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Tanya Churchmuch is the founder and publisher of the lesbian travel website, www.girlports.com. She is also Tourisme Montreal's Media Relations Manager for the gay and lesbian market and a Board Member of the International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA). Prior to her work in the LGBT travel and media world, Tanya was a broadcast journalist and news anchor in Montreal, including 9 years at Global Television. She is also the Past President of Reporters Without Borders Canada.

http://www.girlports.com

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Andrew Collins has been roaming the globe as a travel writer and editor since 1991, originally as a staff editor for Fodor's Travel Publications, and since 1993 as a full-time freelancer. Andrew spends about 10 to 15 days a month on the road, and although he technically lives in Portland, Oregon, he considers himself to be very much to be a perpetual nomad. And wherever his travels take him, from Melbourne, Australia to Melbourne, Florida, he always sets out to find a destination's gay pulse.

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Ray worked as a journalist for nine years at the San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle and was the Northern California Chapter President of the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association for six years. He currently works in communications for a major San Francisco-based foundation, and is on the Board of Directors for the Gay Straight Alliance

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In 1989, Gina Gatta became the Director of Mail Order Operations at the Damron Company, America's first and foremost LGBT travel guide publisher. By 1991, Gatta was the Editor in Chief. She became President of the company in 1992. Since then, she has not only expanded the company's number of best-selling titles but has launched an award-winning online database. Today, the annual editions of the Damron Men's Travel Guide, the Damron Women's Traveller, the Damron City Guide, and Damron Accommodations are the top sellers in their respective categories. And the searchable database of 20,000 listings can be found at www.damron.com. Gatta has also been active in numerous national and local business and philanthropic organizations. Currently, she serves at the Co Chair to the Board of the National AIDS Memorial Grove.

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Thomas is a novelist and critic whose books include FELLOW TRAVELERS, set amidst the purges of gay employees from the State Department in the early 1950s.

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Nathan created the website ImFromDriftwood, which is a compilation of true stories by LGBT people from all over the world to create an archive of the community's stories.

http://www.ImFromDriftwood.com

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David works as copy desk chief for The San Francisco Chronicle and also serves as editor of the paper's stylebook, which sets policy for editorial style and usage. He previously worked as a copy editor at the Boston Herald and the BPI Entertainment News Wire. He's the also president of the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, and has been on the national board since 2001.

http://www.nlgja.org - http://www.reacttoyournews.org

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Samim Surel is a graduate of Alliant International University in San Diego, and Art Institute of California in San Francisco. Surel is C.E.O. of Si415 Design LLC, an all-in-one boutique offering design, photography and advertising services, as well as NOVO Media and Magazine, a San Francisco guidebook to the hottest boutiques, nightlife, artists, musicians, and restaurants in the city. He is also a notable art director, photographer and has been acknowledged for over twenty-five awards in the last few years for his virtuosity and insight of markets and utilizing resources to benefit his community, San Francisco.

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