Queer Travel Is About Joy, Not Just Safety
About this episode
Lindsey Danis discusses the joy of queer travel and the insights from their book, focusing on belonging and personal experiences.
LGBTQ+ Americans are more than twice as likely as the general population to hold a valid passport. That stat sits at the heart of (Out )on the Road: The Radical Joy of Queer Travel, a new book from writer Lindsey Danis that's part memoir, part guide. Most conversations about queer travel start and end with safety. Lindsey wanted to write past that, toward joy, belonging, and power. In this episode, they and Aislyn talk about the honeymoon trip that reshaped Lindsey's whole life, the research that turns fear into freedom, and why traveling as exactly who you are is its own kind of homecoming. Meet this week's guest Lindsey Danis is a writer and the author of (Out )on the Road, a travel memoir and reported guide written by and for LGBTQ+ travelers. Their work explores queer travel, belonging, and the search for joy on the road. You can find their work at lindseydanis.com. In this episode you'll learn Why Lindsey scrapped an entire early draft that was a straightforward travel memoir, and what they wrote instead. How research becomes the bridge from fear to joy, and the two tools Lindsey relies on before every trip. Why a honeymoon in Vietnam and Thailand changed not just how…
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