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Travel features, news, and reviews about transgender travel and profiles of transgender hospitality and travel industry professionals.
History-Making Transgender Opera, ‘Lili Elbe,’ Stars Lucia Lucas
The world’s first transgender opera, “Lili Elbe,” Makes History Twice With Transgender American Bariton Lucia Lucas In The Lead Role as Lili by Heather Cassell Transgender Danish painter Lili Elbe’s story is now an opera. It’s a historical first. It is the first-ever opera about a historical transgender figure. It is also the first time […]
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Through Peaks And Valley’s Mountaineer Is About To Have Her Monumental Moment
Mountaineer Erin Parisi Stands Tall on the World’s Highest Peaks for Transgender Visibility is Closer Than Ever to Making History Climbing the Seven Summits by Heather Cassell Mountaineer Erin Parisi started 2022 off right. She concurred her fifth peak summiting Aconcagua in Argentina planting the light blue, pink, and white flag at the top. Erin, […]
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Chicago’s BoHo Appoints New Artistic Director Elizabeth Swanson
Award-winning international nonbinary theater production professional Elizabeth Swanson named Chicago’s BoHo Theatre’s new artistic director by Heather Cassell Chicago’s BoHo Theatre announced the appointment of Elizabeth Swanson as the theater company’s new artistic director earlier this month. “While producing theater looks different these days, I am reassured knowing we have Elizabeth as our new artistic […]
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Non-Binary Activist Liberated Receiving First Gender ‘X’ US Passport
After A Long Battle Against The State Department, Dana Zzyym Became The First Non-Binary American To Receive A Passport Denoting Their Gender As “X” by Heather Cassell Dana Zzyym proudly became the first intersex American to receive a passport with the gender marker “X” last month, making the US the 16th country in the world […]
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Ecuador Hopes To Be The Next Great LGBTQI Travel Destination
The LGBT Chamber of Commerce Ecuador announced the launch of Proud Destinations, the South American country’s new LGBTQI destination marketing association for LGBTQI-owned and -friendly travel and hospitality businesses and LGBTQI travelers.
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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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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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The Skies Will Soon Be Friendlier For All Genders
“It’s a significant step forward for nonbinary individuals, so they are not faced with a mismatch between their ticketing information and their legal identification,” Beck Bailey of the Human Rights Campaign told the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Taiwanese Trans Travelers Might Soon Get Passport Designation
More freedoms might be coming to Taiwan following last year’s Supreme Court same-sex marriage ruling, now advocates and government officials are championing a third gender option on government-issued identification cards and passports, an official said Tuesday.
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Trans Cyclist Wraps Up European Adventure
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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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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