Every year the choices geared toward gay, lesbian, and other non-straight travelers - from budget to high-luxe - keep breaking records. A queer business, indeed - check it out!
Eurovision (this year in Malmö, Sweden) is a big motivator for European and other gay travelers
SVT/EBU The world´s premier song contest - and likened by many to a LGBTQ blockbuster event on the order of the World Cup or U.S. Super Bowl - just completed its spectacular 68th edition with the usual lineup of singing, dancing, special effects, silliness and seriousness, pulling in a TV audience of hundreds of millions plus many thousands of fans who flocked to Sweden´s third city from 90 countries (and I´ll venture to say more than half of them were gay). Plus this year there was a degree…
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by Heather Cassell
Life has been a party for Leigh Cousins and Mandy Randhawa promoters of award-winning FlyGirl Productions, a queer women’s party company based in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
FlyGirl Productions’ monthly parties and all-girl festivities during Vancouver Pride have been a sellout affair for thirteen years, they say.
Next weekend, the girls are taking their party on the road to Calgary, Alberta, where they are throwing their first Hershe Day Club post-Calgary Pride party.
“It’s kind of exciting to go to a place that is at the forefront of change,” says Leigh, about hosting their first post-Pride party in the formerly conservative province, Alberta.
Only a short few years ago many Pride Parade marchers donned masks during their celebrations in fear of being “noticed,” says Leigh. What’s changed is the population has swelled upward of just more than 1 million people, according to a 2011 census, and “new blood in the political system” has turned the conservative government’s tide.
For years, Vancouver girls who relocated to Calgary along with Calgary’s girls who attended FlyGirl Production’s Vancouver Pride parties have begged Leigh and Mandy to bring the party to them. Finally, the two women couldn’t resist the enticement anymore.
The party is the first for Leigh and Mandy in Calgary. They’ve thrown wildly successful monthly parities, Hershe Bar, in Vancouver for more than a decade, most notably during Vancouver Pride Weekend. - See more at: http://girlsthatroam.com/?p=2682#sthash.GqM19wVX.dpuf
EDEN Pacific Northwest
(San Francisco, Calif. – July 10, 2013) EDEN Pride Events, PQ Monthly, and The Seattle Lesbian is proud to announce a new partnership and women’s weekend: EDEN Pacific Northwest.
EDEN Pacific Northwest is a new four-day women’s weekend filled with live female musical performances, nationally renowned female comedians and artists, and world-class female DJs in Seaside, Ore. on October 3 – 6, 2013.
“Let’s rock the beach and enjoy being together for four wonderful days!” said Kandziora.
EDEN Pride Events is known for EDEN Pride Weekend San Francisco, its four-day women’s weekend during San Francisco Pride now in its fourth year, and other women’s after-pride parties in Oakland, Sacramento and San Jose. EDEN Pride Events, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, also produced BLISS, a women’s getaway to Palm Springs, Calif. for two years.
“EDEN puts on amazing events and their experience is invaluable,” said Gabriela Kandziora, partnership and business development of PQ Monthly.
“I am thrilled to be a part of it,” added Sarah Toce, editor of The Seattle Lesbian. “Whenever there is a positive way for women to work together to create something truly special, I'm in!”
Christine De La Rosa, founder and producer of EDEN Pride Events, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, agreed.
“EDEN Pride Events, as well as myself were so honored to be approached by PQ Monthly to produce this event and are looking forward to a long partnership with both the Seattle Lesbian and PQ Monthly,” said Christine De La Rosa, founder and producer of EDEN Pride Events.
Seaside, much loved by Oregonians, was selected as the site of the new women’s weekend by the EDEN Pacific Northwest team.
Oregonians and Washingtonians, Melanie Davis, publisher of PQ Monthly; Kandziora and Toce, respectively, love the coastal town and surrounding area as well. They turned De La Rosa onto the town, who fell in love with the town too immediately.
“Seaside is welcoming to the LGBT community and our straight allies,” said Toce.
An hour and a half outside of Portland, Ore., Seaside is also easily accessible by Californians, Oregonians, Washingtonians, and Vancouverians and Victorians from Canada.
To read the rest of this press release, visit http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs190/1102722493986/archive/1114...
(San Francisco, Calif. – August 21, 2013) fiveTEN Oakland Events is ready rock and roll during Oakland Pride Weekend, Aug. 30 – Sept. 2, 2013.
Double Duchess and the Memorials headline fiveTEN Oakland Pride Weekend 2013 packed with live performances by Lila Rose, Aima the Dreamer, Raw G., Micah Tron, Billie Jr., Queens D. Light, and Zakiya Harris and Soul Nubian.
DJs FFLood, Fusion, HeyLove, Lady Fingaz, Lady Ryan, Leydis, Motive, Pam the Funkstress, Treat U Nice, Trinity and Val G will be getting the people hot and bothered on the dance floor throughout the weekend at three different dance parties, Kick Off Dance Party, WERQ! Vogue Ball and Sunday Music Fest and After Pride Party.
You won’t have to be up all night if you don’t want to be. fiveTEN will show off its pedal pride with the Second Annual fiveTEN Oakland Pride Ride in partnership with Binx Garage on Saturday, Aug. 31.
“I am very excited this year about fiveTEN,” said Christine De La Rosa, founder and producer of EDEN Pride Events, who believes the weekend’s line up of entertainment is “very unique, diverse and daring.”
Charleen Caabay, outreach director of fiveTEN Oakland Events, agreed, “It’s bound for like an epic weekend event.”
To read the rest of this press release, visit http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs190/1102722493986/archive/1114...
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