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Contents:

• 6 GREAT GAY BEACH SOUTH AMERI
• DISVER THE 10 BT GAY BEACH NORTH AMERI (AND WHERE TO STAY)
• GAY RECIFE
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS RECIFE
• 10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD
• OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH
• THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS
• TERMAS BOA VISTARECIFEMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPTERMAS BOA VISTA
• RECIFE GAY SNAS

6 GREAT GAY BEACH SOUTH AMERI

Set amidst palm tre and whewashed high-rise apartment towers, this sun-kissed crcent is the center of gay beach life Cartagena, perched on the Caribbean Sea near the Hotel Caribe.

DISVER THE 10 BT GAY BEACH NORTH AMERI (AND WHERE TO STAY)

In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that. “The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer.

Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

GAY RECIFE

“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space.

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was paful at the time — the worst thg that had happened to him as a gay man, he said — but has reced far enough to his memory that did not e to md an hourlong terview about his experienc as a gay broadster.

McCoy for The New York TimBorn to BroadstLong before he knew he was gay, Bach knew he wanted to be a sports father was a ach, and a love of sports ran through the fay. ’”By the start of his sophomore year at Michigan State, Bach was ready to tell his parents that he was gay, tchg his father off guard but nfirmg what his mother had prevly assumed.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

He did each job to the bt of his abily, and his sexualy never me, he has found that there’s a difference between beg a gay man baseball and beg pletely fortable as one.

“I feel like that’s the burn a lot of gay people live wh — tryg to be perfect for straight people, ” he job requir equent teractn wh the players and the achg staff — addn to his duti as play-by-play announcer, Bach also is the ma public relatns ntact for the team — and he said he hadn’t fully relaxed any of them. Mrer/Frericksburg NatnalsThat feelg is somewhat “self-flicted, ” Bach said, but he believ the solutn is to brg more openly gay people to sports and create a safe environment for those who are already there but have felt necsary to hi their League Baseball has touted self as a place of clivy.

Billy Bean, an openly gay former player, was named the league’s first ambassador for cln 2014 and has sce been promoted to senr vice print and special assistant to Commissner Rob Maned. In Febary, Anrson Comás, a mor leaguer the Chigo Whe Sox anizatn, me out as gay wh a post on Instagram, and the announcement was met wh public support om his club and some people around the cints suggt there is more work to be done. The Boston Red Sox lled up a mor leaguer, Matt Dermody, who had posted an anti-gay msage on Twter 2021, and Anthony Bass, a reliever for the Toronto Blue Jays, reposted a vio on social media that lled for boytts of L.

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS RECIFE

“Those of that are this very small mory sports have to keep on havg the nversatns, keep on workg really ick’ hard to earn your spot this space, ” he aspir to be a gay person at home a big-league booth. McCoy for The New York TimA versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 27 of the New York edn wh the headle: A Gay Broadster Climbs the Ladr, But It’s Been Lonely.

10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD

Stori > Experienc > Disver the 10 bt gay beach North Ameri (and where to stay)What’s better than an afternoon spent on Ameri’s sunnit shor, olg off wh a skny dip well-oiled gay pany? Whether tourg Canada, road-trippg the US or nng south of the borr, liberal gay beach luckily e good supply, allowg for olickg and all kds of ballgam wh like-md lols and ternatnals. So before the ti go too far out, we brg you a ndown of the 10 bt gay beach North Ameri om the Pacific ast of Vanuver to the year-round tropil retreat of the Florida Keys.

OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH

Higgs Beach, Key Wt, USADpe Miami beg a firm ntenr for the state’s gay crown, Key Wt is not whout s optns, hoggg many of the bt gay beach Florida on s sandy shor. Of the, Higgs Beach is among our firm favour as the facto gay beach on the island for the gay muny to socialise, snorkel and sun up to their heart’s ntent the pany of Florida’s hottt men.

Stay longer paradise wh a by schle verg the top thgs to do Key to stay: Some of our favoure gay lodggs reach of Higgs Beach clu Island Hoe Key Wt, adult-only Alexanr’s Guthoe and Andrews Inn & Garn Cottag.

Now protected unr the Wreck Beach Prervatn Society (WBPS) set up by a group of prottg naturists the 1970s, the beach now acts as a haven for the gay muny jt 15 mut om downtown Vanuver, holdg var events throughout the year, cludg the wtertime Polar Bear Swimmers ntt and the annual Body Acceptance Day. Plan your time Vanuver wh our full Vanuver travel to stay: The Burrard has to be our number one choice while Vanuver for s retro/morn fn ’s gayt rort town, Puerto Vallarta has been a muny outpost sce the 1970s when the Love Boat docked here and gay in Elizabeth Taylor graced s shor3. Bis beach-bummg, ver the many thgs to do Puerto Vallarta wh the prerved Old Town or pe the btle by boatg out to Yelapa, a seclud paradise for honeymooners and to stay: One of our all-time favoure gay statns Puerto Vallarta is not whout s fair share of fabulo gay lodggs.

THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS

12th Street Beach, Miami, USAArguably the bt gay beach Miami has to offer, 12th Street Beach is an ever-popular meetg pot servg the cy’s most geo queers throughout the year.

TERMAS BOA VISTARECIFEMENUHOTELSBARSDANCE CLUBSSNASGAY MAPTERMAS BOA VISTA

Bis strikg up a volleyball tournament wh the lol talent, there are untls other events to get volved such as the Wter Party Ftival, Whe Party and of urse Miami Beach Pri, the largt gay celebratn the regn. Baker Beach, San Francis, USAThe bt cy the world to be gay, San Francis has a long legacy of activism alongsi a ton of mighty fe stutns all geared towards the LGBTQ+ muny.

After dk, the fun ntu to the eveng, particularly The Castro gaybourhood as explored our San Francis travel guiWhere to stay: A verable gay playground, San Francis has many great gay hotels to choose om. Enjoy var gay parti on certa holidays or scramble over the rocks at low ti for the more exclive nudist offerg of Playa La Macha, sometim gog by the name Playa Dulce Vi. P Beach, Fire Island, NY, USAA pnacle statn among the New York gay scene for nearly 100 years, Fire Island remas the ultimate cy pe on the south shore of Long Island.

It’s here where anythg go, whether ’s streakg to the sea, enablg your Grdr GPS at the Paviln, or go-go dancg at the Sip n to stay: Take your pick of the bt gay-iendly hotels of Fire Island. Here you’ll fd gay Rehoboth Beach, a wdswept astal town filled wh over 200 gay owned and operated bs, tax-ee shoppg and pretty stretch of beach walkg distance om town. Though Bin may mgle different circl, fd the male gay muny on the sand near Queen Street to the south end of the boardwalk, on an area known as Poodle Beach, while North Shore Beach wh Cape Henlopen State Park is one for the to stay: We’ll book at Rehoboth Gut Hoe every StockSnap9.

RECIFE GAY SNAS

Gger Rogers Beach, Los Angel, USATickg off our list of the 10 bt gay thgs to do Los Angel you’ll soon take the plunge to Los Angel gay beach scene, startg and endg on Gger Rogers Beach if you know what’s good for you.

Otherwise known as Will Rogers State Beach and the only gay beach Los Angel Cy proper, here you’ll fd the sunny stompg ground of the Wt Hollywood gay crowd, at s most lively on the weekend. Take the Santa Moni Blue B 9 to Santa Moni State Beach, followg the vast stretch of palm-edged shoreont towards Lifeguard Tower 18 where the gay crowd ngregat. As well as dulgg Happy Hour cktails wh cute lol men along the shoreont, nsir takg the short b ri to Wilton Manor, later on, to get amongst Fort Lrdale’s most happeng gayborhood.

One of the most gay iendly beach towns the US, we of urse had to create the dited Fort Lrdale travel to stay: We remend tryg Peapple Pot Guthoe & Rort or the Grand Rort and Jt SnyrWant to simplify luxury travel planng? The gui, which will have three trimtral edns, even shows a map of the neighborhoods of Boa Vista, Soleda and Santo Amaro, the epicenter of the gay scene Recife.

“This feelg om the fact that we’ve rearched, been to and listed what Recife offers for gay people…We’re talkg about a cy wh one of the biggt rabow scen the untry. ” Then he giv two gay optns for nightlife and ends wh another ment, “the Boa Vista mall is gay-iendly (’s near the nightclubs listed above), and ’s worth checkg out. Lookg around onle, I also found a gay gui to Recife om 2008 here by CultHotel, but I n’t nfirm if those plac are still open or if they’re good (beg that I’m not gay).

There’s a sort of official gay gui onle here but ’s only Portugue (apparently there’s an English versn but I n’t lote anywhere…but feel ee to email the Recife Conventn & Visor’s Bure to quire about and ask for the “Recife/Pernambu – A State of Happs” gay gui). From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. And while there are gay-iendly seasis all across the globe, several rise to the top—whether bee of their sheer bety, their unique character or the crowd they draw.

Fort Lrdale has eclipsed Miami as Florida's go-to gay statn and Sebastian Street Beach, between Sunrise Boulevard and Las Olas Boulevard, fely fli the rabow flag.

Even when 's not Carnaval, "Farme Gay, " to the east of Rua Farme Amoedo, is the loc of gay life R—and a great place to ogle the mcular "Barbi" who sashay between Posto (guard tower) 8 and 9, next to the gay-iendly Ipanema Plaza 9pm, the actn mov to the half-dozen gay bars and clubs the area.