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United States issues its 1st passport with ‘X’ gender marker

The United States has issued its first passport with an “X” gender marker, which denotes that someone is neither exclusively male nor female, the State Department said Wednesday. This marks a milestone for nonbinary and intersex Americans, who make up an estimated 1.2 million and 4 million Americans, respectively, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law, and interACT, an intersex advocacy group. An increasing number of intersex, nonbinary and gender-nonconforming people have come out in recent years, but most of them have been unable to obtain IDs that accurately reflect who they are due to a patchwork of state laws across the country. […]

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LGBTQ travelers show how to explore safely this fall

Just when we thought it was safe to hit the road, we were walloped by the Delta variant, the latest plot twist in the 18-month-and-counting pandemic story. The surprising data that fully vaccinated people could transmit the virus came shockingly from Provincetown with a 90% vaccination rate. Ptown quickly tightened restrictions requiring masking at all indoor locations and proof of vaccine at all entertainment venues — interventions that worked. As of press time, the positivity rate there is much lower than much of the rest of the U.S. and it remains one of our top recommendations this fall and beyond. […]

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Trans woman shares ‘immense anxiety’ she feels going through airport security

TikToker and model Rose Montoya has called out the Transport Security Administration (TSA) on TikTok for how their scanners give trans people “immense anxiety”. In the viral video, which has been viewed more than three million times, she talks about her experience with airport security and why “we need to change how the scanners function and educate TSA about trans people”. She explained: “Going through the scanner, there’s a male and female scanner for the TSA checkpoint. “But going through the scanner, I always have an ‘anomaly’ between my legs that sets off the alarm. So she asked me if I […]

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From Mexico to Mykonos, the world’s best gay beaches

GayCities encourages you to stay safe during the Covid 19 pandemic. If you choose to travel, we recommend that you follow all CDC Travel Guidelines and adhere closely to all local regulations regarding face coverings, social distancing and other safety measures. If you’ve been doing Zoom workouts in your living room since the world went into quarantine, sun, surf, and beaches surely are calling you. With a stylish mask and six feet apart emblazoned in your mind, it’s time to get out and catch that summer Vitamin D before the leaves start to fall. We’ve dusted the sand off our list of the best […]

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Celebrate Pride with some much traded escapes

At GayTravel.com, we’re proud to present Marriott Caribbean and Latin America’s Pride Month celebrations to inspire your future travel! Destinations include Mexico, Aruba, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Bermuda, Turks & Caicos, Costa Rica, and Peru.To celebrate, Marriott International is offering special Rainbow Dates Promotions across the region to inspire guests to celebrate and connect with the local LGBTQ+ community.For those who cannot travel, you can still watch the longest Virtual Pride Parade spanning from Mexico to South America, viewable on MarriottCALAPride.com/EN. “Marriott International has long been a champion for diversity, equity, and inclusion, and our commitment to the cause is stronger than ever…we believe in a warm welcome for all.”Brian King, President, the Caribbean […]

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10 of the best gay campsites in the US

GayCities encourages you to stay safe during the Covid 19 pandemic. If you choose to travel, we recommend that you follow all CDC Travel Guidelines and adhere closely to all local regulations regarding face coverings, social distancing and other safety measures. The risk of transmitting Covid is known to decrease outdoors. Therefore, planning a trip to a gay campsite is not only one way to get a little closer to nature, but also the possibility of socializing with others a little more safely. Don’t know where to start? There are dozens of gay campgrounds across North America. Here are just a few […]

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IGLTA Publishes Guide to Global LGBTQ+ Rights on International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia

The International LGBTQ+ Travel Association has published an online guide that allows travelers to explore which countries and regions around the world offer same-sex marriage. In addition to marriage equality, the guide also features an application that sources LGBTQ+ rights and protections in over 250 countries and regions around the world.  The application was developed in partnership with Destination Pride, a data-driven platform that reimagines the Pride flag as a dynamic bar graph, then uses it to visualize the world’s LGBTQ+ laws, rights and social sentiment. The platform, which was created by PFLAG Canada, brings together thousands of data points […]

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LGBTQ travelers to the rescue!

Since the tragic events of 9/11 and the abrupt halt to travel that followed, about every 10 years, the tourism industry is knocked back on its heels. The economic meltdown of 2008 and 2009 was even worse on the travel industry than 2001. And the pandemic is a once-a-century calamity exacerbated by the very things that make travel so enriching: large in-person events, meeting new friends at a hotel lounge, slaloming through a crowded bar in a far-flung city. The travel industry rebooted before, and it will bounce back again soon. And if history is any guide, LGBTQ travelers will […]

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Gay Beach Destinations Plan for Summer, with Pandemic in Mind

Ben Rimalower, 44, has been vacationing on New York’s Fire Island since 2005. The island’s Pines section, a popular beach destination for gay men dating back to the 1920s, has been a reliably safe and sunshine-filled locale for Rimalower and his friends, primarily other gay men, to spend the summer. “I first fell in love with Fire Island from afar while in college in California during the early ‘90s,” he told NBC News. “It seemed like Shangri-La to me.” Rimalower said even on the “queerest blocks” of New York City, where he lives, he’s “uncomfortable kissing or holding hands” with […]

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A Study of the World’s most Dangerous Countries for LGBTQ+ Travel

Instead of relying on hearsay and anecdotes from other travelers, we took a deep look at LGBTQ+ rights, country by country. We’ve gathered data from a variety of trusted international sources to create a “LGBTQ+ Danger Index” that will help you find the worst (and safest) countries for LGBTQ+ travel. At the end of the article we also have 37 LGBTQ+ travel safety tips shared by four travel experts.Correction 11/20/19: Sweden has now moved to #1 and Canada has now moved to the #2 spot. We were alerted to the fact that Sweden does have hate crime protections and Canada does have constitutional protections which […]

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