Gay-iendly towns red stat draw LGBTQ tourists: 'We're here to be normal for a weekend'

Contents:

• GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS
• GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
• A IENDLY MALE GAY BAR WH EXCELLENT... - HENRI'S JT ONE MORE
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS EUREKA SPRGS
•  ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY ARKANSAS TRAVEL GUI
• EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI

Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective. Makg Gay Headl and Gay History!

Gay Eureka Sprgs.

It uldn’t have happened to a nicer—or gayer—place. Te, the Arkansas Supreme Court put the procs on hold (temporarily), but history had been ma this ty gaytn mec and the news went viral.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS

To anyone who has vised the Gay Capal of the Ozarks, me as no surprise. This Victorian-era village on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac has been makg major gay history and headl for s. Wh a disproportnately large LGBT populatn and dozens of gay-owned B&Bs, rtrants, bars, art galleri and trendy shops, this scenic ltle rort town ntled the Ozark Mountas is also the first and only cy the state wh a Domtic Partnership Registry (open to non-rints) and the first and only cy the state to officially endorse marriage equaly.

“Our secret’s out, ” says the cy’s Gay Bs Guild (another first the state), “not even our streets are straight!

For gay travelers, has long been the premier travel statn the Mid-South regn of the untry, drawg thoands of gay visors each year om across the U.

GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'

S., particularly those who have been-there-done-that better known astal gay rorts. Intertgly, there are no exclively gay bars. All the waterg hol are gay/straight iendly.

“The gayt small town Ameri you’ve never heard of.

"Among North Ameri's Most Affordable Gay Vatn Towns. ” — Gay Travel. "Eureka Sprgs Among Top Five Bt Small Gay Ci.

A IENDLY MALE GAY BAR WH EXCELLENT... - HENRI'S JT ONE MORE

"On par wh Key Wt, Provcetown and Palm Sprgs as a gay vatn paradise. The Gay Scene Eureka Sprgs. Wh more bars per pa than anywhere else Arkansas, fdg gay nightlife is easy Eureka Sprgs.

View the Gay Scene Eureka Sprgs.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS EUREKA SPRGS

Gray had done all, or close to , his 60-pl years – the ary veteran has been a hairdrser, puter programmer, award-wng AIDS advote, and drag queen (he performed as Patti Le Plae Safe, a Miss Gay Ameri wner). Now he mans the ont sk at a motel-turned-LGBTQ-iendly rort, the Wanroo Lodge, owned by a gay uple who recently settled Eureka themselv. A nearly 70-foot-tall J statue gaz over a place once lled the “gayt small town Ameri.

Among the mm’s artifacts are vtage photos of a gay uple holdg hands and a woman drsed men’s cloth, he said. Out gay men and women started nng lucrative bs – Gary Eagen’s Sprg Street Pottery stud still stands. Soon, straight and gay upl were drsg drag as sultry saloon performers or macho wboys, pos that were “happily enuraged and monplace, ” Danos said.

What better place, they thought, to ri out the crazit days of their liv than a gay small town? But ’s a divi that s rints have mostly been able to bridge wh kdns, said David Avanzo, who speaks fondly of a Wanroo regular – “your typil Ozark man” – who once told Avanzo that he’d never met gay men before patronizg the lodge.

 ARKANSAS LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

The days, Taylor said he don’t even “thk about beg gay bee seems so normal here as a uple to go out among straight upl. A iend and former mayor was at the urthoe, too, and he married the uple on the spot – they beme the first male gay uple to legally marry Arkansas.

Wh a sizable LGBTQ muny and numero gay-owned and gay-iendly bs; Eureka Sprgs offers shops, galleri, outdoor activi and a wi variety of rtrants, bars, live mic and night life. Touted as the “Gay Capal of the Ozarks, ” Eureka Sprgs is on Vatner’s list of 22 Small LGBTQ-Friendly Ci the U.

It has been touted by other gay publitns as one of the “bt small gay ci”, “Gay Capal of the Ozarks”, and “the gayt small town Ameri”. Though there are no exclively gay bars or clubs, below are a uple of plac where you n enjoy the nightlife, cludg live mic or drag shows.

GAY ARKANSAS TRAVEL GUI

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! Image may be subject to pyrightWe are an all-male clothg optnal rort terg to gay, bi-sexual and straight men 18 years and olr.

EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

The outskirts offer no ht that this is one of the most gay-iendly small towns Ameri. Formally known as the “Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act”, purportedly exists to help bs by makg non-discrimatn l uniform across the Arkansas do not have a law banng anti-gay discrimatn, so the effect of SB202 is to ero the rights of gay people plac such as Eureka that want to protect state’s LGBT muny absorbed another blow on Thursday. Amid a natnal furore that prompted the origal proposals to be revised after crics said they would legally protect anti-gay discrimatn, the Republin-domated Arkansas legislature approved a “relig eedom” bill that do not give specific protectns agast unfair treatment based on sexual passed the Arkansas legislature last week: Senate Bill 939, the “Ten Commandments Monument Display Act”, which allows a privately fund display of the edicts to be erected on the state pol’s grounds.