Month: October 2015
Cunard Launches First-Ever Fashion Week Cruise
Cunard Cruise Line Announces Fashion Week Cruise Across The Atlantic Along With Cruises Celebrating Big Bands and British Cuisine As A Part Of Its Sailing Calendar In 2016 by Heather Cassell Cunard Cruise Line, the British luxury cruise line, is bringing back fashion and style to cruising with its first-ever Transatlantic Fashion Week along with […]
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US State Department Sued To Allow Third Gender Passports
Denied a passport, Dana Zzyym, an intersex activist, is suing the United States State Department.
The Fort Collins, Colorado resident, who doesn’t identify as male or female, filed a lawsuit refusing to have to be forced to identify themselves by the gender markers currently available to applicants for US passports October 26.
Monday also was International Intersex and Transgender Awareness Day.
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Khyber Pass Dishes Up Rockin’ Afghan Cuisine
When my friend suggested Khyber Pass Kabob Restaurant (7467 Village Parkway, #9; 925-828-6000; KhyberPassKabob.com) and told me that it was a five-star restaurant on a popular review website located in a strip mall in Dublin, California I was definitely on high alert. So was Babes, who shares my feelings about restaurants and strip malls.
Babes however stayed silent and went with it in a highly unusual fashion for her. She even smiled with optimism when we stepped through the doors of Khyber Pass and were clearly in a whole other world.
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Naturally Awestruck at Yosemite
Fall is finally making an appearance. The trees are turning colors and the last gasps of summer are gripping California. Now is probably one of the best times of the year to slip away to Yosemite National Park (209-372-0200), which is located in the northeastern part of the Golden State, about a three hour drive from San Francisco.
October kicks off Yosemite’s celebration of 125 years since it officially became a national park. Next year also marks the centennial of America’s national parks.
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Wendy Gavinski Designs Divas SnowGear for the Snow Girl in You
How many times has this happened to you: You’re going out snowmobiling and you realize you don’t have a thing to wear?
Okay, maybe it’s never happened to you. It’s never happened to me, either. But it could: over 1.4 million snowmobiles (“sleds,” to those in the know) are registered in this country, and the numbers are growing. Women are making up an increasing percentage of the total, and so every year, more and more women find themselves ready to hit the trails with almost literally nothing to wear.
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Women are ‘Born to be Wild’
In August, when the Highway Runaways roared into San Francisco on their Harley’s from Brooklyn, I suddenly started to think about Scarlett, our Ninja 500R Kawasaki, in the garage and hitting the road down the coast or up to wine country with Super G as her “back seat Betty.”
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Pom Pom Girl: Orlando’s Greatest (and Edgiest) Cheerleader
One day last year, a man in Seattle took delivery of 20 turkey sandwiches. What’s so remarkable about that? Well, they weren’t delivered by a college student in a beat-up car. They came via FedEx overnight delivery. And they weren’t made in the Emerald City. They came from a sandwich shop in Orlando, Florida.
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LGBTQ Travel Gets Personalized
It’s an exciting new world for LGBTQ travelers seeking their next big adventure.
Will it be a vacation in one of California’s famed wine regions? Cooking classes in Tuscany? A river cruise through Europe? A gay or lesbian party weekend in Spain or Thailand? A family beach getaway? What will we do? … or better yet, Where will we go?
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Dance Until You Drop: DJ And Club Promoter Page Hodel
Page Hodel is legendary in the San Francisco Bay Area as a fixture of its nightlife. For 35 years she has been spinning the hits at nearly every San Francisco nightclub – gay and straight – as well as being a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer party promoter. Many people recall two of her legendary dance clubs, the BOX and club Q, to name a couple and she has no plans on stopping.
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LUNAFEST Celebrates 15 Years
LUNAFEST kicks-off its 15th year of its women’s film festival with the world premiere today in San Francisco, California with the screening of six short films and the release of a new study about the barriers women filmmakers face.
San Franciscan women and their friends will be the first to see the films made by, for, and about women hosted by representatives of Luna Bar on October 8 at the Herbst Theater (401 Van Ness Avenue; 415-392-4400; SFWMpac.org/Herbst-Theatre) in San Francisco, California at the festival’s opening event.
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It’s An All Girl Competition For The First-Ever Glorious Bites Challenge
Gloria Ferrer Caves & Vineyard is hosting its first-ever Glorious Bites Challenge with two women wine and food stars this Saturday.
The and sparkling wine tasting will be hosted by award-winning wine expert Leslie Sbrocco and the cooking challenge will be judged by guests and Season 10 Finalist of Bravo’s Top Chef Brooke Williamson, October 10, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m. at the famed vineyard on the hill (23555 Arnold Drive; 707-933-1917; GloriaFerrer.com) in Sonoma, California.
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Nepal’s First Transgender Woman To Fly Using New Passport Denoting ‘Other’
Bhumika Shrestha tests out her new passport denoting “other” as her gender at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal by Heather Cassell Looking at Bhumika Shrestha as she makes her way through Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, an average onlooker would only notice that she’s a beautiful young woman. What onlookers don’t know is […]
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