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Where were all the gay bars? And where exactly, if Stockholm is so gay, were the drag queens?
Stockholm's gay scene seemed poorer than my boyiend had expected. Did he as a foreigner thk I was livg some kd of gay utopia?It wouldn't be strange. And what would help them make a more rmed travel choice?Here is what every LGBTQ tourist visg Stockholm should know.There's a handful of gay bars--lerally.Stockholm is the biggt cy all of the Sndavian untri wh more than two ln people the greater metropolan area.
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Coupled wh s brandg as a gay-iendly travel statn, a queer tourist might be surprised by the limed LGBTQ nightlife.
While there will always be somethg open on any given night, don't expect to have more than 5-10 gay bars or clubs to choose om. Ined, when surg the web for Stockholm gay guis, many of the remend bars, rtrants and clubs are not specifilly LGBTQ oriented (but rather "gay-iendly").Thomas Wimark, PhD and rearcher at Stockholm Universy, has wrten extensively about the geographi of LGBTQ dividuals and their migratn patterns. Wimark thks part of the "blame" for the lack of gay tablishment li wh Swedish society's general LGBTQ tolerance.
Add to this the general crease the need for mercial plac due to Grdr and you get a small queer mercial scene," says Wimark.Photo by Yury Dmrienko / ShutterstockThere's no Gayborhood.As soon as they're ready to leave their hotel room, many a gay tourist will head straight to their statn's "gayborhood"--an LGBT-iendly oasis wh a high ncentratn of queer tablishments one place.
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While the island of Sormalm is sometim lled the "gayt" area of the cy, Stockholm has no gay enclave that would make fdg new spots and movg between them easier. You'll have to rearch (or ask around for) plac be prepared to travel to get to them.Why no gayborhood? "A metropolis like that has a vibrant queer muny and queer mercial scene due to s sheer populatn size, and for havg been known as a gay mec to migrate to for a long time."Photo by Per-Boge / ShutterstockSwen is not a gay paradise.Many have the perceptn of Swen as beg one of the saft and most liberal plac the world for LGBTQ people.
Swen's ranked 12th the ILGA-Europe gay rights rankg--by no means a league of s own. I have iends Stockholm who have been beaten up after engagg PDA or walkg home alone om a gay club. It's jt not a gay paradise.Thomas Wimark says: "In most untri of the world, we speak of pockets of tolerance towards LGBTQ people that you n move between.
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We do have pockets of tolerance the cy of Stockholm and there is a lot of work to be done there but generally, you n feel safe as an LGBTQ person here."Photo by Stefan Holm / ShutterstockStockholm is clive--jt not a metropolis.When my boyiend saw what I was wrg, he asked if I was tryg to end gay tourism Stockholm. When a gay bar, ask around for other thgs gog on that night or week.