Get Your Tickets For Munich’s Gay Pride Bubble Duck Party

Munich Pride
Munich Pride

This year’s Gay Pride Bubble Duck Party takes places at Kunsthalle München on July 11.  It’s a pride party that takes place in an exhibition space, which currently features a Keith Haring exhibit. The main post-pride party is at city hall, but tickets are all but impossible to get. This is a great alternative, and a unique venue, given the Haring exhibit.

Click or tap here for tickets. For more information about Pride, the party and other Munich Pride events, click or tap here. And here to subscribe to ManAboutWorld and download information about  Munich and 100 other destinations around the globe.

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Celebrate A Decade Of Marriage Equality With Pride in Vancouver

14853144744_88a2cd3f7e_zWe haven’t covered gay Vancouver in a while (sorry!), and it’s the 10th anniversary of same-sex marriage equality in Canada. Congrats to the progressive people of Canada. And for now here’s a listing of upcoming events of interest to LGBTQ locals and visitors. For more information visit GayVan.com. To enter a sweepstakes celebrating a decade of legal same-sex marriage, click here.

Vancouver Pride Parade & Festival (downtown Vancouver, July 25-August 2): Leading up to the famous Vancouver Pride Parade and Festival on August 2 are a series of events including a fun run, picnic and the Davie Street Dance Party.

East Side Pride Festival (Grandview Park, June 27): Located in Vancouver’s funky Commercial Drive neighbourhood this festival features local artisans and community groups doing important work in the LGBTQ+ community in Vancouver.

Surrey Pride Festival (Holland Park, June 28): Family event with live music, lots of vendors,  and great food.

New West Pride Week (New Westminster, August 8-15): Now nine days long, don’t miss the Columbia Street Party on August 15.

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Bet You Didn’t Know Our National Parks Are Gay!

Arches National Park
Arches National Park

Well, actually not gay but surprisingly LGBT friendly because, well, you don’t normally associate the words gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender with our national parks system, which is witnessing increased visitation in the run up to its centennial anniversary in August 2016.

It turns out that on May 30, 2014 the National Park Service announced a new theme study to identify places and events associated with the story of LGBTQ Americans for inclusion in the parks and programs of the National Park Service. Fittingly the announcement was made outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City. For more information on what is included in the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ) Heritage Initiative click on this link.

Summer is super high season for the parks and a lot of them are just uncomfortably crowded. Many lesser known ones are not. Here’s a recent New York Times piece on how to get the most out of our national parks this summer.  Why not celebrate both gay pride and pride in our beautiful national parks this pride season?

Photo: Arches National Park by Stephen Oachs 

Gayography Brief: Your Global LGBT News Update

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That’s Ashton in the middle with the Pride suspenders

This column is brought to you by Ashton Giese, ManAboutWorld correspondent and editor of the GAYography newsbrief.

Exciting week with the onset of Pride around the world! Plus, on Broadway a musical based on the life story of lesbian and her closeted gay father took home Best Musical at the Tony Awards. Meanwhile abroad elections in Turkey highlighted a new pro-LGBT party but trouble persisted against Pride in Moscow and Kiev, where police sustained injuries protecting the “March for Equality.”

Also, check out the story of a North Korean defector – and gay life in a dictatorship. See you at Pride in Brooklyn and EuroPride in Riga!

Click here here for this week’s GAYography brief.

A vital resource for LGBT travelers, focusing on news, vacation insights, advocacy and current events in major cities around the globe, the GAYography brief is published each Thursday. Subscribe here & like!

Green With Envy: The Fabulous New Eco-friendly 1 Hotel South Beach

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A living wall at the entrance to 1 Hotel South Beach

The 1 Hotel South Beach recently opened, and we had a quick preview. It’s the first hotel we’ve heard of (and new hotel brand from the brains behind the W Hotel brand) with sustainability as its driving force and DNA. Here are a few photos; expect a full review in an upcoming issue of ManAboutWorld. (Here’s asubscription offer to get you started.)

The photo above is a living wall (that green/black color is actual living plants). Below is chef Michael Fiorello at the Tom Colicchio farm- (and sea-) to table restaurant Beachcraft at the hotel. At the bottom, the eco-friendly “lover’s kit” amenity found in the spacious, sundrenched rooms of the hotel.

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Chef Michael Fiorello at Beachcraft
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The sustainable ‘lover’s kit’ at the 1 Hotel South Beach

 

Los Angeles Dodgers To Host LGBT Pride NIght

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LA Dodgers gay pride night as seen in ManAboutWorld gay travel magazine

 

On June 19, the Los Angeles Dodgers will host LGBT night, featuring a first pitch by Lisa Vanderpump, a special appearance by Lance Bass and the National Anthem will be performed by Ty Herndon. Show your pride and come out to celebrate. Each ticket PACKAGE includes a ticket to the game and a VOUCHER redeemable for a commemorative LGBT night t-shirt. Tickets range from $38-$73.

 

 

Voila Montreal Gay Pride & A Whole Lot More LGBT Fun This Summer

Montreal Gay Pride as seen in ManAboutWorld gay travel magazine
Montreal Gay Pride courtesy of Tourisme Montréal

In our current issue, we cover Montreal Pride (along with a couple of other more offbeat Pride celebrations). Pride (or la Fierté as its known locally) takes place August 10-16. We provide everything you need to plan the perfect trip. Clickhere for a FREE three-month trial subscription to our magazine available on iPad, Android tablets, iPhones and now Android phones.

As you ponder that, take note of all the other LGBT festivals, activities and events that will take place in one of the most fun North American cities to visit in the summer courtesy of Tourisme Montréal.

The summer kicks off with Montréal drag legend Mado Lamotte’s 15th annual Drag Race (yes, it predates RuPaul’s Drag Race) at the Montreal Fringe Festival, whose 2015 edition runs from June 1 to 21. Several professional Montréal drag queens team up with their amateur counterparts for a side-splitting outdoor afternoon competition on June 20 in Parc des Amériques. Free admission.

The McCord Museum has two major summertime exhibitions of particular interest to the LGBT community:

The Camp Fires: the queer Baroque of Léopold L. Foulem, Paul Mathieu and Richard Milette show features 70 pieces by three renowned Canadian ceramists whose works have for over 30 years explored “’camp”’ themes and the gay male experience with an aesthetically powerful body of work rooted in the history of ceramics and contemporary culture. Runs from April 10 to August 16.

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Gayography Brief: Your Global LGBT News Update

Tel Aviv Pride as seen in ManAboutWorld gay travel magazine
Tel Aviv Pride

This column is brought to you by Ashton Giese, ManAboutWorld correspondent and editor of the GAYography newsbrief.

Ready for Pride Month? Find out the best spots all over the country for Pride & parties — Tel Aviv Pride starts next week. There’s controversy in Pittsburgh where groups have pulled out of the parade to protest Iggy Azelea — she’s NOT too fancy lately. Abroad there’s trouble in Korea — where the Pride Parade has been cancelled for the first time — and Moscow (where it’s always cancelled).

If you’re feeling super proud, you might even venture to a nude beach — discover the world’s best “clothing optional” ones and read an account about taking on the challenge (tough for us prude Americans).

Click here for this week’s GAYography brief.

A vital resource for LGBT travelers, focusing on news, vacation insights, advocacy and current events in major cities around the globe, the GAYography brief is published each Thursday. Subscribe here & like!

Photo: Tel Aviv Pride by Atomische * Tom Giebel

 

UPDATE: June 2 Marked the First-ever #gaywine Twitter Chat

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#Gaywine hunks
UPDATE: The first-ever #gaywine Twitter chat was a bubbly, aromatic and balanced success! Whether you joined or missed it, check out the stream of Tweets here, where we hope you may learn a little more about the wide world of wines!

June 2: Set your watches (or an alarm app!). Today’s the day that ManAboutWorld,  Out in the Vineyard  and our friends at NYTravFest uncork the first-ever #gaywine Twitter chat from 3pm-4pm ET (12pm-1pm PT) and +5/6 hours in Europe.

What’s so gay about wine?! It’s not just the fruity bouquet and mouth feel! Join us, and find out much more about the hidden gay side of wine from LGBT vintners and gay-friendly wine destinations to the gayest wine weekend on the planet.

Simply log into Twitter and follow #gaywine today 3pm ET (and 12 noon PT) when we’ll start the conversation. Be sure to crack a bottle of your favorite sippable. You will be quizzed! Also please follow us at@mawtravel, @Outinvineyard and @NYTravFest

*GRATUITOUS BEEFCAKE PHOTO ABOVE: SETH FORNEA, BRIAN MAIER WHO’LL APPEAR IN THIS MONTH’S GAY WINE WEEKEND, COURTESY OUT IN THE VINEYARD.

 

Sting Like A Bee: New Gay Rights Exhibit To Open At National Constitution Center, Philadelphia

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From “Speaking Out for Equality”: Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad, NY Daily News, July 6, 1969

The National Constitution Center in partnership with the William Way LGBT Community Center announced the opening of “Speaking Out for Equality: The Constitution, Gay Rights, and the Supreme Court“: which chronicles the gay rights movement and the ongoing debate over how much the Constitution protects gay rights on June 5. The organizers encourage visitors to hear the story, see articles and photos, and tell them what you think about the Supreme Court’s upcoming decision about whether the Constitution protects the right to same-sex marriage.

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The exhibition coincides with the 50th anniversary of the July 4, 1965 Annual Reminder demonstration, which took place in front of

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Independence Hall in Philadelphia and was the first in a series of gay rights marches to specifically demand equal rights.

Speaking Out for Equality was created in partnership with the William Way LGBT Community Center.

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