Month: March 2015
Marriott Goes Local with the Launch of Marriott Traveler
Global hotelier Marriott International is getting with the 21st century by changing its tune from big impersonal global hotelier to personable local hotelier with a new campaign aimed at providing up-to-date local recommendations for its guests.
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Transcontinental: Vacations for Gender Variant Travelers
A handful of guests mixed and mingled with other cruisers aboard the inaugural transgender cruise to the Caribbean in December 2014.
About five guests – two transgender individuals, a partner of one of the transgender guests, a person who cross-dresses – and Stephanie Land, founder of Transgender Vacations, which produced the cruise, boarded the Navigator of the Seas of the Royal Caribbean.
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Dinah’s Sizzling Hot at 25
The Dinah, which is arguably the biggest lesbian party in the world, just keeps getting hotter year after year.
There’s a reason why an upward of more than 15,000 beautiful bikini-clad women from around the world head to sunny Palm Springs, California for a week of splashing around in the pool and partying until dawn at The Dinah.
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Girls Catch A Curl At South America’s First-Ever Lesbian Surf Camp
It’s no wonder Praia do Rosa attracts not only the under-40 jet set crowd, but is also popular among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender travelers and surfers alike.
It is a perfect location for South America’s first-ever lesbian surf camp May 9 – 16.
“It is the best in Brazil,” says Marta responding to Girls That Roam’s question about how the surf is. “Lots of Brazilian pro-surfers come from here or train here.”
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Dinah Vegas Heats Up Las Vegas
Vegas Baby! That’s what was on my friends and I had in mind when we headed to Sin City for a weekend of debauchery sans our girlfriends for my best friend’s bachelorette party. It also happened to be Dinah Vegas.
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One World Game: Gay Games and Outgames Bring the Game Together
Gay Games and World Outgames organizers announced holding a single LGBTQ sporting tournament in 2022, announced in a blog post on the Federation of Gay Games website March 4.
Gay Game X is set for Paris, France in 2018 and the next Outgames is set for Miami, Florida in 2017.
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Louisville Courts LGBTQ Tourism
Louisville wants to show off its rainbow colors to queer travelers.
Kentucky’s largest city has been a cornerstone of progressiveness and a hub for the Bluegrass state’s LGBTQ community for quite some time and the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau believe it’s high time it comes out and proud.
The visitor’s bureau recently convened an LGBTI task force to brainstorm ways to attract LGBTQ travelers to experience Louisville, reported The Courier-Journal.
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Hilton Worldwide Joins the Global Equality Fund
Hilton Worldwide became the first hospitality partner joining the Global Equality Fund as its newest partner, announced the United States State Department March 9 in a news release.
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