This Gay Beach Is World’s Send Bt Skny-Dippg Spot

Contents:

• OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH
• WHERE THE BOYS ARE: THE 5 GAYT BEACH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
• PRIVATE, A SEPARATE "GAY" AREA, NUDY - LTLE BEACH
• THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY
• THIS GAY BEACH IS WORLD’S SEND BT SKNY-DIPPG SPOT
• WHERE ARE THE NEW JERSEY GAY BEACH?

OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH

From gay Florida party statns such as Miami, Key Wt and Fort Lrdale to mellow, seclud spots St. Pete Beach and Sarasota, here are some of bt gay beach Florida. The most popular gay beach Miami is mostly a hangout for men, but you’ll also fd lbians and straights soakg up the sun wh lols.

It’s across the street om the Palace Rtrant & Bar, a gay hangout that has been welg sunbathers for the past 25 years. Bt time to vis: In March, when the Wter Party, the biggt gay beach party North Ameri, tak place.

At 2½ long, Smathers is big pared to other beach on this ty island of Key Wt, one of the natn’s top statns for gay travelers. Info: Gay Key Wt Visor Center. The most popular gay beach  Fort Lrdale is across the street om the Rz-Carlton and wh blocks of some of the cy’s gay rorts and gutho.

WHERE THE BOYS ARE: THE 5 GAYT BEACH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

One of the wt ast’s premiere gay beach, bohemian Sunset Beach is on the southern tip of St.

Bt tim to vis: In October for the Tampa Bay Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, or June for St.

Info: Tampa Bay Internatnal Gay and Lbian Films Ftival, St. Bt tim to vis: In October for the Tampa Bay Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, ; June for St.

PRIVATE, A SEPARATE "GAY" AREA, NUDY - LTLE BEACH

Smathers Beach Key Wt, one of the natn’s top statns for gay travelers. Pete Beach, the breathtakg, stic North Beach area of this unty park has a northern expanse near the end of the island where gays and lbians ngregate. The quiet northern reach of this whe sand key is popular wh gay sunbathers Sarasota.

THE BT LGBTQI + AND GAY BEACH SYDNEY

There’s an unofficial gay meet-up at Guana’s first beach accs pot, reached by a boardwalk that wds down a 40-foot-tall dune system to a priste stretch of seclud sand. Pensala Beach cy near the Alabama borr may not seem like the most gay-iendly spot, but ’s been a beach getaway for LGBTQ folks om the South for a long time, particularly for Gay Memorial Day Weekend, which started rmally the 1980s and has grown to a huge gatherg, drawg thoands to late-night circu parti wh well-known profsnal DJs and rmal tent parti on the beach.

Bt time to vis: May for the Pensala Gay Memorial Day Weekend. About 20 mut north of South Beach, Hlover Park Beach is one of the bt-known clothg-optnal beach Florida and ’s gay-iendly. Only the north part of the 1½-e priste, whe stretch of sand at this gay beach the Miami area is legated for urban nu sunbathers.

THIS GAY BEACH IS WORLD’S SEND BT SKNY-DIPPG SPOT

Stonewall Beach, a swath of sand near the Pompano Beach pier, was unoffilly named by lol gay rints on the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, a seri of spontaneo monstratns followg police raids New York's Greewich Village 1969.

Stephen Milner's book 'Goat Trails' studi the history and lotns of remote California beach that gay men vised over the s. Goat Trails exam the gay nu cisg beach that are isolated and hidn up and down the ast of California.

Bee of this, the beach have ma popular for men cisg for anonymo gay sex. Photo of John Carroll by Loris Guzzetta A gut post by Bill Gordon, an LAist rear who is always on the hunt for the bt gay many Amerins are preparg to bid adi to the season wh Labor Day weekend, those of lucky enough to live this part of the untry have several more weeks of warm weather to olic .

WHERE ARE THE NEW JERSEY GAY BEACH?

Wh the holiday weekend around the rner, we at LAist figured that you same-sex lovg guys out there would appreciate on where gaze upon gym-toned bods whout fear (Lady-lovg ladi, we’re open to a siar post jt for you)’s a short list of the gayt beach the regn. Often lovgly referred to as “Gger Rogers”, this beach is the only gay lole wh the cy lims (and accsible by public transportatn: Santa Moni Blue B 9).

- Akbar & The Eagle: 18 or 27 mutThe guys you’ll fd there: A te cross-sectn of LA’s var LGBT scen wh a sprklg of straight fai that seem to be cluels to the scene around they’re wearg: Lycra/ spanx/ you-name-the-stretchy material swimmg tnks often a size too small, board shorts, sometim snazzy It’s the clost gay beach so you’ll fely see someone you know (is that a pl? Directns: The gay sectn of Will Rogers is jt off the Pacific Coast Highway near the tersectn of Wt Channel Road. The gay sectn is directly wt of the parkg lot and volley ball urts, around Lifeguard Statn Matador (Part of Robert H.

Purportedly a gay nu beach, this hidn ve is on the wtern outskirts of Malibu.

Many LA gay guys make the trek here to see everyone they would otherwise see at the Abbey or Cherry Pop. There’s not much of a night scene sce the closg of the Boom Boom Room, the only gay club town. But for our team, the pot is moot, sce most of the gay boys choose the beach jt on the other si of the fence wh the boundari of the Camp Pendleton ary base.

Look for the path and follow down directly to the gay ’s Beach (Part of Torrey P State Rerve): La Jolla/San DiegoWhoever named this sectn of the California ast, “La Jolla” unrstood Spanish even if they uldn’t spell (La Jolla is a misspellg of the Spanish word for "the jewel". While the Breers almost all go naked on the straight si of the beach (at the foot of the stairs), on the gay end ’s about evenly spl between the nu and By far, the most betiful beach the regn: a long wi flat beach at the foot of cliffs, a gradual slopg ocean floor and perfect wav for boogie-boardg or body surfg.

At the bottom, turn right and walk for half a e to the gay sectn. For the most direct route to the gay beach, ntue straight through the parkg lot wh the hang glirs to your left.