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Contents:
- ALASKA AIRL GIFTS PASSENGERS A EE FLIGHT FOR GAY PRI MONTH
- UP, UP AND A-GAY VIRGIN PRIDE FLIGHT TAKES TO THE SKIES
- A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
- WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
- STRAIGHT MAN ACCINTALLY BOOKS SEAT ON GAY FLIGHT
- GAY PRI CALENDAR
ALASKA AIRL GIFTS PASSENGERS A EE FLIGHT FOR GAY PRI MONTH
* gay pride flight *
“Alaska Airl really said HI GAY, ” TikTok er Noa Taieb ptned a vio of the announcement. Aga this year, passengers n enjoy LQBTQ+ shows and movi like “RuPl’s Drag Race, ” “Love Simon, ” “Transfe” and “The Birdge, ” as well as listen to mic by gay-iendly artists cludg Torii Wolf, Sarah, the Illstmentalist and Low Girl. The historic flight took off on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn raids, which are nsired one of the first major events of the gay rights and liberatn movement the flight parted Philalphia Internatnal Airport (PHL) for New York-LaGuardia (LGA) and was operated wh an Embraer E-190.
”The Stonewall rts are wily acknowledged as havg sparked the mastream gay rights movement, wh the first gay pri march takg place across the US the followg Stonewall 50 edn of WorldPri NYC will feature more than 50 events, cludg march, parti, talks, performance, film and more durg June 2019, culmatg the Pri march on 30 month, female drag act Lacey Lou (real name Lacey McFayn) claimed she was dropped om the Virg Atlantic ad for the pri flight bee she’s a woman.
Reykjavík rooftops seen om Hallgrímskirkja rourcIf you're lookg for more rmatn, check out:Samtök ‘78 – the Natnal Queer Associatn of IcelandGay Iceland – LGBTQ+ gui to IcelandGayIce – LGBTQ+ news om IcelandA rabow brightens Skólavörðtígur street downtown Reykjaví by Edvardas Paskevici2022 Pri Flight imag by Egill Árni Jóhannson.
UP, UP AND A-GAY VIRGIN PRIDE FLIGHT TAKES TO THE SKIES
Airmen participated a Pri flight that honors the diverse backgrounds and strengths that the lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, pl Airmen brg to the Fairchild missn. , * gay pride flight *
Airmen participated a Pri flight that honors the diverse backgrounds and strengths that the lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, pl Airmen brg to the Fairchild missn. Mart participated a Pri flight that honors the diverse backgrounds and strengths that the lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, pl Airmen brg to the Fairchild missn. Alvarado participated a Pri flight that honors the diverse backgrounds and strengths that the lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, pl Airmen brg to the Fairchild missn.
Hodge participated a Pri flight that honors the diverse backgrounds and strengths that the lbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, pl Airmen brg to the Fairchild missn. "A rabow flag reprentg gay pri is pictured here.
"The ble was sent this week -- more than a month before Pri is celebrated June -- bee also lays out policy for the Internatnal Day Agast Homophobia, Transphobia, and Biphobia on May 17, enuragg U. Travelers n bundle their JetPri flight wh a stay at the very ol Hotel Maya, which is the gay-iendly Joie Vivre fay of hotel properti and the first luxury boutique rort Long Beach. Also, JetPri ctomers n also receive a ee ticket to Long Beach Pri's Fale Tea Dance Party of Ameri's Gay Bachelor, an annual ntt hosted by (Photo: left Hotel Maya's ol entrance.
A GAY PILOT REFLECTS ON WHAT TRAVEL MEANS TO QUEER FOLKS
Story by Ed Salvato; image above urty of JetBlueArrive grand gay style for Long Beach Pri aboard JetBlue's JetPri flight #1969 partg San Francis Internatnal Airport on May 14, 2010 at 12:30PM and arrivg at Long Beach Airport at 2PM. This rabow-powered flight featur ribald and hilar edian, Pam Ann, servg as the flight's honorary purser. She's a straight woman female impersonator à la Dame Edna, who is a straight, married female impersonator. Go figure. The flight featur pk cktails, gift bags, and other goodi, the flight number which memorat the 1969 Stonewall Rts and the birth of the Gay Pri movement. Long Beach Pri is one of the biggt Pri celebratns the U.S., but also one of the most heartfelt and least mercialized. Pri like mom ed to make! (If mom were a ol lbian.)JetPri's flight is priced at the credibly low price of $79 per one-way ticket pl tax and fe. To purchase, you mt ntact the 'JetPri sk' at 888-538-2583 optn 4. It is not available onle sce 's an exclive offer. (See below for the 'fe prt.') Passengers have a wi range of optns to return to San Francis or Oakland (wh five and four daily flights, rpectively) is the first U.S. Pri flight as far as we know. The first North Amerin Pri flight (the "Pk Flight") took place 2008 wh Kathy Griff as the flight hosts, by all acunts an credibly fun trip. Travelers n bundle their JetPri flight wh a stay at the very ol Hotel Maya, which is the gay-iendly Joie Vivre fay of hotel properti and the first luxury boutique rort Long Beach. Hotel Maya offers a Pri package durg Long Beach Pri, cludg wele Pri-tis upon arrival. Also, JetPri ctomers n also receive a ee ticket to Long Beach Pri's Fale Tea Dance Party of Ameri's Gay Bachelor, an annual ntt hosted by (Photo: left Hotel Maya's ol entrance.)The 'Fe Prt' For plete tails ntact the 'JetPri sk' at 888-538-2583 optn 4. Availabily is limed and available only while suppli last. Travel mt be booked by May 7 or while suppli last. Sale far are available for purchase only by telephone at 1-888-JETBLUE (1-888-538-2583) via the meetgs sk (optn 4). Sale far are not available at , an airport or cy ticket office, or by any other method. Cancellatns and chang n be ma prr to schled parture for $100 per person at 1-800-JETBLUE (1-800-538-2583), TTY/TDD 1-800-336-5530, wh applible fare adjtment. * gay pride flight *
Story by Ed Salvato; image above urty of JetBlueArrive grand gay style for Long Beach Pri aboard JetBlue's JetPri flight #1969 partg San Francis Internatnal Airport on May 14, 2010 at 12:30PM and arrivg at Long Beach Airport at 2PM. The flight featur pk cktails, gift bags, and other goodi, the flight number which memorat the 1969 Stonewall Rts and the birth of the Gay Pri movement.
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE GAY MEN’S PRI FLAG, AND WHAT DO IT MEAN?
Wonrg about the Gay Men’s Pri Flag, ’s origs, and meangs? We have you vered wh this gui! * gay pride flight *
"As we board, I asked one of the flight attendants, "Is this 'The Gay Plane?
" But iends who had read about this opportuny when was first reported by The Advote last October had dubbed "The Gay Plane. ""It is 'The Gay Plane, '" nfirmed David, the first of Virg's handsome gay men to greet me. "It's the gayt plane.
" Add another geo flight attendant: "It's a miracle even gets off the ground, 's so gay. " All of the flight crew wh the exceptn of the pta intified as gay, lbian, or bisexual, and volunteered to work this flight.
STRAIGHT MAN ACCINTALLY BOOKS SEAT ON GAY FLIGHT
Key players like the Natnal Gay Pilot Associatn (NGPA), found 1990, have bee stmental drivg change. World Pri is anised at an ternatnal level to celebrate Pri for those untri where homosexual activy is still illegal or reprsed, wh prev host ci cludg Rome, London and Toronto. Unable to see anythg of the statn I’d flown so far to reach, I’d s at my hotel-room sk as I worked on my latt book, “Image a Cy: A Pilot’s Journey Across the Urban World, ” a memoir about growg up as a gay kid a small place and a pilot’s love letter to great metropolis, and wonred if might soon read as a memorial to a pla that had permanently, late sprg and wh most panmic rtrictns lifted, Montreal is bloomg.
GAY PRI CALENDAR
I’d turn my illumated globe and read out the nam of the ci on ; I’d assemble mol plan and move them down the nway I ma on my drser; I’d draw maps of the imagary cy that distracted and staed me, particularly whenever I stggled wh the realizatn that I was gay.
After we’d checked to a hotel and sat down a rtrant whout anyone givg a send look, I wonred if I’d been too psimistic about the world and a gay kid’s future .
Whatever the tth of Melville’s sexualy — as Andrew Delban not “Melville: His World and Work, ” ’s not easy to separate the tantalizg clu om the rponse of “gay rears who fd themselv drawn to him” — somethg impelled him to set out for the open ocean and the wonrs of distant ci. One such flag is the Gay Men’s Pri Flag – a flag you might already have seen flown at any number of pri ftivals around the world, om New Orleans to Montreal…and everywhere between!