GET GLOBETROTTING WITH THESE LGBT TRAVEL BLOGS

Travelling as a lesbian, bi, trans of gay couple can come with cultural challenges. Depending on your destination, you might need to read up on local laws and customs to see whether it’s safe for you to present as partners.

 

These LGBT travel bloggers were in the same situation and decided to write LGBT travel guides to help their friends and followers have a great time globe-trotting. From gay couples to married mothers, we’ve selected our favourite queer travel experts to pitch their profiles.

 

One lucky winner in this category will be nominated by our expert panel to run for the British Travel Awards’ Best Blogger Award, sponsored by Teletext Holidays. 

 

MEET WHITNEY & MEGAN, FROM WHAT WEGAN DID NEXT

 

“We are luxury travel, fashion & lifestyle social media influencers Whitney & Megan, aka Wegan, and we are also wife & wife. 

We started our blog What Wegan Did Next back in 2009 to document our long-distance relationship between Hawaii & the UK. We also put our faces online as visible lesbians in the hopes it would help others; due to both growing up with a lack of role models. Our blog naturally focused on travelling to see each other and travelling to visit places together. Now that we've conquered long distance, the majority of our content focuses on luxury travel as a lesbian couple and where is safe to travel if you're LGBTQ+. 

When we started out there was no such thing as being an 'influencer' or 'YouTuber'. We hoped one or two people might find our blog but overtime our following organically grew and we now have a combined following of over 150,000. We're one of the most popular LGBTQ+ Youtuber's in the UK & USA and continue to provide visibility to lesbians and to challenge stereotypes. 

We monetise our travel content by working with PR agencies/ tourism boards and providing a package that includes blog posts, YouTube vlogs, and social media (Instagram posts and stories, Twitter & Facebook posts).

We are unique in that we focus on luxury travel as lesbians, we produce visually stunning content and we're the most popular femme couple travel bloggers.”

 

“How we got into travel blogging? We fell into it by accident. Stefan used to be a lawyer and Seb a computer programmer working in SEO. We quit our jobs in London in 2014 to take a Sabbatical in Asia, which turned into a 2-year adventure across the continent. Our blog back then was just a collection of our stories and photos from each place we visited, focusing on the gay scene and interviews with locals we met. About a year in, the number of people visiting our site grew a lot and we realised we were onto something new and very exciting!

 

Back when we registered our Nomadic Boys domain in October 2013, when we were preparing and planning for our big Asia trip, Seby’s mother and Stefan’s little nephew were our sole 2 followers. Today we’re getting around 200,000 people a month visiting our website and almost 250,000 people following our posts across our social media channels.

 

 

We love engaging with people, particularly Stefan, who manages our social media. We reply to every single one of our comments and DMs and really enjoy it. By doing this over the years, we’ve built up our own fabulous community of followers. One of the things we did at the outset was aiming to post something at least once every day/other day, with a bit of tongue-in-cheek humour wherever possible. We still do this and are loving it.

 

We started out monetising our blog with sponsored posts and freelance writing projects for other publications. Today we mainly make money from social media campaigns, advertising and affiliation income.

 

Us in three words? Engaging. Entertaining. Quirky.”

 

Meet Sion, The Globetrotter Guys

I'm Sion Walton-Guest, founder of The Globetrotter Guys, an LGBTQ+ travel blog and social media platform from the UK.

I’ve been travelling the world since my first backpacking trip in 2011, but The Globetrotter Guys began in 2018 after leaving my job and setting off to travel full-time. What started as a personal travel blog has since grown into a platform helping LGBTQ+ travellers explore the world with more confidence.

The idea came from my own experience of planning trips. I always used travel blogs, but when it came to finding genuinely useful information for LGBTQ+ travellers, there were huge gaps. For many destinations it was difficult to find practical, first-hand information about the local LGBTQ+ scene, where to stay, where to go out and, importantly, what it was actually like to visit as a gay traveller.

That became the focus of The Globetrotter Guys. I create detailed LGBTQ+ destination guides based on first-hand travel, covering everything from gay bars, beaches and hotels to local LGBTQ+ businesses, events, safety and practical travel advice. Where possible, I also speak with local LGBTQ+ people to add perspectives beyond my own experience.

Since starting from zero in 2018, The Globetrotter Guys has grown into a community of more than 200,000 followers across Instagram and TikTok, alongside an established travel website read by people planning LGBTQ+ trips around the world.

Today, I work professionally with tourism boards, hotels and travel brands to create LGBTQ+ travel campaigns across social media and long-form search content. My work has taken me around the world, but the goal remains the same as when I started: to provide useful, realistic information that helps LGBTQ+ people travel more confidently - while highlighting the destinations, businesses and communities that genuinely welcome us.