Gay Holidays 2023/2024: LGBTQ Friendly Dtatns & On to Avoid

Contents:

• UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
• THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020
• LGBT TRAVEL IAS: TOP 12 GAY FRIENDLY CI
• LGBTQ TRAVEL & GAY HOLIDAYS
• GAY HOLIDAYS? HERE ARE 19 AMAZG TOP DTATNS

UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU

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Queer visors should head to Ibiza Town’s gay neighborhood, Calle la Virgen, wh s terraced rtrants and gay bars ial for fun tim, people watchg, and cisg for you’d rather not party like Paris Hilton but prefer to relax luxury and relative solu, leave behd Ibiza Town and head north to the Six Sens Rort. Whether you’re town for a week or plan to stick around for good, here are 15 ternatnal lol tailor-ma for livg your bt out-and-proud Tourist BureSaba, Dutch CaribbeanThere’s not one sgle gay bar on the island of Saba (that we know of) but LGBTQ+ visors have taken note of the island’s overtly welg spir. The W Taipei is known as the cy’s gay hub, mostly bee of their Insirs Program, a sort of ncierge service that helps guts keep a fger on the pulse of the cy’s social lendar, LGBTQ+ events sure to vis 228 Peace Memorial Park, loted ont of the Printial Palace.

THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020

But the epicenter of queer life the cy is Zona Rosa, which was named after the hue of the pk pavers, although lols tend to joke that ’s named after the gay bars that dot the streets. Sce the early 1990s, San Juan has hosted annual gay pri march the cy’s Condado neighborhood, and as the muny has grown (and the terrory has bee more progrsive), there’s now also a send march each summer Boqueró Juan’s Condado and Santurce neighborhoods have long been the meetg pot for LGBTQ+ Puerto Rins and visors, wh a number of bars and clubs servg the muny. Gay nightclubs like Toxic and SX The Club are always hoppg, while queer-iendly hangouts like Oasis Tapas & Lounge, Tía María's Liquor Store, and La Sombrilla Rosa brg the chill vib.

Monuments to the LGBTQ+ rights movement and other opprsed persons stand throughout the cy, cludg the inic Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Unr attracts hoards of LGBTQ+ tourists thanks to s credible nightlife scene, which clus drag artists new and tablished (don’t miss the Hoe of Prents), legendary queer techno clubs, and a racy lp of sex clubs, parti, and events such as Folsom Europe and the annual Porn Film Ftival.

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LGBT TRAVEL IAS: TOP 12 GAY FRIENDLY CI

It’s always been a loudly and proudly betiful part of Barcelona, wh geo stone fas on ornate buildgs, Gdi mornist archecture everywhere, and avenu of shoppg and ranks high among Europe’s more LGBTQ+ iendly untri, garnerg an 84/100 Equaly Inx Sre via Equalx thanks to marriage equaly, legalized gay adoptn and genr nfirmatn, and bans on discrimatn and censorship. Check out what’s happeng town by spg out the imprsively prehensive GayIceland Gui, h up the dance floor at Kiki Queer Bar and the surroundg gayborhood (you n’t miss the rabow-strewn exterr), book a tour—or even a weddg—wh Pk Iceland, then wd down at lbian-owned bookstore and ffee shop IDA Zimsen, parked next to the Reykjavik Art Mm. Gay nightlife hubs like Spijker Bar, Cafe Realy, Club NYX, YOLO, and the Church Club are at your service year-round, terg to jt about every mographic and fetish you n image (and some you probably n’t), while laid-back jots like lbian hnts Bar Ba and Saare, the mixed-crowd Queen's Head, and cktail-powered Prik round thgs out.

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LGBTQ TRAVEL & GAY HOLIDAYS

Or, the se of the queer muny, the long-lastg absolute the Kgdom was abolished 2007, homosexualy was fally legalized, and now Nepal is one of the most progrsive untri Asia when to LGBTQI+ rights (the preferred acronym here, wh I reprentg the legally regnized Intersex muny). It’s the brachild of CEO Matti Jost, who found misterb&b after he and his partner were nied entry to a vatn rental they had booked after the host learned the uple was n learn more about gay-iendly rooms and rentals for all 15 of the most booked statns by misterb&b travelers at scrollg to fd the top 15 most booked statns by LGBTQ+ travelers on misterb&b.

GAY HOLIDAYS? HERE ARE 19 AMAZG TOP DTATNS

It’s one of only five untri to make queer rights equal at a nstutnal level and holds first place on ILGA-Europe’s Rabow Europe Inx, which ranks untri on LGBTQ+ my last vis, a gay gui showed me round the wdg medieval streets of Valletta and Rabat, potg out sential bars and rtrants om Michel-starred Noni to the Monaliza Lounge drag bar, as well as the nightclub Michelangelo lively Paceville. This spir filters down to Dubl’s many LGBTQ-iendly tablishments: two personal favour are iendly bnch spot Social Fabric Café Stoneybatter, one of the cy’s most tertg neighbourhoods, and Street 66 bar, a eful cktail spot before a night at inic LGBTQ+ stutn The southsi is gay-owned Gutter Bookshop (named after the famo Osr Wil quote), and the weekly “big gay dis” Sunday Social at Farrier & Draper; or cross the river for the Outhoe LGBTQ+ muny rource fe on Capel Street and PantiBar, owned by drag queen, activist and performer Panti Bliss. Enjoy bnch at Osr bar and fe, before a beer at one of Europe’s olst gay bars, Centralhjor, which hosts drag and Sunday jazz ssns venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter.

Nearby Delmoni’s (known lolly as “Del’s”), has been Merchant Cy’s “gay triangle” sce stay nearby, try the good-value Bnswick hotel (doubl om £50), on a street wh venu marked by rabow flags. Photograph: Nick Maslen/AlamyOn my last vis to Birmgham the rabow flag seemed to be everywhere, and the historic Gay Village, wh s bars, shops and f, is hugely visible, centred largely on Hurst Street. Start wh bibimbap at the thoroughfare’s Korean rtrant Topokki before drks at Missg, Siwalk or lbian bar The Fox and dancg at the legendary Nightgale Club, the olst gay club the cy, datg back to summer’s hot LGBTQ+ event is Fierce’s Healg Garns of Bab (27 June - 17 July): part of Birmgham 2022 Ftival, ’s an artistic rponse to this summer’s Commonwealth Gam, celebratg “what the Brish Empire tried (and failed) to stamp out”.