Wilton Manors: South Florida’s Most Famo Gayborhood

Contents:

• GAY MART OPENG HOURS
• GAYMART
• WILTON MANORS: SOUTH FLORIDA’S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WILTON MANORS
• THE 5 BEST WILTON MANORS GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS WILTON MANORS
• THE STRIP ON WILTON MANORS SIZZL WH SOUTH FLORIDA'S BT GAY BARS

GAY MART OPENG HOURS

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Wh a sunny and stunng lotn South Florida ged by sandy beach, Fort Lrdale and the adjacent land muny of Wilton Manors rank among the world's most sirable tropil gay vatn statns. This largt cy Broward County, jt a 45-mute drive north of Miami and the same distance south of Palm Beach, has steadily evolved om a relatively lser-known gay getaway the early 1990s to a favore place among gays and lbians for both quick wter getaways and longer seasonal stays. Given Fort Lrdale's abundance of relaxg clothg-optnal gay rorts and hip hotels, n be temptg simply to check to your acmodatn and relax by the pool all day, but there are actually que a few enjoyable diversns the area, om lively neighborhoods for strollg to one of Florida's most popular gay beach to jt enough the way of mms and performg arts venu to keep culture vultur happy.

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Of urse, this is also a major gay nightlife center, and you'll fd plenty of great gay bars and clubs Fort Lrdale and Wilton Manors as well.

Here's a look at five attractns and activi that gay visors to Fort Lrdale should make a pot of seeg. It's along this stretch that you'll fd a strip of geo beach hotels and rorts, cludg such swanky gay-popular stunners at the W Fort Lrdale, Atlantic Hotel, and Wt Fort Lrdale Beach Rort.

And jt a uple of blocks off the beach, there are several gay clothg-optnal rorts, mostly along the blocks between Rmar and Vistamar streets. The beachont is led wh a paved boardwalk, and there's a gay sectn of beach right oppose where Sebastian Street tersects wh Highway A1A. A short drive or 15-mute walk south of the gay beach, you'll fd the Internatnal Swimmg Hall of Fame and mm (1 Hall of Fame Dr., off Hwy.

WILTON MANORS: SOUTH FLORIDA’S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD

Openly gay swimmg and divg legends Greg Louganis and Mark Tewksbury are among the ducte whose aquatic sports reers are celebrated at this popular attractn near the beach, jt a few blocks south of Las Olas Boulevard's junctn wh Highway A1A. "The Drive" - gay shoppg, bar-hoppg, & dg Wilton Manors.

Home to dozens of GLBT-owned bs as well as the excellent Pri Center at Equaly Park (which functns as the official LGBT rource center for greater Fort Lrdale), the small cy of Wilton Manors and s ma mercial thoroughfare, Wilton Drive (aka "The Drive") is a mt for shoppg, htg up gay bars and f, and checkg out the lol scene. In the same strip mall as Geie's Alibi gay bar and Java Boys ffeehoe, Gaymart (2240 Wilton Dr., 954-630-0360) rri a fairly typil array of Pri ems, gifts, trendy if fairly predictable swimwear, unrwear, and club gear, and so on. It's ls of a gay scene than Wilton Manors or the beach area, but you'll fely fd plenty of fay this area.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS WILTON MANORS

Wilton Manors, South Florida’s famo gayborhood, b a small-town atmosphere wh all the ameni of urban life. Wilton Manors gayborhood Florida has a lot to offer: walkabily, waterways, and wildlife – as the kd that liv the wild, and the kd that is wild. It’s also “the epicenter of the gay muny South Florida, ” says rint Jason Gonzalez.

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Acrdg to the 2010 Cens, Wilton Manors is the untry’s “Send Gayt Cy” – at least terms of upl.

It began about the time DeRosa first moved there, about the time Geie’s Alibi, the first major gay bar, opened a board-up bank branch up the block om where To The Moon now stands. More Gay and Lbian tablishments followed.

THE STRIP ON WILTON MANORS SIZZL WH SOUTH FLORIDA'S BT GAY BARS

There’s The Pk Submare, Gaysha New World Shi Bar, and Out of the Closet, a nonprof, send-hand goods shop beneftg medil re for patients wh HIV/AIDS. The acceptg ambience has led South Florida Gay News to name Wilton Manors “Bt Cy”– twice.

“South Florida’s most famo gayborhood b a small-town atmosphere wh all the ameni of urban life, ” wrote the send time, 2013. “It’s difficult to go anywhere Wilton Manors and not assume everyone is gay. I kd of have to check myself every once a while and say, ‘Qu assumg everyone is gay, Jason, ’” says Gonzalez.

“There are plac that gays don’t feel fortable, ” says Rick Wootten, a clerk at Out of the Closet. But there’s more to Wilton Manors gayborhood Florida than food and shops.