Synopses & Reviews
Europe is a gay adventure just waiting to happen. Written in a fun, frank, and fabulous style by four travel writers who know all the ins and outs,
Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe is the first queer guide to Europe to include coverage on
all aspects of your trip — from how to get there to how to get around, from where to stay and dine to where to shop, from what to see and do to where to work out, from where to sip a cocktail to where to cruise.
No matter what your budget, you'll find candid reviews of the best hotels and restaurants--mainstream, gay-friendly, and all-out gay. Are you looking for a plush suite with silk-covered walls and baroque paintings at the H?tel Costes in Paris, a pleasant room with hand-hewn beams at the Hotel Bernardi-Semenzato in Venice, or an "atmospheric" room with bondage hooks and a galvanized steel cage at the Black Tulip in Amsterdam? Feeling hungry? You can choose from French haute cuisine, British pub fare, German comfort food, Spanish tapas, Greek specialties, and more.
Frommer's Gay & Lesbian Europe also offers the dish on queer sights (do you know where Oscar Wilde died and where he's buried, where there's a Homomonument, where there's a Gay Museum?) , neighborhoods, and beaches, plus all the top attractions. The guide also shows you where to shop for everything from antiques to clubwear to "toys" and sends you to the best venues for the performing arts. And, of course, it gives the lowdown on what to do after dark--bars and cafes, discos, saunas, and more.
If all that weren't enough, there are also fun little features like "A Queen's English" (on British gay slang), "The Queer Quiz" (on British gays), and "A Toast for the Boys" (on where to find "toast"--not what you think it is--on your way home from the clubs in Athens).
Review
"The sexiness of Amsterdam, the beauty of Rome, the nightlife of Paris are all yours along with everything you need to know about gay and lesbian travel abroad. This is the book you don't want to leave home without." —Judy Wieder, Editor in Chief, The Advocate
About the Author
About the Authors
Sexy, sassy, sissy scribe David Andrusia divides his time between the East Village and East Hollywood while updating his books New York Hot & Hip and L.A. Hot & Hip, part of the travel series Vogue called "the hippest." David's Gay Europe (Penguin Putnam/Perigee, 1995) was the first gay travel tome from a major American publisher and a Barnes & Noble Readers' Catalog Selection. He's also the author of the celebrated career guide The Perfect Pitch (Warner Books), Branding Yourself (Ballantine), and Natural Healing for Your Baby and Child (with Andrea Candee; Pocket Books). This GWM stands 5' 11", weighs 170 lbs., and has flaxen hair and aquamarine eyes. David is currently looking for intelligent signs of life in Los Angeles and eagerly awaiting e-mails at [email protected] to that end.
Hot and handsome Haas Mroue (5' 10", 160 lbs., 35, brown eyes and hair) has published his poems, short stories, and travel articles in such journals and magazines as The Literary Review, Travel Holiday, and Interiors. A graduate of UCLA Film School, this GWM grew up spending summers in the south of France and went on to study at the American University of Paris and in Paros, Greece. He frequently guest-lectures on poetry at the University of California, Berkeley; offers travel-writing workshops at the University of Hawaii, Manoa; and is currently completing his first novel, The Passport Stamper. Haas is the author of Frommer's Memorable Walks in Paris as well as a contributor to Frommer's Europe from $70-a-Day, and divides his time between France, Colorado, and the Olympic Peninsula.
Donald Olson is a novelist, playwright, and travel writer. A busybody both home and abroad, this GWM (6', 170 lbs., blue eyes, full head of blond hair, gym-trained body) has contributed travel stories to the New York Times and many non?sexually explicit national publications. He's the author of guidebooks to Oregon and Berlin as well as London For Dummies and England For Dummies and is a coauthor of Frommer's Europe from $70-a-Day, His gay novels include The Secrets of Mabel Eastlake, Paradise Gardens, A Movie, The Confessions of Aubrey Beardsley, and Queer Comers (inspired by the anti-gay-rights battles in Oregon). His play Beardsley has been produced in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, and London.
With his name, Chicago-native Todd Savage figured that a lucrative career as a stripper, porn star, or sex-advice columnist awaited, but to save his family some grief he settled on the life of an itinerant writer. This blue-eyed, salt-and-pepper-haired, boyish 37-year-old GWM has contributed to Chicago Reader, the Chicago Tribune, Chicago magazine, The Advocate, and Town & Country, and has now moved to Amsterdam.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Having a Gay Old Time in Europe (Donald Olson).
Part 1: The Czech Republic: Coming Out of the Past (Todd Savage).
1. Prague: The Art of Eastern European Seduction.
Part 2: England: Cool Britannia (Donald Olson).
2. London: The Queen's at Home.
3. Brighton: Poofter's Paradise by the Sea.
Part 3: France: Oooh La La! (Haas Mroue).
4. Paris: They Don't Call It Gay Paree for Nothing.
5. Nice & the Cote d'Azur.
Part 4: Germany: Berlin Stories (Donald Olson).
6. Berlin: Come to the Cabaret.
Part 5: Greece: Where It All Began (Haas Mroue).
7. Athens: Your First Taste of Greek.
8. Side Trips from Athens: Delphi & the Peloponnese.
Part 6: Italy: In the Gay Footsteps of Michelangelo & Leonardo (Donald Olson).
9. Rome: Where La Dolce Vita Began.
10. Florence: Renaissance Homo Hangout.
11 .Venice: La Serenissima.
Part 7: The Netherlands: Tulips & Tolerance (Todd Savage).
12. Amsterdam: Letting It All Hang Out.
Part 8: Spain: Ole Espana! (David Andrusia).
13. Madrid: Let's Party, Muchacho!
14. Barcelona: Gaudi Reigns, But the Boys Rule.
15. Sitges: A Eurobeach for Euroboys & You.
16. Ibiza: Madness, Money & Music.