A gay get-away Eureka Sprgs | The Gayly

Contents:

• GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
• A IENDLY MALE GAY BAR WH EXCELLENT... - HENRI'S JT ONE MORE
•  ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY ARKANSAS TRAVEL GUI
• THIS IS NOT A GAY BAR - EUREKA LIVE UNRGROUND
• EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS
• A GAY GET-AWAY EUREKA SPRGS
• GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
•  ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS

GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI

Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

A IENDLY MALE GAY BAR WH EXCELLENT... - HENRI'S JT ONE MORE

Makg Gay Headl and Gay History! Gay Eureka Sprgs. It uldn’t have happened to a nicer—or gayer—place.

Te, the Arkansas Supreme Court put the procs on hold (temporarily), but history had been ma this ty gaytn mec and the news went viral.

To anyone who has vised the Gay Capal of the Ozarks, me as no surprise. This Victorian-era village on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac has been makg major gay history and headl for s. Wh a disproportnately large LGBT populatn and dozens of gay-owned B&Bs, rtrants, bars, art galleri and trendy shops, this scenic ltle rort town ntled the Ozark Mountas is also the first and only cy the state wh a Domtic Partnership Registry (open to non-rints) and the first and only cy the state to officially endorse marriage equaly.

 ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

“Our secret’s out, ” says the cy’s Gay Bs Guild (another first the state), “not even our streets are straight! For gay travelers, has long been the premier travel statn the Mid-South regn of the untry, drawg thoands of gay visors each year om across the U.

S., particularly those who have been-there-done-that better known astal gay rorts.

Intertgly, there are no exclively gay bars. All the waterg hol are gay/straight iendly. “The gayt small town Ameri you’ve never heard of.

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"Among North Ameri's Most Affordable Gay Vatn Towns.

” — Gay Travel.

THIS IS NOT A GAY BAR - EUREKA LIVE UNRGROUND

"Eureka Sprgs Among Top Five Bt Small Gay Ci. "On par wh Key Wt, Provcetown and Palm Sprgs as a gay vatn paradise.

The Gay Scene Eureka Sprgs. Wh more bars per pa than anywhere else Arkansas, fdg gay nightlife is easy Eureka Sprgs.

EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

View the Gay Scene Eureka Sprgs. I highly remend to my gay men of vis: April 20151 Thank annmac2015 This review is the subjective opn of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC. Touted as the “Gay Capal of the Ozarks, ” Eureka Sprgs is on Vatner’s list of 22 Small LGBTQ-Friendly Ci the U.

It has been touted by other gay publitns as one of the “bt small gay ci”, “Gay Capal of the Ozarks”, and “the gayt small town Ameri”. Though there are no exclively gay bars or clubs, below are a uple of plac where you n enjoy the nightlife, cludg live mic or drag shows. Gray had done all, or close to , his 60-pl years – the ary veteran has been a hairdrser, puter programmer, award-wng AIDS advote, and drag queen (he performed as Patti Le Plae Safe, a Miss Gay Ameri wner).

Now he mans the ont sk at a motel-turned-LGBTQ-iendly rort, the Wanroo Lodge, owned by a gay uple who recently settled Eureka themselv. A nearly 70-foot-tall J statue gaz over a place once lled the “gayt small town Ameri.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS

Among the mm’s artifacts are vtage photos of a gay uple holdg hands and a woman drsed men’s cloth, he said.

Out gay men and women started nng lucrative bs – Gary Eagen’s Sprg Street Pottery stud still stands. Soon, straight and gay upl were drsg drag as sultry saloon performers or macho wboys, pos that were “happily enuraged and monplace, ” Danos said.

What better place, they thought, to ri out the crazit days of their liv than a gay small town? But ’s a divi that s rints have mostly been able to bridge wh kdns, said David Avanzo, who speaks fondly of a Wanroo regular – “your typil Ozark man” – who once told Avanzo that he’d never met gay men before patronizg the lodge.

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The days, Taylor said he don’t even “thk about beg gay bee seems so normal here as a uple to go out among straight upl. A iend and former mayor was at the urthoe, too, and he married the uple on the spot – they beme the first male gay uple to legally marry Arkansas. Road Not 6: Our Arkansas Three Gay Bars, by Tory and Greggor.

Northwt Arkansas ntas all the ntrasts and ntradictns of other small cy gay bars, isolated om gay neighborhoods but close to Amerin landmarks. Fort Smh and Fayetteville are one hour apart, but their two gay clubs are entwed by more than their relative proximy northwt Arkansas, home of Walmart’s ternatnal headquarters and the ty, gay-iendly Eureka Sprgs.

We lghed and played songs on the jebox and swapped stori about straight men gay bars. Like many of the plac we’ve vised, Jamie Wilson, the manager and one of C4’s -owners, don’t ll a gay club bee “we are fightg for equaly so hard, why label ourselv to make feel like we’re exclive?

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

” At the same time, the club is open about beg gay-owned: “we are proud of that, we are not gog to be the closet about that at all. All the small-cy gay bars have drag shows, and all the shows feature queens om neighborg small ci and the nearby metropolis. Tory beg greeted by Jamie Wilson, -owner of C4 Slick neon brandg of Fayetteville’s only gay bar, and largt dance club.

It has no gay bar per se, acrdg to Damron or Jay Wilks, the anizer of Out Eureka, so we did not arrange for any terviews. Eureka Sprgs do have a populatn where one-fifth of the upl town are same-sex, and featur the Eureka Live Unrground, which on closer spectn has all the hallmarks of a small-cy gay bar: the subtle rabow logo, the word “diverse, ” monthly drag shows and weekly karaoke, a “walk of shame” bloody Mary bar, an credible selectn of top-shelf liquors, “dancg, hula hoops, crazy hats, ” and is owned by gay uple Walter Burrell and Lee Keatg (Lee passed the week before we arrived).

 ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Like other regnal tourist statns, the batn of visg gays and gay-iendly lols means patronage n be predomantly straight but the vibe n be more than merely gay-spired.

It was a mon story for small cy gay bars that they are lked by their relative isolatn, petn not wh each other or even wh other bars, but ls-expensive leisure activi. If owng the only gay bar for around don’t mean a monopoly on gay dollars, certaly don’t mean a monopoly on gay time. Owng a succsful gay bar requir a refully balanced formula that is so lolly specific that one bar’s bs mol don’t necsarily translate to another.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS

Wh a sizable LGBTQ muny and numero gay-owned and gay-iendly bs; Eureka Sprgs offers shops, galleri, outdoor activi and a wi variety of rtrants, bars, live mic and night life. Gay Arkansas. Arkansas is one of mid-Ameris most betiful travel statns and home to the Gay pal of the Ozarks, Eureka Sprgs!