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Portland’s Nature Highlights: 9 Tips for a Gay Summer Trip to Oregon
USA: As nature lovers and an adventurous gay couple ourselves, it was our quest for this USA trip to seek and experience Portland’s most beautiful natural highlights – and to share them with you.
Gay Portland Travel Journal: Eco-Friendliness, Pure Nature, & a Vibrant LGBTQ+ Community
USA: Eco-friendliness, microbreweries, and cafés? Located on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers in the shadow of snow-capped Mount Hood, we didn’t have to leave the city to experience the nature of the Pacific Northwest region.
It’s happening: Couple of Men on German TV!
AMSTERDAM: First we won the Lonely Planet Best in Travel LGBTIQ+ Storyteller Award. Then we wrote our first book, “Couple of Men – A Male Couple Travels the World.” And now we’re going to be on German TV, in a twelve-minute insider episode about our favorite city, Amsterdam.
Our First Book: Couple of Men – Ein Männerpaar reist um die Welt
GERMANY: The first LGBTQ+ Travel Book Couple of Men – Ein Männerpaar reist um die Welt, giving insights into our lives as gay men, as a couple, and queer LGBTQ+ communities
Gay Poughkeepsie Travel Journal: The Heart of Dutchess County, NY
USA: From Beacon to the Heart of Dutchess County, NY: Gay Poughkeepsie Travel Journal about our second stop in the Hudson River Valley.
Gay Beacon Travel Journal: Our First Stop in Dutchess County
USA: New York doesn’t end with New York City’s borders. We traveled north to the heart of New York State, the Mid-Hudson Valley region, to Dutchess County.
Gay Travel Blog Couple of Men
A German-Dutch gay couple, happily living the adventurous life together, eager to explore the world around us, from our favorite neighborhood restaurant to adventurous hiking trails into the mountains and exciting city trips around the globe.
We are Karl and Daan from the Gay Couple Travel Blog Couple of Men, and we’d like to inspire you to explore the world open-minded, respectful, and with a happy heart.
Karl & Daan.
ADVENTURE TRAVEL >
13 Road Trip Highlights of the US-American South West
USA: Our road trip around California, Utah, Arizona, and Nevada. Gran Canyon, Zion National Park, Yosemite, San Francisco and LA – join us on our trip to the land of opportunity.
Gay Peru Adventure – llamas, Machu Picchu and a Rainbow Flag
PERU: For us, our Peru adventure meant learning more about the history of this South American country, which goes back much further than ‘just’ to the glorious Incas.
Rovos Rail Train Safari: Namibia to South Africa on Rails
SOUTHERN AFRICA: Our journey through rural inhabited Savannah regions, windy dunes and protected National Parks turned out to be one of our biggest gay travel adventures ever.
Pride
Happy Pride! With this international greeting, lesbians, gays, intersexual, transsexual and queer people, as well as their friends and allies, are marching side by side demonstrating various LGBTQ+ Pride parades for equality, acceptance, and equal love. But what does PRIDE for the LGBTQ+ community actually mean and stand for? Why are we using the abbreviation LGBTQ+? And why is a Coming Out for queer people so important and really still necessary? We are giving answers to these and additional questions on our Gay Couple Travel Blog Couple of Men.
HOTEL REVIEWS >
Review of Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando, Florida
ORLANDO: We stayed at the LGBTQ+ friendly Review Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando, Florida, a premier resort hotel to Universal Studios Florida™, located close to the Universal CityWalk Orlando.
Review Design Hotel Aloft Munich, Germany
MUNICH: The 4-star hotel was our accommodation for the 4-days trip to Munich this summer with enough space to play games, to dance to DJ sets, and to work in an LGBTQ+ welcoming environment.
Klaus K Hotel Helsinki with Tom of Finland | Review
FINLAND: Before we start with our review of the gay-friendly Klaus K Hotel in Helsinki, we want to warn you, it is going to be a very sexy gay-friendly hotel article.
Explore New York City with The Bernic Hotel
NEW YORK: We must admit that New York his has been on our gay travel to-do list for a long time following in the footsteps of LGBTQ+ activists around the city of New York.
Gay-friendly Thousand Trails Yosemite Lakes Resort | Review
USA: The Yosemite National Park in California was one of our top highlights we planned for our four weeks road trip around the South West of the United States of America.
Kumagaiji Buddhist Temple Lodging in Koyasan, Japan | Review
JAPAN: One of our highlights and on top of our bucket list for our Japan Travels was without any doubt our two-nights stay at a Buddhist monastery in the mountains of Mount Koya in the South of Osaka.
Queer Couple Stories
By sharing their stories, we get to understand the daily lives of couples that are running a business together, that are activists for freedom and equality together, that are facing everyday problems together or that simply are what they actually are, two people in love. This is why we use Queer Couple Stories on our Gay Couple Travel Blog Couple of Men to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ couples and their situations with the goal to change the perception and acceptance in our society. We want them to be seen – by sharing their stories.
QUEER STORIES WORLDWIDE >
10 of the best LGBTQ+ travel books
WORLDWIDE: Need inspiration on where to travel next? Or you’re not sure which places are suitable for travelers from the LGBTQ+ community? LGBTQ+ travel books help lesbian, gay, trans, and queer travelers find inspiration and direction for planning their gaycation.
12 of the best LGBTQ+ books in English
WORLDWIDE: Our selection of the 12 best international LGBTQ+ books in English with lesbian, gay, transgender and queer community topics worldwide.
Top 10 Queer Movies at Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022
AMSTERDAM: In 2022, the LGBTQ+ film festival Roze Filmdagen will be full of colorful movies, docus and short films. We selected the best 10 queer movies for you!
Top 15 Gay Movies at Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022
AMSTERDAM: For the 25th edition of the queer film festival Roze Filmdagen, we teamed up with festival director Werner Borkes to choose our best gay movies of 2022.
Top 10 Lesbian Movies at Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival 2022
AMSTERDAM: The 25th edition of the queer film festival, movies, docus and short films about queer culture will be shown either at Ketelhuis or streamable at home.
“If I were a woman, I’d be a showstopper” | Interview with Dutch Drag Super Star Lady Galore
AMSTERDAM: “If I were a woman, I’d be a showstopper” – Sarah’s interview with Dutch Drag Queen from Amsterdam Lady Galore about her book ‘Glitter maatk alles beter – Glitter makes everything better’
COUNTRY GUIDES >
LGBTQ+ Rights around the World >
“Hate against LGBT is systematically instilled in people in Moldova”
MOLDOVA: How safe and enjoyable is the life of the LGBTQ+ community in the Eastern European country? Sarah attended an online event organized to answer these questions…
The LGBTQ+ Community Struggles for Visibility in Ukraine
UKRAINE: Sarah learned about the situation of the LGBTQ+ community in the Eastern European country at an online event organized specifically for activists and journalists.
LGBTQ+ in Laos between Tolerance & Acceptance
LAOS: The Democratic People’s Republic of Laos also called Laos for short, has the reputation of being one of the most tolerant communist countries for the LGBTQ+ community.
Rejection & Violence: LGBTQ+ in Cambodia
CAMBODIA: Additionally to the two genders, male and female, Cambodia’s national language Khmer also knows the third gender kteuy, describing a person who has the physical characteristics of one gender but the behavior of the other.
Is Vietnam turning into an ‘LGBTQ+ paradise’?
VIETNAM: Homosexuality was still described as a social evil by a national television broadcaster in 2002, comparable to prostitution and illegal gambling. Over the past years, the situation for the LGBT community in Vietnam has improved.
LGBTQ+ in Myanmar – A sin from a former life?
MYANMAR: …or Burma, still one of the most conservative countries in Southeast Asia, is also the country where life is anything but easy for LGBTQ+ people
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