Oakland’s first LGBTQ Community Center is scheduled to open on Sept. 7 on Lakeshore Avenue. The opening of the center comes just days before the Oakland LGBTQ Pride Parade & Festival on Sunday, Sept. 10, in Uptown.
Equal parts festival, parade, free concert and circuit party, Southern Decadence is New Orleans’ biggest LGBTQ event — and it’s getting bigger. This year, organizers expect the celebration to attract a record-breaking 250,000 people to the French Quarter during Labor Day weekend (Thursday, Aug. 31 to Monday, Sept. 4).
As soon as I entered Denver’s lesbian bar, Blush and Blu, I was made to feel very welcome. Although predominantly gay women, the bar is popular with the trans community and gay men who appreciate its welcoming vibe. “I am from Houston, Texas. I love this place; they make you feel at home,” Sandra Leal said when I was there earlier this month, before the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey hit Leal’s hometown. Echoed my bar-mate on the left, Alexander Hugg, “You become a regular very super early here.”
The first gay-pride information center has opened in Belgrade to disseminate information about gay-pride week and a pride parade that will be held on September 17. Organizers said the opening of the Pride Info Center on August 29 was a historic event, having “shifted the boundaries” in the conservative Balkan country.
Europe has a vast LGBTI history, as there are many superb destinations to visit to learn more about the progression of the community. We are therefore looking at the best city breaks filled with LGBTI history. Berlin, Germany Before the Third Reich came to power, Berlin was a liberal city that played host to various gay bars, cabarets and nightclubs. It was even the home of many drag bars, where both straight and gay people came to watch entertaining female impersonations.
The LGBTQ travel industry continues its rapid global growth, but “traveling while gay” can still be a risky prospect in many parts of the world. To help gay travelers make the smartest and safest decisions when planning their international holidays, mainstream travel site Trip.com has added LGBTQ travel safety info to the landing pages of many of its most popular destinations.
Scores of colorful characters are swapping the slopes for floats and apres ski for “poolside tea” as an LGBTQ-aimed summer event debuts in Aspen. In partnership with the Aspen Chamber Resort Association and National LGBTQ Task Force, Men’s Vows, an online magazine catered to weddings between men, is hosting the three-day “Aspen Summer Holiday,” which kicked off Thursday.
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