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 and Ben, The Globetrotter Guys

“We are Sion and Ben, a married couple from the UK who run a gay travel blog, The Globetrotter Guys. We write about destinations from an LGBT perspective, providing travel guides and interviews with local LGBT people (to get the real picture).

Our first backpacking adventure started in 2011 and we knew we had to do it again someday. Someday came in January 2018, when we quit our jobs, left our apartment and packed up our things to travel indefinitely.

We always utilised travel blogs ourselves, especially when looking for gay guides to destinations, but realised that was no content available for many destinations. It peaked our interest that we could investigate for ourselves what it was like to be gay in all these different countries and share what we learnt with others to help them travel.

We started from scratch in January 2018, going from 0 to 24k followers on Instagram and a few thousand on other platforms. Our actual blog now attracts 15-25k visitors per month. This all came from researching what content people are looking for, finding others interested in gay travel and engaging with them – social media engagement works both ways after all.

Making a blog sustainable via monetisation is important, otherwise it simply will not last. However, first you need an audience which is what we have focused on so far. Going forward, we are working with LGBT-friendly travel companies and brands to offer our followers good deals and us a commission which will help us continue to create content (and eat!).

Three things that make us stand out? Authenticity, ‘zest for life’, and a love for what we do.”