Salt Lake City quietly made history during November’s special elections. The Utah capital tapped two LGBTQ candidates to join its city council. Chris Wharton and Amy Fowler will join openly gay member Derek Kitchen on the Salt Lake City Council, giving the board three queer representatives in total. Read the full article HERE.
Travel opens up a world of possibilities, but with new experiences, come new destinations, cultures and people with minds that I’ve found may not be as open as you’d expect. Even with the modernization of most of the world, I’ve found travelling can come with its fair share of obstacles… Read the full article HERE.
On Nov. 16, news came that the German LBGTQ Film Festival organized in cooperation with the German Embassy in Ankara had been cancelled. The human rights and LGBTQ communities were stunned. Yet for me, I had in mind the past incidents that had led to that moment in Turkey… Read the full article HERE.
When travel brands and tourism boards embrace LGBTQ consumers, they pay attention, according to a survey conducted by Grindr’s Into. Six in ten (61%) said that when choosing a destination, airline or lodging, its reputation as gay-friendly is somewhat or very important. Read the full article HERE.
When a story circulated in August 2017 of male lions attempting to copulate with each other in Kenya’s Masai Mara national park, headlines and Twitter feeds went wild with speculation, ridicule, and accusation. Despite Kenya being one of the more progressive countries in East Africa regarding LGBTQ awareness and rights, the nation still… Read the full article HERE.
Bermuda is set to become the first country to legalize same-sex marriage and then take the right away from its citizens. Both branches of the British overseas territory’s legislature have now passed a law that would strip gays and lesbians of the right to marry… Read the full article HERE.
The anti-LGBT bill outlawing same-sex marriage in Bermuda is on John Rankin’s desk. John Rankins is the Governor of Bermuda. Earlier today ignoring international frustration, the Bermuda Senate voted for the bill to eliminate equality in their country. The Human Rights Campaign, America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights… Read the full article HERE.
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