NLGJA 2016 Excellence in Journalism Award Winners

NLGJA – The Association of LGBTQ Journalists – announces the recipients of its Excellence in Journalism Awards and salutes their exemplary work in 2015, and among the winners is Connextions Magazine Editor In Chief.

WTF North Carolina! Anti-LGBT Bill has been signed

Breaking News of March 24, 2016 See Business and Community Reaction … Plan to attend a Meeting in Raleigh tonight: North Carolina Republican Governor Pat McCrory Signed Worst Anti-LGBT Bill in the United States after it passed both Houses of the N.C. Legislature, that are dominated by a majority of Republicans North Carolina Republican Legislators…

Aloha From Paradise

By David Duran The last time I was in Hawaii was when I was fresh out of high school. My parents had bribed me to successfully graduate with a once in a lifetime trip to Honolulu for a friend and myself. I had traveled a bit before, but this was my first big trip with no adult supervision. I…

It’s Not A Cruise…

There’s nothing wrong with cruises. I mean, we all love to take them. They are massive ships with everything you could want onboard. The problem is, sometimes you feel like a small fish in a ginormous ocean when on a standard cruise. Having to fight over people to sign up for activities, long buffet lines…

What’s New in London

Exhibitions EXHIBITIONISM Saatchi Gallery, 2 April – 4 September 2016 The first international exhibition on the Rolling Stones will take over the entire two floors of the Saatchi Gallery, with nine thematic galleries. EXHIBITIONISM combines over 500 original Stones’ artefacts, with striking cinematic and interactive technologies offering the most comprehensive insight into the band’s fifty-year…

Living the Deluxe Life

For this issue, we traveled all over the world and had lots of fun at photo shoots for our very special Deluxe Life issue!

The Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden

The Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden Inspired by an 1888 visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens in England, Nathaniel Lord Britton and his wife, Elizabeth, both botanists, spearheaded a public campaign to establish, with New York City and State, a new botanical garden in 1891, which would become the home of The…