How do you win? Just visit the CVB's excellent website on GLBT travel and register by filling out an entry by July 31, 2009 (which is when the sweepstakes ends). While you're visiting this excellent site, check out all the fun things there are to see and do in gay Dallas.
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Dallas Promoting GLBT Tourism with Chance to Win Trip to Gay Pride
Monday June 29, 2009
With the increasingly popular Dallas Gay Pride celebration set for the weekend of September 18-21 in 2009, the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) is offering a chance to win tickets to attend the festivities - the prize (for the winner and a guest) includes airfare on American Airlines, three nights' accommodations at the swanky Joule hotel (with breakfast in the Charlie Palmer restaurant), and passes to Gay Day at Six Flags Over Dallas (courtesy of the Dallas Voice newspaper).
Traxx Is Back: Essence For Ladies Comes to New Orleans Over July 4
Friday June 26, 2009
Atlanta-based Traxx Girls, a company that creates "events for women who love women," is throwing a giant party in New Orleans over July 4th weekend (July 3 through July 5). The New Orleans Take Over Essence Weekend for Ladies coincides with the New Orleans Essence Festival, a fast-growing musical and cultural celebration geared toward the African-American community and in its 15th year in 2009 - it features dozens of talented artists (Beyonce, John Legend, Anita Baker, Jazmine Sullivan, Al Green, En Vogue, Lionel Richie, DJ Soul Sister, and many others). Over the same weekend, Essence For Ladies is throwing three nights of fabulous women's parties.
Essence For Ladies is using the elegant and centrally located Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel as its host hotels. Check the Essence For Ladies website for details on the three main event, which take place at Rubyfruit Jungle on Friday night, Club Le Roux on Saturday night, and OHM Lounge on Sunday night. Meanwhile, Traxx male component is producing a gay guys' event in New Orleans at the very same time (and also based at the Renaissance Pere Marquette), called Brotherz in the Bayou.
Traxx also produces the Sizzle and Sizzle Her in Miami over Memorial Day Weekend, and the guy-oriented 1776 in Atlanta on July 4, and men's and women's Pure Heat in Atlanta over Labor Day Weekend.
Check out these additional articles on gay travel in New Orleans, gay travel in Atlanta, and gay travel in Miami.
NYC, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and Other Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Stonewall
Tuesday June 23, 2009
This weekend is the Mother of all Gay Pride Weekends, as numerous cities around the world are holding Gay Pride Fesivals and Parades in commemoration of the Stonewall Riots, which happened exactly 40 years ago (June 27, 1969). You can view a full calendar of June Pride events here (scroll to the lower part of the document for those taking place later in month to see the events for this weekend).
Additionally, check out these detailed previews of Gay Pride celebrations in Berlin, Paris, San Francisco, Toronto, Chicago, Seattle, Denver, and New York City.
Santa Fe's Exciting Summer Season - from Gay Pride to the Opera
Monday June 15, 2009
I first visited Santa Fe in spring 1994 and knew instantly I'd want to live there someday. Six years later, I moved to town, and I enjoyed several very happy years of living in the foothills on the East Side, becoming enamoured of the city's rich cultural scene, amazing hiking and skiing, and green-chile-inflected cuisine. I still try to get back as often as I can, and summer is an especially appealing time to check out this high-desert metropolis, with its cool, dry weather (interrupted only by occasional summer thunderstorms, that cool the air and make for incredible photo ops). In late June, this GLBT-popular destination hosts its annual Gay Pride celebration on the historic downtown Plaza - here's a preview of this year's event.
July and August bring numerous performing and fine arts events to town, from the famed Spanish and Indian markets to impressive showings at the famed Santa Fe Opera - check out my article on the 2009 opera season, and how to obtain tickets. I've also just begun creating a gallery and gay guide to Santa Fe, which I'll be expanding over the next few weeks. For now, it contains a good mix of recommendations for gay-friendly dining, lodging, and nightlife, plus fun things to see and do, both in Santa Fe and nearby.
Also be sure to peruse some of the many stories I've written about northern New Mexico's other terrific destinations, Albuquerque and Taos.
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