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• THE 5 BEST MILAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILAN
• MILAN GAY DISTRICT
• MILAN'S VIBRANT GAY, FRIENDLY, & GAY-FRIENDLY SCENE
• OUR 7 FAVOURE PLAC TO EXPERIENCE GAY ITALY
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY
• FROM TABOO TO MASTREAM: HOW MILAN'S LGBTQ COMMUNY FOUND ITSELF THROUGH MIC THE GLTER FAY AT GIARDI PUBBLICI INDRO MONTANELLI, MILAN | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP SARA KFMAN 18 MAY 2020 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DANCE CLUBS AND THE FASHN DTRY ARE SOME OF THE MA – AND PERHAPS LIMED – FORMS OF EXPRSN FOR MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. FABRIZ FERRI LOOKS TO PRERVE THE UNTERCULTURAL ATMOSPHERE AND MIC OF THE PAST, WHILE BUILDG A MORE EXPANSIVE AND CLIVE FUTURE AT HIS WEEKLY LGBTQ SOIRéE, KNOWN AS GLTER. VIEW ALL TRIPS IN A MASSIVE UNRGROUND ROOM MILAN, PATED MOSTLY BLACK, FOG CURLS UP TOWARDS THE CEILG AND THE POUNDG BASS SEEMS TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE FLOOR AND UP THROUGH THE FEET OF A CROWD OF DANCERS. SOMEONE WALKS BY WH A WELL-GROOMED MOTACHE, RED HIGH HEELS AND AMPLE AMOUNTS OF SPARKLE – APPROPRIATELY SO, SCE THIS CLUB IS HOSTG GLTER, AN EVENT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ECUADOR BALI JAPAN CROATIA TURKEY THAILAND INDIA EGYPT MEXI SPA GREECE MOROC SOUTH AI ICELAND FABRIZ FERRI, -FOUNR AND ART DIRECTOR OF GLTER, MILAN | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP FABRIZ FERRI, EDOR--CHIEF OF THE TERNATNAL PUBLITN HUNTER FASHN MAGAZE, LNCHED GLTER 1999 TOGETHER WH GIEPPE MAGISTRO AND SOME IENDS, RPONDG TO A LACK OF ALTERNATIVE AND UNTERCULTURE NIGHTCLUBS FOR THE QUEER MUNY. “WE WERE A GROUP OF IENDS WHO LIKED DIE ROCK MIC AND BACK THEN, THERE WEREN’T ANY GAY CLUBS PLAYG ,” HE SAYS.“IT WAS NSIRED ‘MIC FOR HETEROSEXUALS’. BUT MIC DON’T HAVE A GENR OR A SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND WE HAD NO IA WHERE TO GO DANCG.” THE EVENT, WHICH CHANGED VENU OVER THE YEARS, STANTLY DREW LIKE-MD PEOPLE AND THOSE WH SIAR MIC TAST. LEFT: GIADA J’ADORE, GLZ GIRLZ @WEIRD_GIADA. RIGHT: TERRY LA BLOW, GLZ GIRLZ @TERRYBLOW_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MISTRS MIRAGE, GLZ GIRLZ @_MIRAGS_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP THE ’90S ATMOSPHERE THAT FIRST SHAPED THIS UNTERCULTURE SCENE WAS PARTIALLY FLUENCED BY AN EARLIER TIME OF MARGALISATN FOR THE GAY MUNY. WHAT N ARGUABLY BE SCRIBED AS MILAN’S FIRST LGBTQ MOVEMENT BEGAN WH A GROUP OF SQUATTERS WHO 1976 TOOK UP RINCE A 15TH-CENTURY PALAZZO NEAR THE DUOMO. THE GROUP WAS PRISED OF SOCIAL MORI AND BOUNDARY-PHG CREATIV SEARCHG FOR A SPACE WHERE THEY ULD EXPRS THEMSELV EELY. IT WAS A PLACE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE, EMBODYG THE REVOLUTNARY SPIR OF THE AND FOSTERG A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO WERE POLILLY ACTIVE AND VOLVED TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS. FROM THE ’70S TO THE 2010S THE MUNY BEME MORE ACCEPTED AND WAS BROUGHT TO THE MASTREAM. THEN, 2014, RUPL’S DRAG RACE WAS BOUGHT BY NETFLIX – WH SUBTL ITALIAN. FERRI C THIS AS AN IMPORTANT CULTURAL SHIFT – BEE BEME ACCSIBLE TO ALL. FERRI AND MAGISTRO, THE -FOUNRS OF GLTER, E OM THE FASHN DTRY, SO THEY WANT TO CREATE SOMETHG THAT MIRRORS THE TIM. AS THE YEARS WENT BY AND THE SOCIAL SCENE CHANGED, GLTER NATURALLY CHANGED WH , ALTHOUGH STILL MATAS S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DNA AND PUNK ATTU. THE PARTY’S DIE-ROCK SOUL IS NOW ENRICHED BY ALL SORTS OF NEW MIL ENTRI, RANGG OM LADY GAGA TO ST VCENT, GRIM TO CHARLI XCX – ARTISTS WHO BE THEIR MIC WH DISTCTIVE ATHETICS AND A SOCPOLIL STANCE. “WE TRY TO AVOID BEG OVERLY POLIL BUT THERE’S ALWAYS AN IMPLIC MSAGE,” SAYS FERRI. “SOMETIM ’S EASIER TO NVEY A MSAGE WH A CLUB THAN WH A NFERENCE ROOM.” EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP MEMBERS OF THE GLTER FAY AT RED CAFÉ @REDFEANO | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP GLTER’S PERFORMERS – THE FAMED GLZ GIRLZ – ARE A GROUP OF WOMEN, MEN, TRANSGENR AND NON-BARY PEOPLE. THEIR SHOW FORMAT AIMS TO CREATE THARSIS, TAPULTG THE CROWD TO ANOTHER DIMENSN AS PART OF SOMETHG UNIQUE. THE VISUAL NTENT (CLUDG VIOS, PROJECTNS AND LIVE ACTS) ARE STRIKG, WH BOUNDARY-PHG PERFORMANC. “THERE ARE STILL THGS TODAY WHICH ANNOY THE MASS, THGS THAT CREATE DISTURBANCE, AND THE ARE EXACTLY THE KD OF NTENT I WANT FOR GLTER,” FERRI EXPLAS. “IF THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DISTURB, MEANS THAT THEY SHOULD BE VTIGATED.” MYSS KETA, AN ITALIAN SGER AND A PERFORMER OF UNKNOWN INTY WHO ALWAYS HIS HER FACE BEHD VEILS AND MASKS, DID HER FIRST SHOW AT GLTER 2013. SHE HAS ALWAYS PUBLICLY ADVOTED FOR THE GAY MUNY, WHOSE SUPPORT ALLOWED HER TO REACH AN TERNATNAL DIENCE. AS FERRI EXPLAS, “SHE MIX ‘TRASHY’ NTENT WH POWERFUL POLIL MSAG AND WORKS, BEE ’S THENTIC.” RECENTLY, DURG A SHOW, MYSS KETA DID A PARODY OF RIGHT-WG POLICIAN GRGIA MELONI’S SPEECH AGAST ADOPTN BY SAME-SEX PARENTS. THE VIO OF THE SHOW WENT VIRAL OVERNIGHT. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. LEFT: FABRIZ FERRI. RIGHT: THE NOTOR MARIANTONIETTA, GLZ GIRLZ @MARYNOTOR | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MYSS KETA OM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PORTA VENEZIA, MILAN’S GAY NEIGHBOURHOOD PAR EXCELLENCE. DURG PRI WEEK 2019, THE METRO STOP OF PORTA VENEZIA WAS RATED WH RABOW MURALS. THE MAYOR CID TO LEAVE THEM THERE PERMANENTLY AS A TRIBUTE TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD’S INTY. HERE YOU N FD SEVERAL GAY BARS CLUDG MONO, PERHAPS THE FIRST GAY BAR MILAN TO OPEN ON A BIG STREET STEAD OF A SECLUD ALLEY, WHERE PEOPLE ULD SIMPLY ENTER OM THE ONT DOOR STEAD OF HAVG TO KNOCK OR RG DOORBELLS. AFTER THE MONO ME THE LECILANO AND, MORE RECENTLY, POP, A FEMIST AND FEME BAR. THE CROSSROAD BETWEEN VIA LEC AND VIA PANFILO CASTALDI – THE MA STREETS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHERE YOU N FD MOST OF THE BARS AND RTRANTS – IS TODAY A CELEBRATED MEETG POT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. “IT’S WARM AND WELG,” SAYS FERRI. “IT’S ALSO NICE FOR NEWERS AND TOURISTS WHO WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE LOL SCENE.” THE UP AND G AREA KNOWN AS NOLO IS QUICKLY BEG THE CY’S NEXT LGBTQ NEIGHBOURHOOD. THERE ARE SEVERAL GAY BARS AND RTRANTS AROUND THE PNEER NOLOSO. MILAN PRIS SELF ON BEG A GAY-IENDLY CY, PECIALLY PARED TO THE RT OF ITALY. IT HOSTS THE LARGT PRI THE UNTRY AND WEL OPENLY GAY MEN S FASHN DTRY. BUT THE LS, BS, TS AND QS WORKG OTHER DTRI STILL FACE DISCRIMATN AND FERRI BELIEV THE CY STILL HAS A WAY TO GO. “IF YOU WORK FASHN YOU N EASILY SAY YOU’RE GAY. BUT IF, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU WORK A BANK, THERE IS STILL THE ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ LE,” HE SAYS. THOUGH CULTURAL STUTNS LIKE THE WELL-KNOWN BOOKSHOP ANTIGONE AND GAY CEMA FTIVAL MIX HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE MILANE LGBTQ MUNY OVER THE YEARS. LOL QUEER CULTURE MILAN IS MOSTLY EXPRSED THROUGH BARS AND PARTI, YET THE SLOW SHIFT OVER THE YEARS OM TABOO TO MASTREAM HAS LED TO A MORE HOPEFUL YOUNGER GENERATN. “BEG BORN LS HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC TIM, KIDS WHO ARE NOW 18 OR 20 ARE MORE OL ABOUT SHOWG THEIR HOMOSEXUALY,” SAYS FERRI. “THIS, TOGETHER WH THE MORE TERNATNAL APPEAL OF THE CY, IS CERTALY HELPG.” BRIGTE STALLONE, GLZ GIRLZ @BRIGTELASVAMPA | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP HERE ARE SOME OTHER LGBTQ EVENTS AND CLUBS MILAN BIS GLTER: ESNDALO BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT ESNDALO IS A FUN AND RMAL PARTY HELD AT BAR Q21 PLASTIC NIGHTCLUB, COCKTAILS SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT PLASTIC HAS BEEN A MILAN STUTN SCE S CEPTN 1980. IN S HEYDAY THE CLIENTELE CLUD MADONNA, ELTON JOHN, ANDY WARHOL, FREDDIE MERCURY AND BCE SPRGSTEEN. THE CLUB HAS ALWAYS DRAWN A QUEER CROWD. LA BOUM BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT LA BOUM IS AN LGBTQ EVENT THAT TAK PLACE EVERY FRIDAY NIGHT. BLAN BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT BLAN IS A FASHNABLE BAR WHERE YOU’LL BE ABLE TO SPEND YOUR TIME CELEBRY SPOTTG – STRAIGHTS AND GAYS ALIKE. THE GLTER FAY THE INDRO MONTANELLI PUBLIC GARNS, MILAN | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP VOLNIC ICELAND EPIC TRIP MEET OUR LOL INSIR HANNA HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A GUIDE? 2 YEARS. WHAT DO YOU LOVE ABOUT YOUR JOB? IT'S THE PERSONAL NTACT, THE PERSONAL EXPERIENC. I LOVE MEETG PEOPLE OM ALL OVER THE WORLD... I REALLY LIKE GETTG TO KNOW EVERYONE AND FEELG LIKE I'M TRAVELG WH A GROUP OF IENDS. WHAT DESTINATION IS ON YOUR TRAVEL BUCKET-LIST? I HAVE SO MANY PLAC ON MY LIST, BUT I WOULD REALLY LOBE TO GO TO AI. I NSIR MYSELF AN “ADVENTURE GIRL” AND AI FEELS LIKE THE ULTIMATE ADVENTURE! EVERY CULTURE TRIP SMALL-GROUP ADVENTURE IS LED BY A LOL INSIR JT LIKE HANNA. 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THE 5 BEST MILAN GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS MILAN

You might fd a certa ncentratn next to the Central Statn, the Porta Venezia area or on the so-lled “Gay Street”: the Via Sammarti hosts some gay plac close to each other but don’t expect to be the vibrant center of Gay Milan’s nightlife.

Here you will fd that the urbane gay muny of divas and fashnistas liv alongsi the raw unrground sub-culture of artsy and alternative typ, wh plenty of space left over for the unapologetilly there is cidly a clter of outright gay bars and small clubs the Porta Venezia district, many venu around town tout themselv as gay-iendly tablishments that attach neher expectatns nor lims to the crowds that flow through their doors.

MILAN GAY DISTRICT

There is also no shortage of gay-themed events schled at var lol throughout the cy, which are guaranteed to attract a diverse set of party-goers. For all s ference to the 'old-fashned' way of dog thgs, Italy's gay culture has even taken the digal leap recent years, makg e of popular apps such as Grdr and Tr to tablish ntact and arrange a accs to a slew of gay events and hotspots, register for a membership rd wh Arcigay (), Italy's first and largt natnal gay anizatn. On the face of LGBT Italy looks somewhat downbeat, but squt a ltle harr and you’ll soon fd a diverse range of gay venu suable for dancg, cisg and dulgg steamy sna meet-cut.

While gay-n bs are few and far between, most nightlife the town is to be nsired gay-iendly, wh Iso Gut Hoe holdg a great reputatn among the LGBTQ+ muny. Said to be one of the most gay-iendly ci the regn, Catania go hand hand wh Taorma for gay travellers seekg culture, herage and low-key partyg.

A btlg port cy ma famo by s proximy to Mount Etna and UNESCO-listed baroque archecture, Gay Catania attracts a young and dynamic crowd who breathe life to the old town wh rabow buntg and artsy muny spac. The climax for gay Sicily and the queer lendar arriv late June each year when gays and advot take to the streets for Catania Gay Pri Para. As culture grows more liberal, the vibrancy of the gay muny grows wh , allowg for a sctive mix of gay dance parti, snas and cisg spots among the pal’s many cultural hotspots.

MILAN'S VIBRANT GAY, FRIENDLY, & GAY-FRIENDLY SCENE

A beach day is also an optn while Rome; simply travel southwt for epic sunset views on goln sand beach, stoppg at Ostia, Anz, Sperlonga or wherever tak your your troductn to Gay Rome by fanng out east om the Colossm along Via San Gvanni, a social street led wh gay-iendly bars, clubs and rtrants.

Align your vis wh the summer-long Gay Village ftival, one of the most important events the cy’s gay lendar which se Par l Nfeo and surroundg neighbourhoods bee overn wh LGBT street parti, live mic, performance art, film screengs and more. On all other ocsns, start off any one of Rome’s highbrow cktail bars and microbreweri, lowerg the tone later on at an unrground fetish party, wild gay club or good ol’ fashned gay dis. Drawg parisons wh Mykonos and Sg, Torre l Lago is a beachsi town offerg lh landsp, gged ast and a ton of gay-iendly nightlife offergs to keep you by.

OUR 7 FAVOURE PLAC TO EXPERIENCE GAY ITALY

Walk the promena to fd the village’s ma llectn of gay bars, pubs and clubs, an area which serv as both the lotn of the annual Mardi Gras event and gateway to the town’s biggt gay beach.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

MilanMol of the term ‘smopolan cy break’, Milan tops the lists of top gay Italy travel statns, thanks to s stat as the high-fashn pal of the world. Home to the largt – not to mentn the most glamoro – gay muny the untry, Gay Milan offers a vibrant space for LGBTQ divas and fashnistas om all rners of the angl the cy centre nod to some era of archecture; be art nouve around Corso Magenta, ratnalism Piazza San Babila or the futuristic skyle shaped by the lik of Zaha Hadid and César Pelli.

While much of the cy’s nightlife is gay-iendly, the clubs and bars around the Porta Venezia district are muny outposts that host nightly gay-themed events. To fd out about the next big gay event, pick up a ee py of Zerodue or Milano Pri magaz om stor and fés around town, readg more about the bt gay bars Milan has to offer wh our full Milan travel gui.

LAKERS AMONG TEAMS LKED TO RUDY GAY

Dpe the gay muny here beg somewhat spread out leavg the party scene muted, the Gay Amalfi Coast shows self small nods of acceptance towards same-sex upl and offers romantic vatns for all. The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

FROM TABOO TO MASTREAM: HOW MILAN'S LGBTQ COMMUNY FOUND ITSELF THROUGH MIC THE GLTER FAY AT GIARDI PUBBLICI INDRO MONTANELLI, MILAN | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP SARA KFMAN 18 MAY 2020 COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT DANCE CLUBS AND THE FASHN DTRY ARE SOME OF THE MA – AND PERHAPS LIMED – FORMS OF EXPRSN FOR MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. FABRIZ FERRI LOOKS TO PRERVE THE UNTERCULTURAL ATMOSPHERE AND MIC OF THE PAST, WHILE BUILDG A MORE EXPANSIVE AND CLIVE FUTURE AT HIS WEEKLY LGBTQ SOIRéE, KNOWN AS GLTER. VIEW ALL TRIPS IN A MASSIVE UNRGROUND ROOM MILAN, PATED MOSTLY BLACK, FOG CURLS UP TOWARDS THE CEILG AND THE POUNDG BASS SEEMS TO TRAVEL THROUGH THE FLOOR AND UP THROUGH THE FEET OF A CROWD OF DANCERS. SOMEONE WALKS BY WH A WELL-GROOMED MOTACHE, RED HIGH HEELS AND AMPLE AMOUNTS OF SPARKLE – APPROPRIATELY SO, SCE THIS CLUB IS HOSTG GLTER, AN EVENT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY MILAN. TAKE A SP TO FD YOUR PERFECT SMALL-GROUP TRIP STATN PASSPORTS READY? YOUR NEXT STATN IS... VIEW TRIP SP ECUADOR BALI JAPAN CROATIA TURKEY THAILAND INDIA EGYPT MEXI SPA GREECE MOROC SOUTH AI ICELAND FABRIZ FERRI, -FOUNR AND ART DIRECTOR OF GLTER, MILAN | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP FABRIZ FERRI, EDOR--CHIEF OF THE TERNATNAL PUBLITN HUNTER FASHN MAGAZE, LNCHED GLTER 1999 TOGETHER WH GIEPPE MAGISTRO AND SOME IENDS, RPONDG TO A LACK OF ALTERNATIVE AND UNTERCULTURE NIGHTCLUBS FOR THE QUEER MUNY. “WE WERE A GROUP OF IENDS WHO LIKED DIE ROCK MIC AND BACK THEN, THERE WEREN’T ANY GAY CLUBS PLAYG ,” HE SAYS.“IT WAS NSIRED ‘MIC FOR HETEROSEXUALS’. BUT MIC DON’T HAVE A GENR OR A SEXUAL ORIENTATN AND WE HAD NO IA WHERE TO GO DANCG.” THE EVENT, WHICH CHANGED VENU OVER THE YEARS, STANTLY DREW LIKE-MD PEOPLE AND THOSE WH SIAR MIC TAST. LEFT: GIADA J’ADORE, GLZ GIRLZ @WEIRD_GIADA. RIGHT: TERRY LA BLOW, GLZ GIRLZ @TERRYBLOW_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MISTRS MIRAGE, GLZ GIRLZ @_MIRAGS_ | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP THE ’90S ATMOSPHERE THAT FIRST SHAPED THIS UNTERCULTURE SCENE WAS PARTIALLY FLUENCED BY AN EARLIER TIME OF MARGALISATN FOR THE GAY MUNY. WHAT N ARGUABLY BE SCRIBED AS MILAN’S FIRST LGBTQ MOVEMENT BEGAN WH A GROUP OF SQUATTERS WHO 1976 TOOK UP RINCE A 15TH-CENTURY PALAZZO NEAR THE DUOMO. THE GROUP WAS PRISED OF SOCIAL MORI AND BOUNDARY-PHG CREATIV SEARCHG FOR A SPACE WHERE THEY ULD EXPRS THEMSELV EELY. IT WAS A PLACE OF CULTURAL EXCHANGE, EMBODYG THE REVOLUTNARY SPIR OF THE AND FOSTERG A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO WERE POLILLY ACTIVE AND VOLVED TERNATNAL MPAIGNS FOR SOCIAL RIGHTS. FROM THE ’70S TO THE 2010S THE MUNY BEME MORE ACCEPTED AND WAS BROUGHT TO THE MASTREAM. THEN, 2014, RUPL’S DRAG RACE WAS BOUGHT BY NETFLIX – WH SUBTL ITALIAN. FERRI C THIS AS AN IMPORTANT CULTURAL SHIFT – BEE BEME ACCSIBLE TO ALL. FERRI AND MAGISTRO, THE -FOUNRS OF GLTER, E OM THE FASHN DTRY, SO THEY WANT TO CREATE SOMETHG THAT MIRRORS THE TIM. AS THE YEARS WENT BY AND THE SOCIAL SCENE CHANGED, GLTER NATURALLY CHANGED WH , ALTHOUGH STILL MATAS S ROCK ‘N’ ROLL DNA AND PUNK ATTU. THE PARTY’S DIE-ROCK SOUL IS NOW ENRICHED BY ALL SORTS OF NEW MIL ENTRI, RANGG OM LADY GAGA TO ST VCENT, GRIM TO CHARLI XCX – ARTISTS WHO BE THEIR MIC WH DISTCTIVE ATHETICS AND A SOCPOLIL STANCE. “WE TRY TO AVOID BEG OVERLY POLIL BUT THERE’S ALWAYS AN IMPLIC MSAGE,” SAYS FERRI. “SOMETIM ’S EASIER TO NVEY A MSAGE WH A CLUB THAN WH A NFERENCE ROOM.” EPIC MOROCCO FROM ANCIENT CI TO THE SAHARA, EMBRACE CULTURAL RICH AND ENCHANTG LANDSP NORTH AI. VIEW TRIP MEMBERS OF THE GLTER FAY AT RED CAFÉ @REDFEANO | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP GLTER’S PERFORMERS – THE FAMED GLZ GIRLZ – ARE A GROUP OF WOMEN, MEN, TRANSGENR AND NON-BARY PEOPLE. THEIR SHOW FORMAT AIMS TO CREATE THARSIS, TAPULTG THE CROWD TO ANOTHER DIMENSN AS PART OF SOMETHG UNIQUE. THE VISUAL NTENT (CLUDG VIOS, PROJECTNS AND LIVE ACTS) ARE STRIKG, WH BOUNDARY-PHG PERFORMANC. “THERE ARE STILL THGS TODAY WHICH ANNOY THE MASS, THGS THAT CREATE DISTURBANCE, AND THE ARE EXACTLY THE KD OF NTENT I WANT FOR GLTER,” FERRI EXPLAS. “IF THEY HAVE THE POWER TO DISTURB, MEANS THAT THEY SHOULD BE VTIGATED.” MYSS KETA, AN ITALIAN SGER AND A PERFORMER OF UNKNOWN INTY WHO ALWAYS HIS HER FACE BEHD VEILS AND MASKS, DID HER FIRST SHOW AT GLTER 2013. SHE HAS ALWAYS PUBLICLY ADVOTED FOR THE GAY MUNY, WHOSE SUPPORT ALLOWED HER TO REACH AN TERNATNAL DIENCE. AS FERRI EXPLAS, “SHE MIX ‘TRASHY’ NTENT WH POWERFUL POLIL MSAG AND WORKS, BEE ’S THENTIC.” RECENTLY, DURG A SHOW, MYSS KETA DID A PARODY OF RIGHT-WG POLICIAN GRGIA MELONI’S SPEECH AGAST ADOPTN BY SAME-SEX PARENTS. THE VIO OF THE SHOW WENT VIRAL OVERNIGHT. BEE A CULTURE TRIPPER! SIGN UP TO OUR NEWSLETTER TO SAVE UP TO 40% ON OUR UNIQUE TRIPS. SIGN UP SEE PRIVACY POLICY. LEFT: FABRIZ FERRI. RIGHT: THE NOTOR MARIANTONIETTA, GLZ GIRLZ @MARYNOTOR | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP MYSS KETA OM THE NEIGHBOURHOOD OF PORTA VENEZIA, MILAN’S GAY NEIGHBOURHOOD PAR EXCELLENCE. DURG PRI WEEK 2019, THE METRO STOP OF PORTA VENEZIA WAS RATED WH RABOW MURALS. THE MAYOR CID TO LEAVE THEM THERE PERMANENTLY AS A TRIBUTE TO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD’S INTY. HERE YOU N FD SEVERAL GAY BARS CLUDG MONO, PERHAPS THE FIRST GAY BAR MILAN TO OPEN ON A BIG STREET STEAD OF A SECLUD ALLEY, WHERE PEOPLE ULD SIMPLY ENTER OM THE ONT DOOR STEAD OF HAVG TO KNOCK OR RG DOORBELLS. AFTER THE MONO ME THE LECILANO AND, MORE RECENTLY, POP, A FEMIST AND FEME BAR. THE CROSSROAD BETWEEN VIA LEC AND VIA PANFILO CASTALDI – THE MA STREETS OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD, WHERE YOU N FD MOST OF THE BARS AND RTRANTS – IS TODAY A CELEBRATED MEETG POT FOR THE LGBTQ MUNY. “IT’S WARM AND WELG,” SAYS FERRI. “IT’S ALSO NICE FOR NEWERS AND TOURISTS WHO WANT TO EXPERIENCE THE LOL SCENE.” THE UP AND G AREA KNOWN AS NOLO IS QUICKLY BEG THE CY’S NEXT LGBTQ NEIGHBOURHOOD. THERE ARE SEVERAL GAY BARS AND RTRANTS AROUND THE PNEER NOLOSO. MILAN PRIS SELF ON BEG A GAY-IENDLY CY, PECIALLY PARED TO THE RT OF ITALY. IT HOSTS THE LARGT PRI THE UNTRY AND WEL OPENLY GAY MEN S FASHN DTRY. BUT THE LS, BS, TS AND QS WORKG OTHER DTRI STILL FACE DISCRIMATN AND FERRI BELIEV THE CY STILL HAS A WAY TO GO. “IF YOU WORK FASHN YOU N EASILY SAY YOU’RE GAY. BUT IF, FOR EXAMPLE, YOU WORK A BANK, THERE IS STILL THE ‘DON’T ASK, DON’T TELL’ LE,” HE SAYS. THOUGH CULTURAL STUTNS LIKE THE WELL-KNOWN BOOKSHOP ANTIGONE AND GAY CEMA FTIVAL MIX HAVE HIGHLIGHTED THE MILANE LGBTQ MUNY OVER THE YEARS. LOL QUEER CULTURE MILAN IS MOSTLY EXPRSED THROUGH BARS AND PARTI, YET THE SLOW SHIFT OVER THE YEARS OM TABOO TO MASTREAM HAS LED TO A MORE HOPEFUL YOUNGER GENERATN. “BEG BORN LS HOMOPHOBIC AND TRANSPHOBIC TIM, KIDS WHO ARE NOW 18 OR 20 ARE MORE OL ABOUT SHOWG THEIR HOMOSEXUALY,” SAYS FERRI. “THIS, TOGETHER WH THE MORE TERNATNAL APPEAL OF THE CY, IS CERTALY HELPG.” BRIGTE STALLONE, GLZ GIRLZ @BRIGTELASVAMPA | | © ALSANDRO FURCHO CAPRIA / CULTURE TRIP HERE ARE SOME OTHER LGBTQ EVENTS AND CLUBS MILAN BIS GLTER: ESNDALO BAR, ITALIAN SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT ESNDALO IS A FUN AND RMAL PARTY HELD AT BAR Q21 PLASTIC NIGHTCLUB, COCKTAILS SHARE ADD TO PLAN COPY LK FACEBOOK EMAIL TWTER PTERT PLASTIC HAS BEEN A MILAN STUTN SCE S CEPTN 1980. IN S HEYDAY THE CLIENTELE CLUD MADONNA, ELTON JOHN, ANDY WARHOL, FREDDIE MERCURY AND BCE SPRGSTEEN. THE CLUB HAS ALWAYS DRAWN A QUEER CROWD. 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(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple. They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

Waybourn was print of the Dallas Gay Alliance when sued Parkland Memorial Hospal for failg to provi readily available medic to AIDS patients. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

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“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

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For those aimg to disver the LGBTIQ iendly dimensn ’s eful to know that, pecially to accs gay cise bars and snas, people mt be posssn of the Arcigay Card (right photo), easy to subscribe at any member center (see below map), or at the entrance of the club self showg your ID, wh a price of roughly 15 € and valid for one year, startg om the purchase date. This rd allows to take part to any activy such as polil and recreatnal events troduced by Arcigay, the most relevant non-prof anizatn Italy mted to the stggle agast homophobia and also anizer of the yearly Gay Pri march, check here for prent or future gay pri march  Milan. Veteran forward Rudy Gay is expected to draw tert om several playoff-liber teams, cludg the Goln State Warrrs, Los Angel Lakers, Dallas Mavericks, Chigo Bulls, and New Orleans Pelins, league sourc told HoopsHype.

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Standg at 6’8” and sportg a 7’3” wgspan, Gay has the exact type of proportns the Lakers lacked their seri agast the Denver Nuggets particular.

Dpe the limatns and drop-offs that e wh age, there is potentially a role for Gay somewhere the league as he has proved to still be a steady ntributor when given the chance. While remas to be see if that role is found Los Angel for Gay, probably behoov the Lakers to look elsewhere to fill what is an obv need or at least swg for upsi wh a younger player. Here you n fd several gay bars cludg Mono, perhaps the first gay bar Milan to open on a big street stead of a seclud alley, where people uld simply enter om the ont door stead of havg to knock or rg doorbells.

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Though cultural stutns like the well-known bookshop Antigone and gay cema ftival MIX have highlighted the Milane LGBTQ muny over the years. Moskva River & Grand Kreml PalaceGay Rights and the Suatn RsiaThe UK Foreign Office reports that "Homosexualy is legal Rsia, but there is still tolerance among some sectns of the populatn. For safety, gay upl should not brg attentn to their relatnship public, for example, by holdg hands, even tourist areas, hotels or aware that hookg up wh guys via datg apps has risks.

Tverskoy is great for sightseeg, the theatr and gay latt hotel als Mosw are listed on the Gay Mosw Hotels to See & DoRed Square (Krasnaya Ploshchad) - the heart of Mosw and the cy’s most famo tourist Kreml (Moskovsky Kreml) - a huge se wh The Diamond llectn the Armoury and several amazg church. In Amsterdam, the gay scene is mostly ncentrated around the many gay bars the Reguliersdwarsstraat, and we’ve had many fun parti at the Amstel Fifty Four on Wedndays, the drks night of stunt associatn A. There are great queer bars such as SilverFuture Nkölln and Faccla Krzberg, both wh their flare and social atmospher that make them great plac for tourists, whilst mega techno clubs and parti (what gui to gay Berl uldn’t clu Bergha?!

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Compared to other plac Mexi, was the cy where I saw the most signs of affectn public between same-sex upl, and there are plenty of gay bars, clubs and parti for everyone. The right to change legal genr has been place sce 2012 and anti-discrimatn laws are full force Rosar and the big pal cy, Buenos love Buenos Air bee has one of the bt gay scen across Lat Ameri, which is heavily supported by the ernment, particular Augt when has s BADiversa week every Augt.

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The gay scene of Buenos Air is que spread out, but the fol pot is the large, rintial neighbourhood of Palermo, pl a few plac dotted about super ol San Telmo and well-to-do Releta. Hostels Auckland | Cheap flights to AucklandGran Canaria, Canary IslandsGran Canaria, remend by Stefan and Sebastien om Nomadic Canaria is an extremely famo statn throughout the year for European gays.

Durg the harsh, reprsive Fran years, the ernment turned a bld eye to homosexualy as the island was too far away om the maland to bother wh. From the 1960s, tourism really started to take off, attractg more and more foreigners and therefore even more tolerant love Gran Canaria bee there is a massive gay scene at Maspalomas and Playa l Ingl the southern part of the island. The Yumbo Centre is the fol pot for the area: a large shoppg mall full of gay bars, clubs, rtrants and boutique shops, makg a gay man’s paradise.

Gran Canaria also has several gay pri ftivals happeng throughout the year such as the Maspalomas Fetish Week October, Maspalomas Wter Pri November, Carnivals Febary (both Maspalomas and Las Palmas), Maspalomas Gay Pri May and fally numero bear parti October and another of our favoure experienc Gran Canaria was takg a boat trip (n by Canarias Gay) wh iends to the remote beach lled Gui Gui. Hostels Gran Canaria | Cheap flights to Gran CanariaMilan, ItalyMilan, remend by Luigi & Daniele om Gayly love Milan bee has the bt GLBT scene Italy.

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There’s Hell’s Kchen, where lots of gay guys hang out, or Henrietta Hudson the Village, which is one of three remag lbian bars the five boroughs.

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You’ll fd yourself talkg to everyone and, wh the night g, you’ll want to disver one of the most popular Italian clubs: Mucssassa wter and Gay Village Pri tak place every June.

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Therefore, public displays of affectn (PDAs) and topics like sex and sexualy are thgs Japane do not talk about, though genr norms are more fluid Japan than elsewhere the LGBT people Japan are jt ‘gay for the weekend’ and often even have a ‘normal’ fay durg the rt of the week. The gay bars n be found Tokyo’s gay area Shju-nichōme, the perfect place to eher fd your special someone or to celebrate your love wh your special someone.

To fd the bt gay hangouts, the top neighborhoods clu the U Street Corridor, Dupont Circle or Logan Circle wh LGBT favore spots like Cobalt, 30 Degre, Green Lantern or DIK Bar. The cy’s premier fancial district by day, once the sun go down the area is home to lectable street food, rooftop bars and Thailand’s prospero and lively gay village. 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.