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This Lesbian Couple Experienced A Honeymoon In Hell
- Heather Cassell
- September 8, 2017
A honeymooning lesbian couple didn’t expect the less-than-white-glove experience they received during their stay at a luxury 5-star Riviera Maya resort this summer.
It was supposed to be a blissful affair celebrating their perfect wedding, but a few days into the women’s honeymoon the staff realized they were a couple and turned on them, they claim.
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Get Campy At These Queer Summer Camps
- Heather Cassell
- August 13, 2017
Queer campers are taking advantage of the dogged summer days as summer winds down as the end of August nears.
Campers will pack up their tents and head out into nature on both sides of the American coasts next week for Camp Camp and Lesbian Summer Camp – Endless Days of Summer – Beach Party.
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Trans Cyclist Wraps Up European Adventure
- Heather Cassell
- August 13, 2017
Bart Bloem, a 26-year old trans man, set out on in February on a journey across Europe that has taken him from his hometown of Malaga, Spain, where his mother is also from, through 25 counties by the time he will reach Germany on August 12.
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Joz Ve Loz’s Chef Serves Up Crave-Worthy Delights
- Heather Cassell
- July 16, 2017
Hot, Joz ve Loz is, but I wouldn’t expect anything less from the women behind this destination restaurant, especially in its new location. The restaurant moved to the Florentin, an artsy and edgy emerging neighborhood in the southern part of Tel Aviv, March 2015.
It is well worth the adventure journeying away from the action of Tel Aviv’s fashionable northern neighborhoods to dine at Joz ve Loz.
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Melissa Etheridge’s Cuban Journey
- Heather Cassell
- June 5, 2017
It’s a dream come true for musician Melissa Etheridge. Later this month Melissa will journey to Havana, Cuba.
The mysterious and forbidden island nation in the Caribbean has intrigued the 55-year old artist since childhood, she tells the New York Times.
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Femme Space Launches Queer Arts Festival’s First-Ever South Bay Event
- Heather Cassell
- June 1, 2017
The National Queer Arts Festival is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year and is expanding to the South Bay.
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Tel Aviv Pride Celebrates Bisexuals
- Heather Cassell
- May 18, 2017
Bisexuals are getting the visibility that they’ve long sought at Tel Aviv Pride with this year’s focus on the invisible B in LGBTQI.
Tel Aviv Pride organizers are touting the parade theme “Bisexual Visibility” as the “first large-scale pride parade in the world to ever celebrate the theme bisexuality,” according to a May 9 news release from Tel Aviv Pride.
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The Dinah: Empowering, Raising Women’s Voices Through Art & Music
- Heather Cassell
- January 25, 2017
The world’s largest women’s music festival, The Dinah, hits Palm Springs, California at the end of Women’s History Month and promises to bring glass shattering all-girl entertainment.
The party that attracts more than 15,000 women to the California desert kicks off March 29 – April 2.
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South America’s Only LGBTQI Surf Camp Makes Rainbow Waves
- Heather Cassell
- January 24, 2017
Surfing in one of the hottest surf spots for amateurs to pros in one of the world’s top 40 most beautiful bays among other LGBTQI surfers in South America, sounds like a dream.
It’s not though. This year marks the third annual Gay Surf Brazil, an LGBT surf camp in Santa Catarina at the famed Praia do Rosa (known as Rosa by locals) in Southern Brazil, March 25 – April 1.

Young LGBT Travel Professionals Scholarship Application Opens For 2017
- Heather Cassell
- September 9, 2016
The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association announced that it is accepting applications for the Building Bridges Scholarship Program for young lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender travel professional.
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Breaking Free: Diana King Is Free To Be Herself
- Heather Cassell
- August 26, 2016
“Shy Guy” singer Diana King has been rocking the world with her reggae fusion melodies since the 1990s, but it hasn’t been until the last five years that she’s truly fell freedom.
It doesn’t matter that she’s lived in the United States since she was 26-years old when she signed a deal with Sony Music and her music career took off.
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Sisters Exhibit Opens in Prague
- Heather Cassell
- August 8, 2016
Award-winning photojournalist Jana Ašenbrennerová’s exhibit, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, opened tonight, August 8, in Prague, Czech Republic.
The exhibit explores the order of men extravagantly dressed as nuns in habits, known as the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, raising money for community organizations and educating people about issues, such as HIV/AIDS.
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