Gay Friendly Events and Attractns around the Rsian River - Sonoma Magaze

Contents:

• GAY WE WEEKEND SONOMA
• GAY FRIENDLY EVENTS AND ATTRACTNS AROUND THE RSIAN RIVER
• GAY RSIAN RIVER TRAVEL GUI
• RSIAN RIVER, GAY GUI – A WARM AND WELG WE COUNTRY DTATN

GAY WE WEEKEND SONOMA

Gay We Weekend Sonoma. And wh hundreds of revelers town for the weekend, ’s a perfect time to showse Sonoma County’s gay-iendly attractns, many of them wh drivg distance of Guerneville. The area’s gay populary dat back to the mid-1970s, when s first gay rort, the Rsian River Lodge, opened the Fortville lotn that now holds the upsle Farmhoe Inn.

GAY FRIENDLY EVENTS AND ATTRACTNS AROUND THE RSIAN RIVER

Philalphia transplant Peter Penr followed 1977 by takg over Murphy’s rort Guerneville and remakg to Fife’s, a gay rort that lasted nearly 30 years. Guerneville still boasts the only two gay bars Sonoma County — the landmark Rabow Cattle Company and the r3 Hotel bar (formerly the Triple R). In late 2014, retired gay San Francis Police Department members Chuck Limbert and John Stephens opened the fire-hoe themed 3 Alarm Grill, featurg very tasty Midwtern fort food.

Gay Stays. Although known as a gay hotel, the hotel’s owner emphasiz that s guts are a mix of gay and straight.

The hotel’s name is a nod to the long-closed gay Woods rort near the Armstrong Woods. A gay uple took over Guerneville’s popular Johnson’s Beach rort last year, and they are already drawg rave reviews for recent improvements.

GAY RSIAN RIVER TRAVEL GUI

The Highlands Rort This 10-un, pl 10 mpse, property is the gayt of the rorts, although is owned by a straight and obvly very gay-iendly uple. Johnson’s Beach A gay uple took over Guerneville’s popular Johnson’s Beach rort and ncsn last year, and they already are drawg rave reviews for improvements ma to the rort’s b rooms and expansive mpse.

As wh s prev owners, the guts are mixed and gay iendly.

The biggt gay event Sonoma County is not this weekend’s Pri celebratn, but Lazy Bear Weekend, which celebrat s 20th year Aug. (Although Santa Rosa’s last gay bar closed 2001, LGBT-foced gathergs n be found on the Sonoma GayDar Facebook page. Of urse, the we dtry is one of Sonoma County’s biggt draws, but Gay We Weekend may be the bt way to experience .

RSIAN RIVER, GAY GUI – A WARM AND WELG WE COUNTRY DTATN

Attendg Gay We Weekend is a great way to explore Sonoma County we.