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San Francisco lesbian philanthropists Tracy Gary, left, and Jody Cole, right, two of the 17 participants in Atlantic Philanthropies LGBT donor tour of South Africa. (Photo: Inka von Sternenfels)

SF Lesbian Philanthropists Tour LGBT South Africa

Anyone who knows Jody Cole, owner of Wild Rainbow African Safaris, know she’s passionate about Africa and loves sharing knowledge about the continent, but this time she wasn’t leading the tour, she was being led.

Jody, along with 17 other European and U.S. LGBT philanthropists – including San Franciscans Tracy Gary and her partner Inka von Sternenfels – participated in a first-of-its-kind donor trip to South Africa focused on LGBT issues in January. The trip was organized through Atlantic Philanthropies.

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Lauren in The Real L Word (Season 3) - Photo: Jeff Lipsky/SHOWTIME - Photo ID: real_lword3_gal_18_Lauren_046rt

Lauren Bedford Russell Is A Beauty With A Cause

A beauty with a cause, Lauren Bedford Russell is a rebel fighting for causes near and dear to her heart one bracelet at a time.

Most women know Lauren from the Showtime’s “Real L Word” and of course her rocker girlfriend Kiyomi McCloskey, who is the frontwoman of Hunter Valentine, but she’s also a talented jewelry designer creating edgy, chic accessories with a cause or shall I say causes, as she supports LGBT equality and President Obama’s re-election and voting rights and she most recently added multiple sclerosis.

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Girl Beats with Havana Brown

Grooving to her own beat, Australian-born Havana Brown has followed the music to London and around the world touring with Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga and the Pussycat Dolls and she has worked with Rihanna, Chris Brown, Enrique Iglesias and Pitbull us to name a few.

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Dinah-licious

Oh, how sweet Dinah is with thousands of women playing golf, swimming, and having fun under the desert sun. Dinah Shore Weekend just keeps getting sweeter.

This year an estimated 20,000 women from around the world will descend on Palm Springs for five days and nights of fun in the sun, partying all night and much more at the 23rd Dinah Shore Weekend, April 3 – 7.

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Alternative country rock singer Brandi Carlile

Sweet Rocks the Hard Rock Vallarta

It’s another Sweet adventure to Mexico. Listening to Shannon Wentworth, CEO and founder of the do-good eco-friendly lesbian travel company Sweet, the company’s forthcoming trip to Hard Rock Vallarta simply sounds like paradise.

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Backstage: Fortune Feimster is Sooo Silly

If you don’t know Fortune Feimster you will soon. The “Chelsea Lately” writer is rapidly becoming a comedy star in her own right.

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Palm Springs She Bops for the Girls

My Auntie has been talking up Palm Springs for quite some time. It is her next dream destination, so on this girlfriend getaway weekend to get to know why “The Springs” is so good to us girls I was wide-open to soak in all of the wonderfulness of this desert oasis.

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Go Girl: U.N. Guides 60 Years of Being a Guide to the World

I was 13 years old when my Auntie took my grandma and me to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City. That was more than 25 years ago, it was my first trip to the Big Apple, so we were of course doing all of the touristy things. But out of Broadway and Times Square, Central Park, the Statue of Liberty, the museums and shopping the U.N. captured my imagination and remained in my memory the most.

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Slope Obsession: TheSkiDiva.com

Wendy Clinch hated skiing when she first hit the slopes as a teenager, but a little sisterly competition drove her to surpass her sister’s skills. Soon she was flying down the slopes on a regular basis.

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Out in the Vineyard guests at the Winemaker Dinner with B. Wise Vineyars at Estate Restaurant in 2012. (Photo: Courtesy of Out in the Vineyard)

Savor and Sip in Napa, Sonoma, and Mendocino

Travelers seeking a wine getaway in Northern California’s famed Napa, Sonoma, and up- and-coming Mendocino counties can’t go wrong no matter what time of the year they visit, but the best time of the year for a wine vacation is in October.

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Rev up for a Kiwi Adventure with Towanda Women’s Motorcycle Tours

Leaving motorcycling to the boys was not an option for Tina Hartung, founder of Towanda Women Motorcycle Tours, who launched the New Zealand-based women’s motorcycling tour company, one of the first for women, more than a decade ago.

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Seattle Gets Visitors Grooving to its Own Beat

by Heather Cassell Stepping off the train it felt like I had entered the cool kids’ corner of the cafeteria. The quirky artsy and sci-fi crowd that spends Saturday nights at the “Rocky Horror Picture Show“, know all of the latest up and coming indie bands, and just are too cool for school. Seattle is that […]

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