sweat tour

The Live Sweet Voluntour flew into Orlando, FL, April 16-18, led by Shannon Wentworth, Sweet CEO and co-founder. Live Sweet is taking the Sweet Volunteer message to cities around the US while meeting local women and working volunteer projects, having fun in the process. For the kickoff, Sweet collected food and cell phones for the Orlando Harbor House domestic violence shelter. Each year the 94-bed shelter provides temporary refuge for some 700 to 800 people, mainly women and children, although it is open to all victims regardless of race, sexual orientation, religion or gender.

IN OR OUT? Oh, Tim Gunn, will you ever advise again? Bravo and Lifetime need to take a page from the inspirational design daddy and 'Make it work!’ already. The finale of they yet unaired season six capped off Bryant Park’s Fashion week with a fizzle...

Diana Cage knows even lesbians love high heels. I hate to think that something that has made me feel so sexy, given me a swagger, put a wiggle in my step and just generally been such a big part of my life is really traitor, secretly ruining my back and knees and slowly crippling me. I can just hear you now saying, “But Diana, all I ever wear is baggy jeans and a hoodie that says ‘Coach’ on it and I don’t mean the high end handbag line.”

The group Disappear Fearformed back in 1987 with sisters SONiA and CiNDY Rutstein at the steering wheel. In 1994, CiNDY decided to take some time off the road and focus on her family in Seattle, Washington while SONiA kept the candle burning performing on stages around the world and developing the non-profit organization Guitars for Peace.

Sweet, the lesbian travel company, sets sail on the Norwegian Spirit sails from New Orleans on Nov. 8 for a seven-day Western Caribbean cruise. When SheWired spoke with Sweet co-founders Shannon Wentworth and Jen Rainin last year, the cruise was more than a year away. Sweet is still on target to host the largest lesbian cruise ever, with nearly 2,000 women embarking on the ecofriendly, voluntourism vacation, packed with activities and events.