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May 11, 2012
Iceland: magic island of fire and ice

Sapphire waters fed by hot springs and a sapphic prime minister are why LGBT people go to Iceland

Imagine me standing in the middle of the Arctic Circle in mid-winter in just my swimming trunks and with my face covered in white mud.

Suicidal? No! Smiling? Yes!

I’m not on some crazy endurance test, but soaking in the incredible atmosphere and weird luna-landscape of the world’s most famous luxury spa – the Blue Lagoon.

It’s just one of the wonderfully weird must-sees on any tour of Iceland (just three hours flight-time from London and only five from New York).

April 8, 2012
Seven things we love about Vienna

A family mini-break to Vienna, Austria delivers plenty of gourmet treats, grandiose sights and genteel culture

My parents are in the UK visiting from Australia so I offered to take them to Vienna for the Easter weekend.

They're quite easy travelers, relaxed, mobile, happy to just go with the flow. Me? Not so much. Lord knows how they manage to cope with day-to-day life without me there to bossily organize and supervise them.

March 21, 2012
Gay CEO of Qantas says his $5 million salary is 'conservative'

Alan Joyce says pilots and senior captains get a higher hourly wage than him during interview with GQ Australia

The gay CEO of Australia’s largest airline Qantas, who grounded all flights during an industrial dispute with unions last year, says his salary is ‘conservative’.

In an interview with GQ Australia, as reported by The Australian, Alan Joyce says:

March 10, 2012
Double success for gay-friendly Lufthansa

A gay travel award and the unveiling of their new totally flat-bed business seat mark Lufthansa’s week at the ITB travel fair in Berlin

It has been a successful week for German airline Lufthansa at the ITB, the world’s biggest travel fair, in Berlin.

First they won an award from international gay magazine Mate, presented at a fun ceremony presided over by the cabaret queen of the air, Pam Ann.

February 10, 2012
Video shows moment gay Aeroflot activists arrested

Footage released of protest against company forcing gay flight attendant Maxim Kupreev into a sham straight marriage

Video of the moment when four activists were arrested during a protest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport against Aeroflot’s anti-gay practices has now been released.

The Russian LGBT campaigners were angry after the country’s leading airline forced a gay flight attendant, Maxim Kupreev, to enter a sham straight marriage in order to keep his job.

Kupreev had angered Aeroflot’s bosses by trying to start a gay staff network within the company.

February 10, 2012
Video shows moment gay Aeroflot activists arrested

Footage released of protest against company forcing gay flight attendant Maxim Kupreev into a sham straight marriage

Video of the moment when four activists were arrested during a protest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport against Aeroflot’s anti-gay practices has now been released.

The Russian LGBT campaigners were angry after the country’s leading airline forced a gay flight attendant, Maxim Kupreev, to enter a sham straight marriage in order to keep his job.

Kupreev had angered Aeroflot’s bosses by trying to start a gay staff network within the company.

February 9, 2012
Gay Aeroflot protest banner takes to runway

Activists protesting after gay Aeroflot flight attendant forced to marry to keep his job

Passengers landing at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport today were greeted with a massive 20-metre wide banner which could be seen seconds before their aircraft touched down.

The banner was part of a ‘day of action’ organised by gay activists in Moscow to protest the ‘forced marriage’ by Russia’s leading airline Aeroflot on one of its gay flight attendants, Maxim Kupreev – and to mark the 89th birthday of the airline.

February 9, 2012
Update: Aeroflot gay protesters arrested in terminal

Day of action against airline which forced flight attendant into sham marriage and denies having gay staff

Updated story: The small group of protestors who unveiled a 20-metre wide banner at the end of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport runway today have now been arrested after taking their campaign into the terminal.

Once inside the demonstrators called for a boycott of not only Aeroflot, but its codeshare partners within the SkyTeam group, including Air France, KLM and US carrier Delta – because of the Russian airline’s anti-gay staffing practices.

February 9, 2012
Update: Aeroflot gay protesters arrested in terminal

Day of action against airline which forced flight attendant into sham marriage and denies having gay staff

Updated story: The small group of protestors who unveiled a 20-metre wide banner at the end of Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport runway today have now been arrested after taking their campaign into the terminal.

Once inside the demonstrators called for a boycott of not only Aeroflot, but its codeshare partners within the SkyTeam group, including Air France, KLM and US carrier Delta – because of the Russian airline’s anti-gay staffing practices.

February 8, 2012
Gay activists will protest against Aeroflot in Moscow tomorrow

Protest and petition against Russia’s main airline after they reportedly forced a gay flight attendant to marry a woman

In Moscow tomorrow gay activists will protest outside the offices of Russian airline Aeroflot. As reported by Gay Star News on January 29, Aeroflot allegedly forced a gay flight attendant, Maxim Kupreev, to marry a woman after he set up an LGBT staff group.

January 30, 2012
Jonathan Ross apologizes for 'lady boy' airline gag

UK chat show host Jonathan Ross has tweeted an apology after upsetting viewers with a transphobic joke

Jonathan Ross has apologized after a gag about ‘lady boy’ trolley dollies backfired with transgender viewers on his Friday night chat show.

The UK comedian may have swapped channels but he’s still courting controversy, with scores of people tweeting their anger about his transphobic joke on The Jonathan Ross Show.

January 29, 2012
Aeroflot forces gay flight attendant to marry woman

Activists call for boycott of Russian airline after LGBT staff rights activist Maxim Kupreev forced to wed

Gay activists in Russia are planning to ask air passengers to boycott Aeroflot, Russia’s leading airline and not to use its services until the creation of equal conditions for all workers.

The call comes following the revelation that gay flight attendant Maxim Kupreev was forced by his employers to enter into heterosexual marriage with his former high school girlfriend following his announcement last year to create an LGBT group within the company to fight for the protection of the rights of homosexual employees.

January 5, 2012
Thai airline gets third gender trolley dollies

PC Air in Thailand has added transgender people to its flight attendant staff

A Thai airline has taken on ‘third gender’ trolley dollies after receiving over a hundred applications from transgender people.

And the new PC Air flight attendants have already made their first journey between Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok to Surat Thani province, southern Thailand.

The Bangkok based PC Air passenger carrier is offering flights across Asia and when it asked for staff applications initially only specified male or female attendants were needed.

December 15, 2011
New flights offer easy access to Berlin

As Lufthansa launches its new Berlin service, we pick out some of our favourites from the dynamic German capital

Super-efficient and gay-friendly airline Lufthansa has announced it will be boosting its UK services to the gay party mecca of Berlin.

Lufthansa will be adding daily flights from Birmingham and Manchester to the German capital when the new Berlin-Brandenburg ‘Willy Brandt’ Airport opens in June next year. They already fly daily from London Heathrow to Berlin.