For many kinds of travellers who belong to some kind of minority - even large minorities! - the experience of travel can be quite different to the mainstream. The plight of travelling as an LGBTQIA+ person has been in discussion in our household of late thanks to my son's interest in soccer and his disgust at what he's been learning about Qatar's treatment of gay people - and the concern for gay travellers headed there to watch the World Cup later this month.
That made it seem just the right time for me to release this episode which includes contributions from three travellers from the LGBTQIA+ rainbow. My first guest is Mark Chesnut, who chats about the changes he has seen in travelling as a gay man over the past three decades, from the interesting perspective of being a travel writer. I then speak with Oliver Jähnke, a trans man from Sweden, about the way his travels and approach to travelling has changed throughout his transitioning years. Finally, I have a wonderfully insightful contribution from the Barefoot Backpacker about how being asexual, aromantic and non-binary has impacted their travels around the world.
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181 Small Group Travel
180 Fourth Anniversary Travel Journal Memory Lane
179 Australian Tourism After the Bushfires
178 Interesting Plane Passengers Sitting Next to You
177 African Travels
Book Club 01: The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton
176 When Travelling is Your Job
175 Walking and Hiking Travels
174 Life Lessons From Travel
173 Anxiety and Travel
172 Helping Others When We Travel
171 Moving to Another Country
170 How Travel Changed in a Decade
169 Romance and Travel
168 New Year Travels [Replay]
167 Christmas Travels [Replay]
166 Travel Year in Review
165 Travel Insurance Saves the Day
164 Please Travel With Your Children
163 Tony Wheeler, Lonely Planet Founder
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