Recent Articles: From The News Room
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Little Big Project Campaign
OpenMind Projects has partnered with the Tourism Authority of Thailand to help kick of The Little Big Project Campaign to offer 10 finalists the volunteer opportunity of a lifetime. - read more
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Gay Travel Dishes on Jason Collins’ Coming Out
“I can still be a talented, well-respected athlete and be gay, my sexuality doesn’t define me.” - read more
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Dolores Park Rehabilitation Project!
As part of the Dolores Park Rehabilitation Project, Castro District’s favorite place to hang out in the sun will be going through a bit of a revamp. - read more
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France Legalizes Gay Marriage!
France legalized gay marriage on Tuesday after a wrenching national debate that exposed deep conservatism in the nation's heartland and triggered huge demonstrations that tapped into intense discontent with the Socialist government. Within hours, fiery clashes broke out between protesters and riot police. - read more
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Landmark Trans Victory In Korea
In South Korea five transgendered individuals won a landmark court case in Seoul to get officially gender recognized without the use of gender altering surgery. - read more
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Arizona Law Threatens to Arrest Transgender People
The state of Arizona has made a huge step in the WRONG direction by threatening to arrest transgender people. - read more
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Gay Tourism: Out of the Closet
It all started in July 2009 when a New Delhi High Court repealed Section 377 which criminalised homosexual activity; a draconian 148-year-old colonial British law which proscribed homosexual intercourse as ‘carnal intercourse against the order of nature’. - read more
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IGLTA Foundation Makes Successful Debut
The IGLTA Foundation asserted itself this week as a force for creating dialogue between gay and mainstream travel professionals with the symposium “We’re Out, Are You In?”. At the Feb. 5 event, the foundation united more than 80 key players from tourism businesses, media, government, and charitable organizations around the topic of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender travel. - read more
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Las Vegas markets to trendy gays, square straights in new ad campaign
A new print advertising campaign from the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority is marketing to gay and lesbian travelers with a new twist, promoting that in Sin City, “everyone’s welcome, even straight people.” - read more
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Grindr for Equality Uses the Power of Social Media in Hopes of Defeating Pending Anti-Homosexuality
Grindr for Equality is again demonstrating Grindr’s power to mobilize its 4.5 million users to change history for GLBT rights, by leveraging in-app messages and social media to create awareness and drive signatures to a petition to denounce an anti-gay bill up for legislation in Uganda. The bill, known as the Anti-Homosexuality Bill -which discriminates against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people - appeared on the Parliamentary Order of Business on November 21 and the Ugandan Parliament could start debating the bill at any time. - read more