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Chocks away! OutNews Global’s sister publication launches DIVA Travel!

Newsdesk15th March 2018

Travel

Hands up who doesn’t like holidays? OK – you lot can leave now. The rest of you can rejoice in the news that OutNews Global’s sister publication has launched DIVA Travel, the latest addition to the DIVA stable. DIVA Travel offers flight only, beach holidays, winter breaks, city breaks and ski […]

Being queer in Morocco: we pretended to be sisters

Cash Boyle1st February 20181st February 2018

Opinion / Travel / World

I never forgot: This is what LGBT Moroccans face every day Of all the things I could’ve been arrested for in my 26 years, the expression of my homosexuality has never been one of them. Yet that is the precise risk I ran going to Morocco with my partner this month. […]

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE? Many LGBT+ people are anti-Israel but is Israel anti-LGBT?

Hadley Stewart5th January 20185th January 2018

Features / Travel / World

“Israel is the most gay-friendly place…I visited the gay beach, cruising areas and such like.” Israel is home to the “gay capital of the Middle East” according to Out Magazine. The country is located on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and shares boarders with Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria. The […]

Gay footie fans warned: do not hold hands at Russian World Cup

Hadley Stewart5th December 20175th December 2017

News / Sport / Travel / World

LGBT football fans have been warned that if they attend the World Cup in Russia next year, they may put themselves at risk of being attacked. The campaign group, Fare is advising gay people to be cautious in any place which is not seen to be welcoming to the LGBT community.” […]

Male, female or ‘X’: Gender neutral passports a step closer?

Jennie Kermode11th October 201711th October 2017

Features / News / Politics / Travel / UK

A gender-neutral campaigner has been given the go-ahead for a challenge that would allow for gender-neutral passports. Christie Elan-Cane says the UK’s passport application process says it’s wrong for people to have to offer their gender in applications. They are calling for another option, allowing people to put an ‘X’ instead […]

Police ’rounding up and torturing’ gay and trans people in Azerbaijan

Hadley Stewart27th September 201727th September 2017

News / Politics / Travel / World

Gay and trans people are reportedly being rounded up by Police in Azerbaijan and then humiliated and tortured. Pictures posted on social media showed men and women being physically assaulted and manhandled by police officers, reflecting behaviours seen in Chechnya earlier this year. Despite homosexuality being legal in Azerbaijan, it seems […]