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Ellen Page’s ‘Gaycation’ Explores The Big Wide Gay World
Acclaimed Canadian actress Ellen Page’s most recent venture “Gaycation,” takes a camera crew on a global adventure checking out lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer culture and lives around the globe as they follow her best friend, Ian Daniel, and her on a unique social political adventure.
“The goal is to go and look at the LGBT culture, at the joy and the liberation,” says Ellen.
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India Launches Queer Taxis
You know it could be a great plot for a Bollywood movie: a story about India’s first-ever queer-owned and operated taxi companies, Gender Taxi and Rainbow Wings.
However, it’s a true story. Last month two start-up taxi cab companies were launched. Rainbow Wings, the Mumbai-based cab company dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender drivers, launched January 20. Gender Taxi, is Kerala’s first-ever state sponsored transgender owned- and –operated taxi company, launched on January 31.
Both cab companies aim to help integrate LGBTQ Indians into society by providing them with an avenue for employment through entrepreneurship.
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Broadway and TV Star Lea DeLaria Is Set To Jazz Up The Dinah
“Orange Is The New Black” star and hottest veterans of Broadway musicals and stand-up comedy, Lea DeLaria is returning to The Dinah for a special night of comedy and music.
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Turning Tables: Dinah Announces DJ Lineup With A Twist
Keeping the music pumping and the sounds fresh The Dinah delivers global celebrity DJs Samantha Ronson and Mary Mac along with the best female DJs from across the US to Palm Springs, California.
It’s going to be a power packed nitty gritty weekend of music as DJs Samantha Ronson and Mary Mac spin and Elle King takes the stage during the 4-day all-girl extravaganza, March 30 – April 2. This is just the beginning ladies.
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Groove Master DJ Mary Mac To Spin Her Spell On The Dinah
The dance floor will be slamming when DJ Mary Mac hits the turntables at The Dinah, March 30 – April 2, in Palm Springs.
The legendary DJ and performer joins fellow celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson in the DJ booth along with nine other DJs inspiring more than 15,000 women to work up a sweat on the dance floor during 4-day all-girl party in the desert.
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Celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson Set To Throw Down The Hits At The Dinah
The girls at The Dinah will get footloose on the dance floors with global sensation DJ Samantha Ronson spinning the latest dance club anthems from around the world at The Dinah this spring January 4.
The Dinah Producer Mariah Hanson announced the famed celebrity spinstress will be in the DJ booth at The Dinah, March 30 – April 3 in Palm Springs, California.
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What Do Queer Women Travelers Want?
I am the first to admit, if you don’t get women and don’t know where to find us it might seem like we are playing hard to get – especially queer and trans women – but we are traveling in increasing numbers.
Women are nearly 50% of the population globally, so we are everywhere and we are roaming – especially on solo adventures and girlfriend getaways – as we continue to make bank, grow our net value, and start to enjoy our financial success.
However, women, in particular queer women, seem to be an elusive demographic to understand and to reach for travel professionals.
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Rude Awakening For Lesbian Couple At Sleep Inn In Brooklyn
Turned away for the night because they are a lesbian couple, Loren Parisella and Elizabeth Prestano, are suing the Sleep Inn, whose parent company is Choice Hotels International, in Brooklyn for discrimination.
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‘Exs & Ohs’ Elle King Headlines The Dinah
Who hasn’t heard the crooning, swinging rockabilly tune “Exs & Ohs” by two-time Grammy nominated Elle King?
You couldn’t miss it and you won’t miss her if you are at The Dinah in Palm Springs, March 30 – April 3, 2016.
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Transphobia Aboard Royal Caribbean Complains Transgender Vacations
Transgender Cruisers Aboard the Second Annual Transgender Vacations Caribbean Cruise Upset By Mistreatment, Complain To Royal Caribbean by Heather Cassell It was supposed to be fun on the high seas on the second annual Transgender Vacations’ Caribbean cruise aboard a Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. ship. That was until one guest was the recipient of homophobic […]
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LGBTQ Travel Officially Expands Eastward with IGLTA and PATA Agreement
Lesbian and gay travel experts are eyeing Asia as the next hot destination from Japan to Thailand and why not? Queer travelers have already been creating a path to destinations such as China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries in Asia.
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Queer History Caught On Film In ‘Daily and Transcendent’ Exhibit
San Francisco’s queer community is getting a look at itself through the lens of two photojournalists at the “Daily and Transcendent: 25+ years of Photojournalistic Portraits Exhibit” currently on display at the San Francisco Public Library’s Jewett Gallery.
The exhibit opened November 1 and is on display free to the public in the Jewett Gallery at the San Francisco Public Library’s Main Branch until January 3.