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(Toronto, ON) August 26 –Travel Gay Canada (TGC) announced today, the findings of their second research study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans-identified (LGBT) travelers, showing a market size of $7 billion annually.  An estimated market of 1.8 million gay, bisexual, lesbian...

Costa Rica has just two very distinct seasons, with fans and supporters of both. Costa Rica is due to explode “year round” as more visitors discover the benefits in both the dry and the green periods.

A special gay day in an amusement park will take place in the Netherlands for the first time on June 11, following similar days in amusement parks in Germany, France and the United States.  This first edition will take place in the De Efteling amusement park near Den...

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Welcome to our March 2011 SearchTheGayWeb Newsletter

New Zealand is like an iceberg – there's a lot more beneath the surface. The largest cities (Auckland on the North Island and Christchurch on the South Island) have a busy bee vibe and vibrant gay community. The smaller places are laid back (like Whangarei in Northland and...

Looking for somewhere new? LGBT travellers looking for a bit of French glamour with a tropical twist would do well to consider a visit to Nouvelle-Calédonie.

Noumea - the capital of New Caledonia - is an emerging gay destination. It is quite unlike any of its Polynesian...

 

Welcome to the First SearchTheGayWeb Newsletter of 2011!

In honour of the legalization of gay marriage in Washington D.C last week, resident Ben & Jerry's super-fans Keith Spangler-Vellios and Andreas Vellios decided to tie the knot at their local ice cream parlour.

Food glorious food! This is one of the main reasons I choose to travel the world. You can learn so much about a country, it's people and it's culture...

Are you in a lesbian or gay relationship (or any relationship!) and wondering if it has run its course? How do you decide when to bail? Of course there are the obvious red flags, like cheating and abuse, but what if the troubles are more subtle than that. Here are a few ways to tell if you should...

When people think of Mexico they tend to think of this country as traditional, macho and Catholic. Nothing is further from the truth. Just like everywhere else there are places where there is open and accepted homosexuality in Mexico.

The Greeks will tell you that when the gods created the world, they apportioned all the dry land out to each race, at the end there was a pile of rocks left, and these they threw into the Mediterranean Sea, and this became Greece. Whether the story is true or not, Greece remains a rocky country,...

Chile is a unique gay travel destination that allows visitors to ski the Andes, explore volcanoes, relax on pristine beaches, and hit the clubs in Santiago's gay district all in one day. The vast and varied landscape and landmarks of Chile include arid deserts, the Torres del Paine National Park...

The first Rainbow Flag was designed in 1978 by Gilbert Baker, a San Francisco artist, who created the flag in response to a local activist's call for the need of a community symbol. (This was before the pink triangle was popularly used as a symbol of pride.) Using the five-striped "Flag of the...

This is only the second night of a plum assignment, joining a group of seven — four journalists, two civilians and the co-owner of the organizing tour company OUT Adventures — on a whirlwind guided tour of Thailand. The tour owners hope we journalists will showcase the upstart Toronto-based...

The feature documentary, The Sons of Tennessee Williams, tells the story of the gay men of New Orleans who created a vast and fantastic culture of "drag balls" starting in the late 1950s.

Do you experience shame and guilt over being gay or homosexual? It's easy for me to say, 'Stop, there's nothing to be ashamed about!" But it's a lot harder to put into practice.

There is not much in life that is harder to do than to tell your parents that you are gay or lesbian. Most of us put it off for quite a while. The question is, what makes it so hard? For one, we generally don't like to disappoint our parents. Unfortunately, being gay or lesbian in this society is...