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Contents:

• GAY CISG SPOTS
• GAY PARKS NEAR ME
• AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
• GAY CISG PARKS NEAR ME
• PLAC TO GAY CISE NEAR ME
• PARIS GAY MAP
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH
• GAY CSG NEAR ME
• GAYT PLAC IN MARYLAND FOR 2020
• GAYT PLAC IN KANSAS FOR 2020
• GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020

GAY CISG SPOTS

Many members of the muny have long preferred to live big ci or smaller, queer-iendly mecs where they felt more accepted and safer om vlence, harassment, and discrimatn.“Until [the lg], you uld be fired for beg LGBT,” says Jeff Berger, founr and print of the Natnal Associatn of Gay & Lbian Real Estate Profsnals.

Ls than half of LGBTQ adults, 49%, were homeowners, pared wh almost two-thirds, 65%, of heterosexuals.Those LGBTQ folks who do buy hom prrize livg fun, safe muni wh lots of other gay rints where they’re ls likely to be harassed.“They n have a level of fort [ the plac] bee other people have charted the waters,” says Berger.To fd the gayt towns Ameri, the ® team of data analysts looked at five-year U.S. The list was limed to towns wh at least 1,700 hoeholds wh a marg of error unr 105%.While many big ci like San Francis and New York have long been renowned for their thrivg gay culture, they’re jt so big that the number of same-sex upl ma up a smaller percentage of their total populatns.

Popular extravaganzas clu Bear Week, Womxn of Color Weekend, and the nearly 50-year-old trans celebratn Fantasia Fair.Buyers will pay arly to live this world-famo gay mec.

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The five-day ftival each September attracts big-name performers, cludg Lizzo, Katy Perry, and Lady Gaga, as well as thoands of LGBTQ-iendly folks.The sert town, two hours east of Los Angel, happens to also be a gay oasis the other 359 days a year. (Denver’s median home list price is jt north of $525,000.) It’s also home to the Transgenr Center of the Rocki, which provis unselg, medil servic, and social activi like game and movie nights.Sheridan rints are still close enough to Denver’s gay bars and pri ftival, which has an timated attendance of more than a half-ln people.The only downsi: There isn’t a ton of listgs the smaller town of Sheridan. Many LGBTQ folks settle other welg hoods like nearby Glendale, CO, where a two-bedroom townhoe go for $589,990.“There’s a lot of areas around Denver I would say are gay-iendly,” says Jason Augt of Gourmet Real Estate.5.

While don’t have s own LGBTQ center or annual ftival, the quiet astal town neighbors Rehoboth Beach, DE, which has both—along wh dozens of gay bars and rtrants.Though the whole area has bee a top East Coast LGBTQ vatn statn, many folks who want to stay year-round prefer the lmer vibe, natural scenery, and better als Lew.Hoe hunters n sre this three-bedroom townhome wh a pool and fns center the muny for $394,900.

Known for s lively mic, bar, and rtrant scene, the town is also typilly home to the Garn State’s annual gay pri celebratn.Jt about 90 mut om New York Cy, Asbury Park is hoppg durg the summer. Bloomgton, INMedian home list price: $379,050Most folks are probably more likely to associate Indiana wh s nservative former ernor turned vice print, Mike Pence, than s thrivg gay culture.

AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS

The cy also received a perfect, 100-pot sre on the Human Rights Commissn’s Municipal Equaly Inx for five straight years.The progrsive small town has a rich theater and mic muny, an annual pri ft, and LGBTQ+ muny center, and is home to the groundbreakg Ksey Instute for Rearch Sex, Genr, and Reproductn.Those lookg for a gay-iendly, Midwtern muny n sop up a remoled four-bedroom townhome for jt $117,000. It turns out Brattleboro, about two hours northwt of Boston, is also a low-key gay mec the heart of ski untry.The ultraprogrsive cy is home to an LGBTQ center dited to the ral rints of northern New England, an annual LGBTQ film ftival, and equent men’s gathergs, workshops, and retreats.The bt part may be the cy’s relatively expensive real tate.

The progrsive cy has such a large, active LGBTQ muny that hosts two major pri events: Atlanta Pri and Atlanta Black Pri.The cy’s reputatn as the “Hollywood of the South” has attracted gay people om other nearby, more nservative towns and stat.“People want to be where other LGBTQ iends and fay live,” says Tim Hur, managg broker wh Pot Honors and Associat Realtors. “We have a sense of fay.”The heart of the gay muny, where all the bt LGBTQ bars are loted, is midtown, around the tersectn of Piedmont Avenue NE and 10th Street NE.

In tth, gay roo is a natnwi phenomenon, but Arizona is as good a place as any to squeeze to your tightt pair of Levi jeans and give the Cowboy liftyle a try.

GAY CISG PARKS NEAR ME

The 34th Annual Arizona Gay Roo happens Phoenix Febary; the World Gay Roo Fals happen October Sttsdale; and then there’s queer untry wtern bars Phoenix cludg Charlie’s, the Cash Nightclub and Lounge, and Lat-flavored nightclub Karamba (which hosts ocsnal wboy nights). A small mounta town the middle of the Ozarks that is guard over by a statue of Christ mak for an unlikely gay mec, but Eureka Sprgs is no ordary hamlet. A hangout for hippi, homos and honeymooners (check out the abundance of hotel spa su), this pretty Victorian town boasts LGBTQIA-owned bars, eateri, shops and even a gay rort.

PLAC TO GAY CISE NEAR ME

But surely the fullt exprsn of gay Goln State bliss happens every time the sun beats down hard on Dolor Park San Francis and folks reprentg every letter of the queer alphabet ngregate on the so-lled “F Shelf” for an afternoon of idyll. So raise a glass to this New England gem at 168 York Street Cafe, a gay bar and rtrant loted the basement of a charmg brick townhoe and right around the rner om Yale Universy. A Lilliputian gay area boasts queer-iendly rtrants and a uple of lively gay bars, then there’s Poodle Beach (lol), a patch of sand marked by a rabow flag and packed Speedo to Speedo summer.

Gay Days at Disney, which happens every June Orlando, has grown to be a global gay event attractg tens of thoands of people, but a vis to Disney World l anytime of year. While the epicenter of gay life Geia is Atlanta, whose Midtown is home to the state’s most ncentrated LGBTQIA populatn, the llege town of Athens is where you should spend your next Peach Tree State gaytn. An opulent mp-osium of events cludg drag shows, mil performanc and danc, the Ball benefs lol AIDS chari, and shows that the quirky cy, which birthed high-profile queer artists like the B-52s and Michael Stipe of REM (Indigo Girls also rerd their first album here), has as much substance as do style for gay travelers.

PARIS GAY MAP

Elsewhere on the islands, there are sttered gay and gay-welg bars and clubs, but the bt place to hang out—and let all hang out—is at clothg optnal Ltle Beach at Makena State Park Mi.

A slice of island paradise jt south of rzy Wailea, the beach is perfect for both chillg and socializg and both gay men and lbians equent large numbers. There are a uple of gay bars town cludg Balny and Lucky Dog Tavern, but we say head over to Flyg M Coffeehoe, a batn fe (beans are roasted onse at a send lotn nearby Nampa), bakery and gift shop sce 1992.

Giddy gay boys take to the ty dance floor on weekends, an olr crowd plops down durg the week, a rnupia of young queers smash themselv together a swell of sweaty ecstasy every send Friday (at a party lled FKA) and Fire feeds the muny for ee every Sunday.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

The crowd is diverse, energetic and iendly as heck, the lp clus all kds of crazy baret and queer entertament and the gay namg even rri over to the drk menu. Although LGBTQ nightlife Derby Cy has sce moved to Bardstown Road, while tchg 40 wks at Vu or makg new iends at Vapor, nsir the three s of gay nightlife that happened on this very block.

OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH

There’s Sipps, a gay-iendly bar that ma major headl when out bartenr Kara Coley posted an teractn on social media between herself and the mother of a gay son; Big Mike’s Speakeasy which hosted Sunday drag shows last time we checked; and even a clothg optnal beach on nearby Wt Ship Island. The scenery—and wboys—of Montana might evoke somethg out of Brokeback Mounta, but the realy of gay life here (you n still be fired for beg gay most unti) is far ls romantic. The cy don’t have a “gayborhood, ” per se, but rather s robt gay muny is well-woven to s taptry, the most worthy part of which for travelers is ftive Flixx Cabaret.

Wh weekend performanc featurg both drag queens and drag kgs an eclectic range of edic, dramatic and even burlque-themed shows, Flixx will shatter the stereotype you probably have of gay life Nebraska. Las Vegas is probably immune to the cricism that ’s not queer enough and the cy do boast a few notable highlights, cludg the “F Loop, ” a clter of LGBTQIA bars east of the Strip; Temptatn Sundays, a gay pool party at the Luxor; and a nighttime Pri that happens annually October.

GAY CSG NEAR ME

But we thk s gayt hangout—this year at least—is the Park Theater, a state-of-the-art entertament venue attached to the new Park MGM (formerly the Monte Carlo).

GAYT PLAC IN MARYLAND FOR 2020

As pric skyrocket Eastern seaboard gay mecs like Fire Island, P-Town and Rehoboth, ’s no surprise that penny-pchg queers have sought out better vatn bargas. Gay ground zero is the Emprs Hotel, a btlg plex close to the beach and boardwalk and boastg 101 gutrooms, a rtrant, tiki bar, large pool and all the biki and Speedo-clad queers you n image.

GAYT PLAC IN KANSAS FOR 2020

The olst LGBTQIA bar New Mexi’s largt cy, the Soch as ’s lolly known, opened as a non-prof social club for the gay muny 1971 and nearly 50 years later is still the cy’s Cheers for queers. Whether you take a “Gay Pneers Tour” that explas the role of the LGBTQIA muny rehabilatg the district, or vis the Stonewall Columb muny center, whose advocy and health servic the proceeds of the celebratn helps fund, your expectatns will be shattered. The Mother Road ns om Chigo to LA and offers a surprisgly gay old time for LGBTQIA roadtrippers—cludg the more than 400 that n through the Sooner State.

Don’t miss kschy roadsi attractns like the neon-l Pops 66 Soda Ranch, Waylan’s Ku-Ku Burger and the Blue Whale of Catoosa; but also the opportuny to hang wh Oklahomos after hours. The former is favored among gay men while Colls (a part of bulic Svie Island) offers a fuller rabow portra of the muny (and is beloved by straights as well). Upper Kg Dign District is the cy’s most queer-iendly hood and clus gay bar Dudley’s, which pairs glamoro drag shows wh a rough-around-the-edg billiards room.

This famoly historic cy also boasts numero queer landmarks, cludg Villa Marghera, where Gert Ste and Alice Toklas once spent Valente’s Day; the Candltick Murr Hoe, se of a sensatnal gay murr; and the Avery Rearch Center, which tails the relatnship between terracial uple Joseph Towl and Col Turnbull. The cy’s Club David is notably the only gay club the state, so even if you e outsi of Pri Month, ’s the bt place to go to meet gay South Dakotans, who n give you even greater sight.

GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020

The progrsive queen of Texas polics, open-md At is neverthels smaller pared to Dallas and Hoton when to s LGBT scene (at least when measured gay bars). In addn to annual events like Utah Pri Ftival, Damn The Heels LGBTQ film ftival and Elevatn Utah Gay Ski Week nearby Park Cy, there’s plenty of bar life to keep queers entertaed. A longtime (mostly male) clothg-optnal swimmg hole and hangout, 21 acr of the river were recently purchased by Rock River Prervatn, a nonprof created by a group of gay men, ensurg that will rema a place of queer idyll for s to e.

The woodsy muny of Lost River, a town of only 2, 500 people about two hours wt of DC, has been touted both the New York Tim and Washgton Post as a low-key weekend getaway for both gay men and lbian women eager to flee the District for a few days.

The ath of the gay bar is premature, but is te that a lot of classics have shuttered their doors (like San Francis legend the Gangway, which closed early 2018), which is why we like to vis the oldi while we still n. The gays have been g the ter to get laid sce AOL lnched chat rooms to Friendster, but wh Craigslist and Manhunt g their formulas, what is a homo wh a hard-on to do now? Search this areaGroceriHotelsGas statnsParkg LotsBanksPharmaciTakeoutRtrantsPost OfficHospals▷About gay cisg parks near meFd a gay cisg parks near you today.