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Our motto is Go Around the world with us!. But we don't pack folks onto a bus or a plane. (A boat, maybe...). Instead, we offer trips to realms of imagination. The web is yet another realm.
If you know where you want to go, just fire up Google or your favorite search engine, or you might want to try out the one of the specifically gay/lesbian/bi search engines listed below. But if you're in the mood for a bit of adventure, take to the cyberway and surf along through a few of the following roadside attractions:
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- Let us petition for indulgence as we begin our journey. What better place to ask than the home of those who bless so many gatherings, The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, Abbey of St. Joan.
- Let's get some flashy accompaniment for our journey, eh? The Tacky Tourist contingent in the pride parade was often preceded by the Righteously Outrageous Twirling Corps which started years ago at The Prom. Perhaps demonstrating that everyone is a student of The Prom's Lavender Valley High, there are now ROTC contingents throughout the continent, including Toronto, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and others without web pages. Seattle's own original ROTC doesn't currently have a web page, but you can find a few pictures of them in our gallery (with more to come).
- The cheerful attitude of Seattle's original ROTC (and some of the attitudes) is also carried on by the cheerleaders of Cheer Seattle.
- For guidance of a more spiritual nature (including an illustrated lesson on bible-approved lingerie), check in with Sister Rossetta.
- If you're looking for virtual reports of real travels, you can't do better than our old friends, Mike and Jim, the monks of Monk Magazine. Anyplace they visit is sure to become exotic.
- Surely, you've seen all the machines lined up in bars and wondered when someone would come up with a genuinely queer pinball machine. Artists in San Francisco got tired of waiting and made one of their own: Go Girl!. So, this is what folks mean when they say pinball is a drag.
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There are a few who become inspired by Tacky Tourist Clubs parties to try on a
wholly unfamiliar image. If you're going for that blonde-bombshell look:
- Way too much information about MM, nee Norma Jean, can be found at the home of the Marilyn Lives Society.
- A gorgeous, high-bandwidth tribute, this site includes and extensive bio, images, and more.
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And if you become very serious about this dress-up drag stuff, you'll
want to
check out the Imperial Court
of Seattle, along with all the resources of the national
Imperial Court System.
To get fabulous advice and pointers about this (and just about any other subject) check in with Sylvia O'Stayformore.
To discover how and where the pros do it, check out Glamazon Follies
So, you just can't wait for our next party?
- For many in the Northwest, a summer just isn't complete without a trip to Triangle Recreation Camp, for their unique (and exclusive gay/lesbian) outdoor experience.
- A different kind of Northwest camping experience is offered each Labor Day at Camp, "a place to connect with fellow Gay, Bisexual and Trans men; the place to shed attitudes and dissolve boundaries." The event is presented by the volunteer organization, Q-Squared.
- Party on the water with other boating fans who are members of the Olympic Yacht Club, which holds monthly meetings and frequent floating rendezvous.
- If you prefer your water sports without a vessel, consider the Orca Swim Team which offers frequent workout swims, swim meets, and even some non-water-related outings.
- When the winter chill replaces summer's warmth, Ski Buddies provides a full season-long calendar of trips and events for winter-sports fans.
- Head north for a hot week in the cold snow. You can't do better than Whistler's Annual Lesbian & Gay Ski Week.
- But Whistler, as many have discovered, provides year-round fun. A great place to find out more (and make your reservations at the right places) is the GayWhistler.com site.
- Speaking of gay sports, find a wide-ranging collection of gay sports-related stories (and, yes, also photos) on OutSports.com. If you've been looking for a message board where you can talk about your favorite team's off-season moves while also mentioning that this new guy looks really hot in home whites (and if you know what that means), then this is your place.
- If you get to the point where you care more about how you travel from place to place than you are in where you travel, then you might want to look into a group like Bent Car Guys, which calls itself "an energetic Car Club that brings Gay and Lesbian "CarGuys" together through automotive related events and activities." Judging from the gallery shots on their site, they're interested in everything from new Bentleys to original Minis or Bugs to Subaru rally cars to monster trucks at stadium shows.
- Guerrilla Masquerade Party is a group dedicated to turning unsuspecting bars and other locations into giant costume parties -- adding more fun and frivolity into Seattle's nightlife. And besides, basic black is boring.
- If you're looking for a party while you travel, you can keep up on what's happening just about everywhere with circuit party and event news, reviews, information, and pictures from JustCircuit.com.
- Keep up to date on another huge list of parties -- not to mention profiles of guys who attend them -- at PartyList.
- If you're looking for a cruise on one of the big tour boats, consider the wide selection of Atlantis and RSVP cruises which can be booked through your favorite agent or look to IGoGay.com, Travel Experts in Atlantis, RSVP Cruises
- Find another big list of what's going on elsewhere (but not here since they ignore us) at the PartyFinder (by curcuitnoize.com).
- For a different kind of party, join folks at the Rendevous for Cineoke night sponsored by Three Dollar Bill Cinema It's a monthly kereoke to movie musical clips sponsored by the folks who present the annual Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
- OutInSeattle is a subscription-based portal with the usual features, including email, chat, and profiles. Some of their features are even available without fee.
- For those willing to travel way far away for a gay party, check out what's planned for the annual Gay Day at Disney World, down there in the opposite corner of the country.
- Burning Man is a label-less creature, but there are always significant queer pockets among those enjoying the desert dust. Find them. Enjoy them. Be fabulous!
- Forget about the catholic Mardi Gras (or, perhaps, wait until you've recovered from it) and head to New Orleans in steamy August for a queer week of Southern Decadence in the French Quarter.
- If you're planning real-world travel, you should check out the online Damron Guide guide before you go.
- A collection of local links, designed to be especially helpful to Seattle visitors is provided by the gay-friendly agents at Capitol Hill Travel. (And who, I ask you, doesn't appreciate a good gay-friendly agent?)
If you think our own rumor machine just isn't good enough and you want news -- real news, then you're in the right place. The web has news in abundance.
- The site for local and national news is the recently redesigned and renamed online home of Seattle Gay News.
- A superb collection of stories on queer issues is provided by QueerDay. Their human-edited compilation includes stories from a wide range of sources, from local newspapers to international press services.
- National and international news on GLBT issues (along with fun stuff of a less serious nature) is impressively collected by 365gay.com.
- Even some who are intimately familiar with the site's other features may not have noticed that gay.com includes extensive national news coverage.
- For news with a Brit accent, check out RainbowNetwork. It includes fascinating local stories from all the island corners of the UK.
You want lists? Oh, boy, does the web ever sport lists and more lists:
- Our own list of beneficiaries supplies a wealth of links to local organizations.
- A superb resource for those who live across the Sound is provided by OutKitsap. It includes an events calendar and extensive resource guide. The beautifully-designed site is worth a visit even if you don't live there.
- On this side of the bay, the Seattle LGBT Community Center provides a newsletter, information about Center activities, and resource listings.
- There is, apparently, nothing similarly official for queer Bellingham, but that may be just as well since this guide to gay Bellingham is a better resource than many official web-publications.
- Get updates on the planning process and dates of the this year's Pride
events.
- Seattle Pride Committee plans and sponsors the Emerald City's annual parade/march.
- Pride activities in Portland are coordinated by PrideNW.
- In Vancouver, the festivities are marshalled by Vancouver Pride Society.
- The most comprehensive list of Seattle-area lesbigay businesses and organizations is provided by GSBA, the folks who also print the most comprehensive local list.
- Another impressive list of businesses and organizations -- this one national and international in scope --is offered by the Pride Community Business Guide.
- An extensive list of LGBT organizations is maintained (and superbly organized) by UW Library's Alvin Fritz.
- A varied selection of links to Seattle gay businesses (including clubs) and groups is maintained by the 1 in 10 Club of Bastyr College.
- Timberline offers online information including a schedule, directions, a menu, and more information about their large venue.
Lesbigay search engines are an alternative to the big searchers. Their advantage over the big engines is that their lists are restricted to lesbian/gay/bi/trans-friendly sites, but they might also be missing some sites that make it into the databases of the big engines.
SpiderGay, GayCrawler, QueerSeek, and GayZoo work most like the big search sites since they capture and index the full text of the web pages in their directories. Others, like GayInsider, Gayscape, and PrideLinks, and GayToZ are directories that offer searches of the descriptive text supplied for each listed site. OutDirect is a pure directory without a search facility. Find a directory site with a wide-ranging collection at gaydemon - gay directory and search engine
A number of portal sites compete to be your home page. In addition to most of the news sites and search engines listed above, one can choose from dozens of sites. MyGayWeb.com seems to focus on travel and entertainment, with an interesting daily feature focusing on a gay bar somewhere in America and some intriguing shopping choices. GLBTI is a more political gay portal with a search utility, directory, and logo merchandise.
After a months-long remake (uff da), the wonderfully named MySoCalledGayLife.com is back again. It's a pure queer portal site this time around, but still worth a visit. Welcome back.
Finally, if what you want is skin, GayDemon offers a huge collection of porn sites of all queer varieties along with other gay sites (for when you've had enough of the other stuff). For yet more skin, you might look to the lists on Men On the Net, a longtime collector of those web staples.
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