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IGLTA
As we prepare to kick off our 33rd Annual Global Convention this week, our first on the African continent, we want to extend a warm thanks to our convention sponsors: Presenting Level – South Africa Tourism, South African Airways, National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce; Official Level – Cape Town & Western Cape Convention Bureau, EMBRATUR, IBM, Ontario Tourism Marketing Partnership Corporation, Rhino Africa Safaris, Tourism Toronto, VisitBritain, Visit St. Petersburg/Clearwater; Conference Level – Kinky Boots The Musical, Preferred Hotel Group, Silversea, Wirld.com, WorldPride Madrid 2017; Conference Partners – The GSA Travel Trade Monthly, IGLTA Foundation, KwaZulu-Natal Gay & Lesbian Tourism Association, Pink Banana Media, Southern Africa Tourism Services Association, Uthando South Africa, Wine Fairy. The conference would not be possible without their generous support. #IGLTA2016
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IGLTA
Please join us in welcoming the new businesses that joined the association in March: Sandos Playacar Beach Resort, The High Line Hotel, Hotel Amade Château, Casa Morada, Real Istanbul Tours, Ntaba African Safaris, The Proud Traveler, Camara De Comercio Diversa Costa Rica, Redia, Ed Stillman, Steven Skelley.
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The Guardian
Colombia's highest court has given the green light to gay marriage in the conservative, mostly Catholic country.
The magistrates of the constitutional court voted six to three against a proposed ruling that said marriage applied only to unions between men and women and that it was up to the congress and not the court to decide on same-sex marriage.
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The Times of Israel
The first Jewish same-sex wedding ceremony in Latin America was celebrated at a Buenos Aires synagogue. Victoria Escobar, 36, a convert to Judaism, and Romina Charur, 35, were married on 10 April at NCI Emanu El Temple in the Argentine capital. Some 300 guests attended the ceremony, which was officiated by Rabbi Karina Finkielstein.
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Metro
Homophobes seem to believe that putting people in jail just for being gay will work – but it doesn't, a study has found.
In fact, in Uganda, a country with horrific anti-gay laws where people can be thrown in jail for 14 years, levels of homosexuality are just the same as they are everywhere else.
In 2014, the country was on the verge of passing legislation which would have changed the sentence for being gay to life in prison.
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Pink News
Since the country's left-wing leader was ousted in 2009, LGBT people have faced a dramatic increase in the risk of torture, prison and murder.
The Index on Censorship, produced in the U.K., looked at data from NGOs in the Central American country. It found that since 2009, when president Manuel Zelaya was ousted during a military coup, there have been 215 murders of LGBT people.
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Free Speech Radio News
Turkey decriminalized homosexuality in 1858 and gives asylum to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people from other countries escaping persecution, but its modern penal code continues to discriminate, giving lighter sentences to perpetrators who commit crimes against their community. Activists are fighting for constitutional protection and acceptance in a society that considers being gay or trans as taboo.
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The Guardian
"I think I'm gay."
This has to be pretty high on a list of situations they don't properly prepare you for during teacher training. And yet, the way a teacher responds to this statement will have way more impact on a student than successfully integrating an interactive whiteboard into a history lesson
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The Associated Press via The Washington Post
In a major ecclesiastical turnaround, a large majority of Norway's church synod have voted in favor of same-sex marriages.
Of 115 synod members present at the Church of Norway's council, 88 voted in favor, meaning that the state church will adopt provisions for marrying same-sex couples at its meeting next year and make it part of its official liturgy.
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Sun Herald
The head of the regional tourism bureau on the Coast just wrapped up a multistate tourism conference in Baton Rouge.
Culinary tourism was supposed to be the focus of this year's Southeast Tourism Society meeting that brings together tourism experts from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia.
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MSNBC
Following a historic Supreme Court ruling last summer, marriage equality is the law of the land from coast to coast. There were still states with laws on the books blocking same-sex couples from having equal marriage rights, but they were out of luck.
For some on the far-right, however, there's still hope that they'll somehow be able to restore discriminatory policies at some point in the future. But for other conservatives, there was an entirely different, short-term goal: Maybe there was a chance to block marriage equality in Puerto Rico?
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Washington Blade
Four months after same-sex marriage came to the entire country via the Supreme Court decision in June, 2015, the Williams Institute studied the effect it had economically.
They estimate that 96,000 same-sex couples wed in that period spending more than $634 million themselves while their out-of-state guests spent an estimated $178 million to attend, generating more than $800 million in spending.
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Reuters
The U.S. Senate voted to bolster travel security in the wake of the Brussels attacks with measures that include doubling the number of transportation security teams with bomb-sniffing dogs at domestic airports and other transit hubs.
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to add security measures to a separate bill that calls for renewing the programs of the Federal Aviation Administration through September 2017. The FAA bill is expected to come up for a final vote later this month.
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Skift
After a dramatic last few weeks in which Marriott International nearly lost out on its quest to acquire Starwood Hotels & Resorts to Chinese insurer Anbang and its investor group, both hotel companies hosted their respective shareholder meetings April 8 to endorse their newly agreed upon merger pact.
In separate meetings, shareholders from both Marriott and Starwood voted to approve the new combination. Stockholders of more than 97 percent of Marriott shares present and voting at the meeting, representing more than 79 percent of outstanding shares, voted in favor of a proposal to issue shares of Marriott common stock in connection with the transaction.
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