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• GAY MICHIGAN TRAVEL GUI
• GAY DATG MICHIGAN
• GAY UP NORTH
•  MICHIGAN LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• “GAY OM GAYLORD” EXPLOR GROWG UP LGBTQ NORTHERN MICHIGAN
• THE BEST MICHIGAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MICHIGAN
• GAYT PLAC IN MICHIGAN FOR 2020
• TRAVERSE CY GAY FRIENDLY - TRAVERSE CY FOM

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Gay travelers n fd a good time the gay muni of Douglas and Sgatuck. A backwoods mentaly still plagu parts of Northern Michigan when to acceptg the gay muny.

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Although gay people say they n be themselv Traverse Cy or Petoskey, they thk twice about what they say or do smaller towns. Edward Grim, a retired Uned Methodist pastor who is gay, ns an rmal lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) mistry. He said he knows gay people who live ral areas.

" The urban-ral divi is an ditn that gay tolerance is a state of flux, he said.

" Jon Becker, a gay real tate agent at Century 21 Northland Traverse Cy who’s expand his bs recent years by advertisg on gay webs, said he behav differently pendg on where he is. "If I went out Buckley or Mancelona, would I go out to a rtrant and talk as openly wh my gay iends as I would Traverse Cy?

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" Becker said he believ people ral plac have a harr time beg open about beg gay, but that he hasn’t heard of anyone gettg harrassed.

OUT AND ABOUT IN PETOSKEY Taylor Mart and Tracy Thomson have done what jt a generatn ago might have been unthkable – they moved back to Petoskey after llege to settle down publicly as a gay uple. Mart, 27, and Thomson, 29, said reactn to the newspaper article, which ran after the stay of a feral urt cisn that temporarily legalized gay marriage Michigan, has been posive. " Thomson, who is om Petoskey, and Mart, who is om Charlevoix, say they might have moved to a large cy wh a gay muny if were 20 years ago.

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"The gay muny up here is growg.

"I would have wanted to be around a larger gay muny. " That the legaly of gay marriage Michigan is limbo has not altered the uple’s plan, which is to marry Northern Michigan the summer of 2015. " Nick Erber, mental health and HIV/ AIDS unselor at Munson Medil Center, also has a personal tert the state’s gay marriage bate.

Grim said the gay marriage bate is extremely personal for the LGBT muny. ON THE FRINGE IN CADILLACThe state of gay tolerance around Cadillac is somewhere the "don’t ask, don’t tell" range, said Lonnie Burkett, owner of a gay bar there. Not long after openg about 18 months ago at the rner of Mchell and Harris streets, the uple realized that bee they are gay, their bar would be gay, too.

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Before they even lled the Espe Bar and Grill a gay-iendly place, there were people who maligned , Burkett said. "We only me out as a gay bar bee there was so much ntroversy town that we were a gay bar, " he said.

Burkett said ’s been a stggle to n a gay bar Cadillac, a nservative, blue llar muny that exists limbo between inti as rort town and manufacturg hub. "We have people e to the bar and pla that there were two lbians holdg hands the bar or that two gay men were kissg, " Burkett said. "They’re OK wh beg gay as long as they don’t see beg gay.

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That’s a gay bar, ’" he said. I didn’t realize there was a gay bar here. Jim Carthers, a gay cy missn member, believ Traverse Cy has ma a lot of progrs toward tolerance "¦ but still has a ways to go.

"As more of e out, more fai are havg to al wh this bee their children are g to them and sayg, "˜Hey, I’m gay.

He said he also appreciated that there is a gay muny Traverse Cy, albe a small one which he believ needs to be better anized. A muny center uld also make Traverse Cy more appealg as a gay tourist statn, somethg that uld brg a lot of money to the cy. " Becker said he’s seen how Traverse Cy attracts gay people through his real tate bs.

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He believ the cy uld do more to bee a gay travel statn. For example, bs uld put rabow stickers their wdows, subtly advertisg they are gay iendly. "I thk we have a ways to go, but I thk Traverse Cy do have probably more [gay tourists] than any of know, " Becker said.

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One of the people stg on that cy missn was Carthers, who is openly gay. "TEN STEPS FORWARD, EIGHT STEPS BACK"That’s not to say the battle is won, or that homophobia or discrimatn on the basis of sexual orientatn or genr inty are thgs of the past. The art stallatns drew onle backlash and hateful ments om some muny members, promptg Carthers to qutn how much progrs Traverse Cy had actually ma toward LGBTQ+ acceptance — and how much the example set by the Tmp Whe Hoe might be affectg forward momentum for the gay muny and other mory groups.

The announcement not only me the middle of Pri Month but also on the four-year anniversary of a mass shootg at Pulse, the Orlando gay bar where 49 people were murred and 53 jured. In the special electn forced by the rell, Sietg lost the village princy to Harley Wal, an openly gay man. TAKING THE NEXT STEPSWhile the lol LGBTQ+ muny and alli are thrilled to have a muny center like Poltar —and would like to see more safe spac of s ilk other areas throughout northern Michigan — Cameron said their ultimate hope is that the gay muny will eventually be able to safely move out of the sequtered gatherg spac and further to the open.

“It’s ol that we have had a gay bar Traverse Cy for as long as we have. [Note: Traverse Cy nightclub SiTraxx opened 1988 and was the first Michigan bar north of Grand Rapids to ter specifilly to the gay muny.