LGBTQ news and entertainment
How this relates to “vacations” I don’t know. But the hunky men are cute.
Amanda Lepore…? I don’t get. But Eliad Cohen can be in any commercial as far as I’m concerned.
The milk drinking bit may have “jumped the shark” a bit but who cares? It’s Sunday.
The State Department issued a global travel alert to warn Americans abroad of a potential terrorist attack before the end of August.
Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that “there’s an awful lot of chatter out there” and he says it’s “very reminiscent of what we saw pre-9/11.”
Sen. Chambliss is describing “the chatter” detected by U.S. intelligence agencies that led the Obama administration to order the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world, and issue a global travel warning to Americans.
(via PBS)
Travel guide guru Arthur Frommer has penned a lengthy warning of Russia’s anti-gay laws, telling his readers of the oppressive laws harming LGBT folks there, and advising travelers and the tourism industry to take “appropriate action:”
Writes Frommer in a blog post:
Several gay authors of Frommer travel guides have already informed me that they will no longer risk travel to Russia as long as the “pro-gay propaganda” statute is in effect. Some among them are calling for a broader boycott of all travel to Russia by all Americans, gay or not, as a protest against this denial of human rights. They refer not only to the new legislation, but to several recent incidents of physical assaults by prejudiced young Russians against gay persons, none of which seemed to interest Russian police. And of course, officials and athletes preparing to participate in the winter Olympics are seriously concerned.
In the words of another Frommer author: “The new Russian law is extremely dangerous, borne of dark nationalism, and through its virulent ignorance, the stage is set for a witch hunt. History has shown only too clearly what can happen when a government provides for the systematic silencing and disenfranchisement of an unpopular minority”.
(h/t Towleroad)
Wow. I can’t imagine behavior like this in the US with TSA.
From Towleroad: Yan Linkun, a member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Committee (CPPCC) from Shizong county, Yunnan Province, did not react well after he missed his plane last week. Yan had gone to have breakfast after purchasing his ticket but did not make it back in time to board.
He then destroyed everything in sight.
No sound, but the action gets going at the 1:30 mark. Really kind of amazing.
“I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown, eat interesting food, dig some interesting people, have an adventure, be careful.”
“Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You’re going to get a sense of what globalization looks like. It’s not what Tom Friedman writes about, I’m sorry. You’re going to see that global climate change is very real. And that for some people, their day consists of walking 12 miles for four buckets of water.”
“And so, there are lessons that you can’t get out of a book that are waiting for you at the other end of that flight. A lot of people – Americans and Europeans – come back and go “ohhhhh.”
“And the lightbulb goes on.”
– Henry Rollins
So while traveling, I plan on posting pics along the way that entertain me or make me laugh…
On a layover in San Francisco right now and I realize I haven’t been in this airport in at least ten years – and it’s fab!
The shopping is a much more “high-end” than what you see in most airports. Or at least there are a LOT of high end stores here. I love you can pick up something from Gucci while you wait for your plane:
And you can ‘visit’ the Golden Gate Bridge while walking to your gate: