Gay and lesbian travel
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New gay travel firm increases holiday choice for LGBT travellersThe LGBT market is worth £6bn in the UK and $85bn in the US, yet few mainstream holiday companies cater properly to gay travellers. Specialist agency OutOfOffice.com hopes to set a new example
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Gay San Francisco: a guide to clubs, bars, drag shows and queer cultureOne of the world’s most openly queer cities is a buzzing, colourful and heritage-rich destination full of party nights, live music, film festivals, street events and nightlife that offers something for everyone
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Gay Sydney: a guide to clubs, bars, cabaret and cultureSydney’s queer scene has shifted from its Oxford Street heartland to fresh districts and more diverse venues. Artists and performers reveal where to drink and party, and the best cultural events
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The Outing: Ireland's gay matchmaking festivalWho needs dating apps? At The Outing, the glittery LGBT sister event of the 156-year-old Lisdoonvarna matchmaking festival, there’s no technology, just good old-fashioned parties in the unlikely setting of rural County Clare
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LGBT-friendly cities, hotels, restaurants and clubs: readers’ travel tipsThere are plenty of great destinations beyond San Francisco, Berlin and New York where LGBT travellers can truly relax and express themselves
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Gay London: a guide to clubs, bars, cabaret and cultureGay-friendly London means more than glitter and sequins (though they’re here too) to these performers and artists, who pick the funkiest club nights, best bars and most diverse cultural events in the capital
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Broken Heel festival: ‘Even Australia's founding fathers dressed in drag’Dressing up is ‘culturally deep within us’, says director Stephan Elliott, whose film The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is celebrated in a three-day festival of drag in rural New South Wales
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Drag race: runners in high heels celebrate pride in Madrid – video
Drag queens and runners in sports kit donned heels on Thursday to run in Madrid's annual LGBT pride high-heels race
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Palestinian protesters whitewash rainbow flag from West Bank barrierKhaled Jarrar, a Palestinian artist, says he wanted to call attention to Israeli occupation at a time when gay rights are in news, but flag is labelled ‘shameful’
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Texas clerks could refuse to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couplesThe state’s attorney general Ken Paxton says clerks retain religious freedoms that allow ‘religious objections to issuing same-sex marriage licenses’
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San Francisco Pride parade: the dos and don'ts for first-time visitorsEven a bacchanalia has rules, and SF Weekly offers a helpful guide – aimed especially at visitors seeking ‘to be the best heterosexual you can be’
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Chicago warns gay men to vaccinate against meningitis ahead of pride weekAll six men in the area – including one fatality – who have contracted rare form of disease are gay or bisexual as city health officials worry about outbreak
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Keiran O’Nightley, off-season queen: a short story by Rupert EverettWho’s that ageing matinée idol drinking cocktails and flirting with gondoliers? Why, it’s Rupert Everett’s alter ego, Keiran O’Nightley, on an off-season European holiday…
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Madrid metro memo tells staff to keep an eye on gay peopleInternal memo flagged ‘musicians, beggars and gays’ as problem groups needing extra vigilance when checking tickets
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Las Vegas joins the destinations offering same-sex weddingsRomantic escapes such as Hawaii, Paris and Brazil are also accessible now, as the world opens up to LGBT travel, says Will Coldwell
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Travel tips: alternative Munich and the week’s best dealsMunich’s gay and lesbian Glockenbachviertel district; plus a Christmas break in Cornwall and an adventure holiday in Finland, writes Joanne O’Connor
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Guide for gay people visiting MoroccoLetters: As an openly gay man who has travelled more than 20 times to Morocco in the last decade (often with my partner), it seems useful to make some things clear
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Top 10 gay honeymoon hideaways
Big Day planned but looking for the perfect honeymoon? Check our list which covers smart city apartments and hotels, romantic island getaways, a yoga retreat – even a remote Scottish boathouse, as chosen by Simon Forrester, co-founder of Further Afield
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Same-sex marriage in New Zealand: 9am the perfect time to say I do
NSW couple who won tourism competition among the first to marry as law change comes into effect
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On the pink run: a gay skiing trip to France
On Gay Ski Buddies' new chalet holiday, the sport's as important as the parties. Rupert Mellor joins a social, and surprisingly sensible, trip to Méribel
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Christian who refused to let gay couple stay at B&B; ordered to pay damagesSusanne Wilkinson, who refused to let Michael Black and John Morgan stay at her guesthouse, told to pay couple £3,600
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Alan Turing part of Manchester exhibition charting gay rights
Manchester's Museum of Science and Industry has an exhibition on lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgender history
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Blackpool launches 'sizzle and sparkle' same-sex dancing contest
Sugar Dandies join the resort's skilled marketers to put a new twist on the Winter Gardens' great ballroom, Latin and Show tradition
Ellen Page at SXSW: 'Being in the closet hurt my career more than coming out'