The Salon
Dispatches from Miss Dandy.
On where to go, what to know, and how to travel in a world that wasn't always built for us. Pull up a chair, Darlings.
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Manifesto
The Coming-Out Trip: A Solo Travel Category Mainstream Misses
Coming out is a moment. The trip after is infrastructure. Here's how Dandy plans the coming-out trip.
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Destinations
Lisbon: Príncipe Real and the Soft Queer Welcome
Not Madrid's scale. Not Berlin's edge. Lisbon is the quiet queer city where you can just *be*. Year-round.
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Practical
The Queer Honeymoon Timeline (When the Wedding Wasn't on the Default Calendar)
Married five years legally before we had the wedding. Eloped with zero fanfare. Doing a vow renewal. The honeymoon timeline is yours to write.
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Practical
The Gays Trip Hotel Math: How to Actually Book 8 Queer Adults at Scale
Eight friends, one trip, no drama. Here's how the math works and why Dandy does the booking.
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Destinations
A Dandy's Mykonos: Where the Mediterranean Stops Pretending
Mykonos has been ours for sixty years. Here's the island Dandy knows — the beaches, the bars, where to anchor, what the season means.
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Destinations
Capri: The Original Queer Resort Town
Capri is where queer travelers invented the resort town. For over 140 years. Here's what that history built.
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Destinations
Puerto Vallarta: Latin America's Gay Beach Done Right
Puerto Vallarta's queer infrastructure is better than most Caribbean alternatives. Here's where Dandy anchors and why.
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Destinations
A Dandy's Tel Aviv: Pride in the Middle East
Tel Aviv is the Mediterranean's most openly queer city. 250,000 at Pride. The cultural integration year-round. The political honesty about the context.
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Destinations
A Dandy's Berlin: The Queer Capital of Europe
Berlin's queer history is written into the streets. The 1920s cabarets. The Nazi erasure. The contemporary scene. This is the Dandy version.
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Destinations
Provincetown: The American Queer Sanctuary
Provincetown has held the queer cultural archive since the 1900s. It's not just a beach town — it's American queer home.
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Intelligence
What Queer Travelers Need That Mainstream Luxury Advisors Miss
There's no industry vocabulary for what queer travelers need. So we wrote one. Here are five things mainstream advisors miss.
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Intelligence
How Dandy Vets a Hotel for Queer Travelers (The Conversation Most Advisors Don't Have)
A hotel that calls itself "LGBTQ-friendly" on its website is the start of the conversation, not the end. Here's what comes next.