Gay Sgatuck Douglas | Gay Friendly Small Towns on Michigan’s Wt Coast

Contents:

• UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
• GAY MIDWT STATN? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM
• VATNS FOR GAY MEN OVER 40 YEARS OLD
• GAY-FRIENDLY RORTS WISNS
• AFFORDABLE GAY VATN TOWNS
• GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS
• GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI

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

The Back Door is very potedly a “queer” bar, not jt a “gay” one, and has an overtly polil vibe, as proved by the Angela Davis quote pated on the rtroom wall: “Radil simply means ‘graspg thgs at the root.

) To me, Delta Beer Lab is the queer Midwt at s ft: Wh s walls, inti like “gay” and “sports fan” aren’t seen as mutually exclive but as plementary. The archiv feature an extensive array of oral history terviews and artifacts, like posters, newsletters, and even a sequed brick om the first buildg of Nebraska’s olst gay bar, torn down the 1980s.

—MSSouth Bend, Indiana: Docksi NightclubThe only dited space for LGBTQ+ drkers the Indiana town wh the only out gay Mayor nng for Print of the Uned Stat, Docksi Nightclub would seem to have a lot to live up to.

GAY MIDWT STATN? - LGBTQIA+ TRAVEL FOM

Lols report ’s more gay male than tly queer, but all agree that havg an LGBTQ+ hotspot town that’s actually a ton of fun do a lot on s own to support sexual and genr diversy a state where ’s sorely need. —NMWicha, Kansas: Club BoomerangIn a state that has yet to repeal s sodomy laws, Club Boomerang is the largt gay bar, wh entertament nng the gamut om standard karaoke and drag performanc to an LGBTQ+ edic murr mystery dner theater that sounds pletely bananas.

—AEMWilliston, Missouri: Rabow RenzvoNot a lotn so much as a statn event, the Rabow Renzvo, an annual LGBTQ+ party and drag celebratn, emerged Williston shortly before the closure of the town’s — and at the time, the state’s — only gay bar 2016. More recently, anizers have begun hostg and supportg a wi array of LGBTQ+ events, cludg a Pri Week llaboratn wh Williston High School’s Gay Straight Alliance.

VATNS FOR GAY MEN OVER 40 YEARS OLD

Ci like Richmond and Columb may not register on your gaydar like San Francis and NYC, but that don’t mean they don’t have plenty to offer gay travelers.

’Outsirs may thk of the old Conferate pal as a cy stuck s ways, but ltle do they know that Richmond, Virgia is anythg “g out” 2014, Richmond has emerged as the gay pal of the South.

4 percent of the cy’s populatn intifi as LGBT), the New England pal has bee a haven for East Coast gays lookg for somewhere tamer and quater than Boston and NYC.

GAY-FRIENDLY RORTS WISNS

The Milwkee Gay Arts Center offers one-of-a-kd LGBTQ productns, and Walker’s Pot is settg self up to be the next big most renowned “gay statns, ” Santa Fe, New Mexi don’t have a go-to district like L.

AFFORDABLE GAY VATN TOWNS

S., but ’s also home to North Carola’s annual Pri Ftival and the state’s Gay & Lbian Film if that’s not enough for North Carola, head wt to Asheville and fd an LGBTQ bohemian paradise smacked the Smoki. Lolly known as the San Francis of the regn, the gay cultural landspe is vibrant, and the drag scene is easily among the bt the natn–jt watch “Kgs, Queens, and In-Betweens” cy is also a risg fashn mec, hog the third most fashn signers the untry, along wh retail giants like L Brands, Exprs, Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fch. As if that’s not enough, Columb ranks as the send most sexually satisfied cy the untry–wk, is the largt gay rort the Midwt Michigan’s “Bible Belt?

GAY TRAVEL TOURS & TRIPS

” It mt be somethg the over 140 gay-owned bs, rangg om B&Bs to bars to art galleri to cuty ice cream shops, the small neighborg towns of Sgatuck and Douglas are home to the largt gay rort the Midwt–and thanks to lol protectn of genr inty and sexual orientatn, you’ll be hard-prsed to fd anti-LGBTQ attus here.

The cy created the first gay and lbian muny center the untry, and ’s Albany that was home to one of the earlit transgenr groups datg back to the cy may not have the crazy, never-endg nightlife of NYC, and may not have the sheer numbers of NYC, but, for general “Queer Life, ” Albany ranks seventh the untry–not to shabby for a cy overshadowed by the Big LGBT muny and the Mormon church hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye.

GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'

Although the LDS has long-advoted agast gay marriage, that don’t mean they’re agast gay rights.

This agreement has helped revent SLC to a premier gay statn the Rocki, and a unique cy of ntrasts where vout Mormons para down Harvey Milk Blvd.

Wele to, the travel gui to the gay iendly small towns of Douglas and Sgatuck, Michigan.

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Here, you will fd the rmatn you need to vis the Sgatuck Douglas area, one of the bt gay travel statns the U.

Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr tourists all fd somethg difficult to fe but easy to regnize, like magic.

Wh aclas cludg beg named one of the top 25 beach the world by Condé Nast and one of the top two beach the USA by Natnal Geographic Traveler, Oval Beach may easily bee one of your favore gay vatn spots.

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Wh over 140 gay owned and lgbt iendly pani, the shopkeepers and staff of the bs featured on this se are proud to be among the most welg of gay iendly travel statns.

For s, our rints have ma Sgatuck and Douglas Michigan's most gay iendly small towns by welg Gay, Lbian, Bisexual and Transgenr visors wh open arms.

Simply put, we wouldn't be who we are whout the ntued support of the Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr muny, and so we work hard to make your vis as fun and memorable as possible.