Mansion Farm Inn – Gay Rehoboth Beach Area B&B

Mansion Farm Inn - Gay Rehoboth Beach Area B&B

GAY REHOBOTH BEACH AREA B&B –
YOUR COASTAL COUNTRY ESCAPE

Welcome to the Mansion Farm Inn in Milton, DE, “Your Coastal Countryside Escape.” Our Gay Rehoboth Beach area B&B is just five miles from Broadkill Beach and just a few miles north of Delaware’s eastern shore beaches. We’re also just eight miles away from Lewes and twelve miles from Rehoboth Beach and its famous boardwalk.

For many years, Rehoboth Beach has been known for being gay friendly. It has great bars, businesses and fabulous restaurants, and even LGBTQ+ beaches.

Our bed and breakfast was put on the Historic Registry in 2013 and was originally built in 1810. We have fully renovated the entire house and property to make it welcoming and comfortable for all of our guests.

We have three rooms in the main house and two one bedroom apartments in the renovated barn that are dog friendly, so feel free to bring your pet.

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Bellatrix Bed & Breakfast for Women – Lesbian Ireland B&B

Bellatrix Bed & Breakfast for Women - Lesbian Ireland B&B

Lesbian Ireland B&B in County Cork,
Open to All Women

Bellatrix is a Lesbian Ireland B&B, a bed and breakfast exclusively for women on The Beara Peninsula, West Cork, Ireland. It’s a place where women from all over the world can meet and relax while enjoying Ireland’s stunning Wild Atlantic scenery. Bellatrix is a nature lovers paradise on The Beara Way.

We specialise in walking and hiking holidays. A short walk through the forest will take you to a beautiful little cove which is safe for swimming. Bellatrix is set in mature gardens with a super view of Gour Mountain.

Rita who is a Mountaineer offers great advice on local hikes and also offers guided hikes to suit all levels of ability.

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Bellatrix Bed & Breakfast for Women – Ireland Lesbian B&B

Bellatrix Bed & Breakfast for Women - Ireland Lesbian B&B

IRELAND LESBIAN B&B IN COUNTY CORK,
OPEN TO ALL WOMEN

Bellatrix is an Ireland Lesbian B&B, a bed and breakfast exclusively for women on The Beara Peninsula, West Cork, Ireland. It’s a place where women from all over the world can meet and relax while enjoying Ireland’s stunning Wild Atlantic scenery. Bellatrix is a nature lovers paradise on The Beara Way.

We specialise in walking and hiking holidays. A short walk through the forest will take you to a beautiful little cove which is safe for swimming. Bellatrix is set in mature gardens with a super view of Gour Mountain.

Rita who is a Mountaineer offers great advice on local hikes and also offers guided hikes to suit all levels of ability.

See the Bellatrix Expanded Listing on Purple Roofs Here

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Domaine Madeleine – Port Angeles Gay Friendly Inn

Domaine Madeleine - Port Angeles Gay Friendly Inn

Port Angeles Gay Friendly Inn – Olympic Peninsula

Seattle Magazine called our beds “the most comfortable in the world”. Trevor Morrow Travel said that Domaine Madeleine is “the perfect spot to hide away from the world.” Guests give us five stars for our attention to detail and cleanliness, luxury amenities, casual comfortable vibe, and romantic private gardens set amongst old growth evergreen trees.

Domaine Madeleine is a Port Angeles gay friendly inn that sits at the gateway to Olympic National Park on the scenic Olympic Peninsula, about 2 hours Northwest of Seattle. Located on a high bluff, the luxury inn overlooks the Strait of Juan de Fuca, San Juan Islands, Vancouver Island, and the Dungeness Spit. The collection of suites and cottages feature water views, private outdoor entries, indulgent spa bathrooms, and luxury amenities including super fast complimentary WiFi.

Olympic National Park is regularly named one of the Top 10 National Parks in the world. With over a million acres of unspoiled wilderness, you’ll discover the quietest spot in North America in the Hoh Rainforest, marvel at the sweeping alpine views from Hurricane Ridge (and re-enact The Sound of Music if you want), and sit in awe at the crashing waves on the wild Pacific Coast–all in the same day!

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Thailand’s Trans Culture – The Nomadic Boys

BLOG - Thailand's Trans Culture - The Nomadic Boys

As soon as we mention we’re going to Bangkok, our (straight male) friends are quick to shower us with the “ladyboy” jokes also offering advice on “how to spot them“!

We always try to challenge stereotypes about transgender people in Thailand, the most common usually emanating from a guy’s fear that “they” are plotting to trap and seduce him. The reality, of course, is that “they” really are not! Most are simply trying to lead a normal everyday life, just like you and me, in a world that still hasn’t fully accepted its transgender community.

We have many transgender friends around the world who we’ve met in our travels, like Finn from Berlin. We take great pride in the LGBTQ bond that unites us: as gay men we are ultimately part of the same rainbow family, undergoing the same daily struggles of acceptance. We, therefore, take great pride in using our online platform to have an educative influence for transgender issues by challenging stereotypes and promoting a positive image of our transgender brothers and sisters.

One of our very good trans friends is Regina, who we met when we were out partying in the gay bars of Bangkok. Like us, Regina loves travelling and has stories from all around the world to share. Regina was also open to telling us all about her transition as well as her experience living/working as a trans person in Asia.

By Stefan Arestis – Full Story at the Nomadic Boys

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Trans Travel Blogger Aaron Edwards – Nomadic Boys

Aaron Edwards

We are very proud of our gay travel blogging community. It’s quite a diverse family with some of the most talented and kind hearted people we’ve ever met.

The trans side of our LGBTQ family is quite underrepresented, so it was with great delight when we came across Aaron Edwards, a FTM trans traveller, blogging about his travels with his girlfriend. Continuing on from our trans gay stories with ladyboy Regina from Bangkok and trans man Finn from Berlin, Aaron gave us this interview of what it’s like travelling as a trans man.

Hey there Aaron, introduce yourself!

Hi boys, my name is Aaron and I am originally from Chicago, USA. I am a transman and have been with my girlfriend Emily for over 3 years. We met in a gender inclusive/co-ed honours fraternity on campus at Illinois State University. My roommate and I invited her over to hang out and play card games, and since then she has never really left. We’ve been together for over 3 years and have been having a great time together!

Emily and I recently moved to Ukraine temporarily for work and decided that this was a great time for us to finally start a blog to document all our stories.

How do you identify when travelling?

I am male and have changed my passport to reflect this. In the States it takes a lot of time, energy, and hoop jumping but you can change your sex on your driving license and passport. After a certain point in your transition, it looks more strange if you keep the old gender marker that doesn’t look anything like you.

Thankfully at airports I’ve never had any major issues, other than confusion with my syringes and needles for my injectable medication – they always sets off the metal detector, but other than a bit of delay caused by this, I’ve had no issues.

By Stefan Arestis – Full Story at the Nomadic Boys

Trans Pride Takes Over Brighton

Trans Pride Brighton

This weekend, Trans Pride took place in Brighton. Now in its fifth year, the event is run by a committee of volunteers.

Take a look below at the amazing march taking over the streets, and the beautiful people in it.

Trans Pride Brighton

Trans Pride Brighton

Many More Photos at Gay Star News

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Canada’s Trans Community Calls for Change in Travel Regulations

Canada Parliament

Jennifer McCreath has a fear of flying of a different sort: a fear she won’t be allowed on board. McCreath, a 43-year-old transgender woman in St. John’s, N.L., takes issue with a federal regulation that prohibits airlines from transporting anyone who “does not appear to be of the gender indicated on the identification presented.”

Doing away with the regulation is a cause the federal NDP has been pushing for five years, and one for which Justin Trudeau expressed support before becoming prime minister. It’s also one the federal Liberal government should be all over, given its self-proclaimed reputation as the party of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, McCreath said in an interview Wednesday.

“It all comes back to the notion of equality,” said McCreath, who described having to wait for two hours in a holding area before a flight to the United States in 2011, when she was in the process of changing the gender on her birth certificate. The Canadian regulation, she said, gives officials too much power in cases where someone doesn’t look like the gender indicated on their identification.

By Kristy Kirkup – Full Story at RD News Now

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Travel Sites for Queer Women

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My partner and I are avid travelers. As queer residents of New York City, we also often play tour guide for visiting family and friends when we’re not on the road. We encourage our guests to experience New York City beyond selfies in Times Square, including everything from outdoor movies on the historic Intrepid aircraft carrier, to New York Philharmonic concerts in the park, to food festivals in Brooklyn where you can enjoy a ramen burger and craft beer while viewing the Manhattan skyline. We also recommend that our queer visitors pay homage to and get wild at some of the longest standing LGBTQ bars that have played an important role in serving our community, such as Stonewall, the site of the Stonewall Riots that sparked the modern LGBTQ rights movement in the U.S., and Henrietta Hudson, the oldest brick and mortar queer women’s bar in New York City. We are also acutely aware that tourist guides fail to educate our visitors about the rich, diverse LGBTQ culture that exists beyond the bar scene, such as Voguing Balls and the largest LGBTQ fashion shows hosted at world renowned museums.

When my partner and I travel, we try to curate the same type of off-the-beaten-path experiences that we provide our guests. Whether we’re cliff diving in Georgia O’Keeffe country at Abiquiu Lake, or dancing the night away at an underground queer party in Sarajevo, our goal is to immerse ourselves in the most unique ― but also LGBTQ friendly ― adventures that vacation destinations have to offer.

However, the most popular destination guidebooks tend to showcase “must see” tourist landmarks, and any sections dedicated to the LGBTQ traveler generally focuses on the experiences of white cis gay men. If you don’t know someone who is willing to play tour guide like my partner and I do for guests, you really have to reach into the depths of the internet to find guides that feature unique experiences beyond what the mass market is demanding. Travel websites can be a great resource for creating itineraries based on feedback from like-minded travelers because self-published travel bloggers no longer need mainstream publishers to disseminate their words and images to a large audience. Yet, becoming a successful travel blogger is not easy or cheap, unless you’re independently wealthy. In order to travel and create quality, original content, bloggers need financial backing for cameras, flights, hotels, food, event tickets, and more.

By Anita Dolce Vita – Full Story at the Huffington Post