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• THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE
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• \NQUEER-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS\NJAMAI PLA \NTHERE ARE PEOPLE OF MANY DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS WHO RI HERE. THERE ARE ALSO ANIZATNS JP THAT ADVOTE FOR, EMPOWER, AND ENHANCE THE WELLBEG OF QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF LOR. ALSO CENTRE STREET IS A RATHER POPULAR AREA JP WH A LOT OF QUEER-IENDLY RTRANTS AND SHOPS. \NSOUTH END\NI’D SAY THAT AFFORDABLE HOG THIS AREA IS HARR TO FD NOWADAYS SO THE QUEER MUNY IS TYPILLY ELR RINTS. HOWEVER, THERE ARE MANY GAY BARS, F, AND RTRANTS THIS AREA AS WELL. \NDORCHTER\NSOME PEOPLE MAY OVERLOOK DORCHTER, BUT THIS PART OF BOSTON IS WELG TO THE QUEER MUNY. THERE ARE ANIZATNS FOR LGBTQ+ AS WELL AS F, BARS, AND NIGHTLIFE THAT ARE DITED TO CLIVY FOR QUEER FOLX.\N \NQUEER IENDLY HOTELS:
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• THE 10 BEST MASSACHETTS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MASSACHETTS
• DANCE AND CHEER ON YOUR FAVORE DRAG QUEENS AT BOSTON’S GAY BASH’D
• NEW ENGLAND GAY WEEKEND GETAWAYS - BT WEEKEND TRIPS OM BOSTON
• MOVG TO LGBT BOSTON, MASSACHETTS? HOW TO FD YOUR PERFECT GAY NEIGHBORHOOD!
• THE BOSTON GAY MEN’S CHOS WILL PERFORM DISNEY’S ‘PRIDE CONCERT’
• THE 10 BEST MASSACHETTS GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MASSACHETTS
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THE LGBTIQ+ TRAVEL GUI TO BOSTON: THE BT GAY BARS, DRAG EVENTS AND MORE

In fact, Massachetts was the first US state to legalize gay marriage back 2004. To this day, Boston remas one of Ameri’s most LGBTIQ+ iendly ci and has a large queer muny actively shapg the cy's future, ensurg remas one of the world’s foremost gay statns for generatns to e.

Loted a small neighborhood that’s smooshed between the Theater District and Chatown, Jacqu is Boston’s olst operatg gay bar and the cy’s premier tablishment for drag shows. The space is a rtrant durg the early eveng hours and is popular amongst the lols, both gay and straight. It’s filled wh an endls array of gay bars and clubs, and tons of LGBTIQ+-owned rtrants, ns, B&Bs, and more.

In fact, P-town is known as one of the “gayt plac on Earth''.

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The Boston LbiGay Urban Foundatn is another group that has ntued to put on queer events and offer support to lols after the dissolutn of Boston Pri.

There's also pl a lively young universy populatn, and what uld be the world's bt cholate chip okie, Flour Bakery + Cafe's Chunky Lola, the name of which refers to a gay ctomer's bulldog. Other lendar highlights clu 36-year-old LGBTQ film ftival, Wicked Queer, and there's typilly a gay event or two that cis wh the annual Boston Marathon.

\NQUEER-FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOODS\NJAMAI PLA \NTHERE ARE PEOPLE OF MANY DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS WHO RI HERE. THERE ARE ALSO ANIZATNS JP THAT ADVOTE FOR, EMPOWER, AND ENHANCE THE WELLBEG OF QUEER/TRANS PEOPLE OF LOR. ALSO CENTRE STREET IS A RATHER POPULAR AREA JP WH A LOT OF QUEER-IENDLY RTRANTS AND SHOPS. \NSOUTH END\NI’D SAY THAT AFFORDABLE HOG THIS AREA IS HARR TO FD NOWADAYS SO THE QUEER MUNY IS TYPILLY ELR RINTS. HOWEVER, THERE ARE MANY GAY BARS, F, AND RTRANTS THIS AREA AS WELL. \NDORCHTER\NSOME PEOPLE MAY OVERLOOK DORCHTER, BUT THIS PART OF BOSTON IS WELG TO THE QUEER MUNY. THERE ARE ANIZATNS FOR LGBTQ+ AS WELL AS F, BARS, AND NIGHTLIFE THAT ARE DITED TO CLIVY FOR QUEER FOLX.\N \NQUEER IENDLY HOTELS:

Harvard teacher and art historian, Profsor Andrew Lear, leads a two-hour "Gay Secrets of the Mm of Fe Arts" tour that n be booked through Osr Wil Tours. It clus admissn to the Mm of Fe Arts and smash through the Puranism of Boston's oln days to get at a major gay 18th-century sndal, "Boston marriag, " and the "sexit J of the Italian Renaissance. Also big wh the bears and beard set, Boston Eagle is one of the cy's olst gay bars to boot.

Although Cambridge's multi-level dance club Paradise closed to much lamentatn 2018, check out the weekly dance and drag events by promoters Gay Mafia Boston, which take place var lotns and clu Hot Ms Sundays at Candibar, Lato Wedndays at Legacy, and more.

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Back Bay's gay-owned Oasis Gay Hoe and Adams Bed & Breakfast spread their 31 rooms over four neighborg brownstone buildgs. Opened 2014 ( a former 1950s motor n), boasts an outdoor pool and plimentary accs to the nearby Boston Sports Club and is easy walkg distance to gay nightclub Boston Mache. From the rollg hills of the Berkshir Wtern Mass all the way to Provcetown, the “bt gay rort town”, and also the number one statn for same sex weddgs Ameri.

However, there are many gay bars, f, and rtrants this area as well.

The cy boasts one of the largt LGBT populatns on the East Coast wh neighborhoods such as the South End and Jamai Pla offerg a good variety of neighborhood pubs, dance bars and vg loung drawg a mixed gay/straight crowd.

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The cy also touts a number of mastream clubs that host weekly or monthly gay nights. You may also want to walk the Equaly Trail - a self-guid walkg tour that follows the route of Boston's first Gay Pri March 1971 and offers rmatn about issu and dividuals related to this route.

Gay Boston Boston Cy GuiBoastg some 400 years of rich cultural herage, Boston is arguably Ameri’s olst cy—a place where near every park, buildg and mm has a time-honoured story to tell. This was the first state to legalize gay marriage, after all, and let’s not fet ever-beloved gay Provcetown is jt a hop across the Massachetts Bay. While Boston’s tradnal gayborhood still centr around South End and Tremont Street, you’ll fd rabow flags billowg throughout the town.

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Sce the cy nsists of mastream clubs and viewg parti, the week-long pri celebratn hosts a few ncerts, cise parti, and flag-wavg ceremoni hosted by mayors of participatg Boston a Gay-Friendly Cy? Boston beme one of the ci to allow gay marriage Ameri. The bt of Boston’s gay bar scene n be found around the South End, Dorchter, and beyond.

The nversatns about Boston’s gay nightlife scene often center around the closgs of cherished tablishments and rapid gentrifitn of once-gay neighborhoods. Sectns of Dorchter, once the epicenter of Boston’s Irish Catholic workg-class, are now miature gayborhoods — plete wh Sunday tea danc. The Theater District is home to multiple clubs that regularly host big-name DJs and queens om RuPl’s Drag Race (season 15 wner Sasha Colby performed at Legacy this wter), and Back Bay remas filled wh gay-iendly neighborhood hnts.

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Wh a proud history of supportg gay rights and a large LGBTQ populatn, Boston is unsurprisgly one of the most clive metro areas the untry.

It is te that gay people n feel fortable galavantg anywhere, om Eastie’s wateront to Somerville’s Davis Square.

Still, there is a need for gay-specific spac, and a new generatn of social are ensurg that Boston remas a statn for LGBTQ people.

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Wh Pri Month gettg started, here is a look at the cy’s gay bar scene and all has to offer.

Legacy, n by Royale Entertament Group, has taken the mantle om Paradise as one of Boston’s most hedonistic gay nightlife statns. Around for more than 30 years, Club Café is one of the olst gay bars Boston, but you wouldn’t be able to tell om the throngs of Gen Z-ers and lennials who wrap around Columb Avenue on Friday and Saturday nights to get si (pro tip: buy a yearly VIP pass to skip the le. Formerly an old-school vio bar — Trophy Room also ed to host weekly drag bnch — the space is still a gay favore.

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This upsle cktail lounge opened last fall on Tremont Street, where the Eagle, a gay dive bar staple nearly every major cy, ed to be loted. In this gay-iendly tablishment, the portns are big and the drks are stiff.

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Wh s spac bar and numero high-tops, Harp and Bard has bee a statn for Dorchter gays who want to enjoy a lorful selectn of cktails or chow down on fort food favor like turkey tips and meatloaf.

Brian Picci’s Dbar has been a gay favore for years (along wh s siblgs Boston Chops the South End and Dxave Back Bay). Dbar After Dark throws some of the most bacchanalian events on the Boston gay nightlife lendar, attractg hors of pleasure-seekers for s glow party and r Sunday outdoor tea dance.

Blend has bee a go-to spot for Dorchter gays lookg to dance the night away, or tch up wh iends their roomy bar area or outdoor pat. Blend is hostg a number of events for Pri, notably s “GAYHEM” dance party on Saturday and pop star drag bnch on Sunday. Tripadvisor performs checks on staple gay club P-Town.

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Boston’s Gay Bash’d is markg four years of providg a safe space for LGBTQ+ muny members and their alli, while also celebratg queerns and exprsn. “It giv the space to a lot of younger kids to exprs themselv a safe, non-judgemental environment and to be themselv, ” Static, one of the founrs of Gay Bash’d, said.

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Here are some great statns that make a perfect gay-iendly retreat om Boston. But the rt of the Cape is que charmg and pletely gay-iendly, as are the two famo islands accsed by ferry or plane om the Cape, Nantucket and Martha's Veyard. A center of tn, the arts, and progrsive polics central-wtern Massachetts, btlg and relatively affordable Northampton anchors the leafy Pneer Valley, which extends om Connecticut to the state's tri-borr wh Vermont and New Hampshire and tak a seri of lovely towns (Greenfield, Deerfield, Amherst) and one hardscrabble cy wh some excellent mms and a b of gay nightlife, Sprgfield.

Northampton has long enjoyed a reputatn as a favore place for lbians to live and vis - 's actually que popular wh gay men, too.

65, 000), Portland, are two distct statns, but they're both exceedgly gay-iendly and easily reached om Boston (and each other). Ltle Ogunqu is a sled-down, mellower alternative to Provcetown, wh que a few gay-owned B&Bs, rtrants, and bars, as well as a betiful beachont.