Gay or LGBT tourism: fn, optns and ma statns

Contents:

• LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE
• KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’
• LGBTQ TRAVEL: A FABULOUS GUI TO GAY TRAVEL 2023
• GAY OR LGBT TOURISM: FN, OPTNS AND MA STATNS

LONDON'S LANDMARK BUILDG DOTTED WH STRIP CLUBS, GAY VENU TO TURN TO MOSQUE

Geni Pictur (“Mrs Lowry & Son, ” “Good Luck To You, Leo Gran”) has optned Emmett Monterey’s acclaimed memoir “Go the Way Your Blood Beats” – about growg up gay and disabled 1980s London – for TV adaptatn. At his mastream school, teachers refe to schle his class on the ground floor, and at his llege for disabled stunts, he’s told he will be expelled if the mors are te, if he’s gay.

Gay Amerin artist Dennis Severs spent 20 years turng his home to a livg mm, wh the townhoe’s 10 rooms reprentg snapshots the life of an imagary fay between 1724 to 1914.

Highlights clu the John Waters-spired lbian theme night Female Trouble; the d-visual queer spectacular Outré Voyage, the male-centric mic nights Homodrop and Dissodoma, the by-femm/for-femm monthly Femmi-Errect, and the hedonistic Happy Endgs, which turns Superstore’s unisex loos to a pop-up rave. In Hackney Wick, near the Olympic Park, the monthly gay rave Chapter 10 is at Bloc and Pxssy Palace tak place at Mick’s you need fuel on your night out, Dalston is packed wh late-night eateri. They clu Admiral Dunn, a historic pub wh drag shows most nights of the week; Ku Bar, a cktail lounge and club popular wh gay men; the lbian bar She Soho and the big urtyard bar The Yard.

KEV SPACEY DEFENDS COMG OUT AS GAY AFTER BEG ACCED OF SEXUAL MISNDUCT: ‘I WAS UNR A LOT OF PRSURE’

Although there have been high-profile closur recent years, remas a clubbg hotspot – particularly popular wh gay the banks of the Tham the south-wt of the cy, Vxhall has a history of entertament.

Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife.

LGBTQ TRAVEL: A FABULOUS GUI TO GAY TRAVEL 2023

The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

Guaraco, 2007; Coon, 2012; Ween et al., 2016) 2013, the issue of tourist statns chosen by the LGBT muny the world has been the subject of the Spartac Gay Travel Inx (Spartac, 2019), which ranks all the stat of the world based on their level of clivens towards the LGBT overview of the existg empiril rearch on LGBT people as tourists reveals that a nsirable number of studi emerged the 1990s and early 2000s and ncentrated on such issu as the enomic power of gay travellers (e. This leads many rearchers to vtigate only the gay populatn or to erroneoly over-generalise the rults of rearch regardg gay men only to the entire LGBT light of the above, the Osservator LGBT's staff of the Universy of Napl Feri II cid to study young LGBT Italian tourist choic to vtigate what cisn-makg procs drive them to prefer one statn over the others, distguishg motivatns between pull and ph factors, strsg analogi and differenc amongst LGBT people. In all s, a rearch prentatn msage was ially munited: to rm the participants about the survey troductn and the eligibily creria (Italian rints born between 1984 and 1996 wh self-regnn as lbian or gay or bisexual or transgenr people).

As reported Table 1, 455 people (acuntg for approximately 70% of the sample) self-reported a homosexual sexual orientatn, 184 people (28% of the sample) fed themselv as bisexual and 11 as heterosexual (2% of the sample). Amongst the there are “the sire to socialize wh subjects that share the same sexual inty” and “the sire for eedom of exprsn”, strongly exprsed by lbian women and gay men. The fdgs are le wh an exploratory study nducted by rearchers om the Italian Universy of Urbo (Bartoletti and Gianni, 2019), which is based on qualative terviews wh 29 gay men and 26 lbian women.

GAY OR LGBT TOURISM: FN, OPTNS AND MA STATNS

For young Italian LGBT people, spendg their daily liv areas domated by heterosexism and homophobia evably leads to the sire to pe or to live their inti elsewhere plete eedom, at least for the duratn of the holiday.

In le wh other ternatnal studi, n be argued that “gay holidaymakg n be seen as a procs of explorg gay inti, that is about how male-to-male sexually cled men learn to participate particular gay sexual cultur through the spatialised practic of holidaymakg, which may provi the emotnal distance om home that facilat inty change” (Cox, 2002, p.