Author: Heather Cassell

Olivia Looks Good At 40

Lesbian’s gallivanting around the world isn’t a new adventure, but lesbian travel is and while women-only vacations – queer or straight – are still a young industry Olivia Travel paved the road and sailed the wide open seas for women’s travel.

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Girls on the Road

Women are on the move, but not taking to the streets as they did in early and mid-to late 20th century. The millennium is a new chapter in feminism where the bit battled movement from an ongoing backlash and war on women waged by radical conservatives continues to be elusive and unrecognizable not making it to the women who need it the most.

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Sweet co-founders Jennifer Rainin, left, and Shannon Wentworth stand by a wall demonstrating the cheer "Sweeties" brought to the pediatric ward at the Karl Heusner Memorial Hospital in Belize City, Belize. Volunteers from the ship helped paint the ward. (Photo: Super G)

Sweet Sailing With Jennifer Rainin And Shannon Wentworth

The newest lesbian travel company’s global galavanting is the brainchild of openly lesbian do-gooder leaders Jen, 45, and Shannon, 40, hatched the idea while walking their dogs on a California day.

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Lisa, right, and Jenni, left, on top of Machu Picchu before returning to San Francisco, California. (Photo: Courtesy of Out and Around)

Two Girls’ Global Adventure Searching for the “Supergays”

If you had a year to travel around the world, what would you do?

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Big Grape Adventure: Sheldon Wines

All it took was a one kiss and Tobe and Dylan Sheldon, owners of Sheldon Wines, were off on a wild wine adventure.

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Lustrous Adventure: Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010

Get ready. Pack your bags. You are about to embark on 27 adventures that will take you all over the world, inspire your wanderlust, and journey into your own heart in the The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2010: True Stories from Around the World, edited by award-winning writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest.

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Girldar: Lesbian Travel Guides Lead the Way

by Heather Cassell Finding lesbians in New York City or London somewhat easy, but it is a whole other story in distant lands, especially when women have very little if any rights at all – don’t even mention the “L” word – but these are minor challenges to Gina Gatta and Tanya Churchmuch. Gina is president and […]

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Get Blissful at Bliss Weekend

A fall getaway was just the ticket for Christine De La Rosa, better known as Miz Chris, when she dreamed up Bliss, an all-women of color weekend vacation packed with fun, rejuvenation, and relaxation at California’s popular desert resort Palm Springs.

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Fall Away with an All-Girl Getaway

Women are grabbing the last few hours of Indian summer before the holidays hit with three fun in the sun weekend getaways.

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Enchanting Paradise: Camille Thomas’s Paradise in Puerto Rico

Women looking to be enchanted going into the holiday season don’t need to look any further than Puerto Rico.

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A Girl on the Road’s Bestfriend

Nervous about hitting the wide open road on your own? Have no fear, Beth Whitman, author of Wanderlust and Lipstick: The Essential Guide for Women Traveling Solo takes some of the unknown out of going it alone.

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Classic Party Girl: Kathy Miller

A freshly minted 33 year old lesbian at the time, Kathy Miller, 57, was on the hunt for other professional women like herself during the early 1980s. The professional party girl for corporate and school events heard about the Dinah Shore Golf Tournament, so she made her way out to the California desert to check out the scene in Palm Springs.

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