Alaska, Prepare For The Gays

Seattlest has a vision of our coming fall. We need to get away. We need some sun, some beaches and some babes. We need a cruise with our affably fat buddy. Man, everyone's so friendly on this cruise. Seems like every guy wants to get close to us - And we were worried about how we'd fit in with the cruising set. Pshaw! Wait, where are all the babes. We saw that bikini team out by the pool, but there seems to be an awful lot of man on this boat. Is this a gay cruise? Were we seriously duped into going on a gay cruise because we were rude to a travel agent? Yep. Gay cruise. Whoa is us. Oh, well, we'll just have to expand our social consciousness, embrace a little inner gay and eventually hook up with the hot (female) social director. Can't hold us down. Not in this terrible Cuba Gooding Jr. vehicle of life, anyway.

Queen City Cruise News is reporting that an all-gay Alaskan Cruise is scheduled out of Seattle for this summer, though:

Cruise Planners, Inc., an Albuquerque cruise company (which sounds a bit odd, but they do have a big salt-water aquarium there in the mountain desert), will sponsor the Alaskan Gold Rush Cruise, an all-gay big-ship charter cruise from Seattle this fall aboard Seattle-based Holland America's flagship, the ms Amsterdam.

And when we say "big ship," we do mean big ship. The Amsterdam is expected leave from Terminal 30 in Seattle at 4pm on September 7 with 1380 guests -- all of them either gay or friendly enough to book passage on a cruise marketed exclusively to the gay market.