LGBT alumni groups hit the road!
We'll leave the hotel ballrooms and cheap booze to our
straight classmates Classmates can refer to either: - Classmates.com, a social networking website.
- Classmates (film), a 2006 Malayalam blockbuster directed by Lal Jose, starring Prithviraj, Jayasurya, Indragith, Sunil, Jagathy, Kavya Madhavan, Balachandra Menon, ...
, thank you very much. Gay and lesbian alums from
UCLA's Anderson School of Business took a private rail day trip
from Los Angeles to San Diego (champagne brunch included) and traveled
to Palm Springs and San Francisco Pride The San Francisco Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Celebration, usually known as San Francisco Pride, is a parade and festival held in June each year in San Francisco to celebrate the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered people and their allies. last year. Former Brown
University and George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. queer classmates have also
taken their reunions on the road. But when it comes to this emerging
trend, the elaborate offerings of the Harvard Gay and Lesbian Caucus
lead the gay alumni travel pack.
This fall the Harvard caucus--in conjunction with the Harvard
Alumni Association--teams up with gay travel company Alyson Adventures
for a biking vacation through Provence (September 16-23,
AlysonAdventures.com/HGLC). Beginning and ending in Avignon, the gay
cyclists will pedal past Daudet's windmill and the poppy filled
landscapes that inspired Vincent van Gogh. They'll also picnic at
the Pont du Gard Pont du Gard (pôN dü gär), Roman aqueduct across the Gard River, Gard dept., S France. Built in 19 B.C. to supply Nîmes with water, it consists of three tiers of arches and is c.900 ft (270 m) long and c.160 ft (50 m) high. , a 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct at the Gard River, and
savor the views from the chateau-fortress ruins of Les Baux. Decadent
dinners with French wine cap the days of sightseeing.
The Harvard group launched its gay alumni vacations with a Grand
Canyon tour in August 2006--and we bet there wasn't a cheesy cheesy (che´ze) caseous. name
tag in sight.
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