Gay-iendly towns red stat draw LGBTQ tourists: 'We're here to be normal for a weekend'

Contents:

• GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
• GAYT PLAC IN ARKANSAS FOR 2020
• GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
• ARKANSAS TOWN MAK “TOP GAY-IENDLY CI” LIST
• GAY ARKANSAS TRAVEL GUI
• THE BEST ARKANSAS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ARKANSAS
• IN 1975 SMALL-TOWN ARKANSAS, GAY COUPLE STAYED IN THE CLOSET
• EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS
• AFFORDABLE GAY VATN TOWNS

GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI

Gray had done all, or close to , his 60-pl years – the ary veteran has been a hairdrser, puter programmer, award-wng AIDS advote, and drag queen (he performed as Patti Le Plae Safe, a Miss Gay Ameri wner). Now he mans the ont sk at a motel-turned-LGBTQ-iendly rort, the Wanroo Lodge, owned by a gay uple who recently settled Eureka themselv.

A nearly 70-foot-tall J statue gaz over a place once lled the “gayt small town Ameri.

Among the mm’s artifacts are vtage photos of a gay uple holdg hands and a woman drsed men’s cloth, he said.

GAYT PLAC IN ARKANSAS FOR 2020

Out gay men and women started nng lucrative bs – Gary Eagen’s Sprg Street Pottery stud still stands. Soon, straight and gay upl were drsg drag as sultry saloon performers or macho wboys, pos that were “happily enuraged and monplace, ” Danos said. What better place, they thought, to ri out the crazit days of their liv than a gay small town?

GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'

But ’s a divi that s rints have mostly been able to bridge wh kdns, said David Avanzo, who speaks fondly of a Wanroo regular – “your typil Ozark man” – who once told Avanzo that he’d never met gay men before patronizg the lodge.

The days, Taylor said he don’t even “thk about beg gay bee seems so normal here as a uple to go out among straight upl.

A iend and former mayor was at the urthoe, too, and he married the uple on the spot – they beme the first male gay uple to legally marry Arkansas. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

ARKANSAS TOWN MAK “TOP GAY-IENDLY CI” LIST

Makg Gay Headl and Gay History! Gay Eureka Sprgs. It uldn’t have happened to a nicer—or gayer—place.

GAY ARKANSAS TRAVEL GUI

Te, the Arkansas Supreme Court put the procs on hold (temporarily), but history had been ma this ty gaytn mec and the news went viral. To anyone who has vised the Gay Capal of the Ozarks, me as no surprise.

This Victorian-era village on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac has been makg major gay history and headl for s. Wh a disproportnately large LGBT populatn and dozens of gay-owned B&Bs, rtrants, bars, art galleri and trendy shops, this scenic ltle rort town ntled the Ozark Mountas is also the first and only cy the state wh a Domtic Partnership Registry (open to non-rints) and the first and only cy the state to officially endorse marriage equaly.

“Our secret’s out, ” says the cy’s Gay Bs Guild (another first the state), “not even our streets are straight!

THE BEST ARKANSAS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS ARKANSAS

For gay travelers, has long been the premier travel statn the Mid-South regn of the untry, drawg thoands of gay visors each year om across the U.

IN 1975 SMALL-TOWN ARKANSAS, GAY COUPLE STAYED IN THE CLOSET

S., particularly those who have been-there-done-that better known astal gay rorts. Intertgly, there are no exclively gay bars. All the waterg hol are gay/straight iendly.

EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

“The gayt small town Ameri you’ve never heard of. "Among North Ameri's Most Affordable Gay Vatn Towns.

AFFORDABLE GAY VATN TOWNS

” — Gay Travel.