Is Latvia a Dtatn for Gay Travelers? | Two Bad Tourists

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• THE BEST RIGA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA
• GAY RIGA
• THE BEST RIGA REGN GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA REGN
• RIGA GAY SNAS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS RIGA
• GAY BARS/NIGHTCLUBS - RIGA FOM
• STRAIGHT BARBECUE & GAY BEACH - FLCHER

THE BEST RIGA GAY CLUBS & BARSGAY CLUBS & BARS RIGA

As we kicked off our #mygaypri mpaign this summer to promote Gay Pri ci worldwi, Riga beme an unual top choice. ” This was my first imprsn of the gay-iendls of Riga and wasn’t terrible, but wasn’t great. Later the same day I was off to meet my tour gui along wh other #mygaypri team members, fellow travel blogger Adam om Travels of Adam and Jamie om Gay Star News, our media partner for the mpaign.

That night was time to check out the gay scene startg wh Goln, one of Riga’s two gay bars. Riga’s other gay bar is XXL. The same owners even operate a small gay hotel if that’s your kd of thg.

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I don’t re if you are a gay untry sger or not.

After our quick exposure to this charmg and vg Latvian cy, I n easily see as a great, unforeen statn for gay travelers. It’s not nearly as gay-iendly as s Wtern European neighbors, but ’s makg stris that directn and EuroPri helped to take another step.

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The gays n seek out their own the gay bars and also feel fortable, while beg somewhat ut, enjoyg all the cy has to offer to all s visors, gays and straights alike. Bars & Clubs • Gay Bars • Dance Clubs & DissTop ways to experience nearby attractnsSee what travelers are saygOne for the weekendsI went wh a iend on a Thursday night and was quiet wh only 4 others there. Drks a b pricey, but this is ually the se the gay bars.

I’m om Helski where homosexualy is ok, I hope Latvia’s suatn improv the future!

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Due to lack of other gay bars. Really feel this place giv Gay people a bad name. Vised March 2020Traveled wh iendsWrten May 9, 2020Super gay clubThe bt gay club/ ar Baltic.

Read our transparency report to learn 2019 • FriendsThe bt gay club/ ar Baltic. In a sea of nned cktails, Gay Water wants to stand out. In other words, where Bud Light has buckled unr prsure as bigotry grows agast the LGBTQ+ muny, Gay Water’s creator Spencer Hodson wants his new boozy brand to be the anthis of that.

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“The key issue that Bud Light tapped to was the fact that they didn’t unrstand their re dience and know enough about them,” Hodson, a gay man, told CNN about the ntroversy that began when the Anhser-Bch beer brand sent fluencer Dylan Mulvaney a n of beer. Gay Water, however, is out and proud.

The nned cktail is named after a lloquialism given to the popular mixed drk (vodka and soda) orred at bars by the gay muny.

“Puttg a product wh the word gay the tle is reprentatn self,” which he hop reclaims the word om the negativy ’s sometim associated wh. He thought of creatg Gay Water about a year ago while on a vatn wh his iend that had got a job wh the beverage dtry.

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The two chatted about the limed amount of gay people wh , and wh Hodson burnt out om his tradnal day job tech, started the nned cktail. Hodson built up a strong social media followg on TikTok and Instagram durg Covid-19 and is g some of the money om that (as well as om iends and fay) to help fund Gay Water. “Gay is an umbrella term and the ia behd the brand is to be as clive as possible, which means we want alli, we want straight people to be part of this muny we’re buildg.”.

For now, Gay Water is sold largely onle (wh a few retailers) and four sugar-ee flavors — watermelon, lime, peach and grapeu — at lnch. Gay Water might not have the ep pockets pared to s petors, like Whe Claw, but “even at small sle, pani of many siz are havg succs makg spir-based seltzers and premixed cktails,” Bryan Roth, an analyst for Feel Goods Company and edor of the alhol beverage newsletter, Sightl+, told CNN.

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“There’s lots of space the spir-based seltzer tegory which Gay Water n play, pecially if the brand n offer a cultural or emotnal nnectn that will feel more excg than the prospect of another peapple-flavored vodka seltzer om natnal or ternatnal rporatns,” Roth said. Of urse, other drks e the word “gay,” too, cludg Gay Beer and So Gay Rosé, Hodson noted, which are also tryg to reach the queer muny and offer them an alternative the straight-domated space. McCoy for The New York TimHis Sexualy Don’t Defe Him, but It Can Set Him ApartEric Bach is an openly gay broadster for the Frericksburg Natnals.

Three years earlier, while he was studyg journalism at Michigan State Universy, he had publicly e out as gay an say he wrote for the time of the say, he braced for a backlash, but nothg materialized. He worked his way up om ternships to full-time broadstg jobs, and while anyone wh an ter nnectn uld learn he was gay, nobody asked, and he did not say so aga publicly. It was bil and ugly, filled wh “every gay slur you uld thk of, ” Bach said.