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Unidentified woman and her two children speaking with the American Airlines’ captain during Friday’s incident where a flight attendant allegedly nearly struck her child and her with their stroller while boarding a flight from San Francisco International to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. (Photo: Facebook)

American Airlines Reacts Swiftly To Baby Stroller Incident

American Airlines launched an investigation and suspended the flight attendant accused of nearly hitting an infant with a stroller sending its mother into hysterical crying Friday, April 21.

Part of the incident was caught on video and posted to Facebook by Surain Adyanthaya with the caption: “OMG! AA Flight attendant violently took a stroller from a lady with her baby on my flight, hitting her and just missing the baby,” she captioned the clip.

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Young LGBTQI participants of Proactividad learn about the hospitality industry during an intensive introduction to hospitality and tourism during a job-training seminar at Villa La Pasarela at Casa de Campo in the Dominican Republic. (Photo: Nicole Clausing)

Ethical Travel in the Digital Age

Talk about a buzzkill.

I’m in the middle of a trip to the Dominican Republic. It’s a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and intersex-themed trip, part of a program called Tolerance Through Tourism. The idea is that by simply being an openly gay person and traveling in the developing world, you help people living in traditionally homophobic cultures to see that LGBTQI people are not so strange.

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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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Lindsay Davenport gives New Jersey's Lisa Webber a high five after Webber's put-away at the net at the Wailea Fantasy Camp clinic Friday morning. (Photo: Courtesy of the Four Seasons Maui)

Four Seasons Maui’s Pro Tennis Camp Marks 10 Years

Tennis Enthusiasts Will Enjoy Learning From Some Of The World’s Leading Tennis Pros During A Four Day Intensive Clinic At The Four Seasons Maui In Wailea by Heather Cassell Top tennis pros Justin Gimelstob, Tracy Austin, Lindsay Davenport and Tom Gullikson will teach avid tennis players how to improve their game at 10th Annual Wailea […]

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Models walk the runway in Hawaiian style at the HONOLULU Magazine Fashion Week 2015 Manuhealii Fashion Show. (Photo: Courtesy of Honolulu Fashion Week / Ross D. Hamamura)

Honolulu Fashion Week 2016 Celebrates Island Style

The Hawaiian Islands’ got style and its ready to show it off and say aloha at the third annual Honolulu Fashion Week announced September 15.

Designers from around the world and the islands will descend upon Hawaii’s cultural center in Honolulu, November 10 – 13.

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Reggae fushion artist Diana King (Courtesy of Diana King)

Breaking Free: Diana King Is Free To Be Herself

“Shy Guy” singer Diana King has been rocking the world with her reggae fusion melodies since the 1990s, but it hasn’t been until the last five years that she’s truly fell freedom.

It doesn’t matter that she’s lived in the United States since she was 26-years old when she signed a deal with Sony Music and her music career took off.

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Medicine Creek Tasting (Photo: Courtesy of Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater Visitor & Convention Bureau)

Visitors To Olympia Can Now Create Their Own Tasting Tour Of The Region

There’s more to Washington than Seattle and Walla Walla, there’s Olympia. Birthplace of the Riot Grrrls of the 1990s, Washington’s capital city poised at the southern end of Puget Sound on Budd Inlet is celebrating its roots that have little to do with indie girl punk rock music.

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Rica Sunga-Kwan scoops up Chai Chocolate Cardamom at Churn Urban Creamery’s pop-up ice cream cart. (Photo: Heather Cassell)

For The Love Of Ice Cream! Churn Urban Creamery Scoops Up A Healthy Summer Treat

Ice cream is always called for in the summer. Who can forget the delight of licking the creamy goodness of your flavor or flavors of choice while holding it all in a crunchy graham cracker cone as fast as you can before it begins to drip onto your hand as a kid or an adult?

I mean, there’s a reason why ice cream is everyone’s favorite treat. It certainly is Rica Sunga-Kwan, 31, owner and ice cream maker of Churn Urban Creamery, a boutique pop-up ice cream cart that has been appearing around San Francisco and San Mateo since April, favorite food.

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Comedian Priya Prasad (Photo: Courtesy of the Zee TV Desi Comedy Fest)

Being Funny In A Man’s World, Desi Women Comedians Speak Out

It’s still a man’s world in the standup comedy. There’s no joking about it. Then factor in being South Asian. What’s the immediate image that comes to mind? If you are in America, which we are, it might be a nerdy computer engineer who speaks English with a heavy accent. Yeah, no. Mix up the gender what image do you have now? You draw a blank, well you used to until Mindy Kaling arrived in American homes through television shows, “The Office” and then her own show “The Mindy Project.”

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Filed hockey players Kate, left, and Helen, right, Richardson-Walsh, are the first-ever wife team competing for Olympic gold in Rio. (Photo: Ady Kerry)

First-Ever Wife-Wife Teammates Compete At The Gayest Olympics Ever

Wife team Kate and Helen Richardson-Walsh might have had their eyes on diamonds when they married in 2013, but now they have their eye on the gold at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

This is their fourth Olympics together, but their first as a married couple walking out onto the field to compete for the United Kingdom.

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British Field Hockey teamd celebrate. (Photo: NPR)

Breaking Records And Fierce Competition As Women Roar In Rio

This is a historic year for women competing at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, which kicked off Friday, August 5.

Zika and pollution aren’t holding these women back from going for the gold. A record number of women athletes, 45%, qualified to compete in the games in Brazil.

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Delta One, first class flying on Delta Air Lines. (Photo: Courtesy of Delta Air Lines )

It’s A Whole Other World Flying Delta One

Girls That Roam Recently Experienced A First Class Flight to London Aboard Delta One And Learned Perhaps It’s The Only Way To Take To The Air When Going Abroad by Heather Cassell & Super G If flying first class is on your bucket list, definitely bump it up toward the top of your list, especially […]

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