OUT Adventures - New Gay Operator Steps Out with Gay, Green and Affordable Intertnational Tours

Canadian based OUT Adventures today announced the global launch of operations and website www.out-adventures.com.  Business and personal partners Robert Sharp and Steven Larkin have created eco-friendly OUT Adventures in order to address a current gap in the gay and lesbian travel segment that limits adventure travel to a handful of luxury operators.

CMI 13th Annual LGBT Tourism Study: Ranking the Most-Visited Destinations

Community Marketing, Inc. (CMI) the San Francisco–based LGBT market research and communications firm, completed its 13th annual LGBT Tourism Study on October 23rd, and is releasing the survey’s key findings. CMI has been studying and reporting on LGBT tourism demographics and trends since 1994. This year, the study’s industry, media and educational partners include IGLTA, USTOA, ASTA, DMAI, CLIA, NTA, Travel Weekly, and the University of Nevada. Over 4,000 geographically representative LGBT American consumers were surveyed about their travel patterns.

Frightfully fun city ghost tours!

(Getty Images) Fall is probably the best time of year to experience all things paranormal. Many of our favorite gay-friendly destinations have year-round ghost tours, and when you round up a group of friends, it can be a frightfully fun experience taking you back to the days when we sat around the campfire and told ghost stories at summer camp. Here is a sampling of the best ghost tours around the country. Happy haunting!

Rob's Toronto

My name: ROB
My age: 32
My profession: Management Consultant
City/town: TORONTO
Relationship status: SINGLE
Sexuality: GAY

Do you have a hometown crush? If so, describe (but don't name names).

Yes. And he has a charming smile, glasses, and is on the conservative side. He smiles, and I end up smiling, and then I'm putty for days.

Show Us Your Costume!

Halloween 2008 is today, and whether your headed to the big bash in the Big Apple, partying in the Castro in SF or even just getting your ghoul on in your small local town, we want in!

Hot Kevin's Tulsa!

My name:  Kevin
My age:   35
My profession:   Bartender
City/town:   Tulsa
Relationship status:   Single (thank God!)
Sexuality:  Gay (thank God!)

What are your favorite gay bars and/or dance clubs? 

Tulsa, like every city in the U.S., used to have a plethora of great ones.  Now we're down to just Club Maverick and Renegade's (and no, my screen-name doesn't come from that club).

Burning Man: Sex on the Playa!

By Bradford Noble
Sex On The Beach is a cocktail with vodka, peach Schnapps and some fruity juices thrown in for color. It's sweet and refreshingly thirst quenching in your mouth.

Sex on the "Playa" (a dry lake bed in the Nevada desert) is a cocktail of dust, sweat and unwashed bodies, with some fruity costumes thrown in for color. It's salty and chalky, and there's no water to wash out your mouth, ears, eyes, nose, or any other hole in your body. For these reasons I tend to avoid sexual encounters when I go to Burning Man. But not always.
(Photo: Steve Cabrera)

London Set To Host WorldPride

For those of you who like to plan your travel years in advance, London is the place to be in 2012.

In addition to hosting The Queens Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic Games, London will be the site of WorldPride in 2012.

The home of Queen Elizabeth, Big Ben and Madonna (well, at least for now) was chosen as the host city for WorldPride by attendees of the 27th Annual World Conference of InterPride (The International Association of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Pride Coordinators).

The organizers, who will soon launch a WorldPride Web site with all the details, promise an event "on a truly mammoth scale." Hey, the bigger, the better in my book.

(Image courtesy of Getty)

All About Ted's Hometown

My name:  Ted
My age:  24
My profession:  Coach/Ropes Course Instructor
City/town:  Rochester, NY
Relationship status:  Single
Sexuality: Gay/Bisexual

Do gay men and lesbians hang out together in your town or is that just unheard of?

We actually get along quite well.  Sure we groan when the lesbians get carried away with karaoke, and I'm sure they complain when we use the women's restrooms, but by and large we are all very friendly towards one another.

Aaron's Guide to Texas!

My name:  Aaron M Stewart
My age: 31
My profession: Linguist (student)/ Barista
City/town: Killeen, Texas
Relationship status: Single
Sexuality: gay

If someone came to your town for just four hours, what is the one thing he should do?

Obviously he should come visit me at Starbucks.  I will make him/her an extraordinary cup of coffee.  Then this person should check out the Height Plaza where he or she can eat at places like Cheddar's (excellent) or the Cracker Barrel and shop at some fancy-for-this-area places such as ULTA or whatever.