The Dinah might be the coolest thing to ever come out of a golf tournament. What is now the largest annual gathering of queer women and their female allies, started as one of a number of small after-parties thrown over the weekend of a ladies professional golf tournament in Palm Springs.
Deemed by some as the “civil rights movement of our time”, progress towards rights, respect and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual and queer (LGBTQ) people still has a long way to go. Universities campuses are often the frontlines of the LGBTQ rights struggle.
Caroline Beer has spent her career researching comparative data between Latin American countries and the United States that often debunks false stereotypes. Her latest study showing Mexico as more progressive than the U.S. when it comes to LGBT rights, especially in the recognition of same-sex relationships, is no exception.
Initiatives to attract LGBTQ travellers to Bermuda are coming, the House of Assembly heard yesterday. Jamahl Simmons, the Minister of Economic Development and Tourism, said: “Bermuda has to be a place that welcomes all. It has to be a place where all can feel included and a part of a great experience.”
It’s no secret that most couples choose to escape the stresses of work by heading off on an exotic trip together. What’s not so universally known, however, is that there are several popular travel destinations that are more dangerous for non-heterosexual couples. Fox News consulted Ed Salvato, the editor-in-chief of the gay travel magazine ManAboutWorld…
ON FIRST glance it seems like any other historic Australian country town. The roads are wide and lined with trees; a grand post office, topped with a turret, stands at one end of the main street; a turn of the century pub with a wide balcony shading the footpath below, at the other.
Today, Mardi Gras is framed, at least in part, within a global gay and lesbian tourism industry that craves a bigger and better parade each year. It’s unlikely that any of the heroic individuals caught up in the brutal riot on the night of 24 June, 1978 would have had much of an inkling that Mardi Gras would become one of the world’s most spectacular and enduring gay pride parades.
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