13 very gay and very good books you should read this Pri Month | Mashable

Contents:

• COLLEGE NNER: ‘I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT I’M GAY AND I’M FAST’
• GAY LLEGE TRACK AND CROSS-UNTRY ACH HAS FALLY STOPPED NNG AWAY
• TWK POWER + J.D. DOYLE'S CROSS-COUNTRY GAY CULTURE TRIP + ZUCKERBERG COM FOR TWTER + SELF-HATG GAYS SHOCKED RON DESANTIS AGRE WH THEM ON THAT + MORE! — 12-PACK
• GAYT PLAC IN UTAH FOR 2020
• CROSS COUNTRY: 2022 CENTS BERNIE GAY INVATNAL RULTS
• SAYG ‘I’M GAY’ WAS BIGGT HURDLE FOR THIS LLEGE NNER
• JOHN GAY AND SARAH INGLIS W 2021 BC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPNSHIPS
• LGBTQ TRAVEL: A FABULOUS GUI TO GAY TRAVEL 2023
• 13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH
• GAY TOURS HAWAII
• ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

COLLEGE NNER: ‘I WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT I’M GAY AND I’M FAST’

In the early 1960s, Bob Damron began creatg pocket-sized addrs books to help gay men fd queer spac while travelg around the natn. But eedom wasn’t always a given for queer people, leadg LGBTQ travelers to favor well-known gayborhoods liberal ci near the US astl.

GAY LLEGE TRACK AND CROSS-UNTRY ACH HAS FALLY STOPPED NNG AWAY

Marshall’s Beach, a clothg-optnal queer hang beneath the Goln Gate Bridge, is the perfect place to dip your rriere the Pacific; Dolor Park’s southwt rner is a land-locked “gay beach” that attracts crowds on sunny days. One of the untry’s earlit gay anizatns, the Mattache Society, was found Silver Lake 1950, and historic queer protts agast police btaly at Coopers Donuts (1959) and the Black Cat (1967) led up to NYC’s Stonewall Uprisg and the Gay Liberatn Movement that followed. Today, LGBTQ life revolv around Wt Hollywood (WeHo), where you’ll fd the hight ncentratn of LGBTQ tablishments, cludg the Abbey, LA’s go-to gay bar, and Micky’s, the bt spot to see RuPl’s army of glamazons.

You’re most likely to fd queer crowds around the Pri Flag Lifeguard Tower or at Roosterfish, a gay bar that also hocks lol art. This inic Amerin roadway, mythologized by Stebeck as the “Mother Road” The Grap of Wrath, slic eastward through LA’s gayborhood as enters Ameri’s wtern wilrns.

TWK POWER + J.D. DOYLE'S CROSS-COUNTRY GAY CULTURE TRIP + ZUCKERBERG COM FOR TWTER + SELF-HATG GAYS SHOCKED RON DESANTIS AGRE WH THEM ON THAT + MORE! — 12-PACK

Phoenix might be Arizona’s gayt cy, but LGBTQ-iendly Flagstaff sports an abundance of outdoor activi where weary travelers n stretch their legs. For a gay daytime hang, drive 30 mut to Lake Travis where you’ll fd iendly queer folx sunbathg at Hippie Hollow — the Lone Star State’s only legal nu beach. On top of holdg the state’s largt LGBTQ Pri celebratn, Fayetteville is also the first cy Arkansas to jo the Internatnal Gay and Lbian Travel Associatn.

GAYT PLAC IN UTAH FOR 2020

If you want to keep queer, prs play on Spotify’s Orville Peck statn and drive to hip ‘hoods like East Nashville (the Williamsburg of the South) and the Gulch, an area for eatg and shoppg, while gettg serenad by the gay in of untry mic.

CROSS COUNTRY: 2022 CENTS BERNIE GAY INVATNAL RULTS

The cy has more LGBTQ rints per pa than Chigo, two gayborhoods, Short North and German Village, and a iendly rnfed vibe that mak everyone feel wele. Short North Arts District, home to gay hnts Axis Nightclub and Unn Cafe, is packed wh ntemporary art galleri, lolly owned rtrants, and chic boutiqu. This blue-llar town wasn’t always a great place to be gay.

A mix of universy stunts and young profsnals enjoy nightlife optns like classic gay clubs, snas, and go-go jots. For a crash urse on LGBTQ history, vis Christopher Park and the Llie-Lohman Mm of Gay and Lbian Art, a pact art space wh famo and lser-known queer talents.

Central Park’s Sheep Meadow transforms to a DIY gay bar for “Send Sundays” — a ee shdig that attracts shirtls boys to the grassy field between May and September. For LGBTQ shops, check out Kirr Fch (menswear for women), Park and Ronen (classy signs for gay sophistit), Leather Man (kky cloth and acuterment), and the Bure of General Servic — Queer Divisn, an all-volunteer LGBTQ bookstore.

SAYG ‘I’M GAY’ WAS BIGGT HURDLE FOR THIS LLEGE NNER

Broadway chos boys set the scene Hell’s Kchen at an ensemble of gay bars like Indtry. I was fely very hant and sred to make this full mment, knowg that was almost certa that I was gay.

I want people to know that I’m gay, I’m fast, and people like exist.

Mentally, I would ntue nng for years, avoidg the fact that I was gay. To my knowledge I am now the first and only publicly out gay cross-untry and track ach the NCAA.

JOHN GAY AND SARAH INGLIS W 2021 BC CROSS COUNTRY CHAMPNSHIPS

The first five years were spent at Semole High School, velopg unr a lol achg legend I nsir a father figure (who still don’t know I am gay – well, now he might).

LGBTQ TRAVEL: A FABULOUS GUI TO GAY TRAVEL 2023

A perfect cktail of self-imposed prsure to w mixed wh strs and anxiety over beg gay.

In my md, I would ultimately be puttg any attempts to live whatever semblance I knew of an openly gay life to the si. Those iends are all straight, and wh the exceptn of my first te gay iends I’ve ma here at East Bay, I have only ever had straight iends. For my sport as a whole, I am trated that spe many people sayg “I didn’t thk beg gay was an issue anymore”, there don’t seem to be a clear openns the achg ranks.

I have been so fearful that beg gay uld dispt my msage to my team.

13 VERY GAY AND VERY GOOD BOOKS YOU SHOULD READ THIS PRI MONTH

I have always felt beg openly gay would be a distractn to those goals.

In the last few weeks I have told my athlet and athletic director that I am gay. To honor his gay son, who mted suici after beg bullied, was stck and killed by a tck eastern Colorado, thori said Bell, 48, had ma om La Gran, Ore., all the way to jt a few short of the ty town of Hugo when a semi-tractor-trailer h him as he was walkg on the shoulr of U. "Bell set out om LaGran, northeastern Oregon near Whman Natnal Fort, on a two-year walk April — three months after his 15-year-old son, Jad, hanged himself at a lol school was open about his homosexualy, and he had been ntually bullied for , his father said.

GAY TOURS HAWAII

(Image via Instagram) ABOVE: Happy 4th — ee, gay and happy! Doyle turns 1981: My Gay Amerin Road Trip, which documents a trip he took across 27 stat to explore gay culture. It all went down right before AIDS ma so many gay men vanish, makg all the more sential a document.

This is our sixth time rankg the gayt plac left for slishow. Article ntu the Supreme Court led favor of same-sex marriag, Ameri generally, and the gay muny specifilly, celebrated.

Same-sex marriag, and the gay and lbian movement is more mastream than the natnal discsn has been brought to the foreont, at the state level, nversatns you know that an timated 0.

ABOUT THE CENTERSCE 1983 THE CENTER HAS BEEN SUPPORTG, FOSTERG AND CELEBRATG THE LGBT MUNY OF NEW YORK CY. FD MORE RMATN ON AND OUR WORK ABOUT THE CENTER. VIS ABOUT THE CENTEROUR MISSNCYBER CENTERCENTER HISTORYRACE EQUYMEDIA CENTERLEARSHIP & STAFFEMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNICORPORATE PARTNERSHIPSANNUAL REPORTS & FANCIAL INFORMATNCONTACT USHOURS & LOTNSEMAPSUPPORT THE CENTER

That ranks as the number 33 most gay state the natn.