Axel Hotels has been nominated for “2010 Gay Travel Awards” in the category of “The Best Hotel Collection.”  We need your precious vote to win.
If we win the vote, we´ll throw a FIESTA in each of our hotels in Barcelona, Berlin and Buenos Aires to celebrate with you!
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When parents learn they have a gay or lesbian child, they very quickly realize they are now living in a world that stigmatizes not only their children but also themselves. Suddenly, these parents are involuntarily drafted into a club whose members are disparaged. For the 76 parents I interviewed for the book: Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping [...]

What is North Korea’s stance on homosexuality?

A few days ago, while North korea was playing in the World Cup against Portugal, I had the chance to visit the official website of North Korea – The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the name they call their country.
Quite freak  as you can already imagine, I [...]

The old joke surfaces early on “The Real L Word.” ”What does a lesbian bring on a second date?” The punch line: “A U-Haul.” “The L Word,” which has inspired this new series, spent its five-year tenure on Showtime tirelessly working to upend the perceptions that underlie such bons mots: that lesbians mate like penguins, [...]

In the past year and a half, President Obama has quietly used his powers to expand federal rights and benefits for gays and lesbians, targeting one government restriction after another in an attempt to change public policy while avoiding a confrontation with Republicans and opponents of gay rights.
The result is that scores of federal rules [...]

The eldest daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening is living as a young man after changing her name.
Kathlyn Beatty, 18, is now known as Stephen Ira and is said to be planning a sex-change operation.
According to reports in the U.S., Hollywood veteran Beatty, 73, is ‘crushed’ by his child’s determination to change her gender.
Meanwhile [...]

What’s up with the Argentina soccer world cup team and their latest obsession with homosex?
The latest: Back in May, before the tournament began, team coach and famed former player Diego Maradona(right) made an unusual promise: If Argentina returns from South Africa as the world champions, he will run naked around the Obelisk located in the heart of [...]

Butter Party at Axel Hotel Berlin, June 2010.
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President Obama signed a memo last June extending some benefits to same-sex partners of federal workers, including access to the government’s Federal Long Term Care Insurance Program. On Tuesday, OPM essentially broadened the definition of relatives eligible for the program to include same-sex domestic partners of eligible federal workers, U.S. Postal Service workers and federal retirees.
OPM [...]

Gays are under attack in poor countries—and not just because of “local culture”
HEIR crimes were “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts”. Their sentence was 14 years’ hard labour: one intended, said the judge, to scare others. He has succeeded. A court in Malawi last week horrified many with its treatment of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, [...]