Gay Spa Gui 2023 - gay bars, clubs, snas & more - Travel Gay

Contents:

• TOP 10 S STATNS GAY-IENDLY EN EUROPE
• 9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE
• MEILLR STATNS GAY FRIENDLY : 12 PAYS Où VOYAGER EN éTANT LGBT
• QUELL SONT L MEILLR STATNS GAYS ?
• THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE
• GAY SPA
• THE WORLD'S BT GAY TRAVEL GUI
• GAY MADRID
• THE MOST EXCG EUROPEAN CY FOR SGLE GAY TRAVELER - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

TOP 10 S STATNS GAY-IENDLY EN EUROPE

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+ equaly.On 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 Gee.Also 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. 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 year-round.Other venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter.

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Nearby Delmoni’s (known lolly as “Del’s”), has been Merchant Cy’s “gay triangle” sce 1991.To 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. 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 1969.This 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”.

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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 clientele.In 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.

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 men.LGBTQ+ 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. Meanwhile, Madrid Pri (1-10 July) is the send biggt the world (after San Francis) and by far the largt Europe, attractg more than a 1.5ln people each year, cludg 300,000 overseas visors.Spa 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). There's a thrivg gay scene the Schöneberg district, wh plenty of gay-iendly bars and other tablishments lg the streets around Motzstrasse, Fuggerstrasse and Nollendorfenplatz, not to mentn attractns such as the Schwul Mm – one of the world's most important mms dited to LGBT life and culture. Brighton, Royme-UniGrâce à son ambiance détendue et relax, Brighton t venue la vérable ville d'accueil la munté LGBT (oui, enre pl que Londr, qui une ville immense et éparpillée, et qui propose p chos pour l lbienn en hors Soho) ville nnaît un développement imprsnant la scène LGBT, et vo y trouverez certas s meillrs bars gays l'île, asi que s ftivals, mé, projectns, clubs, pièc théâtre anisés par et pour la munté LGBT.

Et 3 mois pendant l'été, toute une partie d'un parc la pale alienne se transforme en Gay Village: une énorme tf avec ux dance floors à l'air libre, la mique en live, et s food tcks un p partout.

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Aujourd'hui c't un s quartiers l pl chics la pale, et on trouve bons endros gay-iendly partout dans la vo y passez, pensez à chercher LA boulangerie qui fa s baguett en forme phall:)10. The island Mederranean natn is known for s iendly lols, betiful beach and vibrant gay scene after a ncerted effort to shift attus a untry domated by Roman Catholic were the bt LGBTQ+ statns cid?

However, public attus lag behd legislatn wh 84 per cent of the public tellg the World Valu Survey they didn’t thk homosexualy was jtifiable between 2017 - remag Nordic untri, already famo for their high happs rankgs, are also high-ranked for their progrsive polics.

However, the Rsian ernment has already drawn ternatnal ire for s ‘Gay Propaganda law’ which, siarly to now-repealed Sectn 28 the UK, bans discsg homosexualy Pri paras are banned Rsia’s major ci and there are also reports of ‘gay-hunters’ attackg gay men the street. All Pri week activi were banned Istanbul, the untry's largt cy, this has also been claimed that the Turkish ernment told Netflix to remove a gay character om one of their scripts or risk losg their license for filmg the untry. Dpe the fact that the chang attus towards sexualy have been reflected tourism, sadly, there are still many plac the world where homosexualy is punishable wh f, prison sentenc and the most extreme s, the ath penalty.

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In Copenhagen, you n fd one of the olst openly gay bars Europe, The Centralhjor which dat back to the 1950’s, as well as the morn district of Vterbro also home to the Red Light District of the cy. What’s more, you n experience the Nordic Gay Pri all s splendour durg a week full of events that culmat the day of the ma para, fillg the whole of the cy wh bright lights and tens of thoands of atten. On the same street, you n also fd at n° 37 the Ludwg II, one of the most famo gay tablishments Amsterdam which has also jt reopened s doors and where you n eat s feteria, or enjoy the bt mic a space that recreat an exclive 19th century Paris nightclub.

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Berl is a cy which is totally tolerant of the LGBT+ muny, the cradle of avant-guar movements, offers as one of s attractns the Schwul Mm, which is dited to exhibg homosexual history, art and culture.

Le Marais beme a gay-iendly zone the 1980s, when artists and bohemians started to settle down the district nvertg to one of the most chic spots Paris, wh ho ually reachg astronomil pric.

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While Dubrovnik, and Croatia the ma, may not offer the same LGBTQ scene as that found other European gay statns like Barcelona or Berl, remas liberal enough to still enjoy a relaxg gaytn here.

Plirs crèr sont pris en pte me l lois anti-LGBT, l’anisatn torisée ou pas s march fierté, l sanctns envers le lbienn et l gay, l rtrictns d’entrée dans le pays s personn séroposiv ou enre l’fluence la relign. L’île Malte nnaît puis plirs anné une évolutn par rapport à la munté homosexuelle grâce notamment à l’terdictn s discrimatns ntre l homosexuels en 2004 ou enre à la légalisatn du mariage homosexuel en 2017.

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Depuis quelqu anné, l’île la Réunn t venue une statn prisée pour l voyag homosexuels grâce notamment Comé du tourisme qui a publié en 2005 une charte d’accueil gay iendly visant à lutter ntre l discrimatns envers l personn LGBT. From clothg-optnal to beach wh lively gay clubs, there are endls optns when to selectg your ial astal is home to many of the world’s most famo gay travel statns, om sun-soaked Mykonos to the cultural mec that is Lisbon, there is somethg for every gay traveler. Thankfully, the ntent also boasts a range of the most betiful and varied beach, many of which have tablished gay Cavallet - Ibiza, SpaLoted on the Mederranean’s party island and an epicentre of gay muny and culture on Ibiza, Playa Es Cavellet is a tranquil and scenic beach that offers guaranteed relaxatn.

Es Cavallet is long and spac, and the surroundg area has a gged and untouched qualy that adds to the character of the the high tourism months, the beach is packed wh a populatn of, largely, gay sunbathers and sun-seekers.