Thursday, July 27, 2006
EBENSTEN'S LAST TRIP
You cannot underestimate the impact of Hanns Ebensten's gay travel business.
He has a great back story. a holocaust survivor he had seen the world as few of us have
But the story which is important to me is that he invented the gay travel business.
His first trip was in 1972 with a gay rafting trip down or up the Grand Canyon.
Such a thing was unheard of.
Gays with special interests beyond being gay.
Soon, gay men were forming special interest groups of all kinds and travel, particularly, was one of the main ones.
You must have your political heroes and all but this kind of thing was very very important and still is.
Ebensten took gay groups where none had gone before. He specialized in the exotic locale.
I can remember laughing at the extent he would go to provide unique experiences.
I bet that thousands of gay people met one another and formed lasting friendships from these trips to say nothing of taking themselves out of the closet about as far as you can on this green earth.
Ebensten took his final trip out the other day. A pioneer, indeed; in all senses of the word.
Gay travel pioneer Hanns Ebensten dies
Look at those two 'n's in Hanns. So gay.
