It’s still dangero to be gay Wyomg — High Country News – Know the Wt

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• TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS YELLOWSTONE NATNAL PARK
• IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG
• IS W BENTLEY’S JAMIE GAY YELLOWSTONE?
• A GAY UPLE LODG AND MOTELS AROUND YELLOWSTONE - YELLOWSTONE NATNAL PARK FOM

TIPS FOR GAY AND LBIAN TRAVELERS YELLOWSTONE NATNAL PARK

Dpe hts here and there about the sexuali of other characters, cludg Beth (Kelly Reilly) and Rip (Cole Hser), Clara is Yellowstone's first openly gay character.

The sual approach that Kay scrib beg taken to set up the same-sex kiss sequence dit that the seri' creators are supportive of rporatg more LGBTQ+ elements to the show, which uld lead to more openly gay characters future stallments. Although you won’t fd an obv gay scene the regn, this part of the Wt, you’ll enunter a welg and generally tolerant live-and-let-live spir, where lols tend to re more about whether their neighbors are reliable and hont than if they’re gay or straight.

IT’S STILL DANGERO TO BE GAY WYOMG

Bozeman and Jackson are among the most polilly liberal towns their rpective stat, and Cody is home to one of the few vol proponents of gay rights the Republin Party, former U.

Natnal Park Service tak great pri the diversy of s workforce and ntributns by s LGBT employe, and s lodgg ncsns Yellowstone (Xanterra Parks & Rorts) and Grand Teton (Grand Teton Lodge Company) are enthiastilly gay-iendly. The high qualy of life and relatively progrsive polics make creasgly popular as a place to relote, or spend summers, among gays and lbians. Among acmodatns, one of the ft B&Bs town is the eight-room, gay-owned Lehrkd Mansn, a splendid redbrick Victorian wh an adjacent gut hoe.

Other excellent, gay-iendly optns the area clu the Silver Fort Inn, which is up near Bridger Bowl ski area, and the posh Gallat River Lodge, a perfect perch for fly-fishg wh a superb rtrant to match s chy acmodatns. Ls pricey but still excellent optns town clu the log-b-style Elk County Inn and the charmgly suated Sprg Creek Ranch, a gay-iendly ndo rort wh panoramic views of the Teton Range. She is also the first openly gay character on Yellowstone.

IS W BENTLEY’S JAMIE GAY YELLOWSTONE?

And as silly as sounds, that might be as shockg as the kiss ’s Yellowstone’s answer to that whole nservative rea: I jt wish gay people didn’t make such a big al about . Tips for Gay and Lbian Travelers Yellowstone Natnal Park.

A GAY UPLE LODG AND MOTELS AROUND YELLOWSTONE - YELLOWSTONE NATNAL PARK FOM

While Wyomg and Montana have earned reputatns as tolerant statns the past, Yellowstone and Grand Teton natnal parks are generally gay-iendly. However, gay culture and nightlife are very limed Jackson and nearly nonexistent other gateways.

Anti-gay vlence Wyomg is real, and serv a real rponse. This was 2001, jt a few years after Matthew Shepard’s murr had ma gomely public the anti-gay vlence that was takg place throughout Wyomg. Durg that time, appeared to me that gay rights had ma great stris — not least wh the cremental support to legalize gay marriage natnwi.

Livg plac as different om each other as Buenos Air, Chigo and New Orleans, I wnsed homophobia now and then, but not nearly as often as I saw jubilant monstratns of gay pri — or, more equently, pla old gay normalcy. Among the myriad people who are opprsed this world, homosexuals seemed to be pretty good shape, particularly whe “cisgenred” men.