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Wednesday, August 27
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-- Jay Bakker urges other faith leaders and straight folk to join him during the week of September 14-20, 2008 for Seven Straight Nights for Equal Rights 2008 . The theme: "Gay and transgender Americans are our neighbors." Sponsored by Soulforce and Atticus Circle. -- The Conneticut high court is taking a long time to decide a case that could bring marriage equality to the state. Legal observers suspect it's a sign that the justices are deadlocked. -- An activist group, Californians Against Hate , plans to publish a list of big donors supporting Prop. 8 -- a way to encourage boycotts...
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Wednesday, August 13
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Source: World Hum , Christian Science Monitor , Haaretz Gay tourism to Israel has spiked in recent years, spurred in part by the country’s reputation for open-mindedness: gays can serve openly in the military and even register as married couples. While Israel welcomes expansion of its tourism market, the trend also presents tourism officials with a tricky balancing act, travel site World Hum reports. Tel Aviv, in particular, with its warm Mediterranean weather, trendy cosmopolitan feel, and lively nightlife, has become a hot destination for gay travelers, Christian Science Monitor reports...
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Sunday, March 16
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Source: Los Angeles Times , Desert Sun , UPI via Political Gateway , KESQ News Warm Sands is an older neighborhood, a mix of vintage ranches and glassy contemporaries. There are cactuses and fruit trees, a health food shop, the oldest hardware store in town and -- displayed prominently on one corner lot -- a 5-foot-tall sculpture of a phallus. Subtlety is not always a hallmark of Palm Springs' gay community. But then, unlike in many towns, it doesn't have to be. As many as half of Palm Springs' 40,000-or-so adult residents are gay; it has become, some locals contend, the gayest city...
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Sunday, January 13
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Source: Canada.com Vancouver has been recognized as the number one gay leisure travel destination in Canada for the second consecutive year, according to a survey of U.S. gay and lesbian travelers. The survey, conducted by San Francisco-based Community Marketing Inc., also ranked Vancouver as the fourth most popular destination outside the U.S. -- behind London, Puerto Vallarta and Paris. Montreal and Toronto ranked fifth and sixth, respectively. Tourism Vancouver consumer marketing manager Candice Gibson said the gay travel market is a lucrative and loyal sector that has responded very positively...
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Friday, January 04
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Source: Times (London) Margaret from Seattle just couldn't contain herself. The valley was deep, the mountain high, the sky blue and the powder deep. And the run was called Rhapsody. She lifted her poles and yelled “God loves gays” into the void. Her joy was so ridiculously infectious that even nearby atheists and heterosexuals giggled wildly. The brilliant sunshine and perfect snow was a gift for everyone. But the fact that it came on the last day of gay ski week after some patchy conditions did seem like our special bonus. Margaret led us hurtling down the glorious bowl, slicing through the...
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Saturday, December 29
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer Philadelphia does it. So do Toronto, Dallas and a number of other cities. And in January, Cleveland's convention and visitors bureau announced plans to join in and create marketing specifically for gay tourists. The bureau worked with the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center of Greater Cleveland to produce a 28-page guide filled with gay-friendly businesses, attractions and events. They've distributed about half of the 15,000 copies and plan to print an updated guide in June. Some of the guides will be distributed at Columbus' 2008 Pride Parade...
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Thursday, December 13
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Source: Press release PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico -- Crowds turned out Saturday, according to a press release from the developers, for the inauguration of The Private Residences at Casa Cupula , the world’s first fractional condo-hotel developed exclusively for the gay community. As noted last weekend by the New York Times Travel section: Puerto Vallarta is “becoming gayer by the year and [taking over] as Mexico’s leading gay beach.” Dozens of new and innovative gay-owned businesses in the Romantic Zone are being enjoyed by tourists of all stripes. Now this innovative new project plants the seeds for...
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Saturday, December 08
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Source: Toronto Star WILLEMSTAD, CURACAO –Nandy's been out since the age of 15. On her first day of high school, the teacher asked everyone to say something about themselves, something they like. She said, "I like women," and she's never looked back. Now she's sitting across from us at the Avila Hotel's Grill Night with her girlfriend, Julie. We're a trio of les/bi travel writers and we want to know where the girls are on this steamy desert island. Nandy and Julie tell all: Curaçao's tourism board has been hyping the island's gay-friendly vibe since 2004 when...
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Thursday, December 06
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Source: Jamaica Gleaner ST. GEORGE'S, Grenada (CMC) -- The Grenada Government yesterday announced that it would not prevent several cruise ships carrying gay passengers from docking at Port St. George over the next few months. A statement from the Ministry of Tourism says there has been a negative fallout as a result of reports in the foreign press suggesting that the country was moving to ban gay cruises to the island. Cruise liners Queen Mary 2 and Legend of the Seas have scheduled cruises with gay passengers to several Caribbean countries, including Grenada, in December, January, February...
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Monday, December 03
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Source: Press release PASSPORT Magazine, a lesbian/gay travel publication, and Air New Zealand teamed recently to launch a contest to win a trip aboard Air New Zealand's Pink Flight. The Pink Flight will be a special Air New Zealand flight, open to anyone who wants to jump start the revelry of the 2008 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras Festival. On February 26th over 300 glamorous gays (and any fun-loving friends) will depart from San Francisco International at 11:30pm. Prior to boarding the Pink Flight, passengers will arrive in their most extravagant (TSA-compliant) Mardi Gras costumes...
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Monday, December 03
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Source: NY1 , Gothamist , and New York Post As part of a new ad campaign NYC and company is printing a three page ad in the December/January issue of "Out," a popular gay interests magazine. NYC & Company, the city's tourism arm, also has launched a $30 million, 19-country campaign called "This is New York City." Commercials have also been placed on LOGO, a national cable network that tailors its programming to gay viewers. They will be aired over the coming weeks. There will also be ads on similarly themed gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Web sites -- and advertising...
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Wednesday, November 28
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Source: Toronto Star Grenada is questioning whether to allow entry to ship passengers on all-gay cruises, news reports from the Caribbean island say. "We have not taken a policy as to whether the ships should land in Grenada or not," Tourism Minister Clarice Modeste-Curwen recently told the Grenada Advocate . "As a government, our policy is that we do not support it (homosexuality)," the minister also told the Grenada Broadcasting Network. "But are we going to put a barrier that says in any port of entry that if somebody is gay they should be debarred from coming to this...
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Thursday, November 01
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Source: Wall Street Journal LAS VEGAS -- On a recent night at the Palms Resort and Casino here, young men in fitted shirts and an abundance of hair gel clamored to get into a Playboy Club party featuring female card dealers in bunny costumes. Steps away at another club, hundreds of shirtless men crowded a roaring dance floor at a party billed as a "non-stop weekend of sensual sizzle and decadence" for the gay community. The juxtaposition of such divergent groups is likely to become more common as the gambling mecca, after years of ignoring the gay and lesbian market, courts it with vigor...
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Wednesday, October 31
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Source: Associated Press via Washington Blade BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) The first five-star gay hotel in Latin America opened Wednesday in the Argentine capital, an increasingly popular destination on the worldwide gay tourist circuit. The hotel, set near the historic San Telmo neighborhood, is the second of its kind developed by Spain's Axel Corp., which opened a five-star, 66-room gay hotel in Barcelona in 2003. "Like any other business, we have economic objectives," general manager Nacho Rodriguez said. But "we're also about fighting to help the normalization and acceptance...
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Monday, October 29
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Source: Philadelphia Inquirer (includes material from a press release ) Philadelphia tourism professionals have released both a book with advice for those marketing tourism destinations to gay and lesbian customers, and an interactive program to train those who serve the customers. For gay and lesbian couples, checking in at the front desk can be the most uncomfortable part of a trip. (One bed or two?) For hotels, it can mean the difference between building loyalty and losing customers. The Philadelphia Gay Tourism Caucus hopes to encourage that loyalty with a sensitivity-training program believed...
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Thursday, October 11
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Atlantis Events, Inc., will acquire the originator of the gay and lesbian cruise concept, RSVP Vacations, the company said Thursday. PlanetOut, Inc. is selling the cruise unit. "We're thrilled to bring Atlantis and RSVP together into the same...
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Friday, September 21
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Sept. 21 (Bloomberg) -- The 23 members of London's Stonewall FC all-gay soccer team will defend their world club title at a championship in Buenos Aires next week. They're also boosting the city's efforts to supplant Rio de Janeiro as Latin...
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