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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Caribbean Net News GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands -- A former Seattleite who was taken to a police station last week for kissing his boyfriend at a local bar has been issued an official apology by the Cayman Islands Department of Tourism. “I apologise for your upsetting experience and want to assure you that the Cayman Islands is a welcoming jurisdiction to all people,” Pilar Bush, the Caribbean island's director of tourism, wrote to Chandler. “What happened to you was an isolated incident, and is not representative of Cayman. We know that thousands of gay and lesbian visitors travel to...
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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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Tuesday, February 05
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Source: Associated Press via Google and AFP via Google Samba parades at Rio's Carnival feature participants like this smiling young hunk in extravagant costumes photo: ipanema.com RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Revelers wrapped up Brazil's wild carnival bash with the popular Gala Gay ball Tuesday night on Rio de Janeiro's streets, littered with feathers and sequins after five days of partying. Thousands of onlookers gawked as men in glittering miniskirts, evening dresses, bead-studded lingerie and feathered headdresses shimmied down a wide avenue to the sounds of ABBA's "Dancing...
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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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Wednesday, January 09
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Source: Press release , and Advocate A new online training and accreditation system for the tourism industry was launched this week. The program teaches businesses innovative and efficient ways to approach LGBT people and their common travel issues. One of the most keenly sought-after travel segments is the gay and lesbian travel market. Worth billions annually, in 2008 more hotels, tour operators, travel agents and destinations than ever now actively target gay travelers. But, according to the press release, gay travelers say they often leave less than impressed -- as a result of experiencing...
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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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Monday, December 24
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Source: Houston Chronicle , KHOU TV , News 8 Austin GALVESTON, Texas -- With its laid-back lifestyle and low cost of living, Galveston promises to become the gay tourist mecca and residential center of the South, said activist-publisher Laura Villagran, who earlier this month opened the city's first gay and lesbian visitor's center. Long known for its vibrant bar scene and raucous Splash Day celebrations, Galveston in recent years has become home to a growing gay and lesbian professional class. Now, real estate agents say, the city is poised to become a retirement haven for graying gays...
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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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Wednesday, December 12
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Source: Windy City Times The Federation of Gay Games has published its request for proposal ( RFP ) , which details the requirements for potential organizers and host cities of Gay Games IX, according to a press release. The ninth edition of the Games will be held in 2014 and will include more than 30 sports and cultural events—as well as over 12,000 participants and tens of thousands of family, friends, fans and spectators. Past Gay Games have brought significant economic impact to host cities, with estimates ranging from USD$60 to USD$80 million, and have enabled increased collaboration between...
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Saturday, December 08
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Source: PinkNews and GayNZ.com Sydney Mardi Gras organizers have launched a bold new schedule of events and guest performers for their 30th anniversary 2008 Festival -- but a "simple" question posed by Festival Director Marcus Bourget has got people talking. "As we celebrate the 30th anniversary, the question I have for you is a simple one – can we imagine a Mardi Gras without the Parade?" asked Marcus at the Festival guide launch. "A 2005 study commissioned by New Mardi Gras for the Premier's Department concluded that Mardi Gras was responsible for bringing $46 million...
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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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Thursday, November 29
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Source: International Herald Tribune BUENOS AIRES -- Home to the sexy tango dance and swarthy meat-eaters, this South American capital has long been thought of as a bastion of macho attitudes. But a new hotel here is adding to the city's growing image as a bastion of gay-friendliness. The Axel Hotel, a Spanish import, has come to symbolize an increasingly aggressive effort by Buenos Aires to court gay dollars and euros. Earlier this month the city swung its doors open to the Axel, Latin America's first luxury hotel built exclusively with gays in mind. That Buenos Aires would be chosen for...
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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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Tuesday, November 20
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Source: Cape Times via IOL Cape Town, South Africa -- A Vredenburg guesthouse owner who cancelled a gay couple's booking because her four-star establishment is "certainly not gay-friendly" may soon find herself in court. The West Coast town's municipal manager, Hendrik Snyders, says this "isolated" incident does not suggest the town is homophobic. The region's tourism head, Andre Kruger, says "all visitors" are welcome. Morne Stickling said his partner, Johan de Klerk, had booked a night at the luxury Villa Vita Nouva guesthouse by email, and sent a final...
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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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RainbowVisions markets its communities to gay and lesbian retirees with images, including these, on their website . Some residents fear they're now marketing too much to non-gay buyers Source: Gay Financial Network It's been nearly a year and a half since Santa Fe's first gay retirement community began welcoming residents. From the outside, the $35 million RainbowVision Properties is undeniably beautiful: 146 units spread out over 13 acres. With condos ranging from $250,000 to $310,000, the site offers panoramic views of the Sangre de Cristo, Sandia, Jemez and Ortiz mountains, and is...
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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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