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Tourism bureaus in North Carolina are losing significant convention business due to the governor’s new anti-LGBT law, so they need to start collecting as much data as possible to support a potential amendment. 
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Key West gay travel: 10 reasons why now's a perfect time to head south and visit the southern version of our fave place up north, Provincetown.
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Rome is one of those cities that has a place on nearly every traveler’s bucket list. Few cities in the world mesh modern with historical in the way that Rome can and it’s a destination that doesn’t disappoint. It’s a major metropolitan city and with that comes a huge population of LGBT residents that live and work in the city plus countless travelers that come to behold the eternal city. Still we have to point out that Rome is hardly a “gay” destination and the Italian capital is still highly conservative (and homophobic) and influenced by the presence of the Catholic Church taking hold in Vatican City.
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Hot off their win as ManAboutWorld's LGBT Event of the Year for 2015, Gay Wine Weekend in Sonoma is poised to become even bigger and better in 2016. Starting June 17th and going through the weekend ending June 19th, it's a weekend of wine & celebration in California Wine Country, featuring a Twilight T-Dance & Gay Wine Auction benefiting Face to Face, Sonoma County's AIDS Network.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
Come and enjoy 3 full days of LGBT events in the home of some of the world's most prestigious wines and wineries. Celebrate with world class wine and culinary delights, music and dancing in a private estate vineyard, VIP Receptions, wine tasting excursions, champagne brunch, wine auction and pool party in one of the most famous luxury wine destinations in the world.
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Amateur photographer Alan Light had no idea he was capturing a special moment in LGBTQ history when he brought along his camera to various Pride festivals in the late ’80s and early ’90s.
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Elliott Ferguson offers insight into how the US capital approaches destination marketing, plus reaches out to LGBTQ travellers.
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The International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) will host Spectrum, its 33rd annual global convention, at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, 14–16 April 2016. One of the convention’s guest speakers is Elliott Ferguson, who serves as president and CEO of Destination DC, the official convention and tourism corporation for Washington, DC. He offers insight into how the US capital approaches destination marketing, as well as reaching out to LGBTQ travellers.
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Danny Kean, who has been blind since birth, is the new face of the tourism campaign which hopes to show the province in a new way
Matt Skallerud's insight:
So far, the response has been positive. While the industry has been making great strides recently in portraying more diversity in advertising, including more gay couples and multiracial families for example, that push for diversity has one key missing component: Ads are overwhelmingly populated with able-bodied people.
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Since its launch in November last year, the company has received over 300 requests.
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A new startup is trying to help gay Indians get hitched in the most traditional way: Arranged marriage. The new business venture, Arranged Gay Marriage, set up by Indian-American entrepreneur, Joshua Samson, and the Trilogy Group from Atlanta, Georgia, aims to provide matchmaking services for Indians in the U.S. and abroad.
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The leaders of four of Scotland’s six main political parties have come out, and the country has been identified as offering the best legal protection for gay people. But how deep does this new liberality go?
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The International Gay and Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) will host Spectrum, its 33rd annual global convention, at the Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town, 14–16 April 2016. John Tanzella, IGLTA CEO, discusses the reasons for bringing the event to the African continent for the first time, and how destination marketers may reach out to LGBTQ travellers.
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The Dunes, Celebrating 35 Years of being Gay!
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1981 was a big year! Reagan was sworn in as the nation’s 40th president, the Iranian hostage crisis ended after 444 days and Walter Cronkite signed off after 19 years with CBS. It was also the year that both Reagan and the Pope were shot; Lady Diana Spender married Charles, Prince of Wales; and Sandra Day O’Conner became the first female Supreme Court Justice. MTV, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Beyonce were all born…. And, the CDC reported that five homosexual men in LA had a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems. ’81 was a big year.
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The “Gayborhood” is easily identifiable thanks to the rainbow markers on 36 street signs in the neighborhood, which runs from Chestnut to Pine streets between 11th and Broad streets.
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Applications for the annual Alan Ross Texas Freedom Parade and Festival go online Friday, April 1. But prospective participants don’t need to worry about any massive changes this year, said Michael Doughman, executive director of the Dallas Tavern Guild, the not-for-profit organization that organizes the Alan Ross Freedom Parade and other fundraising activities and events.
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Thailand is known as one of the most gay-friendly countries in all of Asia. So it’s no surprise that the first TropOut Festival descended on the beaches of Bang Tao with more than 200 gays from around the world. The first event was hosted south of Patong on the island of Phuket at two side-by-side properties of the Laguna Phuket Resort Complex: Angsana and Cassia. Depending on hotel tastes and budgets, attendees bunked up with friends, partners and even strangers as solo travelers could attend with a room match program.
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This is our gay guide to Schoneberg featuring all the best hotels, bars, clubs, restaurants and activities to do in this famous gaybourhood.
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America's most beautiful city is in the middle of a wild transition.
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An anthology of LGBT-themed stories from Africa points towards an opening up of attitudes on the continent.
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David Scowsill is president and CEO of the London based World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC), an organization claiming to represent the global private travel and tourism industry. According to WTTC it is the authority on World Travel & Tourism.
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Enter for a Chance to Win a St. Petersburg/Clearwater Getaway!
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After Mississippi passed a controversial religious freedom bill that gay rights groups slam as discriminatory, tourism officials are facing criticism.
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Following the annual success of Tel Aviv's Pride Week, the Tourism Ministry is developing a campaign to bring even more LGBT tourists to Israel year-round.
Matt Skallerud's insight:
The Ministry of Tourism is preparing to invest an impressive NIS 11 million to promote LGBT tourism to Israel. The ministry is planning a campaign targeting multiple countries, including many in Europe, that is intended to promote Israel as a liberal country and entice members of the LGBT community to visit.
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Opinion post about the travel industry and why they seem to be catering more to Millennial travelers than Gen X or any other generation.
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New Zealand's South Island revealed that a boost in their tourism is due to their unique Instagram marketing campaign they launched last year. Learn more.
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Alan Joyce, the Irish chief executive of Australian airline Qantas, has passed the toughest test of his career with flying colours.
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He has put his stamp on the airline in more ways than one. Joyce is gay and his company is backing the campaign for marriage equality in his adopted country. Qantas also supports a constitutional change giving recognition to Australia’s indigenous peoples.
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Virginia’s LGBTQ Media Company and Richmond Weddings are joining forces to present Virginia’s first statewide LGBTQ wedding show: ENGAGED! Less than one year after the U.S. Supreme Court made marriage equality the law of the land, ENGAGED will demonstrate that Virginia is truly open and welcoming to everyone. Wedding vendors and loving couples from across the Commonwealth will converge in the capital to celebrate marriage equality and demonstrate that Virginia is for all lovers.
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