Month: January 2017

A Dinah reveler grooves to the music in disco rainbow style at the Cabana Pool Party. (Photo: Girls That Roam / Pipi Diamond)

The Dinah: Empowering, Raising Women’s Voices Through Art & Music

The world’s largest women’s music festival, The Dinah, hits Palm Springs, California at the end of Women’s History Month and promises to bring glass shattering all-girl entertainment.

The party that attracts more than 15,000 women to the California desert kicks off March 29 – April 2.

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Surfing Instructor Capitão David leads LGBTQI surfers attending Gay Surf Brazil 2016. (Photo: Courtesy of Brazil Ecojourneys)

South America’s Only LGBTQI Surf Camp Makes Rainbow Waves

Surfing in one of the hottest surf spots for amateurs to pros in one of the world’s top 40 most beautiful bays among other LGBTQI surfers in South America, sounds like a dream.
It’s not though. This year marks the third annual Gay Surf Brazil, an LGBT surf camp in Santa Catarina at the famed Praia do Rosa (known as Rosa by locals) in Southern Brazil, March 25 – April 1.

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Harvest Inn by Charlie Palmer

New Leadership At The Charlie Palmer Group’s Northern California Hotels

Independent hotel marketing and sales expert Tamara DeMars and international revenue management and distribution expert Parul Suri will lead the group’s new marketing and sales initiatives at the Harvest Inn and Mystic Hotel, both by hotelier, restauranteur and chef Charlie Palmer, according to the January 17 news release from the group.

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American Heather Parham was injured during the shooting at the Blue Parrot Club in Playa del Carmen, Mexico. (Photo: Courtesy of Borderland Beat)

Lone Gunman Opens Fire at Playa Del Carmen Nightclub

Five Dead, 15 Injured At A Playa Del Carmen Beach Nightclub by Heather Cassell Five festival goers were killed and nine others were wounded when a lone gunman opened fire at a music festival at a popular gay-friendly night club in one of the Yucatan Peninsula’s popular resort towns January 16. Electronic music lovers were […]

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The Cromwell International Hotel (Photo: Courtesy of the Cromwell International Hotel)

A Nonchalant Encounter At The Cromwell International Hotel In London

It Wasn’t A Budget Nightmare At The Cromwell International Hotel in London, But It Wasn’t Thrilling Either by Heather Cassell You know you aren’t in a luxury hotel when you are greeted with a dirty entry way, sad close to sagging couches circling a scratched up coffee table, and the staff are only halfway happy […]

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