Article on chang Key Wt, Fla, once a remote refuge for gay tourists, which, bee of soarg real tate pric and populary of events like Fantasy Ft, has begun to attract a more heterogeno crowd; photos; map (M)
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- HOW GAY/LBIAN IS KEY WT THE DAYS? - KEY WT FOM
- THE GAY MUNY KEY WT? - KEY WT FOM
- THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
- DO KEY WT HAVE A HIGH GAY POPULATN?
- 9 BT KEY WT GAY RORTS, HOTELS & GUTHO
- TOP 10 THGS TO DO GAY KEY WT
- IS KEY WT OK FOR KIDS? IS TOO GAY? (NO DISRPECT TEND) (LARGO: HOME, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)
HOW GAY/LBIAN IS KEY WT THE DAYS? - KEY WT FOM
Answer 11 of 46: Is Key Wt maly gay/lbian? I am not p and have seen a gay para before as Iive Hoton (and have nothg agast gays/lbians) but before I make a trip to Key Wt I'd like to know HOW gay is the days? * key west gay population *
-- a place where drag shows, all-male gut ho (plete wh munal hot tubs) and a spir of unbridled hedonism attracted everyone om closeted Midwt acuntants to Tennsee recently, soarg real tate pric and the populary of events like Fantasy Ft -- an annual bacchanal of of paras, masquera balls and celebry look-alike ntts that began as an AIDS fundraiser 1979 and has sce evolved to a dnken open-air party that would be right at home on aterny row -- have begun to attract a more heterogeno crowd, one that n at tim make Key Wt look like any other tourist town gettg ready for Sprg n feel the change at the Lighthoe Court, a popular -- some would say notor -- gay-only Whehead Street guthoe that recently went "all wele, " the lol phemism for acceptg heterosexual guts as well as gays. Some of is a generatnal shift, as younger gay travelers n take their choice of gay-iendly statns like South Beach, Palm Sprgs, Puerto Vallarta and even -- unlikely as seems -- the shifts are a reflectn of more signifint chang Key Wt self.
Once a low-st retreat for those who wanted to get away om all -- both gay and straight -- is now one of the most expensive real tate markets the untry. In the pool, men fluorcent bikis stood submerged almost to their nostrils, motnls like Everglas alligators stalkg a survey of gay tourists nducted by the Key Wt Bs Guild, several rponnts specifilly mentned the Atlantic Shor as their favore thg about Key Wt. "At Pearl's Rabow, a former cigar factory that is the island's only women-only guthoe, Lorae Quigley remaed optimistic about the island's gay-iendly inty.
And the southernmost cy the ntental Uned Stat is more than jt a gay vatn hot spot: About 30 percent of Key Wt’s 25, 000 rints intify as part of the muny.
THE GAY MUNY KEY WT? - KEY WT FOM
* key west gay population *
Most gay and lbian weddgs Key Wt and the Florida Keys are timate gathergs wh fewer than 30 guts, acrdg to Guy Ross, LGBT sal manager, Monroe County Tourist Development Council.
“Perhaps the only ‘change’ that we are seeg now wh the advent of marriage equaly is the cln of more fay members and more mastream iends gay and lbian ceremoni, ” he said. A variety of gay-owned and gay-iendly hotels also roll out the wele mat for LGBTQ+ visors — cludg the male-only Island Hoe and Equator Rort hotels, as well as Alexanr’s Guthoe and a variety of upsle properti welg all travelers.
THE METRO AREAS WH THE LARGT, AND SMALLT, GAY POPULATNS
Wtern regns top the list, perhaps the most tailed analysis yet of the mography of gay and lbian Ameri. * key west gay population *
#12 on the list of "Top 101 ci wh the largt percentage of likely gay men upl (unted as self-reported male-male unmarried-partner hoeholds) (populatn 5, 000+)".
#19 on the list of "Top 101 ci wh the largt percentage of likely homosexual hoeholds (unted as self-reported same-sex unmarried-partner hoeholds) (populatn 5, 000+)".
Alexanr’s Guthoe, a gay-owned and operated retreat that primarily serv the gay and lbian muny, is the perfect place to settle for your gay travel trip to Key Wt. Gay-iendly beach gathergs, excg nightlife, dance parti, jet-skig tours and snorkelg trips will keep you by, and a number of shops, rtrants and acmodatns offer special als.
DO KEY WT HAVE A HIGH GAY POPULATN?
The bt Key Wt gay rorts, gay hotels, and gay gutho. Equator Rort, Island Hoe, Alexanr’s Guthoe, The Sat Hotel & more. * key west gay population *
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9 BT KEY WT GAY RORTS, HOTELS & GUTHO
Disver the top thgs to do gay Key Wt, a hedonistic island paradise among the Florida Keys archipelago. * key west gay population *
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A new analysis of Gallup survey data offers the most tailed timat yet about where people who intify as gay, lbian, bisexual or transgenr Gallup analysis fds the largt ncentratns the Wt — and not jt the expected plac like San Francis and Portland, Ore. It seems to be a kd of regnal pal of gay life, attractg people om other parts of Utah and the Mormon the other hand, some of the East Coast plac wh famo gay neighborhoods, cludg New York, Miami and Washgton, have a smaller percentage of their populatn who intify as gay — roughly average for a big metropolan area. ” Wilson/The New York TimSan FrancisHistorians often trace San Francis’s role as a gay refuge part to World War II, when the Navy discharged gay sailors, bee of their sexualy, at Treasure Island San Francis Bay.
He is creded wh turng the Castro district of the 1970s to perhaps the untry’s most visible gay neighborhood, a muny and tourist statn that still hums unr a rabow San Francis has ls of a pull, as other parts of the untry have bee ls hostile, the cy is still a statn, cludg for transgenr people. People the ral, nservative part of the state and neighborg stat have flocked to Portland, as have people priced out of the Wt Coast’s other big, gay-iendly ci. Many of them have fought for some of the untry’s fartht-reachg gay rights polici, cludg the recent expansn of Mediid verage for treatment like hormone therapy and unselg for transgenr people.
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Still, Jeana Frazzi, executive director of Basic Rights Oregon, says Portland has work to do before n feel like a haven for many transgenr people and gay people of factor behd the data — Portland and elsewhere — may be people’s willgns to tell a pollster that they’re gay, lbian or bisexual. Gay and lbian Amerins are not substantially more ted than the rt of the populatn, acrdg to Gary Gat, a -thor of “The Gay and Lbian Atlas, ” who has studied the Gallup data.
7 another aspect of the Mormon culture — the importance of muny and fay — go a long way toward explag the pattern, people Salt Lake Cy many gay people who were raised Mormon (or L. “If wasn’t an accint of birth that you were born San Francis and happened to be queer, I don’t thk there’s the immediate pull that you mt move there anymore, ” said Douglas Ray, who teach queer lerature Birmgham and eded “The Queer South, ” an other large metro areas wh relatively small gay populatns clu Hoton, Memphis, Nashville and Raleigh, N. )Before this Gallup analysis, the most tailed portra of gay mography was the Cens Bure timat of same-sex upl, cludg an analysis by the Williams Instute at U.
IS KEY WT OK FOR KIDS? IS TOO GAY? (NO DISRPECT TEND) (LARGO: HOME, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL)
Manhattan most likely has a larger percentage of gay and lbian rints than the New York regn as a the data is affected by the feral ernment’s fn of metropolan areas.
Key Wt is ternatnally known as a gay mec, attractg more than 250, 000 visors to this top LGBTQ vatn spot that celebrat openns and pri — the entire statn is renowned for s welg and acceptg attu. Ri the entire stretch of Florida’s Overseas Highway and eventually, you’ll reach Gay Key Wt, a hedonistic island paradise among the Florida Keys archipelago, shaped by LGBT pneers of the 1970s. Forever set to vatn mo, every day Key Wt is a glterg sun-soaked celebratn packed wh a plethora of wild gay annual events such as Tropil Heat and Fantasyft, topped off wh all the drag nightlife a queen uld wish for on Duval Street.
As well as where to fd the majory of gay hotels Key Wt has to offer, Duval Street and Old Key Wt happen to be home to great gay nightlife and more, cludg galleri, historic Spanish mansns and all the bt plac to enjoy a Cuban ffee and perhaps a cigar.