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18, 2005Correctn AppendFOR s, the remote Florida town of Key Wt has been a refuge for gay tourists, a kd of Southern bookend to Provcetown, Mass. -- a place where drag shows, all-male gut ho (plete wh munal hot tubs) and a spir of unbridled hedonism attracted everyone om closeted Midwt acuntants to Tennsee recently, soarg real tate pric and the populary of events like Fantasy Ft -- an annual bacchanal of of paras, masquera balls and celebry look-alike ntts that began as an AIDS fundraiser 1979 and has sce evolved to a dnken open-air party that would be right at home on aterny row -- have begun to attract a more heterogeno crowd, one that n at tim make Key Wt look like any other tourist town gettg ready for Sprg n feel the change at the Lighthoe Court, a popular -- some would say notor -- gay-only Whehead Street guthoe that recently went "all wele, " the lol phemism for acceptg heterosexual guts as well as gays.