Travel Communities

LGBT Confex Annouces American Airlines Sponsorship

American Airlines sponsors the LGBT Confex, Latin America’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) travel business conference and consumer expo event for the second year running.

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Ptown Tops List of Most Expensive U.S. Summer Destinations

Blame it on the gays, but Provincetown, lovingly known as Ptown by gay and lesbian travelers’ alike, tops CheapHotels.org’s list of most expensive hotel stays in the U.S. this summer.

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Delhi Queer Pride Parade 2015

A New Queer India

Queer life in India is shifting into high gear creating a new class of LGBT Indians for the 21st century.

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LGBT South Asians gather in SF for DesiQ

San Francisco will get a taste of queer India this week as LGBT South Asians descend on the gay mecca for the fourth DesiQ Conference on July 4 – 6.

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ACVB becomes third IGTLA Silver Global Partner

Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau became the third Silver Global Partner with the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association representatives announced on July 1.

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New York Heart’s the Gays

Hands down, New York City is the number one destination for girls and their gay boyfriends, and why not? Who can resist Broadway, fashion, celebrities and models, Sex and the City hot spots, and I can go on and on. The Big Apple has it going on.

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Chef K is on Fire in the Kitchen

Finding success personally and professionally has allowed Khristianne Uy, better known simply as Chef K, the winner of the first season of ABC’s “The Taste,” to show her muscle raising money for youth causes.

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It’s a World of Laughter with Comedian Dana Goldberg

For the past 10 years, comedian Dana Goldberg has created a laugh track around the world and she ready to do it all again for the next decade.

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Girls in the vineyards (Photo: Courtesy of Gay Napa Getaways)

Big Fun on the Big Gay Wine Train

My girlfriend leads they way with her karaoke rendition of “Copacabana” in the lounge car. No, this isn’t some post late-night snack dream sequence, but the real deal as we revel in laughter and wine on board Big Gay Wine Train.

An after dinner crowd gathers around the piano breaking out into their own favorite songs in a lounge car sing-a-long and chatting with each other about dinner and the four unique wines paired with the gourmet meal designed just for the guests.

This isn’t our first time on the wine train, but it is our first time with a bunch of gays… and it makes for a much livelier experience.

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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.

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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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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 […]

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