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Turbulent Times for Transgender Travelers
For two years, 27-year-old Reilley Clemens hadn’t gone home. Not because she didn’t have the money or the will to travel, but because she feared what she might experience at the airport. Clemens, a...
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Purple Roofs Mentioned in Montreal Gazette Transgender Travel Article
Just got a nice mention in the Montreal Gazette in an article on transgender travel: During a Postmedia online chat today, one contributor pointed readers to an excellent resource site called Purple...
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Traveling While Transgender – A Nightmare in Hong Kong
Crossing borders as a transgender woman is always a challenge. There are many reasons immigration authorities reject you, but sometimes it’s simply because they don’t seem to understand who we are. My...
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Still More to Do To Make Fort Lauderdale Trans Traveler Friendly
Broward County’s tourism bureau has been marketing to the LGBT community since 1996, but results of a survey released Monday show extra effort is needed to attract more transgender travelers. In...
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Purple Roofs LGBT Travel Newsletter 11/8/14
Welcome to the Purple Roofs LGBT travel newsletter. We’ve got lots of other great stuff for you this time, too – including some great feature articles: Italian Cooking Class; Sorrento, Italy; Phuket...
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St. Petersburg, Florida Celebrates First Annual Transgender Pride
Sixty or so people attended the first-ever Transgender Pride gathering inside St. Petersburg’s Metro Wellness and Community Center on Nov. 8. The gathering included food and drinks as well as an array...
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Exploring Transgender Cuba
Mariette Pathy Allen’s TransCuba is as much an intimate peek into the everyday lives of Cuba’s trans female population as it is a visual record of the country’s growing oppenness to diversity under...
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Fort Lauderdale Launches Transgender Travel Initiative
The Greater Fort Lauderdale Convention and Visitors Bureau (GFLCVB) has announced its intention to better cater for the needs of trans travellers following a pioneering new study. The popular...
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Nepal to Issue Passports With Third Gender
Nepal yesterday (7 January) announced plans to add a third gender category to passports, following a 2007 Supreme Court ruling recognizing third gender. ‘We have changed the passport regulations and...
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Traveling While Trans
This past weekend we loaded up the car for a trip to Phoenix. My girlfriend, Katie, and I were off to visit my daughter. We decided to drive the 1,100-plus miles instead of flying because it is a heck...
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Fort Lauderdale Becomes Premier Destination for Transgender Travelers
Fort Lauderdale has long encouraged gay and lesbian travelers from around the world to explore their sunny side on the rainbow-ready shores of southern Florida. So it should come as no surprise that...
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Seven Tips for Traveling While Trans
The recent tale of a transgender woman humiliated, demeaned, detained, delayed, and derailed by the Transportation Security Administration has struck fear into some trans travelers and validated the...
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Trans Travelers: Don’t Lose Your Wanderlust
Two years ago I drove across the United States with one of my closest friends — also a trans man — and as we crossed state lines we played the game “Now You Have Rights, Now You Don’t.” After visiting...
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Third-Gender Passports May Be the Future of Trans Travel
The arrival of a transgender activist from Nepal in Taiwan last Saturday for the 2015 International Lesbian and Gay Association’s Asia conference may seem unremarkable. But it was in fact quite...
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Purple Roofs LGBT Travel Round-Up – December 16th
In addition to our regular travel articles, we’re starting a regular travel round-up, for those stories that don’t warrant a full posting on the blog, or that we didn’t have time to add. Enjoy!...
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Transgender Passenger Humiliated by TSA
A transgender passenger has said he was humiliated and demeaned when he was forced to remove his prosthetic penis by airline staff. Subjected to a full body scan, an Australian airport staff member...
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Femminiello Pride
Irpinia contradicts everything you expect about Southern Italy. The rainy climate and green mountains have more in common with the Pacific Northwest than the Amalfi Coast, just 40 miles away. Instead...
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Trans Woman Asks for Refund for Transphobic Treatment on Cruise
Sherry Donegan of Fresno, Calif., had never taken a cruise before when she joined 17 others last month aboard the Royal Caribbean Brilliance of the Seas for a six-day vacation. But a comment from an...
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Transgender Travel: People are Mostly Okay
Airport people watching is one of my favorite activities. In general, airports make me anxious. The crowds; the frenetic sense of urgency as people rush around; the smell of other people’s (way too...
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Interview With Finn Ballard – The Nomadic Boys
Queer. A word that used to be used negatively, but now reclaimed by us to form one of the letters in our LGBTQIA umbrella – a word to describe individuals who challenge both gender and sexuality, who...
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