Article on chang Key Wt, Fla, once a remote refuge for gay tourists, which, bee of soarg real tate pric and populary of events like Fantasy Ft, has begun to attract a more heterogeno crowd; photos; map (M)
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- HOW GAY/LBIAN IS KEY WT THE DAYS? - KEY WT FOM
- GAY KEY WT
- THE GAY MUNY KEY WT? - KEY WT FOM
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HOW GAY/LBIAN IS KEY WT THE DAYS? - KEY WT FOM
Answer 11 of 46: Is Key Wt maly gay/lbian? I am not p and have seen a gay para before as Iive Hoton (and have nothg agast gays/lbians) but before I make a trip to Key Wt I'd like to know HOW gay is the days? * what is the gay population in key west *
Re: How Gay/Lbian is Key Wt The Days? We love Key Wt and the mix of people who live and work there -- gay or not gay. And by the way, some people would be surprised at the large number of gay people workg at Disney.
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* what is the gay population in key west *
To elect an out gay mayor (Richard A. 18, 2005Correctn AppendFOR s, the remote Florida town of Key Wt has been a refuge for gay tourists, a kd of Southern bookend to Provcetown, Mass. -- a place where drag shows, all-male gut ho (plete wh munal hot tubs) and a spir of unbridled hedonism attracted everyone om closeted Midwt acuntants to Tennsee recently, soarg real tate pric and the populary of events like Fantasy Ft -- an annual bacchanal of of paras, masquera balls and celebry look-alike ntts that began as an AIDS fundraiser 1979 and has sce evolved to a dnken open-air party that would be right at home on aterny row -- have begun to attract a more heterogeno crowd, one that n at tim make Key Wt look like any other tourist town gettg ready for Sprg n feel the change at the Lighthoe Court, a popular -- some would say notor -- gay-only Whehead Street guthoe that recently went "all wele, " the lol phemism for acceptg heterosexual guts as well as gays.
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And 's obv clear across Old Town at the Heron Hoe Court, formerly known as the Flr Key and long one of the premier gay-only gutho on the island.
"I'd say Key Wt is ls gay iendly than was 10 years ago, " said Gregory Gearhart, a hairdrser om Fort Lrdale who viss three tim a year. Gearhart was stg at the Atlantic Shor pool bar, an inic gay hangout that plans to close next year. "Actually, I wouldn't say 's gay uniendly.
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"Of urse, Key Wt retas a gay sensibily. There are gay tourist charters to the Dry Tortugas and gay sunset cis to the Florida Stras.