Gay Travel News

WORLDWIDE: Ten iconic gay and/or LGBTQ+ monuments from various countries, each representing a unique aspect of LGBTQ+ history and culture as queer sights.

GERMANY: From Berlin to Hamburg, and even on the Danube – LGBTQ+ & gay Christmas markets 2025 bring festive lights, drag shows, and queer community together. Explore dates, highlights, and tips for your perfect queer holiday season.

AMSTERDAM: Plan your Pride Amsterdam 2025. From the iconic Canal Parade to queer parties and travel tips, here’s how to make the most of Europe’s most inclusive Pride.

GERMANY: Colorful, political, emotional: Here are our favorite moments from Cologne Pride 2025 (CSD Köln) including parade highlights, photos, and queer travel tips.

WORLDWIDE: Over the past decades, the rainbow pride flag and all LGBTQ+ flags from the queer community have become iconic symbols for the equal rights movement.

WORLDWIDE: Pride celebrations are the best time to sing and dance along with new queer hits and the best Gay Pride Songs Classics. We all have our favorites, don’t we?

WORLDWIDE: Exuberant people celebrating on the street, colorful costumes, kisses, and holding hands and above all the rainbow flag blows. However, it has not always been that easy for the LGBTQ+ community…

GERMANY: We checked the annual CSD agenda in the German cities and assembled as many CSD and LGBTQ+ Pride events we could find in Germany.

BERLIN: The safest LGBTQIA+ travel destinations analyzed with the Gay Travel Index 2025. Plan your travels with confidence, go where the LGBTQIA+ community is welcomed.

AMSTERDAM: Gay tour operator Detours Travel is hosting their first River Cruise from Rotterdam via Amsterdam to Brussels. The highlight of this trip will be Pride Amsterdam, with three days of everything the LGBTQ+ community has to offer.

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

SCOTLAND: Thousands came together to march for equality for the entire community, peace in the world, and trans rights, to continue our fight for liberation, including multipleScotland

BERLIN: Gay travelers can use the Gay Travel Index 2024 to prepare for their gaycation. But which country ranks first? Where is it safe to travel to as a gay and LGBTQ+ traveler?

NETHERLANDS: “What if love is the master plan? Could you be the masterpiece?” All about Utrecht Pride 2023, the program of the LGBTQ+ event, tips & photos.

PARIS: Disneyland Paris Pride 2023, a celebration of diversity and acceptance, took place on June 17th, 2023. Here our highlights of Disney’s Pride event in France.

BERLIN: Gay travelers can use the Gay Travel Index 2024 to prepare for their gaycation. But which country ranks first? Where is it safe to travel to as a gay and LGBTQ+ traveler?

WORLDWIDE: It is time for our annual list of LGBTQ+ and Gay Travel gift ideas. We are focussing on gay travel gifts that you can buy or book online and are a great last-minute present.

SPAIN: Mallorca doesn’t have a gay cruising reputation like Gran Canaria, Amsterdam or Sitges. But there are places where intimate encounters are possible. Here are John’s tips.

MALTA: A Vibrant Celebration of Love: Our best photos of our EuroPride 2023 Experience in Valletta, Malta under the motto “Equality from the Heart”.

MUNICH: Let’s delve into the history, explore the exciting 2023 CSD Munich Pride program, and enjoy our favorite moments of the rainbow celebration in Bavaria.

MALTA: Let’s dance, laugh, and love our way through EuroPride 2023 in Malta. Let us tell you more about the exciting program of the Pride event and a Couple of Men’s favorite moments.

PARIS: Disneyland Paris hosting LGBT Pride in 2023. We collected Info, Tips and the actual Program of the Rainbow Celebration of Love and Diversity at Disneyland Paris.

MEDITERRANEAN SEA: We are beyond excited: We are going on The Cruise 2023 by La Demence on a great Royal Caribbean ship around the Adriatic and Ionian Sea! Join us!

BERLIN: Gay travelers can use the Gay Travel Index 2023 to prepare for their gaycation. But which country ranks first? Where is it safe to travel to as a gay and LGBTQ+ traveler?

BERLIN: After receiving the Lonely Planet Award in 2021, this year, our blog Couple of Men was in the running for the prestigious ITB LGBTQ+ Pioneer Award 2023.

ORLANDO: Disney’s Hollywood Studios has been given a huge overhaul, creating some of the best-themed theme park areas ever seen. And being two big gay Star Wars nerds, we just had to dive into that galaxy far, far away!

ORLANDO: Join us on our Couple of Men adventure while we tell you all about the Disney Gay Days, Disney Pride Mural, and our other favorite queer things at Magic Kingdom Park!

AMSTERDAM: This Friday, November 4, 2022, we receive wonderful, rainbow-colored news! Yes, it is now official: our adopted hometown Amsterdam will host World Pride 2026.

AMSTERDAM: Since 2019, we’ve been traveling around the world with our partner airline KLM. Now it’s time for us to take a closer look at how gay-friendly KLM Royal Dutch Airlines actually is!

AMSTERDAM: Firstly, we won the Lonely Planet LGBTIQ+ Storyteller Award. Then we wrote our first book. And now we’re on German TV.

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’

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…

WORLDWIDE: It must have been halfway somewhere between Sweden and Germany when we received an email from the Editorial Director of Lonely Planet.

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.

HOME: To support fellow LGBT and gay couple-operated companies and businesses related to travel, we will tell their stories in these challenging times.

GERMANY: The German publisher Spartacus, released its annual Gay Travel Index with a detailed ranking of the gay-friendliness of 202 countries.

AMSTERDAM: Our Top 10 list of the best queer movies in 2021 selected for the Amsterdam LGBTQ+ Film Festival Roze Filmdagen 2021.

GERMANY: Often forgotten, the victims of Nazi Germany also include 5,000 to 15,000 gay men marked with the Pink Triangle.

NETHERLANDS: Gay men enjoy a significant amount of social acceptance and freedom in the capital city of the Netherlands – but it has come at the loss of many gay places and institutions.

Chris Vincent experienced bullying like so many queer people growing as a young gay guy in a rather difficult environment. After graduating from acting school, the Danish LGBT and HIV/Aids activist Chris Vincent had to face an additional challenge to his young life: He was diagnosed as HIV-positive in 2014. Since then he has taken part in different campaigns to spread knowledge and awareness for HIV/AIDS and has founded an NGO himself.

WORLDWIDE: That is why we would like to use today’s opportunity to share knowledge about this important topic, help to create awareness, and show our support.

NETHERLANDS: The story of lesbian couple Diana and Roksana from Poland, who left their home country to get married in the UK and to live a life in peace and love in the Netherlands.