LGBT Travel

Reflections on the slightly awkward nature of finding budget hotels and hostels for long-term lesbian travelers.

I returned to Brighton, one of my favorite towns in the UK, to celebrate their 25th Pride Festival. With the motto Carnival Of Diversity hundreds of thousands of people celebrated the LGBT community!

In the latest installment of our LGBT travel series, Sam of IndefinitiveAdventure.com shares why he thinks being out as a gay traveler can make a big difference.

In this guest post Lane tells how an exhausted momentary lapse of a travel habit resulted in that awkward check-in situation gay and lesbian couples often face while traveling.

If you and your partner travel as an openly gay couple, you’re an ambassador and raising awareness for the LGBT community around the world, but what if you’re on a religious pilgrimage across Spain? Tone it down or allow fellow pilgrims to meet their first lesbian couple?

After months of traveling through some less than gay-friendly locations, we find that we wrestle with what has essentially become a half in, half out of the closet lifestyle. As gay travelers, are there times when we should go back inside the closet? And if we do go back in, how far is too far?

When I set off on my solo travel adventures, I had no idea that lesbian solo travel could be so annoying! Read on to find out why…