GETA | The Gay European Tourism Associatn

Contents:

• GAY EUROPE TRAVEL GUI
• 9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE
• GAY-FRIENDLY CIS EUROPE
• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS EASTERN EUROPE
• GAY TOURS EUROPE
• GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• GAY TRAVEL EUROPE
• 14 POPULAR GAY TOUR & VATN COMPANI

GAY EUROPE TRAVEL GUI

Keepg all that md, here are jt some of the most gay-iendly untri Europe where LGBTQ+ travelers n enjoy a safe vis. Portugal was one of the first European untri to approve gay marriage 2010, and the Portugue nstutn bans discrimatn of LGBTQ people.

9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE

Lisbon also has a very popular and well attend Gay Pri Ftival and para and the ternatnal Queer Lisboa Gay and Lbian Film Ftival every year, too.

Belgium was the send European untry to legalize gay marriage and the send to crimalize same-genr relatnships all the way back 1795.

In Madrid, the gay scene is by the Chue area, and MADO, the Madrid Pri celebratn, is one of the biggt Europe.

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Ireland may seem like a rather nservative untry, but beme the first European natn to legalize gay marriage by a popular vote 2015. A poll done 2019 said the 87 percent of Luxembourgers believed gay, lbian, and transgenr people should have the same rights as heterosexuals.

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It’s known for a dynamic gay muny that is happy to nnect wh travelers to ensure their stay is fun and trouble-ee. They even have a webse for the LGBTQ+ muny and special gay gui to Malta webse to help visors plan a trip to Malta. The Gay European Tourism Associatn is here to help all bs and anisatns that are volved gay tourism Europe to prosper and grow.

GAY TOURS EUROPE

Members get accs to a wealth of rearch, directori, articl and rmatn - all signed to help you tap to the gay travel market. Wh over 3, 000 hotels, gutho, B&Bs and holiday ho and apartments across Europe, 's the most prehensive gay travel se Europe.

If you're the owner or manager of acmodatn Europe, then you n add your property to the Gay Wele webse for ee. A key element of this is helpg our members to grow their bs by learng more about the gay market and how to work effectively wh . GETA Gu tells you all about gay tourists, how to ensure that your product appeals to them and how to market to them.

Each month GETA Gu will foc on a different element of gay tourism bg rearch, articl, se studi and foms to provi a prehensive, teractive examatn of a particular subject which will help your bs to grow. Our exclive rearch report is out - and timat the value of the gay travel market Europe at a massive €50 billn per year.

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Reach gay dienc worldwi g our Gay Magaze Directory - every major gay magaze the world listed one nvenient place, savg you hours of time and makg planng your marketg much easier.

It’s one of only five untri to make queer rights equal at a nstutnal level and holds first place on ILGA-Europe’s Rabow Europe Inx, which ranks untri on LGBTQ+ my last vis, a gay gui showed me round the wdg medieval streets of Valletta and Rabat, potg out sential bars and rtrants om Michel-starred Noni to the Monaliza Lounge drag bar, as well as the nightclub Michelangelo lively Paceville. This spir filters down to Dubl’s many LGBTQ-iendly tablishments: two personal favour are iendly bnch spot Social Fabric Café Stoneybatter, one of the cy’s most tertg neighbourhoods, and Street 66 bar, a eful cktail spot before a night at inic LGBTQ+ stutn The southsi is gay-owned Gutter Bookshop (named after the famo Osr Wil quote), and the weekly “big gay dis” Sunday Social at Farrier & Draper; or cross the river for the Outhoe LGBTQ+ muny rource fe on Capel Street and PantiBar, owned by drag queen, activist and performer Panti Bliss.

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Enjoy bnch at Osr bar and fe, before a beer at one of Europe’s olst gay bars, Centralhjor, which hosts drag and Sunday jazz ssns venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter.

The cy’s olst gay bar The Waterloo dat back half a century, while another classic spot is the Unrground bar, equally fun for drag or karaoke. Nearby Delmoni’s (known lolly as “Del’s”), has been Merchant Cy’s “gay triangle” sce stay nearby, try the good-value Bnswick hotel (doubl om £50), on a street wh venu marked by rabow flags.

Photograph: Nick Maslen/AlamyOn my last vis to Birmgham the rabow flag seemed to be everywhere, and the historic Gay Village, wh s bars, shops and f, is hugely visible, centred largely on Hurst Street.

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Start wh bibimbap at the thoroughfare’s Korean rtrant Topokki before drks at Missg, Siwalk or lbian bar The Fox and dancg at the legendary Nightgale Club, the olst gay club the cy, datg back to summer’s hot LGBTQ+ event is Fierce’s Healg Garns of Bab (27 June - 17 July): part of Birmgham 2022 Ftival, ’s an artistic rponse to this summer’s Commonwealth Gam, celebratg “what the Brish Empire tried (and failed) to stamp out”. Mykonos’s rep as queer heaven dat back to the 1970s, when Jackie Onassis beme a regular visor (she first vised 1961), before blossomed as gay rort the 1980s, wh acmodatn sprgg up for the largely male 2022, you n hang out at tablished hotspots Jackie O, bar Porta or Kastro’s, and stay at the Super Paradise (doubl om £249), handy for the island’s ma LGBTQ+ beach.

The season’s big gay dance ftival is XLSIOR, attend by about 30, 000 people (17-24 Augt)HelskiA Pri gatherg at Helski Cathedral. Photograph: Subodh Agnihotri/AlamyFor many gay men of a certa age, Fland is extribly associated wh leather-clad inic hero Tom of Fland, whose books pict a ggedly sexualised masculy durg a time pre-1971 when homosexualy was still illegal.

Now you n take a tour of where thor Too Laaksonen lived his whole adult life, passg the Kansalaistori (People’s Square) ont of parliament, once a clanste meetg pot for gay karaoke fans should check out Mann’s Street, a boozy stutn; other fun spots are Street Pri the Kamppi district, and Kvääristö, a jot for queer women, transgenr, and non-bary people. You might even be able to jo the Helski Homovaas (Helski Gay Invasn), whose purpose is to “shake up the gay scene” by takg over random straight bars. 5ln people each year, cludg 300, 000 overseas self is one of the most LGBTQ-iendly untri the world: same-sex sexual activy was ma legal 1979, and was the third untry to legalise gay marriage, 2005.

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First stop has to be Chue, Madrid’s “gaybourhood” wh bars and venu dotted around Plaza Chue (also don’t miss the recently refurbished Merdo San Antón for tasty food stalls and a rooftop terrace). In the Catholic untri of Eastern Europe (Croatia, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia) where relig beliefs repudiate homosexualy, gay and lbian travelers won't fd many tablishments that lay out the wele mat for them. For the most part there is a macho mentaly about sexualy all the untri vered this gui, and is a sensibily that is not gay-iendly but not gay-hostile eher.

GAY TRAVEL EUROPE

Note: In one recent stance, a hotel owner on the Croatian island of Hvar attempted to promote a week signed to appeal to gay and lbian travelers, much to the chagr of the lol townspeople. 800/448-8550 or 954/776-2626;) is the tra associatn for the gay and lbian travel dtry, and offers an onle directory of gay- and lbian-iendly travel bs; go to the webse and click on "Members.

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It provis regularly updated rmatn about gay-owned, -oriented, and -iendly lodgg, dg, sightseeg, nightlife, and shoppg tablishments every important statn worldwi.