The Ultimate Gui on Fdg the Bt Gay Cise | Two Bad Tourists

Contents:

• THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023
• I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.
• 11 THGS I LEARNED ON MY 1ST GAY CISE
• MY ATLANTIS GAY CISE TRIP – WHAT IT WAS LIKE
• 2 GAY MEN ARRTED FOR HAVG SEX WH EACH OTHER ON CISE SHIP IN THE CARIBBEAN
• 12 TOP GAY CIS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 2023 AND 2024
• I WENT ON MY FIRST GAY CISE — HERE'S WHAT IT WAS LIKE
• GAY FRIENDLY CIS: OUR ROYAL CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE
• ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY CIS

THE 8 TOP GAY CIS FOR 2023

The term – a phemism that dat back to the 1950s – was once ed to dite gay social events on daily cise le programs, whout explicly llg out members of the muny on board. As travel on the high seas ntu to bounce back om the COVID-19 panmic, gay and lbian travelers should nsir settg sail on a fun-filled cise vatn as their next planng a cise, vatners should first nsir what their ial sailg looks like. Some cise operators (thk: Atlantis Events and La Demence) are known for their electrifyg, all-night parti, which may be perfect for gay groups of iends.

I WENT ON A 10-DAY CISE WH 4,000 OTHER GAY MEN. I CRIED FOR DAYS AFTER END, AND I N'T WA TO GO BACK.

Cisers should also thk about whether they'd like to travel aboard a gay-iendly mastream le, such as Celebry Cis or Virg Voyag, or opt for an all-gay, full-ship charter wh a third-party vatn pany. Of VACAYA's all-gay charters, he says, "For one magil week, our muny gets to be the majory and live life out loud the blissful utopia VACAYA creat on a gay cise. "The all-gay cis were liberatg, empowerg, and fun, but limed to a small spectm of people.

This le gets the stamp of approval om prev LGBTQ cisers, who praise the ships' genr-ntral bathrooms, onboard shows wh rint drag queens and diverse Voyag offers gay-specific sailgs through travel pani like Atlantis Events, but s more mastream erari still offer a welg, clive atmosphere that attracts LGBTQ cisers year-round. Atlantis EventsThe world's largt gay and lbian travel brand, Atlantis Events was found 1991 and wel more than 20, 000 travelers annually on LGBTQ vatns. For s all-gay cis, Atlantis charters megaships om popular l like Royal Caribbean Internatnal and Norwegian Cise Le, so cisers will have a fully immersive board, travelers n enjoy all the perks the megaships have to offer (thk: pools, hot tubs, sports urts and plenty of dg choic), pl special events like drag performanc, motivatnal speakers, LGBTQ movi on mand each b and high-energy circu parti across the ship.

11 THGS I LEARNED ON MY 1ST GAY CISE

"As an LGBTQ ciser, you're lookg for a ship wh lots of entertament, cludg dance parti and events, " says Mars Martez, founr of Men Who Bnch, a Black gay liftyle blog. "One of the bt cise [l] for gay cisg is Atlantis, sce you'll be able to meet hundreds of attractive men and party all day and night on the ship.

" Atlantis hosts primarily gay men; women make up about 5% to 10% of bookgs, acrdg to the Atlantis webse.

Cisers will also enjoy performanc by drag queens, gay Broadway stars and more, pl more typil river cise perks like sightseeg and lavish meals.

MY ATLANTIS GAY CISE TRIP – WHAT IT WAS LIKE

Celebry Cis(Courty of Celebry Cis)Celebry Cis sets the scene for an excellent vatn for gay travelers, om s extravagant annual Pri parti to s daily LGBTQ programmg throughout the year.

After night one, there are other social events for gay cisers to party and hang out together. Although all erari are gay-iendly, nsir bookg a Pri Party at Sea sailg (which tak place each June) for an extra special experience.

Private travel pani like VACAYA also charter Celebry ships for all-gay voyag throughout the (Getty Imag)Specifilly marketed toward lbians and LGBTQ women, Olivia has hosted more than 350, 000 travelers by land and sea over almost five s.

2 GAY MEN ARRTED FOR HAVG SEX WH EACH OTHER ON CISE SHIP IN THE CARIBBEAN

The popular cise le equently partners wh Atlantis Events to offer all-gay voyag throughout the year, but even the standard sailgs earn praise. Iterari typilly feature LGBTQ meetups at the begng of each cise for gay travelers to meet likemd passengers.

Outsi of the sailg experience, Royal Caribbean has also publicly mted to support the LGBTQ muny throughout the year, and was the first cise le to earn the tle "Gay Traveler Approved" om GayTravel 2023, nsir a Royal Caribbean voyage that sails to gay-iendly statns.

12 TOP GAY CIS YOU DON’T WANT TO MISS 2023 AND 2024

]The Cise Wh La Demence(Courty of The Cise wh La Demence)Acrdg to past cisers, if you're lookg for one of the bt party scen on the open seas, nsir an all-gay cise wh La Demence. Powered by a popular gay nightclub Bssels wh the same name, La Demence – French for "the madns" – primarily ters to a European crowd.

I WENT ON MY FIRST GAY CISE — HERE'S WHAT IT WAS LIKE

Prev cisers had high praise for the erari – which exclively vis gay-iendly lotns – as well as the uy cktails, themed nights (stum strongly enuraged), glamouro entertament, and unique events like drag bgo and high heel Demence sails every summer to statns like Rome; Athens and Mykonos, Greece; Kotor, Montenegro; Dubrovnik, Croatia; and more.

I had a great time on a 10-day Mederranean cise wh 4, 000 others, the majory beg gay men. At the end of the fal, dis-themed dance on my 10-day "all-gay" cise, I met up wh a man I'd shared a few timate moments wh.

I'd fallen love wh beg the I booked my 'all-gay' cise, I prepared myself to be disappoted. In 2021, I raid my savgs acunt and spent $3, 059 to book an "all-gay" cise around the dancg troupe nvced me to buy the ticket, which was for 10 days on the Royal Caribbean's Odyssey of the Seas. The special 2022 Atlantis sailg would be filled wh about 4, 000 gay people, the majory of them my life warned me to manage my expectatns.

GAY FRIENDLY CIS: OUR ROYAL CARIBBEAN EXPERIENCE

I also received negative reactns om my gay iends — some said they uldn't thk of anythg worse than an "all-gay" cise. Others add a lghg emoji each time they msaged about , as if the choice self was ludicro or exclively beg around gay people was crgeworthy and embarrassg.

I now know that, until you've been on one of the cis, you really have no ia what happens on day one, I was havg the time of my life — we'd created our own floatg universe As our ship set sail om Rome, dawned on me that I'd never been around this many gay men before.

It mands rtrat to not absorb microaggrsns, but to stead allow them to fuel my day, I mt stand firm and ph agast nventns and benchmarks of the heteronormative world that many gay men like myself choose to reject. While most of have seen an Atlantis gay cise via social media or advertisements, you’re probably still wonrg…what are the Atlantis gay cis really like? Other trips for ternatnal gay pri events, ski weeks, and events like Gay Days are great, but the Atlantis Gay Cise jt felt granr.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT GAY CIS

Lots of first-timers expect Atlantis gay cis to be a nstant sex party, but ’s not exactly like that. But for some reason, the ia of gettg on a 5000+ person gay cise h me like a brick wall. I thk ’s important to know that every Atlantis gay cise has so many programmed events happeng, that ’s tly impossible to do everythg.

It seems most people do on the ternatnal cis, but sounds like the gay cis out of Miami and San Diego are pretty much nstant circu parti. Atlantis gay cis n get que expensive, so there generally wasn’t a huge number of younger people.

Gay guys are bookg Atlantis cis like crazy, pecially now that we’re out of the woods regardg the panmic. If you’re thkg about browsg some tamer or not-so-gay cis, there are plenty of fun alternativ. LOS ANGELES (CBS) — Two men, both om southern California, were arrted for havg sex wh each other on a gay cise ship the Caribbean, acrdg to officials.

Kalowsky said he believ gay people should avoid four key areas the Caribbean due to homophobic laws. A “Friends of Dorothy Meetg” is a dated way of sayg that gay travellers are ved to meet wh other gay people on that ship.

I fd really strange that today’s world, cise l are still g a term that dat back to a generatn when beg gay / homosexual was illegal. This means that gay cisers of younger generatns are unlikely to even be aware they are happeng! Many believe that the term is lked to the gay in Judy Garland, and her classic role as Dorothy the Wizard of Oz.

She was known for havg a lot of gay men her glzy social circle the 1940s and 1950s, and one of her hbands was apparently bi-sexual. It is even reported that as recently as the 1980s, when homosexualy was still not permted the USA ary, that the term was still beg ed.

It allegedly nfed some vtigators to homosexualy the forc when was thought there was some spy rg lked to a myster Dorothy rg lear. It do though further add to the argument that is probably a dated and silly way of intifyg gay people for a get-together on a cise ship.

Cise l actually enthiastilly embraced the term as far back as the 1980s, as they feared the reactn of passengers if they were more overt about havg gay get-togethers on their ships. It do feel old fashned, out dated and an unnecsary today’s world of gay partnerships and more open tegratn to society.

They are, though, a regular fixture on some more progrsive and clive cise l, pecially l like Cunard which attracts a fairly signifint proportn of gay passengers on their schled Transatlantic Crossgs. This probably bee there are more likely to be upl than sgl on cis, and so may be ls ncerned about makg gay specific nnectns and iends.