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Dear Peach, I am really concerned about my relationship right now. I am definitely not feeling great and it might be coming to an end. I am being as transparent about my feelings as possible but I am also increasingly worried about the outcome of things.

What should I do and how should I take care of the fact that they might not love me anymore?

There will always be a bit of caution in new relationships.

What you need to ask yourself is the following: 1. Am I concerned about the relationship because of something my partner said or because of a previous trauma of instance that I am projecting onto the relationship?

What kind of trouble is at hand? Is it a situational issue, emotional issue, personal or 2. work related? If you can control it then great, but if not then it might just be manifesting itself in your relationship.

3. What do I want to ultimately happen and do I see myself moving forward in a way that is going to make BOTH of us happy?

While you might want to hold onto a relationship that started really great, unless there is an even amount of effort being put on both sides... you can't assume that the relationship will ever be as it once was.

Ways to Experience Orlando (Mostly) For Free

by Mikey Rox

Looking for a quick getaway to boost your dark deep-winter mood? Say hi to our gaybors down in sunny Florida on seriously inexpensive trip to Orlando.

1. Stroll around Winter Park on a (one hour south of the city), is home Sunday to more than 1,000 plant and animal species on 11,500 acres. Hikers Winter Park, a swanky-ish can enjoy several well-maintained neighborhood a short drive trails that range from an easy halfnortheast of downtown Orlando, mile trek around an upper pond to offers a Sunday Funday’s worth of a six-mile hike that covers a large activities that starts with a farmer’s swath of The Nature Conservancy’s market where you can pick up just- land; pack your sunscreen because harvested vegetables, fresh-cut most of the hike is under the open flowers, local honey, and more. sky. There’s a welcome center Afterward, cut through the area’s with all the information you’ll need Central on making P a r k , the most of featuring your time, fountains plus clean and a rose restrooms, garden, to and plenty stroll along of shaded South Park lawn space Ave., where to practice you’ll find your birda mix of watching high-end skills (I retailers, art spotted galleries, a yellowa n d breasted restaurants, some of which offer chat while I was there) and throw everybody’s favorite brunch deal – out a blanket for a relaxing picnic. bottomless and BOGO mimosas.

Add some culture to your afternoon 3. Visit the Swans at Lake Eola by visiting the Cornell Fine Arts Park Museum on the Rollins College Campus, where you can enjoy a There are several features you’ll docent-led tour of the Alfond Inn love at Lake Eola Park, including at no charge; there’s no admission the Walt Disney Amphitheater at the museum either. Best of all, (which hosts community events abundant free parking is available and performances on occasion), just west of the Winter Park Amtrak a fountain, playground, and station.

Chinese pagoda (a nice backdrop for selfies), but what you might 2. Hike the Disney Wilderness be most surprised by is the Preserve abundance of gorgeous swans and other waterfowl that call the lake While not technically in Orlando, home. When I visited in February, the free-to-visit-and-park Disney I spotted several duckling families Wilderness Preserve, in Poinciana and clusters of eggs in nests, which

signify a healthy breeding ground for these birds that can’t be found in many places. Take a lap around the park to enjoy this inner-city gem then pop into World of Beer just off the paved loop for a refreshing pick-me-up.

Disney-branded cup, and ask for free ice at restaurants when you’re ready for a fill-up. Nobody will check your bag, and Disney allows opencarry adult beverages throughout its resorts.

5. Watch a movie with Chip ‘n’ 4. Resort Hop at Walt Disney Dale World Want to sing along and watch a I’m not a huge fan of all things Disney movie with Chip ‘n’ Dale? Head (don’t take away my gay card), so to the Disney Wilderness Lodge my trip to Orlando wasn’t going to and tell the parking attendant include waiting in endless lines at that you have a reservation at the its over-priced parks, but I did want Whispering Canyon Café or Trail’s to experience at least some of the End Restaurant. They’ll direct you “magic,” so I researched how to do where to park for free. Instead of Disney for free and produced two going to the restaurant, however, options – Disney Springs and the hop a free shuttle bus to the Fort Disney Boardwalk, both of which Wilderness Campfire and Movie offer free parking, no park pass or area, where you’ll join the singresort stay required. Once parked, along and enjoy a visit from the you can experience these areas beloved chipmunks. A full-length on foot (which feature restaurants Disney movie will follow. A food and other entertainment options – I truck is on premises along with a saw a movie at the AMC Dine-In at camp store that sells snacks and Disney Springs with a free pass I booze, but there’s no rule about had saved) or you can travel from bringing your own. Stock your resort to resort via Disney’s seven- backpack ahead of time, sit back, month-old Skyliner, free (and super and relax. fun!) to ride, which will zip you between five stations, including Mikey Rox is an award-winning three resorts. journalist and LGBT lifestyle expert whose work has been published To access resorts not served by in more than 100 outlets across the Skyliner – like Animal Kingdom, the world. He currently lives in his where you can view safari animals, van, saving money and traveling like giraffes, zebras, and gazelles – the country. Connect with Mikey on take one of Disney’s buses or boats Instagram @mikeyroxtravels (completely free) to create an entire day of fun without spending a dime.

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Featuring New Single and Video, “Boyfriend”

Just A Taste, the debut EP from the drag-duo DJ-production team known as Jawbreakers, dishes out dance, pop and tech house songs suitable for clubs and partygoers at home enjoying a late-night kiki. “The EP is a sampling platter of beats with something for everyone,” says Kali Forni-Kate of Jawbreakers. “It’s Just A Taste, because there is 100% more to come,” adds her collaborator, Sabrina Babyslut. With songs like “This Is Dirty” and “Ciao Bella,” the EP reflects the group’s live DJ shows that emphasize how Jawbreakers are not only playing the party, they are the party.

“Boyfriend,” the EP’s first release, is a modern-day remake of Ashlee Simpson’s 2005 hit that chronicled her stealing Wilmer Valderrama from Lindsay Lohan.

The Jawbreaker version features vocals from Amunda (formerly from Operator Please). Its accompanying music video, directed by Nyssa Mitchell, conceptualized by Jawbreakers with editing and FX by Zachary McSweeney, is a technicolor dream, with Kali and Sabrina dressed in eye-catching lewks. The Just A Taste EP is being distributed through Extrovert Music, a division of Vicious Recordings, and will be available on Apple Music, Spotify and all digital platforms on April 1. Jawbreaker’s “Boyfriend” music video will be available on YouTube on January 21.

Kali and Sabrina first met in 2016, performing in a Britney Spears tribute show in Melbourne. They immediately clicked as both came from similar middle-class, nuclear family backgrounds, discovered drag via their passions for musical theatre, and began their individual adventures into the art form after high school. When they learned of their shared interest in music production, they decided to join forces as a DJ duo. They bought a mixer and six months later they were in business.

“The biggest hurdle was deciding who stands where in the booth,” Kali explains. “Sabrina is left-handed and I’m right. We had to fight over who uses the left and right DJ decks. Swapping throws off our groove!”

Their Jawbreakers name harkens back to the iconic candy from their childhoods and the 1998 teen film that starred Rose McGowan, Rebecca Gayheart and Julie Benz as the “it” girl clique who reign supreme in their high school. “It’s a reflection on how the drag that we do is heavily inspired by pop culture,” Kali continues. “Like the girls in the movie, we dress to have fun and through the music we play and the energy that we exude, it makes everyone want to party with us!”

The duo has already headlined several international festivals including Sydney Mardi Gras and Milkshake Festival in Netherlands. Their next big gig will be Summer Camp Festival where they will perform alongside Years and Years, Big Freedia and The Veronicas. They are also slated to perform the next Goodlife U18 event, as well as Adelaide Festival, St Kilda Festival and Melbourne Pride.

“We have been keeping an eye on Jawbreakers for several years,” says Damien Platt of Extrovert Music, a division of Vicious Recordings, the label that discovered Avicii when he was a teenager, and released his first ten records. “When Kali and Sabrina presented us with demos of the EP, we were instantly fans of the music. It’s fun, its camp and its quality music.”

Jawbreakers is not Extrovert Music’s first foray into gay dancefloor music. Label co-founder Andy Van, of the band Madison Avenue, had a #1 dance anthem with “Don’t Call Me Baby”. More recently, Sgt Slick’s recut of “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” went gold and has become a major queer anthem. “Extrovert Music is focusing on dance pop/disco/commercial/ cross over releases,” Platt continues. “A majority of our new signings and existing roster who identify as LGBTQIA+ are producing this sound.”

While Jawbreakers’ unique look has helped attract attention to their work, Sabrina admits that performing as hyper feminine drag artists has made it harder for fans and the music industry to take the duo seriously.

“We’ve had straight DJs hit on us and others wonder who the random chicks were in the booth,” she explains. “But way more people have shown their support and their desire to see us succeed.”

“We’re lucky to live in an era when queer culture is proving that we can be a force in any and every industry,” Kali adds. “Never underestimate what a queen can achieve. It only makes us work harder.”

Jaw bre a k e r s’ “Just A Taste” is being distributed through Extrovert Music and is available on Apple Music, Spotify and all digital platforms. The “B oyfriend” video will be available on YouTube on January 21. Follow on Instagram @ JawbreakersDJ

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Winter Wonderland

By Scott King

Cold is not your enemy. It’s the wind chill that’ll get ya. The trees are bare. The grass is matte. It’s cold and gray outside. Atlanta is a different city in winter, and by winter I mean January and February.

That’s a good thing. Would you really want all year round to be summer, when the pretty boys are showing it off and making no apologies? Would you really want the only sport to be baseball?

Would you really want the only food to be barbecue? I love a good pool party, but that chlorine really messes with my hair’s natural curl.

while we still have them. Winter is a time for contemplation. A time for staying indoors, not that we haven’t learned anything about that in the last two years. But staying indoors on purpose. Leaning into our inner hobbit and finding a warm space in our respective holes in the wall that we can call the hearth, the home.

This all reminds me of an iconic scene from Season 6 of “The West Wing.” Josh Lymon has just walked into the lobby of a fancy hotel in New Hampshire. It’s January, and it’s snowing gently outside. In the lobby, he spots his ex-girlfriend Amy, who is greedily licking a thick ice cream cone stacked high with Rocky Road.

Embrace the winter. Embrace the Her tonguing motions are vaguely cold. Embrace the changing seasons sexual. Maybe it’s just me.

learned to aim for the sweet spot of social life. Go out, do your thing, and Josh: Hi. then close your tab at 1:30 a.m. I Amy: Hi. swear to you it is the best feeling in Josh: A little cold for ice cream, isn’t the world. It is salvation. I’ve got all it? I mean, you could have bought the extroversion out of my system for just cream. the next 48 hours. I know that once Amy: I embrace the cold.

I close that tab and my escort and Josh: Okay.

I go our separate ways in separate Amy: I luxuriate in the cold.

Ubers, I will be home shortly to Josh: Can I ask you...? play with my phone and watch Amy: I fight cold with more cold.

“Golden Girls” until I fall asleep.

Josh: What are you doing in New Hampshire?

It’s called white privilege. And Amy: I could ask you the same it sure beats the hell out of thing, but in your case it’s more of this depression and anxiety an existential question, now isn’t it? everyone’s gossiping about.

Josh: When I want dark depressing thoughts about alienation and As you’re counting all your hashtags nothingness, I watch cable news. and blessings, focus on this moment. The privilege that you have Right on, bro. to travel about the world freely, and the pleasure you get from returning to your home, your cave, when This iconic scene begs the the day’s pleasure cruise is done. question. What are we doing here? How are we adapting to our And celebrate winter. Where I come environment? Are we shivering from, if someone has an accidental in submission and acquiescence pregnancy, a common thing to or are we fighting cold with more say is, well, that’s why God gives cold? Where’s my Rocky Road? you nine months, to get used to the idea of being a parent. Same Binaries are underrated. You can thing with winter. Beach bodies get a lot out of life by seeing it as don’t happen overnight. Especially a study in opposites. Of transitions. after Christmas. Eat, drink, and be Change is the only constant merry. For tomorrow we die. I hear in the universe. Did you really it’s supposed to snow at least two expect the fall weather to hold? inches.

I’m an extrovert. I love connecting with people, and I LOVE going out.

And then coming home. I’m 40 years old. So, at the end of the day, I don’t have time for this bullshit. I’ve

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January 26th - February 2nd Party w/ Troy and David @ Guac Y Margy's | January 27th (5 - 8 PM)

Have you ever ordered a "Party" on our drink menu? It basically means Bartender's Choice. On Thursday, Jan 27th, GyM owners Troy and David will be behind the bar serving up whatever they feel like making for $5! Yep, just $5 per drink!

You pick the spirit, they pick the drink. Come hang with David and Troy while they experiment with some new cocktails that might even make it to the Spring/Summer menu

Sweet Tea! A Queer Variety Show @ Eyedrum Art & Music Gallery | January 27th (9 PM-1 AM )

Sip it up! Atlanta’s longest running queer variety show is BACK with a fresh batch of queer talent to quench your thirst. Happening Thursday, January 27th at 9PM at Eyedrum (515 Ralph David Abernathy Blvd, Atlanta, GA 30312), SWEET TEA features some of Atlanta and the South’s most eclectic performers - ranging from music, to drag, to comedy, and more! Come out to see performances from: Featuring: Boy Blue & The Bandits, Brejahnia, Evangeline Laveau, Jay Kwellyn, SHI, DJ sounds by La DJ Cochino, Hosted by TAYLOR ALXNDR Doors & music at 9PM. | Show at 10PM.

Mutation Brewing Grand Opening | January 28th (6 PM - 12 AM)

We are proud to present the Grand Opening of Mutation Brewing Company! Come check out our new brewery and enjoy the exquisite styles of beers on tap. Our food partner, Spiced Right BBQ, will be serving up some delicious old school BBQ. Velvet City Sound will be jamming live music from 8:00 pm -12:00 am.

The G8YTIES Dance Party @ Heretic | January 28th (10 PM - 3 AM)

The G8YTIES 80's Dance Party. $10 Cover all night long to ring in the New Year 2022!!!

DJ Mike Pope spins all your favorite 80's original dance songs with an ultra fresh pure energy sound. Come ready to dance!!! All the hottest hits including Girls just want to have fun, Get into the Groove, Safety Dance, Hungry like the Wolf, Simply the Best, Let's Dance, You spin me right round, I wanna dance with somebody, Let the music play, and more.

Bearracuda Atlanta Winter Beef Ball! @ Heretic | January 29th (10 PM - 3 AM) WINTER BEEF BALL 2022!

With DJ Matt Consola & our hot dancers all night! Join 100s of guys on the dance floor and on the patio on Saturday, Jan. 29th, 2022.

Proof of full Covid vaccination required (more than 2 weeks after your 2nd shot). Please bring your vax card, a picture of it or a digital copy.

The Gaga Ball: A Dance Party @ Basement | January 29th 10 PM - 3 AM)

21+ / DOORS OPEN 10PM / KIMBER IS THE DJ / VACCINATION REQUIRED Calling all Little Monsters! Let’s have some fun, this beat is sick!

It’s a whole night of music and fashion inspired by Mother Monster herself. Kimber will be playing all of your favorite Gaga songs so you can Just Dance and freak out, freak out, freak out (look at me). This is our dancefloor, we fought for.

Serve your very best Gaga-inspired looks because there can be 100 people in a room and 99 don’t believe in you, but if just one judge says your look is the best, you could win an amazing Gaga prize. We cannot wait to see what you bring because you were all born superstars.

Keep it cool, what’s the name of this club? The Basement. East Atlanta.

Underground Circuit @ Future ATL | January 29th (11 PM - 3 AM)

Aaron is back in the ATL! Come check out the state of the art sound system, amazing dance floor and fun crowd at this Downtown Atlanta destination located at Underground.

Spiral Rhythm Video Shoot & Show @ Heretic | January 30th (3 PM - 9 PM)

Spiral Rhythm invites you to our Music Video Shoot & Show!

January 30th, 3pm until 9pm!

We will be shooting for a music video new release, raising money to put out a new album, playing new music from our upcoming (in progress) album, and we will be celebrating the return of the light - Imbolc / Candlemas!

There will be some seating, a wonderful dance area, an outdoor deck, and we will conclude the evening with a drum circle!

Purchasing an advanced ticket ($10) will be your RSVP, it will be $15 at the door. Tickets are limited - we highly recommend advance reservations!

Lingering Shade Mixology Class: Cocktails 101 | January 30th (6 PM - 8 PM)

Lingering Shade Mixology Class: Cocktails 101 Join us at Lingering Shade on January 30th from 6-8 pm for an intimate mixology class with bar manager and expert bartender Spencer Patton. Spencer will be taking you back to the basics while teaching you how to make some of the most popular cocktails: Old Fashioned, Dirty Martini, and French 75. Watch while Spencer makes the cocktails, then try your hand at it (all supplies provided) and enjoy it for yourself. Each table will be supplied with hors d'oeuvres from the Lingering Shade southern snack menu.

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