ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tens of thoands of LGBTQ+ people are flockg to central Florida this weekend to go on theme park ris, mgle wh stumed performers, dance at all-night parti and lounge poolsi at hotels durg Gay Days, a s-long tradn.
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- THE GAY/HIPSTER X
- LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
- ‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
- INAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVY
- LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
- FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS CEL AND DANGERO
- THERE GO THE METRO: HOW AND WHY BOHEMIANS, ARTISTS AND GAYS AFFECT REGNAL HOG VALU
THE GAY/HIPSTER X
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LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
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Gay transplants have been relotg and vatng the island paradise of Key Wt sce the 1970s, wh gay and lbian gutho proliferatg to meet the mand. Along wh shops and boutiqu, you’ll fd most of the town’s gay bars along walkable Duval Street, cludg Aqua Nightclub, wh s fun shows, and La Te Da Hotel and Rtrant, which has a poolsi lounge, piano bar and baret room.
‘WE SAY GAY’: FLORIDA’S LARGT PRI PARA DRAWS HUNDREDS OF THOANDS
There are clive spots the sun for LGBTQ travelers throughout Florida, but the gay-iendly statns really roll out the rabow rpet. * florida gay index *
It opened the untry’s first LGBT Visors Center at the rner of 11th Street and Washgton Avenue as a rource for gay travelers. The cy’s legendary Whe Party Week November is the natn’s olst and largt HIV/AIDS fundraiser, drawg more than 10, 000 gay and lbian visors for high-energy dance parti hosted by top DJs and performers, edy shows, sports and recreatnal events. Along wh South Beach’s eye-tchg llectn of welg Art De gems and boutique hotels, the beach is a huge draw, pecially the “gay beach” at 12th Street and Ocean Drive.
The GaYBOR District – a aln of gay and gay-iendly bs that began on the wt end of Tampa’s historic Ybor Cy neighborhood – is now a formidable prence this former cigar-rollg, Lat immigrant enclave. Like the rt of Ybor Cy, GaYbor has a thrivg night life, pumped up by dance mic at Seventh Avenue hot spots, such as Honeypot. Fortunately for film buffs, the Tampa Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival – one of the untry’s largt and longt-nng pennt gay film ftivals – hosts events and films year-round, but the height of activy happens October, when more than 8, 000 people attend films, parti and awards ceremoni.
Pete is the historic Grand Central District and s adjacent gayborhood of Kenwood, wh s streets led wh Craftsmen-style ttag om the 1920s. Pete’s Pri Weekend is one of Florida’s largt gay pri events, drawg more than 100, 000 marchers to a downtown night-time para the Grand Central District, as well as a street ft and ncert, every June.
INAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVYINAPPROPRIATE, IRRELEVANT, IMPORTANT: RICHARD FLORIDA’S ‘GAY INX’ AND THE QUT FOR CREATIVY
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What started as a small group of gays and lbians drsg red and spendg the day at Walt Disney World 1991 has grown to one of the largt gay pri events the world, attractg over 150, 000 gay and lbian travelers to Orlando on the first Saturday of every June. Gay Days at Orlando Area Theme Parks is now a week-long fete that floods all of Orlando’s theme parks wh a sea of red-shirt atten. Sophistited and artsy, Sarasota has veloped a loyal gay followg, thanks to s cultural diversns, which range om the Sarasota Ballet to Queen Bgo Bonanza at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre historic downtown Sarasota’s East End.
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Now, some ntroversial new rearch om Carnegie Mellon Universy suggts ci that want to promote high tech dtry should make themselv attractive to gay men.
LGBTQ+ PEOPLE FLOCK TO FLORIDA FOR GAY DAYS FTIVAL
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He pared a list of powerhoe high tech ci assembled by the Milken Instute California, wh the gay x - a list of ci wh disproportnately large gay populatns - piled by another rearcher lookg at siar qutns. He says the gay populatn is simply a marker for a diverse environment that fosters creativy and novatn - key gredients for succs high technology.
It's where the diversy that's a part of higher-nsy urban livg, gay neighbors and so on, would not be nsired to be a posive attribute, " says Marken.
In fact, the ias Florida's 2002 book have e to vogue and gaed a certa amount of stat over the past few years, wh dog-eared paperbacks of "Rise of the Creative Class" landg on the sks of a disparate (and sometim sperate) range of profsnals: urban planners, muny revelopers, enomists, gay activists, fancers, curators, velopers, micians and so on. Those even further to the right blanched at Florida's notn that succsful rurgence was predited and even helped by ncentratns of gay and ethnic populatns.
FLORIDA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL IS CEL AND DANGERO
It was St. Petersburg’s first LGBTQ Pri march sce the onslght of the Covid-19 panmic, and jt three months after Florida’s ernor signed what crics ll the “Don’t Say Gay” law. * florida gay index *
Clearly, the thought that queers and people of lor were anythg but talkg pots to sre the populace to reelectn on an gay-marriage-cum-anti-immigrant platform was pletely beyond the pale. In your first book you state that diversy and pecially the prence of a large gay muny a cy dit a level of tolerance that is a prerequise for urban revelopment the creative era.
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THERE GO THE METRO: HOW AND WHY BOHEMIANS, ARTISTS AND GAYS AFFECT REGNAL HOG VALU
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We're gog to stop this gay marriage thg and we're gog to stop women's rights, we're gog to make sure not as many immigrants will get to your untry and we're gog to make sure terrorists don't take over your ci! It's fear that the enomy is gog somewhere that giv advantag to the people who live gay neighborhoods, who live plac like Washgton, D. It'll bee an tolerant place, the kd of place where l are drawn the sand, where gays don't feel fortable, where young people don't feel fortable, where immigrants and newers don't feel fortable.
Let’s be clear: the “Don’t Say Gay” bill will do real and lastg harm, wre Am Paley and Joe Snrs. * florida gay index *
The platiffs Thursday’s lawsu clu Equaly Florida, an LGBTQ advocy anizatn; Fay Equaly, a New York-based nonprof; a 17-year-old sophomore Palmetto, Florida, who intifi as gay; an 18-year-old senr Osprey, Florida, who intifi as gay; the parent of a transgenr fifth-grar Florida; three same-sex upl livg Florida wh young children; and a middle-school public teacher Grand Ridge, Florida. VI-MI District The home of GLBCC - "THE CENTER" and a te L-bi-gay shoppg district, wh many fe gay owned and operated shops offerg LBiGay-specific war.