Author: Heather Cassell
The Dinah’s Mariah Hanson To Receive First-Ever Legacy Award
Mariah Hanson, founder and producer of The Dinah, is kicking off the silver anniversary of the world’s largest all-girl party with a string of honors.
The Palm Springs community is recognizing Mariah for her invaluable contribution to the Coachella Valley LGBT community with the first-ever Legacy Award, an honor to pay tribute to remarkable individuals for their achievement and leadership advancing the LGBT community, presented by The Center.
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Café Flore is Moving On Up
The next time you hang out at Café Flore (2298 Market Street; 415-621-8579; CafeFlore.com) one of the Castro’s popular spots to meet a date, friends or cruise the foot traffic walking by you’ll notice something different about this popular bohemic spot in San Francisco’s gayborhood.
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Sarah Toce Takes The Communications Director Seat At Seattle Pride
Seattle Pride announced that Sarah Toce will immediately assume her new role as communications director and board member of the Washington’s largest Pride organization Friday.
Sarah joins nine other board members as the annual event which hit the big 4-0 in June.
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The Sex and The City Tour Is Sexsational!
Getting onto the bus filled with groups of best friends, one token Mr. Big and Super G, for the Fabulous Sex and the City Tour put on by On Location Tours I was flashing back to my single girl days with one of my besties and former roomie, Erica.
Every Sunday night we ordered in, had our drinks in hand and made sure we were on time for Sex and the City. Erica could always guess what Carrie’s hypothesis for the week was. I was willingly along for the ride as each story unfolded.
Each of us saw a piece of ourselves in Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha as we played out our own SATC in the Gay Mecca dating men, women and everything in between and of course chasing our careers and fashion.
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Get A Crush On Napa
It was time for another romantic weekend getaway to wine country, so Super G and I packed up our convertible, turned the radio up, and zipped up the freeway toward the Napa Valley.
It was a beautiful day that turned into perfection as soon as we saw the familiar rows of vines sloping along the hills filled with clusters of plump grapes glimmering in the bright sun against the blue sky.
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DJ WildFire Gets Women Into The Groove
Blending music together creating an eclectic energy throughout the dance floor is what got Jennifer “Jenn” Davis, better known as DJ WildFire, hooked on spinning for any party.
It’s a meditative practice that resonates in her soul and inspired her to be a DJ nearly 20 years ago.
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Piper Gladwill Finds The Perfect Chemistry Brewing Beer
Women visiting Astoria, Oregon can get a close up view of brewing on a tour with Piper Gladwill, resident brewer at Fort George Brewery (1483 Duane St, Astoria; 503-325-7468; FortGeorgeBrewery.com), or get a sample of brews on EDEN Pacific Northwest’s Craft Brew Trail Tour. Piper takes women into the brewing tomes for a close up view of the beer making process during a half hour tour followed by a tasting of several of the brewery’s 21 ales on tap, made right there on site.
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Miss Fit Adventures is Fit for the Journey
Growing up on the southern Oregon coast, Nikki Becker, owner of Portland-based Miss Fit Adventures, found solace in the natural landscape and being outdoors.
“Nature saved me. It saved my life. It was a place that I found solace. It was a place where I found strength being on the river. It’s just a place that I was able to get away and take care of myself,” says Nikki.
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New York Is the Life
If San Francisco is my girlfriend, New York is my boyfriend. I can’t get enough of the city of lights, fashion and action and neither can Super G.
We have an infatuation with the Big Apple that can only be cured by an annual fling to catch some shows on Broadway and discover changes in our favorite neighborhoods.
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Women Escape To The Sea At EDEN Pacific Northwest
It was a warm weekend in the coastal town of Seaside on the Northern Oregon coast when women started arriving for the first annual EDEN Pacific Northwest.
The women were excited as they unpacked their cars and wheeled their luggage into the Shilo Inn Oceanfront (30 North Promenade; 503-738-9571; ShiloInns.com/search_results.asp?PI=CSSOR), the host hotel for the long weekend on the beach.
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Belinda Carroll’s Knack For Being Funny
The café in the Pacific Northwest coastal town was shaking with laughter as Portland-based comedian Belinda Carroll delivered the laughs straight up (so-to-speak) during the first annual EDEN Pacific Northwest.
This year the Portland-based comedian is back as a part of the comedic crew – that includes Julie Goldman and D’Lo – to deliver those punch lines that will leave the women doubled over in laughter during the all-girl weekend getaway in Seaside, Oregon, October 2 – 5.
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D’Lo Knows No Boundaries In Comedy and Travel
It doesn’t hurt having friends in many places, especially if your life consists of being on the road much of the time, at least that’s what comedian D’Lo has found.
Knowing artists and activists in different cities allows the queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American to not feel like such an outsider, he says.
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