Gay Holidays 2023/2024: LGBTQ Friendly Dtatns & On to Avoid

Contents:

• CONGRATULATNS TO THE 2020 GAY TRAVEL AWARD WNERS!
• 7 GAY FRIENDLY WTER SUN DTATNS YOU CAN’T MISS
• GAY LOS CABOS & CABO SAN LUS TRAVEL GUI
• LGBTQ TRAVEL & GAY HOLIDAYS

CONGRATULATNS TO THE 2020 GAY TRAVEL AWARD WNERS!

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7 GAY FRIENDLY WTER SUN DTATNS YOU CAN’T MISS

Prr to the COVID-19 crisis, Israel was already seeg rerd-breakg tourism numbers, attractg Ricky Mart, Andy Cohen, and Neil Patrick Harris as s recent, notable gay guts of honor at Tel Aviv Pri. Recently acquired and revamped late 2019, this e lodge-style property is the island’s premier gay-iendly rort favor wh upl seekg luxe acmodatns.

Home to the largt LGBTIA+ muny Texas and one of the first statns to market to gay travelers through a dited LGBTQIA+ visor webse over a ago, ’s easy to see why Hoton's Pri celebratn already draws some 750, 000+ people each year om every rner of the globe. The cy’s gayborhood of Montrose is dotted wh bars and queer-packed eateri, easily rivalg the Castro or Chelsea a uniquely charmg Texan way where, y, wboy boots are remend. Discerng travelers might notice “the scene” is not as prevalent Budapt as other gay-iendly European ci, but that don’t mean there aren’t plenty of pots of tert for the LGBTQIA+ crowd.

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Tourists are likely to fd the at Magnum, a provotive gay sna; qLIt, a lbian muny anizatn (also a magaze) that hosts improv and trivia nights, table tennis petns, and more; and, at Why Not Cafe & Bar, a Budapt stutn known for karaoke and the place most travelers will start their night before movg on to Alterego, the rowdy, subterranean club wh midnight drag shows. “LGBTQIA+ travelers n fd more flexibily and optns for acmodatns Rehoboth Beach, pared to other gay-iendly statns, ” says Bryan Barbieri of EOS Hospaly, which operat the town’s premier luxury hotel optn, the Bellmoor Inn & Spa.

Photograph by Gianni Cipriano, RxTravelGay travelers n face unique challeng—but the clive statns are worth the ’s a great big world out there, and as gay fai ntue to grow number—about 3 ln children the Uned Stat have an LGBTQ parent—so do the list of plac welg them wh open global statns are even planng specific programs to take advantage of the growg gay fay travel market, says a recent study by the Internatnal LGBTQ+ Travel Associatn (IGLTA).

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Vcent Jon, owner of Cizen Jon Travel, says that he notic how bs and lols gay travel hotspots—like Mykonos, Ibiza, and Puerto Vallarta—ter to whe gay men, while Black gay tourists like him don’t receive the same treatment. Gay transplants have been relotg and vatng the island paradise of Key Wt sce the 1970s, wh gay and lbian gutho proliferatg to meet the mand.

Along wh shops and boutiqu, you’ll fd most of the town’s gay bars along walkable Duval Street, cludg Aqua Nightclub, wh s fun shows, and La Te Da Hotel and Rtrant, which has a poolsi lounge, piano bar and baret room. The cy’s legendary Whe Party Week  November is the natn’s olst and largt HIV/AIDS fundraiser, drawg more than 10, 000 gay and lbian visors for high-energy dance parti hosted by top DJs and performers, edy shows, sports and recreatnal events.

Along wh South Beach’s eye-tchg llectn of welg Art De gems and boutique hotels, the beach is a huge draw, pecially the “gay beach” at 12th Street and Ocean Drive.

The GaYBOR District – a aln of gay and gay-iendly bs that began on the wt end of Tampa’s historic Ybor Cy neighborhood – is now a formidable prence this former cigar-rollg, Lat immigrant enclave. Like the rt of Ybor Cy, GaYbor has a thrivg night life, pumped up by dance mic at Seventh Avenue hot spots, such as Honeypot. Fortunately for film buffs, the Tampa Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival – one of the untry’s largt and longt-nng pennt gay film ftivals – hosts events and films year-round, but the height of activy happens October, when more than 8, 000 people attend films, parti and awards ceremoni.

Pete is the historic Grand Central District and s adjacent gayborhood of Kenwood, wh s streets led wh Craftsmen-style ttag om the 1920s. Pete’s Pri Weekend is one of Florida’s largt gay pri events, drawg more than 100, 000 marchers to a downtown night-time para the Grand Central District, as well as a street ft and ncert, every June.

What started as a small group of gays and lbians drsg red and spendg the day at Walt Disney World 1991 has grown to one of the largt gay pri events the world, attractg over 150, 000 gay and lbian travelers to Orlando on the first Saturday of every June. Gay Days at Orlando Area Theme Parks is now a week-long fete that floods all of Orlando’s theme parks wh a sea of red-shirt atten.

Sophistited and artsy, Sarasota has veloped a loyal gay followg, thanks to s cultural diversns, which range om the Sarasota Ballet to Queen Bgo Bonanza at McCurdy’s Comedy Theatre historic downtown Sarasota’s East End.

Whether you’re town for a week or plan to stick around for good, here are 15 ternatnal lol tailor-ma for livg your bt out-and-proud Tourist BureSaba, Dutch CaribbeanThere’s not one sgle gay bar on the island of Saba (that we know of) but LGBTQ+ visors have taken note of the island’s overtly welg spir. Dubbed Lat Ameri’s Gay Capal, the cy celebrat Pri a big way, attractg hundreds of thoands of ternatnal revelers year over year. The W Taipei is known as the cy’s gay hub, mostly bee of their Insirs Program, a sort of ncierge service that helps guts keep a fger on the pulse of the cy’s social lendar, LGBTQ+ events sure to vis 228 Peace Memorial Park, loted ont of the Printial Palace.

But the epicenter of queer life the cy is Zona Rosa, which was named after the hue of the pk pavers, although lols tend to joke that ’s named after the gay bars that dot the streets.

Sce the early 1990s, San Juan has hosted annual gay pri march the cy’s Condado neighborhood, and as the muny has grown (and the terrory has bee more progrsive), there’s now also a send march each summer Boqueró Juan’s Condado and Santurce neighborhoods have long been the meetg pot for LGBTQ+ Puerto Rins and visors, wh a number of bars and clubs servg the muny.