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Contents:

• DEEP BLUE: GAY CURAO SCUBA DIVG TRIP
• GAY DIVE
• THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA
• DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS
• THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’
• USA GAY AND LESBIAN SCUBA DIVING CLUBS
• JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED
• GAY TO Z POOL PARTY
• PRISTE PAL: GAY SCUBA DIVG VATN
• DIVE!! ANIME REVIEW EPISO 4 & 5: (KD OF GAY) TENSNS BUILDG
• GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

DEEP BLUE: GAY CURAO SCUBA DIVG TRIP

Micky’s WeHo has long been a staple on Wt Hollywood’s strip of gay nightclubs and bars on Santa Moni Boulevard, known for s open-walled two-story buildg where passersby n see the party ragg om the street.

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Though Sweetwater isn’t officially known as a lbian bar, the humble tablishment has long been the go-to spot for queer women the lol gayborhood, which featur nearly half a dozen gay bars that le Broadway Long Beach.

THE 7 BT GAY BARS PHILALPHIA

One of Long Beach’s few, if not only, three-level gay bars, Executive Sue boasts a karaoke bar, vio gam, pool tabl for rent, and regular drag shows. Dubbed by KCET as Montebello’s bt Lato gay bar, Chi is the sister to Club Cobra, servg as a groundg se for the queer Latx muny the suburbs of East LA.

DIVG HAS A NEW GAY PUP BOY, ANTON DOWN-JENKS FIRST KIWI OLYMPIC DIVER ALMOST 40 YEARS

The chic De Waterkant and Green Pot districts — known together by lols as the rabow district — are home to over 100 of the cy’s gay and lbian venu. On the surface, the untry’s southernmost cy is famo for s genue clivy, wh a large lol LGBTQ populatn, many gay-iendly bs and a cy motto of “One Human Fay.

THIS OLYMPIC DIVER DON’T INTIFY AS ‘GAY’ OR ‘STRAIGHT,’ BUT ‘HUMAN’

There is an epic Drag Queen ftival durg Carnival, when the gay social scene turns a four-story mega shoppg center to party headquarters. In addn, Wdle has ntributed to the It Gets Better mpaign and was mentored om an early age by gay divg legend Greg Louganis—to the pot where he was nicknamed “The Ltle Louganis.

USA GAY AND LESBIAN SCUBA DIVING CLUBS

He’s one of the bt and most important stori of the Tokyo Gam after wng his first gold medal Men’s Synchro wh divg partner Matty Lee and spirg lns by clarg, “I feel credibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champn. Our gay scuba divg tour Curao offers a perfect opportuny to scuba dive or snorkel at the most priste dive lotns, wh very few other divers.

Our gay scuba trip featur a week on this betiful tropil island cludg viss to the bt lol dive s and afternoons ee for shore divg or viss to some of the island’s many landsi attractns. Our gay scuba trip featur a week on this betiful tropil island clus viss to the bt lol dive s wh time to enjoy numero land-based activi.

JULI’, THE GAY-ELR DIVE BAR OF THE VILLAGE, GETS LANDMARKED

Good weather, great divg, history, good food, lively nightlife and island hospaly make Curao a great gay-iendly getaway and the perfect place for this HE Travel Adventure!

When upl do jo , ’s ually bee they’re lookg forward to teractg wh a gay group; if they wanted a holiday by themselv, they wouldn’t have signed up to travel wh . He went on to w the gold medal and bee the first man to w back-to-back Olympic golds both the sprgboard and platform divg what had ially appeared to be a straightforward eback story beme more plited when Louganis revealed seven years later that he was gay and that he had been diagnosed wh HIV six months before the 1988 Gam. But there was still no effective treatment, people were dyg by the thoands and many Amerins wrongly believed was only a “gay man’s disease.

GAY TO Z POOL PARTY

She said to bad Im lookg for two gay guys to have sex wh, asshe walked off my cuz and I stopped her and said HEEEEEEYYYY we were gay, she lghed and kept walkg. Not even Greg Louganis his prime bed "gay" and "dive" as seamlsly as The Grapeve--featured "Dallas's Most Authentic Dive Bars"--do now.

An “tertg” crowd – “bikers, gays, preppi” – equents this “tly eclectic” Oak Lawn dive, a “groovy” gem that gets s “character” and “charm” om mismatched... Before we prent you wh our list of bt gay bars Philalphia, a few tertg facts about the lol LGBTQ scene: almost every LGBTQ-centric statn the cy is found Gayborhood, an enclave Center Cy Philalphia that has quickly bee one of the most regnize neighborhoods town. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

PRISTE PAL: GAY SCUBA DIVG VATN

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly.

DIVE!! ANIME REVIEW EPISO 4 & 5: (KD OF GAY) TENSNS BUILDG

It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster. As far as Bach knows — and as far as many of his unterparts wh other teams are aware — there are no other openly gay broadsters the sport. McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay.

’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed.

He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one. “I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

GOLD COAST, WEHO’S INIC ‘DIVE BAR,’ IS THE FOURTH GAY BAR TO CLOSE ON SANTA MONI BLVD.

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely.