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IGLTA
As part of IGLTA's ongoing consumer initiative, we have begun streamlining our communications between B2B and B2C channels. One of the first steps in this effort is the creation of a new Facebook page called IGLTA Business, which will be specifically used to engage with IGLTA members and tourism and industry professionals. In an effort to build a targeted audience on the new IGLTA Business page, we're hosting a giveaway to encourage our members and business contacts to follow the page. Click here to like our new Facebook page and you'll be automatically entered into the contest for a chance to win a marketing or membership package valued at $2,000.
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IGLTA
Please join us in welcoming Toronto-based Iris Sebanescu, Manager of Trade Development at Bannikin Tourism and Travel, as the newest member of our volunteer global ambassador team. She joins Liz Devine as co-ambassador for Canada, a timely addition as we prepare to celebrate our 35th anniversary Annual Global Convention in Toronto, 9-12 May 2018.
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IGLTA
IGLTA President/CEO John Tanzella traveled to Milan this week to meet with the city's Mayor, Guiseppe Sala, tourism leaders, and other government officials. On 6 September, the city officially announced its intention to bid to host IGLTA's Annual Global Convention in 2020 in partnership with the Italian National Tourist Board (ENIT) and the Italian Association of Gay & Lesbian Tourism (AITGL). In March, ENIT became the first national tourism board to join IGLTA's Global Partner program.
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IGLTA
Please join us in welcoming the businesses that joined IGLTA in August:
Chris Curtis Photography, Magic Lamp Vacations™, Book Here, Give Here-Travel That Gives, Visit National Harbor, Travel Inn Unicornio & SPA, Red Lipstick Travel, Nexus Holiday, Planet Hollywood Beach Resort Goa, NOPSI Hotel, Luna2 Seminyak Bali, LSE Bankside House, LSE Carr-Saunders Hall, LSE Grosvenor House, LSE Passfield Hall, LSE High Holborn, LSE Northumberland House, LSE Rosebery Hall, Destination Niagara USA.
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Travel + Leisure
Planning the ultimate gaycation? Travel + Leisure spoke with travel agents who specialize in helping LGBT travelers plan luxe adventures around the world to pick some of the top gay-friendly resorts on Earth.
All recognized on T+L's A-List (an annual selection of the world's best travel agents) in the last three years, John Clifford, Lynda Turley, and David Rubin pointed to luxe properties in buzzy European cities and Hawaiian islands.
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Gay Times
Romania's Social Democratic Party – who are currently in power – are hoping to introduce a referendum this autumn that would stop any same-sex marriage reform from progressing.
Party president Liviu Dragnea wants the referendum to keep a tight grasp on their definition of marriage, which he believes should be between a man and woman.
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The Huffington Post
Indonesia's first queer rights organization, GAYa NUSANTARA, turned thirty years old this month. I took the opportunity to catch up with its founder, Dede Oetomo.
The past year was a hard one for queers in Indonesia. A series of outrageous statements by cabinet ministers and conservative Muslim clerics combined with police raids and vigilante violence to create widespread fear.
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The Local Sweden
A couple in Sweden have become parents after the country's first same-sex international adoption.
Sweden changed its legislation to allow for same-sex adoption 14 years ago, but international adoptions have long been as good as impossible because of many other countries' more restrictive rules.
But one couple have now adopted a child in Colombia, which recently changed its own rules. The two fathers were approved a year ago, and the whole process has now been carried out, reports SVT.
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The Globe and Mail
For three months, the federal government has been secretly spiriting gay Chechen men from Russia to Canada, under a clandestine program unique in the world.
The evacuations, spearheaded by Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, fall outside the conventions of international law and could further impair already tense relations between Russia and Canada. But the Liberal government decided to act regardless.
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HAARETZ
On 31 August, the High Court of Justice rejected a petition made by the LGBT Association, which demanded the state recognize same-sex marriages.
The court justices held that Israel's practice of not recognizing same-sex marriages does not contravene the Basic Law on Human Dignity and Liberty. Justices Elyakim Rubinstein, Anat Baron and Neal Hendel added that any amendment pertaining to the Basic Law was the responsibility of the legislature, not the courts.
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BBC News
Australia's highest court has begun hearing legal challenges against a national vote on same-sex marriage.
The government plans to hold a non-binding postal survey from next week to gauge support for changing Australia's law to allow same-sex marriage.
PM Malcolm Turnbull has said the vote could lead to the tabling of a bill in parliament later this year.
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LGBTQ Nation
Gov. Bruce Rauner signed a bill into law on Friday banning the gay panic and trans panic defense in murder cases, making Illinois the second state to do so, after California.
The law prevents people in the state from claiming the murder victim was gay or bisexual and made a sexual advance that caused them to react violently, or that the victim’s gender identity caused the same.
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Travel Weekly UK
Manchester airport is to sponsor of SHOUT Festival of Queer Arts and Culture in Birmingham for the next three years.
The sponsorship will help to deliver a program of exhibitions, theatre, performance, and film which celebrates queer culture in the 50th anniversary year of the partial decriminalization of homosexuality in England and Wales.
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CNN
Jim Obergefell sat in the Supreme Court on a June morning more than two years ago and listened as Justice Anthony Kennedy read an opinion that would re-shape the lives of LGBT Americans by clearing the way for same-sex marriage nationwide.
"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right," Kennedy wrote in the opinion.
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