Mamu is the biggest project in the Wet Tropics since the Skyrail Rainforest Cableway and will become one of the tourism icons in Australia.

The Queensland Association for Healthy Communities will be hosting the first Sunshine Coast Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Fair on Sunday 19th October at Millwell Road Community Centre, Maroochydore. The aim of the Pride Fair is to bring the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community and their friends and family together in a fun and supportive environment to celebrate the community’s diversity. It is also an opportunity to raise awareness of local gay friendly health services, performers and businesses and to allow the LGBT community to gain access to information on health, sexuality and support services.

We're in a pedestrian lane watching hundreds of gay men enjoy a leisurely dinner on the open-air patios. Dusk has fallen and the temperatures are comfortable again. About half the diners are older white guys and the other half are locals, some of whom, according to Em, my guide, are "moneyboys."

This year Copenhagen Pride begins with a new special day in Tivoli. On Saturday, 9 August, Tivoli kick starts the Copenhagen Pride Week under the headline Tivoli Goes Gay. Tivoli Goes Gay offers entertainment galore, dancing and music on the Open Air Stage and in the pavilions, a concert with cult vocalists Schwanzen Sänger Knaben in the Glass Hall and a huge fireworks show to end it all. Throughout the day you can also visit the stalls set up by a lot of organisations along the Open Air Stage, and you will be able to watch a couple get married by the Tivoli Lake.

When an ad campaign appeared in the London Underground promoting South Carolina as a "So Gay" destination for gay and lesbian tourists, the spokesman for the state's tourism agency shared his unease with a colleague.

He has become Sweden’s charming "Indian prince" in just a few days. And erstwhile royal Manvendra Singh Gohil, who is unabashedly gay, returns the compliment, thrilled as he is by the openness of Swedish society.

Puffta Media, the world wide media company that brings you such products as Gay Travelller, Advanatge Card, pinkguide.com, E-Guide and Puffta TV now has a presence on FACEBOOK. The presence allows greater access to lovers of gay travel to information, news and friends.

In the ongoing saga that the South Carolina Parks Recreation and Tourism (SCPRT) Department has been involved in during the past two weeks, new information has just been released. According to Out Now, the agency that created the "So Gay" advertising campaign for gay travel specialist, Amro Worldwide, there have been knowingly incorrect statements made by the office headed by Chad Prosser of the SCPRT.

The decision by the state Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department not to pay for an ad beckoning gay tourists to South Carolina is an embarrassment. It not only makes the state look unwelcoming and small-minded but also risks losing substantial tourist dollars.

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