Europe's Top Gay Hotels & Rorts 2023 - Travel Gay

Contents:

• ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• 10 THGS THAT MIGHT HAPPEN WHEN YOU STAY AT A GAY HOTEL
• BLUE MOON RORT FOR GAY MEN
• JAPAN'S 'LOVE HOTELS' ACCED OF ANTI-GAY DISCRIMATN
• 14 OF THE BT GAY-ONLY HOTELS & GUTHO THE WORLD
• GAY IENDLY HOTELSGOG TOGOG TOCHECK-CHECK-OUTGUTSSEARCHGAY IENDLY HOTELS
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• EUROPE'S TOP GAY HOTELS & RORTS 2023
• GAY WASHGTON DC
• AXELBEACH MIAMI
• JAGUARS ASSOCIATE STRENGTH ACH MAXEN OUT AS GAY, A FIRST FOR U.S.-BASED MALE PRO SPORTS LEAGU

ACTIVISTS NMN VLENCE AGAST LGBTQ MUNY ST. VCENT, WHERE GAY SEX IS ILLEGAL

He had been anonymo until Wednday's his openg statement, Ziegler emphasized that he is a gay man and a registered Democrat who has been acced of betrayg his party. Vcent and the Grenad, where gay sex is still homelsns to ongog physil and verbal abe, the gay muny the small natn of some 100, 000 people says is unr nstant threat.

JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY

Vcent, anal sex is punishable by up to 10 years prison, while “gross cency” wh another person of the same sex is punishable by up to five years, acrdg to lonial-era laws that are mon the socially nservative Caribbean rarely voked, the rights group and a lol activist said the laws help legimize hostily and abe agast gay people.

”In July 2019, two gay men om St. Vcent who are livg abroad filed a se to challenge lol laws crimalizg gay sex that activists say should be stck down. ”Human Rights Watch terviewed more than 20 members of the island’s LGBTQ muny who shared their stori but were not intified to protect them, notg that lol police are often openly discrimatory toward gay people who seek help.

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One gay man relled how his classmat beat him and broke his arm. Several reported that their fai are homophobic and physilly and verbally abed them, g them to bee homels and promptg some to nsir also stggle to fd jobs amid a high unemployment rate and said they face discrimatn, cludg a 19-year-old gay man who said he has rorted to beggg: “Sometim I am so hungry. It is hard for me as a gay this untry.

”Six English-speakg natns the Caribbean still crimalize gay sex, cludg Domi, Jamai, Guyana, Grenada and St. Gonsalv prevly noted there’s been a history of discrimatn agast gay people.

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That kd of irratnal homophobia is entirely unacceptable.

”González wh Human Rights Watch noted that 2019, the ernment held a workshop for public employe on the importance of rpectg gay rights, a rare move for a nservative Caribbean natn.

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-- Jaguars assistant strength and ndng ach Kev Maxen has bee the first male ach major Amerin men's profsnal sports to publicly e out as gay, tellg he ma the cisn bee he didn't want to hi who he is any longer and to possibly spire others siar 's a cisn and move that drew praise and support om owner Shad Khan, who was a vol and emphatic supporter of a cy ordance that expand protectns on the grounds of sexual orientatn, genr inty and genr exprsn.

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Outsi lebacker Carl Nassib beme the first active NFL player to e out as gay and to play a game Associated Prs ntributed to this report. Whout fail, some of the thgs I've seen and done hotels -- gay hotels particular -- do a fe job. And gay hotels — appears — are leadg the charge.

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Every gay hotel that I’ve vised hosts a party of some sort. That beg said, even LGBT-iendly ci like Barcelona and Lisbon, there aren’t the same ncentrated gay neighborhoods that exist New York and Los Angel. Members of Boys Jt Want to Have Fun, one of Lisbon’s gay sports leagu, hold social hours at the hotel, and plenty of lols popped for a drk durg my night there.

In May this year, at the height of the ronavis’s first wave, two gay men livg together Amagasaki, wtern Japan, thought they would ease the boredom of the untry’s soft lockdown wh a vis to a love hotel, where upl pay for short stays to have rather than the reee time they had anticipated, the uple, their mid-30s, did not even get as far as the door to their room.

But this time the language was overtly homophobic. “Gay men don’t e the facili properly, ” the female receptnist reportedly told them, whout explanatn.

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While Japan’s thoands of love hotels wele lns of heterosexual upl search of the privacy and timacy nied them at home, gay upl say they are routely turned away. Dpe risg awarens of LGBT rights, Japan is the only G7 untry that do not regnise same-sex marriag, and much of the untry’s multibilln-dollar love hotel dtry accepts only heterosexual Ishikawa, Japan’s first openly gay MP, timated that of 143 love hotels Tokyo’s Toshima ward, where he began his reer as an assembly member, 30 refed entry to same-sex expectatn that they will be rejected means many gay men have e to regard love hotels as off-lims, acrdg to one member of Tokyo’s LGBT muny, who told the Guardian: “Nothg dampens the prospect of a romantic eveng out more than a homophobic hotel policy.

”Akira Nishiyama, assistant executive director of the Japan Alliance for LGBT Legislatn, said hotel rejectns of same-sex upl were mon, even though is illegal unr a 2018 revisn to the hotel bs law, which stat that hotels “should not reject guts on the basis of their sexual orientatn or genr inty” the rare ocsns that ctomers report a hotel for homophobia, thori simply offer the proprietors “admistrative guidance” – a measure mpaigners say lacks legal love hotels, so named after the first of their kd – Hotel Love – opened Osaka the late 1960s, origally tered to upl sperate to pe their extend fai, who tradnally lived unr one roof, for a few hours of a cle the young populatn, the rise sgle hoeholds, and the pre-panmic boost ternatnal tourism have prompted many to unrgo image makeovers to appeal to travellers, cludg sgle guts lookg for paratively cheap and fortable a rult, the number of hotels wh an overtly sexual theme has dwdled to ls than 10, 000 recent years, pared wh around 30, 000 two s ago. “We uld have people g om all over the world to next year’s Olympics, and if gay upl are nied entry to love hotels will not reflect well on Japan.

”Although some webs have started listg “gay-iendly” love hotels, Matsunaka said Japan’s refal to fully accept the LGBT muny, exemplified by the ban on same-sex marriag, ma homophobia socially acceptable. “There are a few love hotels that accept same-sex upl, like the ni-chome gay district of Tokyo, but ’s very limed, ” he said. Gay iendly HotelsPopular Dtatns for Gay iendly HotelsHight rated Gay iendly Hotels around the WorldArib 33, BarcelonaFully refundableRerve now, pay when you stay8.

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The gay bar isn’t what ed to New York, at least, a scene recently domated by drag nights and dis lights now clus rovg dner seri like Queer Soup Night, POC-foced dance parti like Bubble_T and Papi Juice, and Brooklyn bars where you n get your astrologil chart read, like Mood Rg—all seekg to make gay nightlife more diverse and clive. Meanwhile, tradnal gay bars are stgglg to survive, not bee of lack of mand, but bee of risg rents and high overhead sts.

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The spectm of optns has never been ’s this climate that No Bar at the Standard East Village opened on Wednday, one of the first gay bars si a major natnal hotel cha. Now, wh No Bar, she’s hopg to brg this subculture to a cidly mastream York’s first gay bars opened the 1950s as a rponse to a social scene that effectively exclud gay people by law. The gay bars were tend to be safe havens, but they were largely owned and patronized by cisgenr gay men, a trend that persisted the gay nightlife muny for Nñ, the founr of Papi Juice, a monthly dance party started 2013 terg to queer and trans people of lor, says that most of the gay bars he vised when he moved to New York 2011 still f that scriptn.

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”Stevie Huynh, the -founr of Bubble_T, a queer, Asian dance party found 2017, said that as an Asian man, he was a target of discrimatn at gay bars. “It is still graed mastream gay culture.

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And the Dalloway, a high-end vany project on the Lower East Si opened by Kim Stolz of Ameri's Next Top Mol and Amanda Leigh Dunn of the realy show The Real L Word, closed wh a Walsh, the owner of East Village gay bar Phoenix Bar, which jt celebrated s twentieth anniversary, said she fears that a bar a place like the Standard would lack the muny feel of more sual, legacy spots like hers, focg on profs more than on the people serv. “A lot of clubs do gay nights bee that’s where the money is, ” she says. Acrdg to Michael Stto of HoopsHype, the Lakers are among several teams who uld potentially have tert Rudy Gay.