Day: February 1, 2016

Ian Daniel, left, and Ellen Page, right, participates in an LGBTQ Pride event during one of their journey’s in “Gaycation,” their new LGBTQ travel show on Viceland. (Photo: Viceland)

Ellen Page’s ‘Gaycation’ Explores The Big Wide Gay World

Acclaimed Canadian actress Ellen Page’s most recent venture “Gaycation,” takes a camera crew on a global adventure checking out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer culture and lives around the globe as they follow her best friend, Ian Daniel, and her on a unique social political adventure.

“The goal is to go and look at the LGBT culture, at the joy and the liberation,” says Ellen.

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Sanjivani, a member of the LGBT community, at the launch of Wings Rainbow radio taxi service in Mumbai on Wednesday, January 20. (Photo: Vivek Bendre / The Hindu)

India Launches Queer Taxis

You know it could be a great plot for a Bollywood movie: a story about India’s first-ever queer-owned and operated taxi companies, Gender Taxi and Rainbow Wings.

However, it’s a true story. Last month two start-up taxi cab companies were launched. Rainbow Wings, the Mumbai-based cab company dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender drivers, launched January 20. Gender Taxi, is Kerala’s first-ever state sponsored transgender owned- and –operated taxi company, launched on January 31.

Both cab companies aim to help integrate LGBTQ Indians into society by providing them with an avenue for employment through entrepreneurship.

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