Daddy, Disrupted: How Brian Miller Built The Most Welcoming Gay Cruise Club On The Planet

Let's be honest about gay cruises for a second.Most of them were built for a very specific person. And if you didn't fit that mold — if you were older, or queer but not a gay man, or just someone who didn't want a floating circuit party — you were kind of out of luck.Brian Miller looked at that and said: we can do better.So he built VACAYA.Not a gay cruise with a few inclusive touches bolted on.A travel company designed from scratch — from the entertainment to the excursions to the damn deck chairs — for the full spectrum of the LGBTQ+ community.In this episode, Brian gets into what "truly inclusive" actually means when you're filling a ship with a thousand people…Why the "daddy" demographic — and frankly, anyone over 40 — has been criminally underserved by queer travel…What happens when your entire business model is built around joy… and the world tries to cancel joy…And the specific moment he realized VACAYA wasn't just a cruise line. It was the thing people had been waiting for without knowing how to ask for it.This is for anyone who's ever "tolerated" a vacation. Who showed up, looked around, and thought: this is nice, but it's not for me.Brian built the one that is.

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