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09.01.10
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Fly to Sweden, Get Married en Route
Visit Sweden and SAS Scandinavian Airlines are teaming up in an effort to host the first in-flight same-sex wedding.
The contest is open to one U.S. and one European couple. The U.S. winners will get married en route from New York to Sweden this December, honeymooning at the world-renowned Ice Hotel and for three additional days in Stockholm.
The European couple will honeymoon in New York and Los Angeles.
The two companies have launched an online social networking site where couples can upload a video or photos and create profiles urging people to vote for them.
“Airlines, including SAS, have organized weddings onboard flights for decades, but we are proud to be the first in the world to organize same-sex weddings in the air,” Robin Kamark, chief commercial officer for SAS, said in a statement.
Sweden and neighboring Norway and Denmark all boast marriage equality. On Wednesday, Denmark also launched an LGBT media campaign of its own. Its “cOPENhagen — Open For Everyone” campaign is supported online at VisitGayDenmark.com.
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07.26.10
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Images of new rooms and suites in Axel Hotel Barcelona!!
The Axel Hotel Barcelona has evolved and reinvented itself to always offer you the best and meet your highest expectations. The best service, the latest design spaces, the best combination of comfort and modern style of Axel, and a fun and cosmopolitan atmosphere that will let you enjoy a unique experience as always.
From now on you will enjoy the new Axel Hotel Barcelona fully expanded and renovated since last May, with 105 rooms including 4 magnificent suites with private terrace, Restaurant & Bar unique design, a new Sky Bar more surprising and 500 meters SPA-Wellness, with many more surprises.
Now you will enjoy the expanded and renovated Axel Hotel Barcelona, your Axel always better than never.
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07.19.10
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Matthew Shephard Foundation Plans Memorial Gay Ski Week
The memory of Matthew Shepard will take to the slopes next spring with the inaugural Butte 11: Matthew Shepard Foundation Gay Ski Week, to be held at Crested Butte Mountain Resort, located about 40 miles south of Aspen, Colo.
The event, which takes place from March 19-26, 2011, will feature additional activities in nearby Mt. Crested Butte and Crested Butte, First Tracks Online reports.
“This new event provides the perfect vehicle for communicating the education, advocacy and awareness work of the Foundation,” said Matthew Shepard Foundation executive director Jason Marsden. “This was a large scale opportunity to bring attention to our mission."
The event will be produced by StraightOut Media & Marketing, which also organizes Telluride Gay Ski Week.
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07.16.10
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Free Honeymoon to First Gay Argentines to Wed
Mexico City’s tourism minister is offering a free honeymoon to the first same-sex couple to tie the knot in Argentina. On Thursday, the country became the first in Latin America to legalize same-sex marriage.
Alejandro Rojas made the offer "in recognition of tolerance, but also to promote gay friendly tourism in Mexico City," he said in a statement.
The offer includes round trip air fare to the Mexican capital, which legalized same-sex marriage last year. Rojas is still looking for participation from hotels and restaurants in Mexico City and nearby Cancun.
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07.08.10
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W Scottsdale Says No to H8
The W hotel in Scottsdale will host Arizona’s first photo shoot for No H8, the gay rights campaign that was born out of the passage of Proposition 8 in California.
No H8 photographer and cofounder Adam Bouska and cofounder Jeff Parshley will run a shoot from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Monday, with a cocktail reception to follow.
The W chain has long supported a number of gay rights causes throughout the country. In 2008, Arizona voters approved a state constitutional amendment defining marriage as “only a union of one man and one woman.”
Facebook link: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129367070434065&ref=mf
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07.03.10
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Buyer Beware in Cancun
When Matt DeLeva got home from his trip to Cancun, Mexico with his boyfriend Eric Diaz, he sought comfort and support after what turned out to be a painful and humiliating trip. Matt and Eric had relied on a gay-friendly travel agency to select a gay-friendly hotel -- which turned out not to be gay-friendly at all. I heard about the incident and asked Matt if I could bring his story to the attention of others since so many SoCal LGBTs travel to Mexico.
But this incident raises the larger issue of how a straight venue is determined to be "gay-friendly?" Could it be as simple as taking a business' word for it because LGBTs are so happy for the outreach and the advertising? After all, who would want to advertise with a despised community if they weren't for real?
Stays4Gays.com strongly endorses this article. We thoroughly screen all properties so we feel the property is gay friendly and all same sex couples will be treated with respect upon check in (and requesting one bed.) A MUST READ article.
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06.20.10
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DIVA Magazine Gives The Oscar Wilde Menu at The Cadogan Hotel Five Stars
A recent trip to the Cadogan Hotel has one DIVA Magazine and apparent food connoisseur going giddy for the Oscar Wilde Menu. This Diva and a friend found their heaven in such delights as the Consommé Prince of Wales and the Classic Victoria Sponge with clotted cream and fresh raspberries that we serve in the drawing room with others of Oscar Wilde’s favorites. Mouths water just reading the review!
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06.01.10
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Watch: "Caught In A Bad Hotel," Lady Gaga Flashmob Protest
LGBT activists stealthily stormed the Westin St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco in a Lady Gaga "Bad Romance" flash mob designed to draw attention to a boycott by hotel workers who are trying to get a fair contract and health care.
The activists want gays and lesbians coming to SF for Pride to find accommodations elsewhere.
The flashmob was organized by San Francisco Pride at Work, One Struggle One Fight, and the Brass Liberation Orchestra.
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04.10.10
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AXEL HOTEL BARCELONA RE-OPENING in May 2010
AXEL HOTEL BARCELONA RE-OPENING in May 2010 - totally refurbished and extended, with 105 rooms!
The Axel Hotel Barcelona has evolved and reinvented itself to always offer you the best and meet your highest expectations. The best service, the latest design spaces, the best combination of comfort and modern style of Axel, and a fun and cosmopolitan atmosphere that will let you enjoy a unique experience as always.
Axel Hotel Barcelona returns this spring totally refurbished and extended, with 105 rooms, a design Restaurant and Bar, and from the beginning of June, you will enjoy 500 metres of Spa-wellness and a new Sky Bar even more exciting, together with many more surprises…
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04.10.10
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Gay B&B owners demand right to refuse Conservative MPs
Gay B&B owners demand right to refuse Conservative MPs.
The nation’s gay bed and breakfast owners have called for the right to refuse Conservative MPs lodging. The call came after Tory MP Chris Grayling was turned away from Brighton B&B “Gay View” for being Conservative.
“We’re well within our rights,” said gay B&B owner Brendon Gibberdon. “What they do is disgusting – it’s just plain wrong, and I don’t want it going on in my hotel. These Conservatives think that they can just waltz in here, get a room and be all Tory on us, flouncing around with their ties off and their stripey shirts. No, not in my B&B they won’t.”
“We’ve run a happy, non-Conservative B&B for many years, and everyone who comes here is happy with it. What would I tell the regulars if there were a Tory staying here overnight? What do I tell Mrs Gupta who comes every summer? They’d all be too scared to come out of their rooms.”
Thomas Wenchlock, Head of the Gay B&B Owner’s Confederation said that Brendon and Ian were “bang on” refusing to give Grayling a room: “For years, people have been uneasy about letting Conservatives stay in their hotels or Bed and Breakfasts – and finally, these two brave men have made a stand. What Conservatives do is unethical and dirty, and it makes ordinary, hard-working people sick. There. I’ve said it.”
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