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Deadly Year Inspires New Fund To Get Trans Black Women Home Safe

Actor Devin Michael Lowe Launches Black Trans Travel Fund Aimed To Reduce The Number Of Murders Of Transgender Women By Paying For Their Private Rides Home by Heather Cassell How many women out late at night or who find themselves in an unsafe situation at any time of the day would not want a paid […]

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Unparalleled Founder of Modern Travel Writing Dead

British Transgender Travel Writer Jan Morris Died Quietly In Her Beloved Wales by Heather Cassell It was a quiet end to an extraordinary life for award-winning celebrated travel writer, journalist, and historian Jan Morris. Jan slipped into the other world for her next great journey in a Welsh hospital in Pwllheli near her home November […]

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Japan-Airlines

Japanese Airline First In Asia To Embrace Gender X Travelers

One of Japan’s Largest Airlines Is Majorly Altering Gender Expectations In The Sky by Heather Cassell In a few days, travelers heading to Asia on Japan Airlines will notice some changes at the airport and when they board the plane. Starting October 1, instead of hearing “ladies and gentlemen,” travelers will hear “attention all passengers” […]

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Queer Travelers Ready To Risk Traveling In A Pandemic World

Two Separate Studies Demonstrate That LGBTQI Travelers Are Ready To Lead The Travel Industry’s Recovery by Heather Cassell Queer travelers are restless and ready to hit the road and airways as summer travel gets underway, despite a global pandemic that looms over summer fun and vacations. Testing lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex travelers […]

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Desperate To Get Home In The Pandemic

Two Lesbian Couples Stuck Abroad And Trying Desperately To Get Home In The Middle Of The Novel Coronavirus Pandemic Outbreak Tell Their Stories by Heather Cassell Silicon Valley lesbian couples traveling abroad are trying to get home amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Two couples, Leslie Bulbuk, 57, and her wife, Marta Donayre, 50, and Karin […]

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Kai Hazelwood

New Festival Celebrates Bi Art And Culture

The Unicorn pARTy Aims To Highlight Bi Creativity And Stories In Los Angeles by Heather Cassell A new festival celebrating the love of more than one gender is coming to Los Angeles this weekend with the launch of the Unicorn pARTy. “There’s a lot of excitement about it which is awesome,” said Kai Hazelwood, lead […]

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Mobily Challenged Woman Saved From Watery Death

Two U.S. Virgin Islands Local Men Made A Daring Rescue Of A Wheelchair-Bound Woman From The Water After She And Her Wheelchair Plunged Into The Water From The Dock by Heather Cassell A cruise vacation to the Caribbean got a little too exciting for a woman in a wheelchair last Monday when she inadvertently fell […]

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Back Lot Bash Chicago

Women To Rock Chicago

The Veronicas And Jessica Cruz And More Women Musicians To Take The Stage At Back Lot Bash This Weekend by Heather Cassell Pride Weekend kicks off today, but not everyone is in New York celebrating Stonewall 50 at the combined NYC Pride/WorldPride celebration. The Midwest is throwing down for its largest queer women party in […]

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Girl Guide To The Biggest Pride Festival In The World

The Best Girl Parties … And Some Other Ways To Enjoy And Get The Most Of NYC Pride/WorldPride/Stonewall 50 In New York This Week by Heather Cassell It’s Pride Week and you’ve just dropped your bags at your hotel or Airbnb and want to join the biggest rainbow party on the planet: New York Pride/WorldPride/Stonewall […]

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A Simple Desire Created One Of Vienna’s Trendiest Cafes

Meet the Visionary Behind The Hip Vienna Café Fett + Zucker Café Eva-Maria Trimmel by Heather Cassell What does one do when they are bored with their job? How about open a café? That’s what Eva-Maria Trimmel did when she opened Fett + Zucker Café in 2011. Bored with her job as an architect and […]

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Guam Beach

Guam Next Hot Destination For LGBTQI Travelers?

The Micronesia Island In The Pacific Stepped Up The Ante Wooing LGBTQI Travelers At The Annual International Gay And Lesbian Travel Association Conference by Heather Cassell Guam’s first-ever openly gay high-ranking elected official made the case for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, intersex and queer travelers to visit the United States island territory located in the […]

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NYC Pride

NYC Rises Up For A Pride Of A Lifetime

From Riots To Celebrations New York Is Throwing The Biggest A Pride Festival Ever For As The World Descends Upon The Big Apple For Stonewall 50 by Heather Cassell There’s no question: New York Pride combined with WorldPride for the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising is going to be fabulous and historic. That’s […]

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