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Righteous Partying: The Dinah’s Mariah Hanson

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the famed Dinah Shore Weekend, which kicks off the women’s spring and summer festival season.

Girls That Roam is on the road to The Dinah heading down Interstate 5 to party with the ladies April 1 – 5 in the California desert … and maybe play some golf. After all, it was the Professional Ladies Golf Association’s annual tournament headed up by the popular Big Band era entertainer and 1970s TV personality Dinah Shore that started it all.

New Orlean’s Festigals Saturday’s stiletto stroll is a highlight as women dressed head to toe in pink danced to music in high heels and hot pink wigs through the French Quarter … and of course there was a lot of bead throwing. (Photo: Courtesy of www.experienceneworleans.com)

Marriott Goes Local with the Launch of Marriott Traveler

Global hotelier Marriott International is getting with the 21st century by changing its tune from big impersonal global hotelier to personable local hotelier with a new campaign aimed at providing up-to-date local recommendations for its guests.

Smooth sailing aboard Transgender Vacation’s Caribbean cruise. (Photo: Courtesy of Transgender Vacations)

Transcontinental: Vacations for Gender Variant Travelers

A handful of guests mixed and mingled with other cruisers aboard the inaugural transgender cruise to the Caribbean in December 2014.

About five guests – two transgender individuals, a partner of one of the transgender guests, a person who cross-dresses – and Stephanie Land, founder of Transgender Vacations, which produced the cruise, boarded the Navigator of the Seas of the Royal Caribbean.

Dinah partiers around the pool at The Dinah 2014. (Photo: Peter Szabadi)

Dinah’s Sizzling Hot at 25

The Dinah, which is arguably the biggest lesbian party in the world, just keeps getting hotter year after year.

There’s a reason why an upward of more than 15,000 beautiful bikini-clad women from around the world head to sunny Palm Springs, California for a week of splashing around in the pool and partying until dawn at The Dinah.

Into the blue, a girl surfer rides the waves in Praia do Rosa, Brazil. (Photo: Courtesy of Brazil Ecojourneys)

Girls Catch A Curl At South America’s First-Ever Lesbian Surf Camp

It’s no wonder Praia do Rosa attracts not only the under-40 jet set crowd, but is also popular among gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender travelers and surfers alike.

It is a perfect location for South America’s first-ever lesbian surf camp May 9 – 16.

“It is the best in Brazil,” says Marta responding to Girls That Roam’s question about how the surf is. “Lots of Brazilian pro-surfers come from here or train here.”

Girl Bar's Dinah Vegas White Party. (Photo: Courtesy of Girl Bar's Dinah Vegas)

Dinah Vegas Heats Up Las Vegas

Vegas Baby! That’s what was on my friends and I had in mind when we headed to Sin City for a weekend of debauchery sans our girlfriends for my best friend’s bachelorette party. It also happened to be Dinah Vegas.

Opening ceremonies of the Gay Games 9 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: Super G)

One World Game: Gay Games and Outgames Bring the Game Together

Gay Games and World Outgames organizers announced holding a single LGBTQ sporting tournament in 2022, announced in a blog post on the Federation of Gay Games website March 4.

Gay Game X is set for Paris, France in 2018 and the next Outgames is set for Miami, Florida in 2017.

Louisville Courts LGBTQ Tourism

Louisville wants to show off its rainbow colors to queer travelers.

Kentucky’s largest city has been a cornerstone of progressiveness and a hub for the Bluegrass state’s LGBTQ community for quite some time and the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau believe it’s high time it comes out and proud.

The visitor’s bureau recently convened an LGBTI task force to brainstorm ways to attract LGBTQ travelers to experience Louisville, reported The Courier-Journal.

Hilton Worldwide Joins the Global Equality Fund

Hilton Worldwide became the first hospitality partner joining the Global Equality Fund as its newest partner, announced the United States State Department March 9 in a news release.

Fields of lavender overlooking the Pacific Ocean at Ali’i Kula Lavender Farm in Maui, Hawaii. (Photo: Courtesy of Ali’i Kula Lavender Farm)

Maui’s Lavender Fields at Ali’i Kula Lavender Farm

It was a wonderful unexpected surprise when my girlfriend and I accidentally discovered the Ali’i Kula Lavender Farm on Maui.

We arrived early at O’o Farm for our hands-on-farm experience picking the food that would be prepared into a gourmet lunch by the farm’s chef. Since we were early, the women on the phone suggested that Super G and I visit Ali’i Kula Lavender Farm (1100 Waipoli Road, Kula; 808-878-3004; AliiKulaLavender.com) which is right around the bend from O’o Farm.

The Deluxe Room at La Passion Cartagena Hotel in Colombia (Photo: Courtesy of La Passion Cartagena Hotel)

La Passion Cartagena is Classic Cartagena with the Warmth of Home

My motto is, while in a country take advantage of side trips to other destinations to see the country or the region. This time I was in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and set my sights on a luxury getaway to Cartagena, Colombia.

Spring Rolls Non-Fried (Photo: Heather Cassell)

Veganism Blooms in Northern California’s Tri-Valley Area at Blossom

So, how hard is it to find a good vegetarian or better yet a good vegan restaurant in Dublin, California? Apparently, the pickings have been very slim for a very hungry non-meat eating crowd until recently.

What’s up with that? Isn’t this California? Well yes, but it’s not Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco or Santa Cruz. The usual suspect cities for crunchy granola grass eating herbivores (I can say this I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area). This is the Tri-Valley area, which includes Danville, Dublin, Livermore, Pleasanton, and San Ramon. The region is 33 miles from San Francisco and 18 miles from Oakland, but it might as well be a whole other world called: the rest of America.