A Place for Everyone | LGBTQIA+ and Gay Vatns | The Dun Rort

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•  MICHIGAN LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY MICHIGAN TRAVEL GUI
•  MICHIGAN LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• HOW THE LARGT GAY RORT THE MIDWT IS MICHIGAN'S "BIBLE BELT"
• OUT OF TOWN: GAY FUN SGATUCK, MICHIGAN
• SGATUCK, MICHIGAN – LIVE A GAY-FRIENDLY RORT TOWN

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

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Dcriptn:There’s somethg for everyone at The Dun, Michigan’s premier gay rort, and one of the largt LGBTQ entertament plex the Midwt. Party and play at Michigan’s only gay rort, and see why visors om all over the untry choose the Dun for their gay iendly vatn here Sgatuck, Michigan.

GAY MICHIGAN TRAVEL GUI

Enjoy a four seasons gay nightclub (The Club) featurg the untry’s top DJs, a baret wh live entertament (Show Bar) – Summer weekends (May – October), one of the bt outdoor pat gay bars Michigan (The Deck), a game room that overlooks the ma bar and ck (Vyl Lounge), poolsi drks and entertament all summer long (Splash) and other activi at the Dun! Wele to, the travel gui to the gay iendly small towns of Douglas and Sgatuck, Michigan. Here, you will fd the rmatn you need to vis the Sgatuck Douglas area, one of the bt gay travel statns the U.

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

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HOW THE LARGT GAY RORT THE MIDWT IS MICHIGAN'S "BIBLE BELT"

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OUT OF TOWN: GAY FUN SGATUCK, MICHIGAN

Gay travelers n fd a good time the gay muni of Douglas and Sgatuck. Although Sgatuck-Douglas ss what’s known to be the Bible belt of the state, ’s also home to a vatn statn to a large gay muny. Michigan Rad’s Ey Fox reports on how Sgatuck-Douglas beme the gay rort of the Midwt.

Scher and his partner n a Bed and Breakfast his spare time, Schrr has been workg on a project wh the Sgatuck-Douglas Historil Society to tell the story of how the gay muny me to be. As turns out, gay men and women have been g to Sgatuck-Douglas for a long time. Scher says that’s where the gay muny gathered for more than a century.

We don’t know if those naked men were necsarily gay, but Schrr says the gay populatn did start to take off around 1910 when the Art Instute of Chigo opened up a summer program Sgatuck, lled Ox-Bow. “A lot of people who attend Ox-Bow, a lot of the creative typ maybe were gay men and women, ” Schrr Ox-Bow was tablished, the artsy muny and Chigo urbani were travelg to Sgatuck-Douglas and more gay people started hangg out at the dun.

SGATUCK, MICHIGAN – LIVE A GAY-FRIENDLY RORT TOWN

At that time Grand Rapids wasn’t a safe place for gay people. “If you were known to be gay or somethg like that the police would harass you and want you to give them the nam of anyone you knew that happened to be gay, ” Jenngs says. ”Jenngs would pe to Sgatuck on the weekends to bartend at the facto gay bar town, lled The Blue Tempo, unr the guise that he was makg more money for the fay.

Scher says back when Carl Jenngs was bartendg at The Blue Tempo, there was actually a law that said that you uld not serve alhol to homosexuals. “Around two the morng, when the bars would let out, there was a ltle hot dog stand on the rner, about a block or block and half away, and que often there would be nontatns between gay persons and what I would refer to as maybe some redneck trouble makers, ” Jenngs Blue Tempo burned down 1969.

There wasn’t a gay bar town for another after that. By the early 1980s Jenngs had e out to his fay and he and his new partner wanted to start up a gay rort and bar the the Sgatuck Cy Council wouldn’t grant them a liquor license.

The Dun Rort is now touted as the largt gay rort the Midwt, wh around 80 rooms.

There were bomb threats and young men would try to break r wdshields the parkg lot wh baseball Jenngs says the gay populatn is much more accepted and tegrated to the muny the n see that at play at Douglas’s Friday night waterg hole—a rtrant lled Everyday People.

He says there’s always a large mix of people that de at his rtrant, but says there’s also a large gay crowd that shows up on Friday nights. “Friday nights have been dubbed, not by me but by a lot of our guts, they dub as Fri-GAY nights, ” Balmer a room of about 50 people, about a dozen guys are gathered the middle, huggg and greetg one of those men is Bobby Carlson. Like the first gay wave a century earlier, they have a place where they n pe om the cy, relax and feel like they belong.

Although matas a relatively low profile outsi the regn, the charmg and artsy “tw towns” of Sgatuck and Douglas are the most signifint gay rort statn the Midwt.

Generally, when people mentn Sgatuck they’re also referrg to the neighborg village of Douglas, which share the same very helpful tourism office; the Sgatuck-Douglas Visors Bure () is actually where many of the area’s gay-owned bs and hom are.

The two-town regn is highly pact and accsible, although a handful of gay-owned acmodatns are outlyg areas, a 10- to 20-mute drive away. Gays and lbians tend to ngregate more at the northern sectn of the beach.

Gay-owned Zg Eat Drk () is a stylish spot wh a hip bar up ont, two different romantic outdoor seatg areas, and an art-filled dg room. The largt gay rort the entire Midwt, this highly popular rort has a great range of acmodatns optns, cludg large two-bedroom ttag, simple and ntemporary standard rooms two motel-type buildgs, and even barga-priced “bunk rooms” ial for sgl.

Also gay-owned and highly remend is the Blue Star Motel (), which is wh walkg distance of Douglas shoppg and dg, and their newt acmodatn, the Starle Rort (), which opened sprg 2015. Sgatuck is home to one of the bt gay Michigan beach and statns for gay and lbian vatns the Uned Stat: Oval Beach Sgatuck.

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#4 Bt Inland Gay Beach (OutTraveler). Wh s own gay and lbian sectn, Oval Beach is a perfect statn for gay and lbian vatns.

It’s no surprise that travelers fd to be one of the bt gay Michigan beach! From the parkg lot, walk right (north) to the gay sectn. Unfettable Gay And Lbian Vatns In The Oval Beach Area.