The gay twin cities would do well to examine the down side in the long term...
Posted on 07/20/2005 5:53:35 AM PDT by Panerai
Boston and Cambridge are rolling out the rainbow carpet.
Tourism officials hope to lure more gay and lesbian travelers through a new $100,000 advertising and marketing campaign.
The Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau has teamed with Man Around - a U.K. company billed as the world's largest long-distance gay-tour operator - to market Boston and Cambridge as gay-friendly destinations.
Gay and lesbian travelers are an attractive market for the tourism industry, according to Pat Moscaritolo, the convention bureau's chief.
``Because they have higher income, they have a propensity or ability to travel,'' Moscaritolo said. ``They also have an affinity to support destinations and companies that support the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community.''
Man Around will send promotional mailings next month plugging Boston and Cambridge to its top 15,000 British travel customers. Those who book trips will receive a new eight-page gay and lesbian visitors guide to Boston and Cambridge, along with other promotional material.
The guide touts Boston and Cambridge as having a ``vibrant, creative and professional openly gay population, with many gays and lesbians active in cultural organizations and city, county and state politics.''
(Excerpt) Read more at business.bostonherald.com ...
Why did we let them hijack the word "gay?"
Or maybe they are luring them in as a group so that their definition of a "Sin" Tax can be leveed upon people that spend money on braces, tuition, children's healthcare, toys, school lunch, etc.
Hate to break it to you buddy but they're down here too. I made the mistake of driving the scenic beach route to Pensacola Beach with my family one year during Memorial Day weekend and they had literally taken over the beach. I'm talking flags flying, bumper to bumper traffic, men holding hands. I didn't know at the time that they come from all over the country to Pensacola every year during the Memorial Day weekend. My wife had to cover the kids eyes as we searched for the nearest escape route.
YEAH!!!
That's so Gay!
I prefer Queers or Faggots or PPP or buttbuddies or .....
I'll stop now... don't want to get banned...
Thank you, thank you Boston. Better your backyard be filled with sick, twisted, perverted, AIDS infected queers than my backyard. Y'all can have all of them!
Boston BUMP!
It's just a new pitch to catch homos and their money.
That's why I never use that word. I call them what they like to call themselves--"queers."
Oh, yeah! It's a gala event, held every year, with all sorts of ... I mean... ahem... I wasn't aware of that either. : )
Great... Now there's two places I don't want to go to... Boston AND PCola.
LC
They may catch more than that!
The gay twin cities would do well to examine the down side in the long term...
Sodom indeed...
Homosexual Agenda Ping.
FYI - Just wondering how much of this money is taxpayer, and how much is private. Not that it matters, Massachusetts is a lost cause.
Apologies to all rational people who live there. I just don't see how you can stand it.
Freepmail me if you want on/off this pinglist.
Barney Frank here to welcome you to the Gay State
Ping!
Would it be morally ( not legally mind you ) wrong to sell tickets for an exciting gay travel resort, tell the chaps that the really hot young fags always keep their faces hidden and have the plane full of them land in the middle of say Iran ?
Maybe they are handing out free condoms, 10W30W SAE, and gerbils....
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