Gay-iendly towns red stat draw LGBTQ tourists: 'We're here to be normal for a weekend'

Contents:

• GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI
• A GAY GET-AWAY EUREKA SPRGS
• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS
• EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS
• GAY-IENDLY TOWNS RED STAT DRAW LGBTQ TOURISTS: 'WE'RE HERE TO BE NORMAL FOR A WEEKEND'
• EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS
• A GAY GET-AWAY EUREKA SPRGS
• THE GAYZARKS
• A IENDLY MALE GAY BAR WH EXCELLENT... - HENRI'S JT ONE MORE

GAY EUREKA SPRGS TRAVEL GUI

Gray had done all, or close to , his 60-pl years – the ary veteran has been a hairdrser, puter programmer, award-wng AIDS advote, and drag queen (he performed as Patti Le Plae Safe, a Miss Gay Ameri wner).

Now he mans the ont sk at a motel-turned-LGBTQ-iendly rort, the Wanroo Lodge, owned by a gay uple who recently settled Eureka themselv. A nearly 70-foot-tall J statue gaz over a place once lled the “gayt small town Ameri.

Among the mm’s artifacts are vtage photos of a gay uple holdg hands and a woman drsed men’s cloth, he said. Out gay men and women started nng lucrative bs – Gary Eagen’s Sprg Street Pottery stud still stands. Soon, straight and gay upl were drsg drag as sultry saloon performers or macho wboys, pos that were “happily enuraged and monplace, ” Danos said.

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What better place, they thought, to ri out the crazit days of their liv than a gay small town?

But ’s a divi that s rints have mostly been able to bridge wh kdns, said David Avanzo, who speaks fondly of a Wanroo regular – “your typil Ozark man” – who once told Avanzo that he’d never met gay men before patronizg the lodge.

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS EUREKA SPRGS

The days, Taylor said he don’t even “thk about beg gay bee seems so normal here as a uple to go out among straight upl.

A iend and former mayor was at the urthoe, too, and he married the uple on the spot – they beme the first male gay uple to legally marry Arkansas.

EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

Text 'GAYTRAVEL' to 1-800-GAY-TRAVEL (1-800-429-8728). — Travel Guis wh a Gay Perspective.

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

Makg Gay Headl and Gay History! Gay Eureka Sprgs.

It uldn’t have happened to a nicer—or gayer—place.

Te, the Arkansas Supreme Court put the procs on hold (temporarily), but history had been ma this ty gaytn mec and the news went viral.

EUREKA SPRGS: SO GAY, THEY HAVE THREE PRI CELEBRATNS

To anyone who has vised the Gay Capal of the Ozarks, me as no surprise. This Victorian-era village on the Natnal Register of Historic Plac has been makg major gay history and headl for s. Wh a disproportnately large LGBT populatn and dozens of gay-owned B&Bs, rtrants, bars, art galleri and trendy shops, this scenic ltle rort town ntled the Ozark Mountas is also the first and only cy the state wh a Domtic Partnership Registry (open to non-rints) and the first and only cy the state to officially endorse marriage equaly.

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“Our secret’s out, ” says the cy’s Gay Bs Guild (another first the state), “not even our streets are straight! For gay travelers, has long been the premier travel statn the Mid-South regn of the untry, drawg thoands of gay visors each year om across the U.

S., particularly those who have been-there-done-that better known astal gay rorts.

Intertgly, there are no exclively gay bars. All the waterg hol are gay/straight iendly. “The gayt small town Ameri you’ve never heard of.

THE GAYZARKS

"Among North Ameri's Most Affordable Gay Vatn Towns. ” — Gay Travel.

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"Eureka Sprgs Among Top Five Bt Small Gay Ci. "On par wh Key Wt, Provcetown and Palm Sprgs as a gay vatn paradise.

The Gay Scene Eureka Sprgs. Wh more bars per pa than anywhere else Arkansas, fdg gay nightlife is easy Eureka Sprgs. View the Gay Scene Eureka Sprgs.