Gay Florida 2023 Travel Gui - Hotels, Bars, & Events

Contents:

• MIAMI GAY DISTRICT: SOUTH BEACH
• MOVG TO LGBT MIAMI, FLORIDA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• GAY FLORIDA TRAVEL GUI
• SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI
• THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• MIAMI GAY MAP

MIAMI GAY DISTRICT: SOUTH BEACH

Once home to a rabow of LGBTQ-iendly loung, bars and clubs, many of Miami’s most pendable gay clubs like Magnum, Mova and Sre are sadly no more. We might be experiencg an extend drought of gay clubs and bars Miami, but there’s plenty of actn to be had if you know where to fd . Although not as popular as once was, Conut Grove still attracts a gay crowd, and November the area is host to the popular Whe Party.

And who n fet the state’s legendary activi and attractns, om the Florida Reef to Walt Disney World Rort and all the gay fanfare top astal ci like Miami, Fort Lrdale, and Palm Beach?

MOVG TO LGBT MIAMI, FLORIDA? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!

Gay travelers n opt for romantic p the far-flung Florida Keys or art-foced trips to bohemian Sarasota brimmg wh galleri and mms. Among them are Gay Days Orlando, Fantasy Ft Key Wt, Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival Miami, Prift Key Wt, and Whe Party Week South Beach, to name jt a few. South Florida: Head to Miami, Fort Lrdale, Palm Beach, Delray Beach, Vero Beach, Sger Island, or Bo Raton for red-hot nightlife, sophistited dg, upsle shoppg, and high-energy beach — not to mentn some of the swankit gay rorts Florida.

Florida Keys: Make your gay Florida pe to Key Wt or Key Largo for fishg, boatg, snorkelg, water sports, old-school vib, Cuban cuise, parable sunsets, and memorable road trips. Florida Panhandle: Choose Gulf Coast statns like Panama Cy Beach, Dt, Cape Coral, and Pensala Beach for laid-back gay beach vatns that put you close to nature prerv and untouched astal habats. In Tampa, a aln of gay and gay-iendly bs along the ma stretch the historic neighborhood of Ybor Cy provis a place for gay travelers to be themselv and support members of the muny.

And who uld fet the legendary gay clubs Orlando, boastg a range of experienc, om dimly l timate div to megaclubs wh dancg and entertament? You n expect the hight level of tolerance ci South Florida wh boomg gay nightlife scen and bs that wele gay travelers wholeheartedly.

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From then on, would be a rolleraster of ups and downs, filled wh progrs, failure, celebratns, and heartbreak Miami LGBT history, leadg to our current stat as a gay mec that attracts more than 1 ln LGBT visors a year. A place wh s own chamber of merce dited to the queer muny sce 1997, and where Art Smh hosted and officiated a mass gay weddg for more than two dozen upl this past Febary.

In 1964, a Florida legislative mtee led by Senator Charley Johns published Homosexualy and Cizenship Florida, also known as the Purple Pamphlet, as part of a wch hunt to seek out gays and bisexuals workg schools, universi, and ernment jobs, who they believed were termed to “subvert the Amerin way of life by ntrollg amic stutns and by rptg the natn’s moral fiber, ” acrdg to Carry’ on the Lbian and Gay South. Acrdg to The Encyclopedia of Lbian and Gay Histori and Cultur, “The first anized gay pri week was celebrated Miami Beach early 1972 wh a march on Lln Road prottg a cy law banng cross-drsg.

SANTA MONI AND VENICE BEACH GAY GUI

Leonard Horowz, the openly gay founr of the Miami Dign Prervatn League, was propelled to the public spotlight the 1980s for his dited efforts to promote and prerve Miami’s Art De archecture, alongsi founr Barbara Capman.

Save Da, which ntu to promote equaly for LGBT members of the muny, was found 1993, and 1998, equal rights for gays and lbians beme unty law. At the same time, Miami has always had a grty si, and the gay muny volved bathho and anonymo sex Flamgo Park, at the same time as the AIDS epimic swept through the untry. This began a pilgrimage to Broward, pecially to Fort Lrdale and s neighbor Wilton Manors, which has bee a gay mec s own right, ranked as the cy wh the send hight percentage of LGBT rints the untry as of the 2010 cens, makg up 14 percent of s populatn of jt over 11, 000.

THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS

Miami Beach may be glz and glamour, but Wilton Manors is a fay town, and the two are close enough that there’s plenty of overlap between the two famo gayborhoods. Acrdg to the prevailg story, the origal owners put the word u the name an effort to not offend anyone, sce the beach right across the street was known as a popular gay hnt.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

The cy has been a pneer for ci all over the untry, wh openly gay elected officials and servic for LGBT youth, senrs, and the homels. From Twist, Sre, and the bevy of themed queer nights at lol bars, to Hotel Gaytherg, Miami Beach’s only gay hotel, opportuni to celebrate LGBT culture abound. Annual events like Whe Party, Miami Beach Gay Pri, the Miami Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, and Aqua Girl wele thoands of LGBT tourists and lols alike.

There aren't many rourc for gay travelers foced specifilly on Santa Moni, Venice, and ast; however, this is part of metro Los Angel, which has is one of the world's centers of GLBT culture.

Today, you'd never know that this primarily straight, whe, and profsnal area was an early bastn of gay society, a land of bathho, cisg, and nu sunbathg. Jt off the beach a huge gay bar, the Tropil Village, drew everybody om navy men to closeted celebri to rint thors Christopher Isherwood and Stephen Spenr. Gay rints are still most fely a prence Santa Moni, but wh nowhere near the prence they have Wt Hollywood, Silver Lake, and some other parts of Los Angel.

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And wh the flux recent years of stellar rtrants and sign-driven hotels, Santa Moni has steadily bee a favore gay getaway for upl, beachgoers, and those wantg a more relaxed Los Angel vatn. 's East Village or Haight-Ashbury by the sea—ed, was a haven of unter-culture and members of the Beat Generatn durg the '50s and '60s, as well as avant-gar artists and graffi experts, like the late gay artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, the '80s.

Along the ast near the Santa Moni–Pacific Palisas town le, you'll fd the most famo gay beach greater Los Angel, loted at the nearly 2-e-long Will Rogers State Beach (15900 Pacific Coast Hwy., at Teml Canyon Road). Below here, Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach, and Redondo Beach are three middle-class suburbs—there is one gay bar the area, the Dolph, Redondo Beach. The cy has one of the largt gay muni California, somethg that probably has a great al to do wh the town's strong navy history durg World War II.

Owg largely to s scenic shorele, Long Beach has one of the Wt's most popular Pri events—Long Beach Gay Pri is held late May.

There's a visor ksk at Pleasure Pier, Avalon, and Catala do have a number of overnight acmodatns, cludg the very gay-iendly Avalon Hotel.

If you're lookg for a be to eat after relaxg at the gay beach at Will Rogers State Beach, try Gladston Malibu for outstandg seafood a handsome oceanont buildg, or historic Patrick's Roadhoe for burgers, omelets, and no-nonsense der fare. Other upsle properti of note clu the discreetly upsle Fairmont Miramar Hotel & Bungalows, where 's hard to choose between an ocean view om the 10-story tower or one of the serene and romantic garn bungalows; the boldly rate Viceroy Santa Moni (sister to the hip and siarly gay-popular Viceroy Palm Sprgs); and the dramatic blue tower, the timate (84 rooms) Geian Hotel, one Santa Moni's allurg beti, datg to 1933. A quirky, morately priced, and very tertg historic hotel that has somethg of a gay followg, the Palihoe Santa Moni Hotel (formerly known as the Embassy Hotel Apartments)—rved out of a 1920s Moorish Revival apartment buildg—has enormo rooms wh full kchens and distctive furnishgs.