An LGBT Gui to Vanuver, Canada's Most Gay-Friendly Cy | Condé Nast Traveler

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• LIVGTOPICSALL LIVGSAVAGE LOVETRAVELASTROLOGYFROM THE VLTHEALTHSTYLELGBT+SEX & ROMANCEBT OF VANUVERTRANSPORATNCARTOONSHOMELS VANUVER TRAVEL FEATURLOVE BOAT SETS A URSE FOR GAY ADVENTURE
• THE BEST VANUVER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS VANUVER
• AN LGBT GUI TO VANUVER, CANADA'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY

LIVGTOPICSALL LIVGSAVAGE LOVETRAVELASTROLOGYFROM THE VLTHEALTHSTYLELGBT+SEX & ROMANCEBT OF VANUVERTRANSPORATNCARTOONSHOMELS VANUVER TRAVEL FEATURLOVE BOAT SETS A URSE FOR GAY ADVENTURE

Prcs Cis sails the retro-TV erary wh a boatload of s biggt fans: gay travellers who know how to have the orchtra. ” After 30 years, that everyone fally clus gays. Amazgly, took almost three s for Prcs Cis—owner of the Love Boat featured the origal seri, which ran om 1977 to 1986—to host an all-gay cise, even though gay men were among The Love Boat’s most loyal viewers.

Although no TV crew was prent to film , a Prcs ship recently set a urse for adventure wh mds on gay romance as sailed the classic Love Boat erary: Los Angel, Puerto Vallarta, Mazatlán, and Cabo San Lus. )My partner, Kev, and I starred our own real-life gay episo. Other characters clud a sgle acuntant om Vanuver; a Phoenix-based marketer and a travel agent om Seattle (both sgle), whose bs flanked ours; and 2, 500 gay extras—cludg at least 80 om Vanuver.

We placed our mai tai orr at a poolsi bar staffed by a morn-day Isaac and were immediately spotted by a handsome young uple om Calgary whom I’d met on a prev all-gay cise. “We’ve been on several gay cis, ” the uple explaed, all grs. ”The ship’s horn blasted, and the gay Love Boat was officially out to sea, wh a tiaras-and-sceptr bon voyage party.

THE BEST VANUVER GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS VANUVER

I’ve sailed on four other cis—two gay, two general—and fd cisg to be the perfect vatn: unpack once on a floatg luxury rort and let h scenery e to trip on the Diamond Prcs was Kev’s first all-gay cise. But when we sailed the Panama Canal wh Royal Caribbean 2004, we disvered that plenty of gay men now travel “out” on mastream cis—we met about 40 others on that trip.

AN LGBT GUI TO VANUVER, CANADA'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY CY

Even then, Kev and I were the only openly gay uple to participate one of Royal Caribbean’s ma-stage game shows, s versn of The Newlywed Game. Eight hundred dience members—and, we later found out, the entire ship via closed-circu TV—watched as the gay guys kissed on-stage, and giggled as we tried to gus each other’s answers to a seri of semi-tabloid qutns, such as “What’s the crazit place the two of you have ever ma whoopee?

Both seemed more tertg than the homos om Newlywed Game aboard the gay Love Boat was a whole different show. Host Danny Williams, a edian and gay-cise legend, axed hont, hilar, and shockgly tailed answers out of three gay upl.

It was cidly not a show for the general ’s the big difference between all-gay and general cisg: gay cis are signed for a specific dience. Dpe the gay muny’s clamourg for acceptance mastream society, we have many distct attribut, and they really e out when we’re separated om the mastream, pecially by of open ocean.

We drs down for a pool party, then drs up for a formal dner, only to take all off three hours later for an unrwear other big difference: on gay cis, same-sex upl n hold hands, smooch, and b suntan oil all over each other public total cis tend to st more than regular on, but when you nsir the number of gay-foced entertaers they brg onboard, the dollars actually make sense. After all, the reputatn of 20 years of gay travellers preced : we’re wildly fun, pole, and we tip really well.

We were lighted to see them olickg together the wav at Puerto Vallarta’s gay beach. Whether on Prcs or one of the other pani offerg all-gay cis, the Love Boat will soon be makg another n—a n so fun uld only be gay.

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