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Contents:

• AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)
• 14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE
• OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED
• THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS
• GAY EUROPE TRAVEL GUI
• 9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE
• THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE
• GAY ROME

AND THE GAYT CY EUROPE IS... (DISVER OUR TOP 10 WNERS)

The biggt bety pageant for transgenr women, Miss Internatnal Queen, is held here every Air, ArgentaArgenta is a regnal trailblazer when to LGBTQ rights and the first untry Lat Ameri to legalize gay marriage 2010. Same-sex marriage has been legal sce 2013, and LGBTQ people enjoy full adoptn rights this, TaiwanAsia isn’t known for beg acceptg of the LGBTQ muny or protectg s rights, but a handful of plac this part of the world are gay-iendly, most notably Taipei.

Gay Taiwan pageant and WOOW Pool Party are among other annual events that exemplify this cy’s Aviv, IsraelTel Aviv, Israel, is home to glor beach, memorable cuise, noteworthy archecture and vibrant art, culture and mic scen. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love.

'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".

14 GAY-IENDLY CI THAT LGBT TRAVELLERS LOVE

You’ll fd a number of monuments around the cy memoratg the many LGBTQ victims of WWII, wh the Schwul Mm documentg the art, culture and history of Berl’s homosexual muny, which was long centred , Nollendorfplatz is still the place to be if you’d like to see the cy’s bt fetish clubs and leather bars, wh September brgg wh the Folsom Europe BDSM and subculture ftival. Drawn through wh waterways and nnected by hundreds of photogenic bridg, Amsterdam is the cy of the cyclist, allowg for scenic ris along the Prsengracht nal and the Amstel River which both bee awash wh para boats durg the annual gay nal pri. At all other tim, you n fd Amsterdam’s gay scene centred on Reguliersdwarsstraat, particularly at the cy’s olst gay bar, Cafe t’ Mandje, a popular late-night meetg pot wh kschy dér datg back to the 1920s.

While explorg the cy, be sure to look for the Homomonument, a se promoted as a livg monument to homosexuals opprsed and persecuted around the world, also learng more of the cy’s LGBT history at the Pk Pot rmatn sk close by. Copenhagen, DenmarkWh Denmark beg one of the first European natns to legalize same-sex marriage 2012 (and same-sex unns back 1989), ’s pal of Copenhagen certaly has the crentials to be crowned gay pal of Europe.

Though smaller events like World Aids Day and the EuroGam are celebrated throughout the year, the pnacle event for the gay muny mt be Copenhagen Pri, which actually happens twice a year both June and well as your ual dance clubs, Copenhagen go one better wh a selectn of sophistited gay spots near Cy Hall, while the alternative scene meets nearer Central Statn or Vterbro, the cy’s old Red Light District. Bis hostg the UK’s largt pri para, Manchter also hosts Queer Contact arts ftival, Drag Ft UK and Sparkle Ftival, wh more drag events and themed nights happeng nightly the Gay Village on Canal Street the cy’s bt gay bars, clubs and LGBTQ venu. Mgle good gay pany on Sat-Jaqu, fdg most of the nightlife actn on Marché Au Charbon, particularly the month of May when the narrow streets and sloped lan behd Grand Place fill wh revellers for an entire week of pri celebratns, culmatg on Saturday for Pri Day Bssels.

OUT THE UNTRY – RAL HOTSPOTS FOUND AS GAY POPULATN MAPPED

Hostg 250, 000 people each year for s Pri ftival, Brighton remas a meltg-pot for gay culture year round, a trend started the 19th century when men om across the untry me to meet up wh soldiers statned here. Vis durg Febary to attend a number of LGBTQ History Month events held across the cy, otherwise tryg for Trans Pri and Ey Wi Open Ftival, or for regular performanc by the Gay Men’s Chos or edy nights at Bent Double. Each superblock offers a new theme, though the gay muny n ually be found around Eixample the LGBT district, meetg up at the cy’s bt gay bars, rtrants and a balny view or an al tapas spot for a lazy afternoon on the square, or otherwise make mov to the cy’s nearby beach statn of Sg, jt 30 mut away by tra.

THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS

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?! 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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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. 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.

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. 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 UK’s gay populatn has been mapped by the Office for Natnal Statistics (ONS) for the first time, revealg ncentratns of lbian, gay and bisexual people om central London to ral ONS – the ernment’s statistics body – has mapped how many people told rearchers they were gay, lbian or bisexual, broken down by unty and by lol thory, for an experimental dataset verg 2013 to of the fdgs are unsurprisg: six of the 10 lol thori wh the hight relative lbian, gay and bisexual populatns are ner London, cludg Hackney, Lambeth and Southwark, while Brighton and Manchter also make the the unty-by-unty data puts ral Devon slightly ahead of East Ssex (excludg the unary thory of Brighton and Hove, which is unted separately om the rt of the unty).

9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE

There was a gay men’s group, so there had always been ltle groups, but there wasn’t a Pri event, so part of our missn was to crease visibily, ” he add: “It might be that people are startg to feel like they n live ral lotns and not jt London, Brighton and Manchter, and maybe part of is about feelg more nfint to report . For other unti, such as Buckghamshire and Suffolk, there was too ltle data available to produce robt timat, the ONS ONS created the dataset by bg data on 560, 000 dividuals om three years of the Annual Populatn Survey, which gathers data through nfintial phone or -person allowed the anisatn to break down the rults to a more lol level than prev reports, which foced on Guasp, head of rearch at LGBT mpaign group Stonewall, said: “It’s enuragg to see rearch efforts to ga a better unrstandg of the lbian, gay, bi and trans populatn and intify the diverse needs of different LGBT muni Bra. “Lots of out people would have difficulty intifyg themselv as gay to someone om the ernment who’s knockg on the door … ’s always gog to be a particular challenge for some people to answer that qutn hontly.

”But although the laws Stormont lag some way behd the rt of the UK – was the last untry to crimalise gay sex, and gay marriage remas illegal – attus Northern Ireland have progrsed rapidly, Boyd said. Although urban statns tend to be most popular wh gay travelers bee of their rich cultural offergs, vibrant nightlife districts, and chic shoppg and dg, a number of the world's most gay-popular ci also enjoy picturque settgs on the water.

THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE

Wh outstandg mms, distctive archecture (cludg several treasur by Antoni Gdi) a lively gay nightlife scene centered mostly around the sophistited Eixample district, and an abundance of stylish rtrants and hotels, Barcelona is a terrific statn for urban, yet there's a sweepg and betiful gay beach, Barceloa, jt mut om the cy center. It's jt a short drive south along the ast to vis some of the Southern Hemisphere's most betiful beach, cludg swank Camp Bay, which li the shadows of the Twelve Apostle mountas, and Clifton, which has a scene-y gay beach. And as 's set on the eastern shore of Zealand Island, on Ørund (a stra that divis the North and Baltic seas), Copenhagen is close to a number of priste, wdswept stretch of sand, cludg such gay hangouts as Bellevue and Ishøj beach.

For many years known primarily as Florida's "sprg break" pal, Fort Lrdale began an amb transformatn to a more sophistited rort statn startg around the early 1990s, which cid wh efforts to urt gay and lbian travelers. The regn has been eclipsed by nearby Fort Lrdale recent year's as the state's top gay statn, but you'll still fd plenty of gays and lbians livg and playg the parts - and visg durg the several big gay circu parti held South Beach each year, om Wter Party to Whe Party to Miami Gay Pri. The largt cy on the famoly swank and sophistited French Riviera, Nice (populatn 350, 000) is not que a gay playground on the same plane as such Euro-queer hot spots as Ibiza and Mykonos, but this stylish cy wh an outstandg variety of tony rtrants and shops do have a growg gay prence (this is also te, by the way, of nearby Cann, which is smaller but also is beg creasgly popular wh gay travelers).

GAY ROME

S., and Canada, the romantic Mexin Riviera rort of Puerto Vallarta mak for an approachable, relatively affordable, and fectly fun and lively gay getaway om late fall through early sprg ( quiets down here nsirably durg the hot summer months). R Janeiro jtly renowned for s sugary beach, and a party-driven, ftive gay scene that's ncentrated chiefly around trendy Ipanema and the more touristy Copabana areas, both of which ont the ocean and are ial for glazg, joggg, or playg the sun and sea.

Sydney's gay scene is foced tradnally around Oxford Street, a 20-mute walk om the much-photographed Inner Harbour and Sydney Opera Hoe, but nearby ner suburbs like Newtown, Erskeville, and Glebe have sizable LGBT populatns and many mixed bars and rtrants. The weather at the beach, even summer, is often ol and wdy, and the surf n be vlent—even que dangero—pecially around gay-popular Baker Beach, a clothg-optnal patch near Prid Park that affords visors fe views of the Goln Gate Bridge.

When Greater Manchter's former chief nstable, Jam Anrton, acced the cy's gay populatn 1987 of "swirlg around a human csp of their own makg", ltle did he know he would e to be regard as one of the stigators of Bra's gayt cy, and perhaps the most succsful gay village Europe. The roll ll would also have to clu Margaret Thatcher, whose notor Sectn 28 - a clse the Lol Government Act passed 1988 - galvanised a spectacular aln, rangg om theatre imprars to librarians, to fend the right to a gay life. Anrton, an evangelil Christian, enuraged his officers to stalk s dank alleys and expose anyone ught a clch, while police motorboats wh spotlights cised for gay men around the nal's locks and kd of surveillance was nothg new the area.