Gay-iendly towns red stat draw LGBTQ tourists: 'We're here to be normal for a weekend'

Contents:

• LONG-NNG LOU. GAY CLUB'S ROOTS N TO 70S
• THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020
• GAY NICE
• GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
• RED AND BLUE GAYS
• LOLE GAY TRANSLATN | ITALIAN-ENGLISH DICTNARY

LONG-NNG LOU. GAY CLUB'S ROOTS N TO 70S

The abbreviatn LGBT stands for Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr. 6 lour rabow – Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr.

After servg up drks, drag and dance sce 1988, the gay nightclub the Connectn will soon be reborn Smoketown as part of the $15 ln entertament plex C2, or Connectn as the new venue tak shape, the nightclub’s precsor has bee a parkg lot for Whiskey 1975 by Connectn owner Gee Stson, the Downtowner occupied a narrow five-story stcture that uld hold roughly 700. Though all that remas now is s brown brick fa, the club was a landmark of Louisville’s gay muny durg s 14 years at 105 W.

Hundreds of gay men and women crowd the nightclub floor, Stson said. And unlike the gay bars before , the Downtowner served as a gatherg place for activists throughout the 1980s.

THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020

But Stson psed to say, “Oh, what a genis that lotn was for the gay muny. He’d purchased the buildg, which had been a flounrg lounge, earlier that year and named after a former Louisville bar — the first gay one Stson enuntered as a olr venue, loted at 300 Chtnut St., had opened 1953 as the cy’s first openly gay bar before burned down 1974.

Many were also closeted gays, profsnals who risked losg their jobs if they me out at work, Stson said.

A vortex for activismMore than jt an entertament center, the Downtowner doubled as a space for activists s basement’s four-star rtrant: 105 to a whe, baby grand piano the speakeasy-style lole, gay lears the early 1980s formed Gays and Lbians Uned for Equaly, or GLUE, the first aln of gay men and women the cy. “Well we wanted to jt ll gay, ” Stson said. ”The group, an umbrella aln of activists the cy, anized protts and hosted gay piics Cherokee Park.

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” and “Wanted: Equal Rights for Gays.

GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'

”By the mid-1980s, the AIDS epimic had foced more public attentn on gay activism. “(Stson and another gay club owner) felt the officers’ actns had meaned their patrons, ” wrote a Courier-Journal reporter.

And th, for many gays and lbians Louisville, the club beme their muny’s center — a hoe to build both iendships and movements, said historian Cate Fosl, lear of the Kentucky LGBTQ Herage than three s later this year, on a sunny June afternoon, hundreds gathered at the Connectn to drk and mgle before the annual pri para. The World's 30 Bt Gay-Friendly Travel Dtatns 2020 - Bt Hospaly Degre.

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Below, we’ve highlighted 30 of the world’s bt gay-iendly travel statns for 2020.

The Netherlands has long been known as one of the most progrsive and tolerant untri on Earth, and that mak s pal cy of Amsterdam an excellent choice of gay-iendly travel statn. Though Amsterdam is not as large of a cy as some of s European neighbors, those hopg to experience all of the gay iendls has to offer won’t be disappoted bookg a hotel neighborhoods like Kerkstraat, Amstel, or Reguliersdwarsstraat. Here, travelers will fd myriad gay clubs, hotels, bars, and even snas.

The Caribbean is not really known as a gay-iendly travel statn.

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When you’re not loungg on the whe-sand beach or olg off the crystal clear turquoise waters for which Aba is so famo, be sure to grab a drk or two at Jimmy’s Place, one of Oranjtad’s most famo gay bars.

Dpe the brief Hell that was the Third Reich and World War II, Berl has a long history of beg gay iendly.

And don’t fet to vis SchwuZ Club, one of Berl’s most famo gay clubs. Head to the De Waterkant neighborhood for the cy’s bt gay bars, clubs, and hotels.