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Righteous Partying: The Dinah’s Mariah Hanson
- Heather Cassell
- April 2, 2015
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the famed Dinah Shore Weekend, which kicks off the women’s spring and summer festival season.
Girls That Roam is on the road to The Dinah heading down Interstate 5 to party with the ladies April 1 – 5 in the California desert … and maybe play some golf. After all, it was the Professional Ladies Golf Association’s annual tournament headed up by the popular Big Band era entertainer and 1970s TV personality Dinah Shore that started it all.
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Transcontinental: Vacations for Gender Variant Travelers
- Heather Cassell
- March 23, 2015
A handful of guests mixed and mingled with other cruisers aboard the inaugural transgender cruise to the Caribbean in December 2014.
About five guests – two transgender individuals, a partner of one of the transgender guests, a person who cross-dresses – and Stephanie Land, founder of Transgender Vacations, which produced the cruise, boarded the Navigator of the Seas of the Royal Caribbean.
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Dinah’s Sizzling Hot at 25
- Heather Cassell
- March 23, 2015
The Dinah, which is arguably the biggest lesbian party in the world, just keeps getting hotter year after year.
There’s a reason why an upward of more than 15,000 beautiful bikini-clad women from around the world head to sunny Palm Springs, California for a week of splashing around in the pool and partying until dawn at The Dinah.
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Girls Catch A Curl At South America’s First-Ever Lesbian Surf Camp
- Heather Cassell
- March 11, 2015
It’s no wonder Praia do Rosa attracts not only the under-40 jet set crowd, but is also popular among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender travelers and surfers alike.
It is a perfect location for South America’s first-ever lesbian surf camp May 9 – 16.
“It is the best in Brazil,” says Marta responding to Girls That Roam’s question about how the surf is. “Lots of Brazilian pro-surfers come from here or train here.”
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Dinah Vegas Heats Up Las Vegas
- Heather Cassell
- March 10, 2015
Vegas Baby! That’s what was on my friends and I had in mind when we headed to Sin City for a weekend of debauchery sans our girlfriends for my best friend’s bachelorette party. It also happened to be Dinah Vegas.
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One World Game: Gay Games and Outgames Bring the Game Together
- Heather Cassell
- March 9, 2015
Gay Games and World Outgames organizers announced holding a single LGBTQ sporting tournament in 2022, announced in a blog post on the Federation of Gay Games website March 4.
Gay Game X is set for Paris, France in 2018 and the next Outgames is set for Miami, Florida in 2017.
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Louisville Courts LGBTQ Tourism
- Heather Cassell
- March 9, 2015
Louisville wants to show off its rainbow colors to queer travelers.
Kentucky’s largest city has been a cornerstone of progressiveness and a hub for the Bluegrass state’s LGBTQ community for quite some time and the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau believe it’s high time it comes out and proud.
The visitor’s bureau recently convened an LGBTI task force to brainstorm ways to attract LGBTQ travelers to experience Louisville, reported The Courier-Journal.
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Hilton Worldwide Joins the Global Equality Fund
- Heather Cassell
- March 9, 2015
Hilton Worldwide became the first hospitality partner joining the Global Equality Fund as its newest partner, announced the United States State Department March 9 in a news release.
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A Rummymoon at Sea
- Heather Cassell
- January 5, 2015
Do you hate cruising? For years, I thought I did, too. I went on a transatlantic cruise as a teenager, and by about the fourth overcast, 50°F day, I was scanning the horizon for icebergs, because an emergency evacuation would at least have been something to do.
Years later, I went on a booze cruise out of Los Angeles. That jaunt didn’t include much time on land, either. When we did disembark, it was in Ensenada, Mexico, which is essentially a dusty, tequila-soaked suburb of San Diego whose name, I’m pretty sure, means “three-day hangover” in Spanish.
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Go to Europe with the Girls on a French Escapade
- Heather Cassell
- January 5, 2015
Giving into her wanderlust and love of France, Jacqueline “Jackie” Grandchamps, Ph.D., launched French Escapade to share Europe with other women 10 years ago.
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Pop. Boom. Dinah 25 Does it Again.
- Heather Cassell
- January 2, 2015
The Dinah 25, the world’s largest women’s event showcasing breakout female talent adds Bebe Rexha and Ivy Levan to the lineup. by Heather Cassell What women’s event features the most emerging female performers about ready to bust open the music billboards? If you answered The Dinah, you are correct. This year won’t be any different […]
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Meghan Trainor Brings That Bass to The Dinah 25
- Heather Cassell
- December 6, 2014
I’m sure you’ve heard the song on the radio. You know, the one about the girl, Meghan Trainor, singing about body positive curves with her hit-maker “All About that Bass,” well she’s bringing it to The Dinah 25.
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