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Gay Ski Week Queenstown organizers raise funds for New Zealand AIDS Foundation

Queenstown’s annual gay and lesbian pride festival is back again and for the first time the event will raise funds for charity.

Attracting crowds from all over New Zealand, Australia and further afield, DNA Gay Ski Week QT is the Southern Hemisphere’s largest Winter Pride event, held in Queenstown from August 31 to September 8, 2013.

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.

Olivia Travel Joins a Global Coalition for a LGBT Rights

by Heather Cassell Olivia Companies, the lesbian luxury travel company, announced that it joined forces in a coalition of government and nonprofit organizations to form a new LGBT Global Development Partnership on April 5. “We are thrilled to be a part of this historic partnership with the U.S. government and the four other founding partners, and to once […]

Go Girl: The Natural Adventures of Kim Powell

by Heather Cassell Every day is an adventure for Kim Powell, owner, operator and head naturalist of Blue Water Ventures in Santa Cruz, Calif. Take for example, late last month when she and a group of her kayakers saved a young sea lion that found refuge on one of the kayaks in the Moss Landing Harbor from what […]

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.