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Contents:

• A GAY BACHELOR PARTY PRIMER TO PLAN AN AWOME PARTY
• OUR GAY WEDDG: ‘DO ONE OF HAVE TO PLAY THE GROOM?’
• STAG DO INSPIRATION - A SIMPLE GUI TO THROWG THE BT GAY STAG DO
• GAY GROOMS… A STAG NIGHT, SHAG NIGHT OR HAG NIGHT?
• HOST THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATN WH THE CREATIVE GAY WEDDG IAS
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• HOST THE ULTIMATE CELEBRATN WH THE CREATIVE GAY WEDDG IAS
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A GAY BACHELOR PARTY PRIMER TO PLAN AN AWOME PARTY

LGBTQ+ people al wh enough homophobia on a regular basis, so let’s keep that out of our weddgs.

OUR GAY WEDDG: ‘DO ONE OF HAVE TO PLAY THE GROOM?’

Gay WeddgSave this one for two of the group. A Gay Bachelor Party Primer to Plan an Awome Party.

STAG DO INSPIRATION - A SIMPLE GUI TO THROWG THE BT GAY STAG DO

There aren’t set l for a gay bachelor party, but helps to have a roadmap as you ci on a theme, a statn, a gut list, and activi.

So you’ve been tasked wh planng a gay bachelor party, and you’re not sure where to start? Is there a secret that I’m supposed to crack to please my btie who happens to be a gay du, or what? Planng a gay bachelor party isn’t an obstacle urse, but n be a b of a puzzle.

Scroll through this sential gui to gay bachelor party planng for bt men, bt women, groomsmen, and groomsladi!

GAY GROOMS… A STAG NIGHT, SHAG NIGHT OR HAG NIGHT?

Dtatns: Where should you go for your gay bachelor party? The gut list: Are both grooms ved to a gay bachelor party?

Lotn: Eher a statn gay bachelor party, or stay-at-home, make this cisn early. Activi: How do you celebrate a gay bachelor party?

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The realy is that most bachelor parti, for gay or straight grooms, aren’t que that hedonistic, anyway. Behd our parents’ enthiasm, we uldn’t help but tect an element of crly, albe happy crly, that their dghters were marryg each mother tells me she didn’t have any openly gay iends until she was her 30s, and hadn’t even met a lbian before me.

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Jen and I might thk we’re beg normre by tyg the knot (at least five gay upl I know are now married or engaged); but there’s no gettg away om the fact that, for most people, a woman marryg another woman is still jt a b, well, unual. We only disvered this when readg the small prt on gay rights group Stonewall’s advice for prospective parents: unls you e an sematn clic licensed by the Human Fertilisatn and Embryology Authory (HFEA), you have to be married before you even start tryg for a baby, or the donor father will be nsired the send parent unr UK law.

Gay marriage was only legalised 2013. I remember thkg, when gay upl started gettg civil partnerships 2004: why do my mment to my partner need a different name om my married straight iends?

As a gay person, the whole thg is still such a novelty for me that I don’t feel the need to have an unrwater weddg, or jump out of an aeroplane; walkg down an aisle and sayg “I do” is crazy ’s not to say I didn’t dabble a b of subversive cultural appropriatn, urty of my bt iend Sam, who anised our stag do. Sam planned a proper, old-fashned, blokey bash that took bris-to-be, my /bt woman, pl three gay and three straight male iends to greyhound racg Romford, a Millwall football match where the chant “Your mother’s a queer” rang out om the seats behd , and then a golf drivg range.

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” For LGBT people, even menial teractns such as this volve havg to out yourself, to say, “Hey, I’m different”, and a spl send weigh up your gay pri vers the potential homophobia of the person you’re alg wh.

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I’d feel a b embarrassed, although that’s probably more to do wh my personaly than any ternalised gay shame. It was simpler for my gay male iends who felt the tradn was too “feme”. And that, I’m told by all my married iends, gay and straight, is often the most important thg.

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1st Febary 2023LGBTQ+ event experts Fabulo Beyond Productns have intified the most popular UK and EU ci for a gay stag do that will make throwg the party an easy, excg and safe procs.

Fabulo Beyond Productns analysed 45 ci across England and Europe g Rabow Inx, Google Maps, and Numbeo to fd the bt ci that host the most affordable, high-qualy, and LGBTQ+ clive venu to make planng a gay stag party a ltle easier.

The most popular UK cy for a gay stag party was Birmgham, and claimg the top party statn across the UK and Europe is Málaga, Spa, followed by two more Spanish ci, Madrid and Seville. Top 10 Ci For A Gay Stag Do.

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They began by rearchg ci Europe wh the hight populatn and ed Google Maps to fd how many gay clubs each cy had. Top UK Ci For A Gay Stag Do.

Bnch expert and owner of Fabulo Beyond Productns, Greg Hugh, has six tips for preparg a gay stag party:. For example, you’ll need to nsir if the groom has multiple iendship groups that don’t really know each other - or see eye-to-eye - and whether certa fay members will be fortable attendg a gay stag party.