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Contents:

• BIG GAY BEACH PARTY
• EXPLORE GAY SARASOTA: FLORIDA TRAVEL GUI
• OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH
• STAY WHERE THE GAYS PLAY!WHETHER YOU'RE G OM OUT OF TOWN OR A LOL - STAYG AT THE GOLN HOST RORT WILL MAKE THE BIG GAY WEEKEND A FABULO EXPERIENCE!1/17 GOLDEN HOST RESORT PHOTOS 
• THE BEST SARASOTA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SARASOTA
• THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW
• NORTH LIDO BEACHSARASOTAMENUHOTELSBARSBEACHGAY MAPNORTH LIDO BEACH
• 12 BT GAY BEACH IN FLORIDA YOU SHOULD VIS

BIG GAY BEACH PARTY

​There are no ameni at Sarasota's Gay Beach so you will want to beg everythg you would need for a day at the beach. ​When visg Sarasota's Gay Beach, please make sure to check- on facebook and e #sarasotaOUT and #sarasotagaybeach hashtags on social media to help spread the word about our gay beach. Lookg for your next "gaytn" statn, but eager to pe the year-round traffic jams party hotspots like Miami Beach and Ft.

Take a peek at our gui to Pri and other lol LGBTQ events, entertament staged by Sarasota's own vibrant LGBTQ muny, and gay-iendly acmodatns—and plan your Sarasota vatn today... Through the month of June remembrance of LGBTQ history, and celebratn of the rilience of the gay and transgenr muny. June 12: Pack sunscreen and piic-snacks for the Big Gay Beach Party at North Lido Beach.

The nonprof anizatn and gay bar, Purple Rho Lodge, is a hidn gem—and a first-stop for anyone seekg LGBTQ muny Sarasota.

EXPLORE GAY SARASOTA: FLORIDA TRAVEL GUI

On the first Thursday of every month, members of the lol LGBTQ muny meet up at swanky loung and eclectic rtrants throughout Sarasota for G2H2: Gay Group Happy Hour. No matter when your vis, there's almost guaranteed to be a gay-iendly event Sarasota. North Lido public beach is historilly known as Sarasota's Gay Beach.

Big Gay Weekend. EVENTSADD EVENT (FREE)​GAY GROUP HAPPY HOURBIG GAY WEEKEND.

RESOURCESSARASOTA GAY BEACHALSO YOUTHCAN COMMUNITY HEALTH​PFLAG SARASOTA. The views exprsed here are the thor's Big Gay Beach Party started 2018 as a grassroots event where Sarasota's LGBTQ + Ally muny gathers together on North Lido for a day at the beach. Big Gay Beach Party the past has attracted atten om var parts of Florida and major ci across the US.

OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH

From gay Florida party statns such as Miami, Key Wt and Fort Lrdale to mellow, seclud spots St. Pete Beach and Sarasota, here are some of bt gay beach Florida. The most popular gay beach Miami is mostly a hangout for men, but you’ll also fd lbians and straights soakg up the sun wh lols.

It’s across the street om the Palace Rtrant & Bar, a gay hangout that has been welg sunbathers for the past 25 years. Bt time to vis: In March, when the Wter Party, the biggt gay beach party North Ameri, tak place. At 2½ long, Smathers is big pared to other beach on this ty island of Key Wt, one of the natn’s top statns for gay travelers.

Info: Gay Key Wt Visor Center. The most popular gay beach  Fort Lrdale is across the street om the Rz-Carlton and wh blocks of some of the cy’s gay rorts and gutho. One of the wt ast’s premiere gay beach, bohemian Sunset Beach is on the southern tip of St.

STAY WHERE THE GAYS PLAY!WHETHER YOU'RE G OM OUT OF TOWN OR A LOL - STAYG AT THE GOLN HOST RORT WILL MAKE THE BIG GAY WEEKEND A FABULO EXPERIENCE!1/17 GOLDEN HOST RESORT PHOTOS 

Bt tim to vis: In October for the Tampa Bay Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, or June for St. Info: Tampa Bay Internatnal Gay and Lbian Films Ftival, St. Bt tim to vis: In October for the Tampa Bay Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival, ; June for St.

Smathers Beach Key Wt, one of the natn’s top statns for gay travelers.

THE BEST SARASOTA GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS SARASOTA

Pete Beach, the breathtakg, stic North Beach area of this unty park has a northern expanse near the end of the island where gays and lbians ngregate. The quiet northern reach of this whe sand key is popular wh gay sunbathers Sarasota. There’s an unofficial gay meet-up at Guana’s first beach accs pot, reached by a boardwalk that wds down a 40-foot-tall dune system to a priste stretch of seclud sand.

THE 5 BEST MOSW GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS MOSW

Pensala Beach cy near the Alabama borr may not seem like the most gay-iendly spot, but ’s been a beach getaway for LGBTQ folks om the South for a long time, particularly for Gay Memorial Day Weekend, which started rmally the 1980s and has grown to a huge gatherg, drawg thoands to late-night circu parti wh well-known profsnal DJs and rmal tent parti on the beach.

Bt time to vis: May for the Pensala Gay Memorial Day Weekend. About 20 mut north of South Beach, Hlover Park Beach is one of the bt-known clothg-optnal beach Florida and ’s gay-iendly. Only the north part of the 1½-e priste, whe stretch of sand at this gay beach the Miami area is legated for urban nu sunbathers.

NORTH LIDO BEACHSARASOTAMENUHOTELSBARSBEACHGAY MAPNORTH LIDO BEACH

Stonewall Beach, a swath of sand near the Pompano Beach pier, was unoffilly named by lol gay rints on the 51st anniversary of the Stonewall Rts, a seri of spontaneo monstratns followg police raids New York's Greewich Village 1969. REMODELED Stay where the gays play! Whether you're g om out of town or a lol - Stayg at the Goln Host Rort will make the Big Gay Weekend a fabulo experience!

Wright, her cisn now go to the school board, which will discs the book challenge at s Monday meetg agenda and vote on a cisn on Tallahassee mom who submted the challenge, Katie Lyons, said her dghter, then a send grar at a lol elementary school, brought home the children's book about Kg, a tennis legend who is gay — and also brought qutns to her mother about a page regardg Kg's sexual orientatn. “It is important that be ma clear that this book was challenged not bee the book mentns Billie Jean Kg is gay, ” Lyons told the school board at a meetg last week. Regardls of orientatn, homosexual or heterosexual, the topic of sexual orientatn is not age-appropriate or velopmentally-appropriate for elementary stunts.

12 BT GAY BEACH IN FLORIDA YOU SHOULD VIS

"I object to material that discs beg gay and what means to be gay, " wrote page drawg the challenge reads: "Around this time, I realized I was gay. Beg gay means that if you're a girl, you love and have romantic feelgs for other girls — and if you're a boy, you love and have romantic feelgs for other boys. "Lyons matas the book is ntrary to state law, largely cg the Parental Rights Edutn Act, dubbed "Don't Say Gay" by crics, which prohibs stctn on sexual orientatn or genr inty book challenge law:Florida schools stggle to apply new book law which even Shakpeare is 'spect'Why 's beg challenged:Tallahassee mom mak se that 'I am Billie Jean Kg' book 'g' on parents' rightsWright, her July 10 remendatn, unters that the book isn’t ed as “stctn” and poted to a clarifitn the Florida Department of Edutn issued statg that "cintal referenc" books to LGBTQ people are not also said a new law, HB 1069, directed each school district to adopt procs allowg parents to lim their child’s accs to library material.

"The excln of one of the profil jt bee of the intifitn of the ma subject as homosexual is not the tentn of any law or statute passed by the Florida Legislature, " Syett Lyons said the parental book review procs is not enough to screen qutnable materials accsible to their stunts.

Loted on Florida’s Gulf Coast, this small cy of some 55, 000+ rints is full of surpris – om s betiful beach, enchantg art scene, and good rtrants to s eclectic gay muny.

Durg their chary tournaments, more than 400 gay men and lbians bowl nothg but boxer shorts to raise money for chary. Although Sarasota’s gay scene isn’t as expansive as that larger astal ci, ’s certaly bloomg. A growg number of gay-iendly rtrants, bars, clubs, and shops bloom downtown Sarasota.

Durg the night, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and straight owls storm the streets lookg for a good time.

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Big Gay Beach Party 7.

Grab your squad and your bt beach outf for the 7th annual Big Gay Beach Party, a grassroots event where Sarasota's LGBTQ+ muny and alli gather together on North Lido for a day at the beach.