Guerneville is surround by natural bety and is full of stic charm, and should fely make your We Country short list. The town has been a untry getaway for San Francis’s well-heeled gay muny for years, and although is beg more well-known other circl, retas s woodsy, down-to-earth personaly that brgs visors back year after year. Follow our gui below to disver the bt of Guerneville.
Contents:
- HOW DID GUERNEVILLE GET TO BE SO GAY?
- GAY GUERNEVILLE TRAVEL GUI
- GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS GUERNEVILLE
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS GUERNEVILLE
- SONOMA LBIAN, GAY, BI, TRANSGENR INFORMATN
HOW DID GUERNEVILLE GET TO BE SO GAY?
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“This ty ex-logger town is really…gay? But gay Guerneville’s ignn often gets creded to a particularly visnary rort owner om Philly, and laws that allowed him to openly urt gay clientele.
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Guerneville’s stat as a weekend statn dampened until the ’70s, when first started attractg a primarily gay and lbian Guerneville’s ignn often gets creded to a particularly visnary rort owner om Philly, and laws that allowed him to openly urt gay clientele. “The gays me after the floods and cleaned the place up, ” says Luana Gerhardt, office manager of the Visor Center of the Rsian River Chamber of Commerce. “It had the hight number of dumpy rorts for sale, ” adds Guerneville’s Highlands Rort owner Lyte McLean wh a gay muny uldn’t flourish until some of the laws that discrimated agast were overturned.
Until California officially repealed s sodomy laws 1976, was illegal to, well, be gay at all, let alone put up a flag or hotel advertisg as such.
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“I thk ’s important for people to grasp, that ’s not solely a functn of market nor solely a functn of culture — ’s also a functn of laws, ” says Pl Boneberg, executive director of the GLBT Historil Society, about the populary of the Rsian 1978, a Philalphia man named Peter Penr bought a riversi hotel near downtown Guerneville and renamed Fife’s, givg the town s first gay rort. Others quickly followed—The Woods, Highlands Rort, The Triple R Hotel and The Rabow Cattle Company, all gay-foced bs, opened wh the next few years. The late ’70s and early ’80s were good to Guerneville’s gay muny.
The sexual revolutn was full swg across the untry, and naturally, that revelry spread to Guerneville om San late ’70s and early ’80s were good to Guerneville’s gay muny. The Rabow Cattle Company (or, the Rabow) is one of the origal bs born durg Guerneville’s early gay days and still ss on Ma Street today. She was ially ncerned that openg Guerneville would give her too narrow of an dience, even though she herself is gay.
“Guerneville was known as very much a gay summer statn.
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Seasi Metal Oyster Bar, a stic seafood-based rtrant n by the duo behd Bar Cdo, fally opened s doors after about a year of Guerneville gets on more people’s radars, the town’s reputatn as the “Gay Riviera” attracts more people outsi the LGBT muny. Ray Allen, manager of the R Three Hotel (also known as the Triple R), says he’s fe wh more straight upl stayg at the gay rort — “as long as they behave themselv, ” he adds wh a lgh. She says that although an creasg number of straight upl are stayg at Highlands, ’s important to her to offer out-of-state gay clientele a safe place to stay, addg that the tippg pot for queer equaly across the untry is still next qutn is, will the sual vatn town known for s rabow flags bee better known the future for s Michel stars?
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