The Gay Pri events Europe worth travellg for 2022 | Euronews

Contents:

• GAY PRI EVENTS CROATIA
• THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022
• CROATIA’S ADRIATIC AST GETS S FIRST OPENLY GAY BAR
• GAY CROATIA TRAVEL GUI
• GAY SAILG HOLIDAYS
• GAY SAILG HOLIDAYS
• ZAGREB GAY PRI 2021 ANALYSIS: ISSU STILL EXIST, PRI CELEBRAT HISTORY AND PRENT EQUALY
• GAY CROATIA TRAVEL GUI

GAY PRI EVENTS CROATIA

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis.

A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns! Now is the time to build a center which they will feel safe, ee, creative, and gay every day of the year, they said.

An LGBTQIA+ person is one who intifi as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual, or qutng and for members of this muny, travelg to Croatia is nsired to be fairly safe.

THE GAY PRI EVENTS EUROPE WORTH TRAVELLG FOR 2022

Up until recently, Zagreb was the only statn that offered any kd of queer culture and while that's changed slightly, the vibrant cy is still leadg when to gay-iendly venu. Luckily for LGBTQIA+ travelers, more and more ci are gettg on the gay-iendly bandwagon wh bars and clubs terg for the muny openg Spl, Rijeka, Osijek, Hvar, Rab, Rovj, and Dubrovnik recent tim.

Europe is set to explo wh LGBTQ+ energy this June as Gay Pri events kick off ci across the of the vibrant celebratns are returng after beg ncelled for two years nng amid the ronavis panmic.

Followg the para, many participants will head to Via San Gvanni Laterano, dubbed Rome’s gay street, to ntue celebratg s many gay bars and clubs will host special events that extend the ftivi well to the night when the whole street normally be one big open air party.

CROATIA’S ADRIATIC AST GETS S FIRST OPENLY GAY BAR

Cologne Gay Pri Cologne, GermanyJune 18th-July 3rdOne of the biggt LGBTQ+ events Europe tak place each year this historic German cy.

Cologne Gay Pri is the biggt LGBTQ+ celebratn Germany and will beg mid June this events will last a ltle over two weeks and will clu sports tournaments, nferenc, readgs and lots of ma events will take place durg the first weekend of July. In a gture of solidary wh Ukrae, the participants of both events will march together Equaly Para, which has been held the pal sce 2001, is the largt gay pri para central Europe. As they enjoyed the floats and affirmatns of support for LGBTQ+ persons, they also ponred polil headwds facg gay and trans Amerins portns of the the rner of Bnswick Street and Park Avenue Rochter, llege stunts cheered the Pri Para om their porch Saturday afternoon, watchg the last of the floats and marchers.

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”-- Maryann BatllePri Para: A superhero for a dayPayton Barn, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe at the 2023 Rochter Pri Para, is a gay Black man livg Rochter. But you have to be you, no matter what, Barn Barn held a cellphone toward the Pri Para and shared a livtream of the joyful marchg happeng down Park, who wore a rabow flag like a super hero pe, is a gay Black man livg Rochter.

-- Maryann BatllePri Para float honors memory of advote Dick JackmanA Rochter Pri Para 2023 float honored gay rights advote Dick Jackman, who was born Buffalo and lived Rochter and died 2016.

Rabow balloons, a huge Pri flag wh a sey face and a thatch beach umbrella were among the r of a para float honor of gay rights advote Dick Jackman. Croatia’s Adriatic ast, long a mag for ternatnal tourists, has belatedly acquired s first openly gay bar, though many ctomers are straight people who jt enjoy s relaxed vibe the picturque settg of Dubrovnik’s Old Town. Loted amid the bbled streets and historic buildgs of the medieval port cy, “Milk” opened s doors last month and lol media say is the first dited gay bar on the Croatian ast, though there are other “gay-iendly” Now | Our bt subscriptn plan now has a special price.

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“This is the only official gay bar on (Croatia’s) Adriatic ast, which is extraordary bee Croatia is a major European tourist statn, ” said Igor Mlaric, 27, a lol journalist. “No matter how nservative and tradnal we are here, all kds of people e to Dubrovnik and there has always been gay tourism, even if there were no venu terg specifilly for them, ” said Mlaric, who is gay. Balkan untri rema mostly rather nservative on social issu and homophobia and discrimatn agast sexual mori are mon, often fueled by relig lears and right-wg polil parti.

Croatia legalised gay sex more than 40 years ago, when was still part of Yugoslavia, but spe the impact of mass tourism recent s, attus towards homosexualy have not changed markedly the stnchly Roman Catholic untry. Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728).

— Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Gay Croatia. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out.

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In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Gay Water, however, is out and proud. The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny. “Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh.

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He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water.

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“Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch.

Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said.