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Seattle Unveils Its First Gay/Lesbian Visitors Guide
I’ve gotta say, this burg on Puget Sound does makes for a swell vacation visit, with a spectacular setting and cool spots to visit like Pioneer Square, Underground Seattle, Pike Place Market, the Space Needle, and the nearby San Juan islands. Furthermore, in the United States it pretty much doesn’t get any gay-friendlier, with progressives in charge and plenty of queer nightspots to choose from, both around Capitol Hill and elsewhere.
So it’s a just a wee bit odd that it took the tourism folks hereabouts this long to come up with an “official” LGBT visitor’s guide. ...
06.30.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 12:42 pm
by Dave
New York City Plugs “Rainbow Pilgrimage”
Well, it’s that time of year again — Pride month! And this time around it’s a bigger deal than usual — especially in New York City, because this is where it all began 40 years ago at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. ...
06.16.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 12:01 pm
by Dave
Who Knew? Israel Seems to Get More Feygeleh by the Minute
Oy, so how schizo is this? Even as rightwingers headed by Likud’s Bibi Netanyahu and the even more hardline (and probably half-meshuge) Avigdor Lieberman take the reins in the Promised Land, the local queens are doing plenty of reigning of their own, from Eilat to Galilee. ...
05.27.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 1:55 pm
by Dave
South Beach Marks a Gay Landmark: Its First Pride Parade!
I caught this on April 14 and thought you might be interested in having a peek. Considering all the sodomy and diketry going on down here, when it comes to Pride events, Miami’s always been left in the dust by neighboring Fort Lauderdale and Key West. But this year for the very first time ...
05.3.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 11:33 am
by Dave
Honolulu Gay Film Fest & Hotel Deal in Late May
Hey, haole boyz and girlz, just a quick note that might give you an extra reason to head to Hawaii in just over a month if you haven’t made plans and are looking for someplace to go. ...
04.19.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 9:14 pm
by Dave
Iowa Definitively Joins Civilization! Show Your Appreciation — & Have a Cool Trip
Sioux City and Gemorrah? Field of Queens? Once again, the Hawkeye State has shown that contrary to the insulting stereotype, not all of the “heartland” is irredeemably bigoted and brain dead. By now everyone knows that on April 3 the state’s supreme court opened the door for Iowa to on April 24 become only the third state to provide marriage equality to gays and lesbians — and it’ll be open to non-Iowans as well! What you may not know is that if you’re looking to get hitched or just for an affordable vacation spot this summer that combines outdoorsy charms with some pretty respectable culture and sophisticated fun, Iowa’s well worth a gander.
04.6.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 10:16 pm
by Dave
Rio! It’ll Just Rock Yer Socks Off
Now that all the karnaval kraziness is behind us for the year, this time out I thought I’d focus a bit on Brazil’s incomparável city of Rio de Janeiro and surrounding areas. For my money, cosmopolitan Rio’s one of the most spectacularly located big cities in the world hands down — right up there with Hong Kong and Cape Town, its highrises, legendary beaches, and iconic Sugar Loaf hill backing up against leading from quaint, cobblestone-paved neighborhoods like Santa Teresa into the dense, way atmospheric Tijuca Forest.
03.27.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 11:28 am
by Dave
You know, since this blog tends to be internationally focused, I haven’t gotten around to lauding the virtues of nearly as many great destinations in the United States as I’d like. Of course, I prefer to not to highlight states that have gone out of their way to discriminate against gay people (now including Florida, California, and Arizona, after the last election) in favor of those that have stood up for our humanity and equal rights.
03.8.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 9:23 pm
by Dave
An Easy Hop to Iceland, Island of the Ice Queen(s)
Hot damn, leave it to the Scandinavians yet again! Following a banking crisis just a few weeks ago in this chilly patch of rock in the North Atlantic once settled by Vikings, blond, bowl-cut Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir (actually Sigurðardóttir, with that funny little Icelandic letter) became the world’s first openly homo head of government. She’s supposed to solve their financial woes, you see — jeez, who’s Jo supposed to be, Suze Orman? Anyway, that’s what I call a power dyke. And guess what? It’s absolutely, positively no big deal with the locals. Dorothy, we’re sure not in the Yahoo States of Moronia anymore…
02.26.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 5:16 pm
by Dave
Avoiding the Bahamas and Jamaica
Hey, heard the fun news out of the Bahamas last week? No, not more shenanigans re John Travolta. A 25-year-old thug who in 2004 stabbed a gay fellow Bahamian to death on one of the Out Islands because he claimed the guy groped him was just acquitted by a jury because he was just “defending his manhood.” In 2008, four gay men were murdered in Nassau over a seventh-month period. As one Bahamas web site put it, “Killing gays in the Bahamas is practically legal.”
02.7.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 11:01 am
by Dave
Find Your Swiss Bliss in Zurich, Site of EuroPride 2009
Greetings from Heidi-land! Well, its capital, at least. You’re thinking, the Swiss Alps in January, if you’re not going to ski? Jawohl, meine Damen und Herrn. You might be surprised at how appealing this lakeside burg can be in winter (and if you do ski, some of the world’s best slopes are a short hop away, as I described here in late ’07), and has quite the gay scene, stretching back 60 years. ...
01.20.2009
Posted in BabelBlog at 2:56 pm
by Dave
Raúl Castro’s Kid Talks Cuban Queerdom
I’ve been bopping down to this awesome, unlucky island for years, and despite everything Cuba is a fun and fab destination — I’ll be reporting back to you from there this spring when I go back after a four-year hiatus (I last blogged about it here this past February). But in the meantime, I thought you might be interested to hear what the very — even insistently — gay-friendly daughter of the country’s latest dictator has to say in an interview ...
01.8.2009
Posted in Blogroll at 11:03 pm
by Dave
Randy Rub-a-Dub-Dub In Euroland, Part 3: Eastern Promises
A year ago I did two surveys of gay bath houses in various western European cities. Now you’ll be thrilled to learn that in the less than two decades since the fall of the Iron Curtain, many of our bent brethren in Central and Eastern Europe have been busily building their sodomitic scenes with a respectable smattering of sex palaces. Nothing that I know of yet in countries like Ukraine, Serbia, Romania, and Lithuania, and Bulgaria — but Czech out the 11 below! ...
12.31.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 12:56 am
by Dave
Kudos to Germany’s New Gay Marketing Push!
The only country in the world to, in another nightmarish lifetime, systematically murder homosexuals on a mass scale has in the last several generations become one of the gay friendliest. These days in Germany, even a relatively stuffy, conservative area like Bavaria can be home to a city like Munich, which as I noted here last year has a gay city council member and a boatload of cool queer stuff to do – even a gay hotel with bath house attached, fer cryin’ out loud. And let’s not even talk about Berlin, with its faggot mayor and anything-goes nightlife… (Well, OK, I’ll be doing that in ’09). ...
12.19.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 12:21 pm
by Dave
Dave Does Montréal, Indeed
Salut, dudes!As I pointed out in my May 4th post, Montreal is horny for gay business – but I didn’t realize quite how horny until I heard about the 45-second video ad recently launched online by Tourisme Montréal. A scruffy, longhaired, and totally cute dude – presumably the “Dave” of the title, and yes, I am at least as cute as he is — is standing on a distinguished street in front of a horsedrawn tourist buggy.
11.30.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 10:58 pm
by Dave
Congratulations, U.S.A. Screw You, Florida & California
Whew, what a relief – the United States (and the world) has been saved from a more or less continuation of the catastrophe of the last eight years; gained a historic milestone with its first black President-elect; made Congress less anti-gay; and chosen the less anti-gay presidential ticket, one that for the most part will not actively obstruct equal rights for all (though let’s not forget, Barack may have given us a shout-out in Grant Park, but both he and Biden oppose equal marriage rights). ...
11.5.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 11:40 am
by Dave
The Mainstream Goes Gay:
Travel Wholesalers Start Offering “Comprehensive” GLBT Programs
Even as lots of folks are cutting back on travel during these tougher economic times, there’s one group that has done so notably less: fags ’n’ dykes — for whatever reason, whether it’s because they’ve got more of the travel bug or just fewer family responsibilities. And increasingly, “mainstream” travel sellers are not only taking notice but jumping into the gay tourism market with downright gusto, finally graduating from token offerings to some real substance.
11.3.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 3:33 pm
by Dave
Who Knew? Bogotá, Colombia is Cool, Safe — and Surprisingly Gay
Earlier this year I reported from the rollicking Carnaval in Barranquilla, on Colombia’s Caribbean coast. The country’s capital is another kettle of fish altogether – and as it turns out, a blast (er, hoot) to visit any time of year, not just at Carnaval time. ...
10.18.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 1:18 pm
by Dave
Golly, I know the Tories in power up there now tend to be right-wingers, eh — but really…
OK, actually this is about extreme sports, not extreme politics, and also shows the degree to which the gay travel industry is diversifying. Remember when it was enough for gay tour operators to offer just a boys’ week in Rio or Provence, or a queer cruise of the Caribbean? Then in more recent years, the adventure travel market started going gay, and gay ski weeks became popular.
So OK, you poofter powderhounds, get ready for the next level...
10.5.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 10:35 pm
by Dave
Edge Boston Magazine Loves “Gay French For Love & Hookups”
Hey, everybody! Before this month draws to a close I just wanted to mention the latest nice little mention of our books in the gay media. This time it was in A. Sebastian Fortino’s excellent multi-part look in Edge Boston at the surprisingly gay French city of Avignon (more drag queens per capita than Paris, apparently!), in Provence. In his nightlife segment, which ran Sept. 15, after several detailed reviews of local queer clubs with names like L’Esclave (“The Slave”), he nicely adds ...
09.27.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 6:58 pm
by Dave
Aloha from my long, somewhat grueling flight home from Honolulu. But it’s been well worth even enduring Continental’s tender mercies, because I had an awesome time and learned a lot I hadn’t really fully realized about the United States’ most exotic state, way out in the middle of the Pacific. Living on the East Coast all my life, I’d never had a burning desire to make the long slog to Hawaii, because for island paradises, well, the Caribbean’s practically next door — and besides, I so wasn’t into the hokey lei-and-luau thing.
09.14.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 9:47 pm
by Dave
Panama Hot: The Country With the Canal Has Its Queer Channels, Too
Little Panama has managed to evolve into a pretty decent gay travel destination along with one of the hemisphere's "it" places in general. Besides the canal, there's eco/adventure tourism, beaches, history -- and a small but reasonably satisfying gay nightlife scene in the high-rise capital.
08.25.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 11:46 am
by Dave
Holla Back! The Gay Translator Goes Cruising Online
We’ve had such great response to our seven-language Gay Translator phrasebook since introducing it this past spring that we decided to make the darn thing even better! So for all you frisky fellows who like to line up dates in your destinations ahead of time, our new revised edition adds the world’s first cyber-dictionary that covers most of what you need to know when trying to navegate dating sites sites such as Gay.com, Gaydar, GayRomeo, and Manhunt in countries like Brazil, the Czech Republic, Mexico, Germany, Italy, Morocco, and lots of others.08.13.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 5:34 pm
by Dave
Sitges, Spain: Tops For Euro-Gay Summer Play
In June I posted enthusiastically about Barcelona, but I can’t let the peak summer vacation season slip by without mentioning its sandy, sexy little neighbor just 45 minutes down the coast of Catalonia. The resort of Sitges (pronouced “SEAT-jess”) is a picturesque former fishing village ...
08.1.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 12:14 pm
by Dave
Switzerland’s Akut Acutely Admires The Gay Translator
Go tell it on the mountains! Word continues to spread in Europe about our frisky little phrasebooks, and our latest media fan is Zurich-based monthly Akut. Vielen dank, dudes! Check out what they had to say in last month’s issue about our seven-language phrasebook, published in German as Der Schwuler Übersetzer ...
07.22.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 10:00 am
by Dave
Ah, Why Do I Still Love Italy?
By now you’ve probably heard the news from la bell’Italia yesterday (here as reported by the Associated Press):
“The Italian government was ordered to pay $160,000 to a gay man who received a driver’s license for the disabled after he volunteered information on his sexual orientation to military authorities, the man and a gay-rights group said Monday.”
(Sigh.) Che stronzata…
Keep reading
07.15.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 8:31 am
by Dave
Scandinavian Airlines Is Europe’s First to Go Gay
The first European airline has joined the small but growing fraternity of fag-and-dyke-friendly carriers, and it’s not much of a surprise that it’s Scandinavian (aka SAS), a joint venture of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden.
07.12.2008
Posted in BabelBlog at 12:34 pm
by Dave
Peking, Duck! The Gays Are Coming
(Oops, They’re Already Here)
