'Travel News' Category

South Carolina pulls gay tourism ad campaign

For this year’s London Pride, a UK based travel website ran an ad campaign using posters throughout the London Metro touting US cities as gay friendly locations. The posters read “Atlanta is so gay, Las Vegas is so gay”, etc.
Well, the folks in South Carolina’s government caught wind [...]

July 14th, 2008

Pink flight takes off…

Well it’s time for Sydney’s Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and Air New Zealand’s Pink Flight departed last night from San Francisco.
If you hadn’t heard, the Pink Flight is targeted at gay travelers heading to this year’s Mardi Gras. Drag queens, pink boas, gay-themed movies and Kathy Griffin as your host. [...]

February 27th, 2008

New Hampshire’s Inns want to host your civil union

Photo by: chrisirmo
On January 1, 2008 New Hampshire became the fourth state to legalize some form of civil unions (along with Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey, Massachusetts has marriage and other states offer domestic partnership).
The Associated Press looks at the decision and talks to the Chamber of Commerce and Inn [...]

January 4th, 2008

New Year’s Eve Dance Parties All over

photo by: ChrisB in SEA
New Year’s Eve on a Monday? 5-day weekend? That makes this a perfect weekend for partying all over. While there are parties in every city we cover, this year there are more than a few worth traveling for. Of note this [...]

December 28th, 2007

Trinidad & Tobago churches try to stop Elton John’s visit

From the Times of London:

Church leaders are now trying to ban Sir Elton from visiting in April, when he is due to play in the Plymouth music festival. According to reports running on agency wires today, it is feared that if the musician, pictured here with his partner David Furnish, even sets foot on the [...]

March 17th, 2007

New twist on the Gay Cruise: a Gay Nude Cruise

Vacation company Source Events as partnered with Gay Naturists International to create the first Gay Nude Cruise.
The cruise will sail from Rome to Athens and will have up to 147 “men who enjoy sailing nude”. The trip takes place from May 12-19th on a large sailing ship hitting [...]

March 15th, 2007

New European travel survey shows “clubbing” is not the reason we travel

UK based news site PinkNews reports on a recent survey of gay travelers suggesting that gay nigthlife and the “gay scene” isn’t a primary reason to travel, but rather the other things a city/town has to offer is what keeps us traveling…
Almost 70% of those surveyed said they would prefer to spend a [...]

March 13th, 2007

Be cold or be hot at this weekend’s big events

(Image: C Moore Hardy www.starfishphoto.com)
There’s something for everyone going on this weekend.
For the cold-lovers and ski buffs, two ski weeks are here:

Telluride’s Gay Ski Week comes to a close with its final Apres Ski parties and AIDS benefit on Saturday
Lake Tahoe’s Winterfest kicks off on Sunday with a week full of parties and headliners Jacob [...]

March 2nd, 2007

Out Traveler’s top 10 travel destinations

Out Traveler magazine is counting down their top 10 travel destinations and they are starting with Australia. See the article on Gay.co.uk here: Go gay in Australia’s Outback

February 27th, 2007

Gay Guest House fights UK Gay Rights Bill

In the UK, a new set of gay rights laws comes into effect in April which prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation. These laws would protect gay men and women when staying at hotels across the UK.
However, the only of the gay-only, men-only resort Guyz Hotel in Blackpool feels this could kill his [...]

February 2nd, 2007