When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.

When Lisa Gomes graduated from law school in 2010, she was just coming out and looking for community. She didn’t like going to bars and clubs, so she started hosting small gatherings in her one-bedroom apartment in Washington, D.C.—gatherings that evolved into an annual winter trip that Gomes would organize. Her informal events became known as Lesbifriends. “I just enjoyed hosting and bringing people together,” says Gomes.

When her friend group noticed she was travelling a lot internationally, she started getting suggestions that she organize a group international trip. In 2022 she founded Lesbifriends Travel as a company that now hosts around a dozen group trips each year, aimed at queer women of colour. 

“Before, it was just a one-woman shop—myself—planning everything, doing everything. Now I have a team. I used to just send out text messages inviting people. Now we have a website, social media, and partnerships with organizations and companies,” says Gomes. 

Pink Ticket Travel asked the Lesbifriends Travel founder what her guests are looking for, how she makes her trips special and how she picks which destinations she’ll include in her tours.

What was the first trip you officially offered from Lesbifriends Travel?

The first one out of the country was to the Dominican Republic. We stayed at a treehouse village resort, so we got to stay in huts that were built up in the trees. We went on excursions like hiking to a waterfall, and did activities like horseback riding, ATVing, a dance class and ziplining. We even planted trees in a local community. We had almost 25 people on that trip.