour. Plus you can sit next to a crack whore and a supermodel in the same ride. It's a great equalizer.

Peter Paige's Queer LA

Name: Peter Paige
Age: Really? 39, just turned.
Profession: Actor/writer/director -- honest to God
City: Los Angeles
Relationship Status: Alas...
Sexuality: Gay

If you had gay friends visiting from out of town for the first time, what are some "musts" that you'd recommend they see or do?

I find L.A. a tricky town to visit, but you gotta hit the Getty, LACMA, MOCA, the beach, Silver Lake for some people watching, and Melrose (west of Fairfax, mostly) for some shopping.

What are some of the things you love most about Los Angeles?

I love the access. L.A. is one of those world-class cities with everything imaginable -- entertainment, culture (I swear), art, great food, and good nightlife. You just have to know where to find it.

What are some of your least favorite things about Los Angeles?

Lady GaGa's Bi-Coastal/Gay Hot Spots!

Name: Lady GaGa
Age: 22
Profession: Performer
City: Lower East Side / West Hollywood
Relationship Status: Single -- I'm married to my work.
Sexuality: Bisexual

How did you get your name?

Well, I started working with producer Rob Fusari when I was 19, and he would always say that I'm very theatrical when I sing and play piano. He started calling me 'GaGa' after the Queen song 'Radio Ga Ga'. And I kept it.

How did you go from an Uptown girl to a Downtown diva?

I didn't transition into the downtown musical scene until I was 18, after high school. I never connected with that community. I really considered myself as more of an observer in high school and then when I had the opportunity to move out and experience New York City on my own, I found the community I did fit in with.

Margaret Cho's Guide to Los Angeles

Name: Margaret Cho
Age: 40
Profession: Comic/ actor/ musician/ activist/ author/ party starter/ lover/ fighter/ blogger
City: Los Angeles, CA
Relationship Status: Married
Sexuality: Queer

What are some of the things you love most about your city/town?

I love that everyone eventually ends up here for some reason or another. It's like heaven. Or hell. And there are elements of both here. Los Angeles is an eternal eventuality.

What are some of your least favorite things about it?

Traffic. The "industry." People talking to you while looking over your shoulder for someone 'better' to talk to - as if there was someone better than me.

Kevin Allison's Big Apple

Name: Kevin Allison
Age: 39
Profession: Writer/Actor
City: New York City
Relationship Status: Married
Sexuality: Gay

What is the best date you ever had in this town? Why?

My husband and I went to a cute little Indonesian restaurant in the East Village for our first date. It's gone now, but we're married! We still joke about the fact that, since we had only met each other walking down Park Avenue the day before, on our way to the restaurant, I was deliberately trailing just a few steps behind him so I could check out his butt.

Colton Ford's New York City

Name: Colton Ford
Age: 46
Profession: Recording Artist/Actor
City: New York City
Relationship Status: In one
Sexuality: Gay

Where is the best public place for a gay person to make out?

Wherever you're feeling it I say!

If you had gay friends visiting from out of town for the first time, what are some "musts" that you'd recommend they see or do?

A walk down by the piers on the Westside Highway and through the West Village is a must. I'd tell them to take in a Broadway show or two. Depending on when they were visiting, I'd see what dance events were happening that would be fun to attend. I'd recommend a walk through Central Park.