Recent Articles: Travel Potpourri
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Eternal Darkness In Iceland
It’s only 7pm, but the sun has been down since 4pm. Welcome gay and lesbian travelers to a destination like no other - Iceland. - read more
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Historically Haute: Vintage Shopping in Florence
In the name of journalistic integrity, or so he says, our traveling guest writer embarked on an exhaustive scavenger hunt of Florence to catalog a favorite pastime of the gay traveler: shopping! From thrift shops to well-curated emporiums, Florence is just waiting to be picked apart and explored. - read more
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Passport Where?
On a whole, I’m pretty good at not losing/misplacing/destroying things. When I do, however, I don’t fool around with worthless objects like a pair of socks or sandwich (though I did lose a sandwich once, but that’s another story). Instead, I go big. You know, like the only expensive… - read more
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The Gassed, Robbed and Looted Train…Or…Eastern Europe By Rail
Traveling always has its hiccups, especially when it comes to planes, trains and overnight buses. Having survived the TransSiberian, however, I really felt that anything – literally anything – would pail in comparison. I had wanted to take an overnight bus from Krakow to Budapest, spend… - read more
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A Day with Family
Throughout my years traveling and living abroad I have sometimes passively and sometimes actively found or acquired “parents” and “family.” There are, of course, my birth parents. Then there is my “DC Mom” and my Belgian family from when I studied abroad and my Shanghai… - read more
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The Gay Community Responds to the Haiti Earthquake
Just one week after the devastating earthquake that shook Haiti to the core, support continues to pour in from the around the world, and the generosity of the gay community has been astounding. The Human Rights Campaign posted a plea for assistance on their website, blog and email newsletter, raising… - read more
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Closed Open Closed
Closed But Open. But Closed. But Open. There’s a serious problem in most parts of the developing world. Things appear closed but are actually open. That is, except in Russia, where things are just closed for real. There are many ways in which places can appear to be open but are in fact shut.… - read more
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SART (Seasonal Affectiveness Road Trip) Disorder
It’s one of those new-age illnesses that just creeps up without warning. It hits hard, but you don’t know you have it until after it has happened. IT’s SART, or Seasonal Affectiveness Road Trip Disorder. Symptoms include dreariness, expectation of gray skies, endless contrast-less… - read more
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A Gay Christmas to You
Hey there everybody- it’s Brendan. I hope everyone is having a happy holiday whether you’re celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or just waiting for the New Year. Currently I am in Thomasville, Georgia- a little hamlet North of Tallahassee- celebrating Christmas with my family. I got… - read more
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Time to give thanks
So it’s the time for giving thanks, but we’ve still got a lot to work for: DOMA remains a disgrace, DADT is an insult to the proud gay members of our military, and the elections in California and Maine have done damage to more than just the marriages they tore apart. That said, we’ve… - read more