Fall 2007 | The Grand Tour

Who says the great gay circuit is a recent invention? During the 17th and 18th centuries, in the gloriously difficult days before mass transportation, English and Northern European dandies, fops, and nancy boys took off for months on a cultivated man’s rite of passage to sophisticated capitals like Paris, Geneva, Florence, Venice, Rome, Berlin, Vienna, and Amsterdam. The New Europe in the 2000s is a fresh, revolutionary landscape with shifting centers of cultural gravity and redrawn lines of modern importance.

THE GRAND TOUR
All the world's a stage in London
Down the hatch in Dublin
Life's a banquet in Copenhagen
Art for art's sake in Berlin
Model behavior in Milan