The LGBTQ Renaissance is blossomg unlikely statns all over the Uned Stat. See where you should be travelg wh our list of the 10 bt gaytn statns that jt might surprise you.
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- UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
- LGBT TRAVEL IAS: TOP 12 GAY FRIENDLY CI
- THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020
UNR THE ‘GAYDAR’: 10 BT GAYTN DTATNS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE YOU
* gay friendly vacation spots *
Ci like Richmond and Columb may not register on your gaydar like San Francis and NYC, but that don’t mean they don’t have plenty to offer gay travelers.
’Outsirs may thk of the old Conferate pal as a cy stuck s ways, but ltle do they know that Richmond, Virgia is anythg “g out” 2014, Richmond has emerged as the gay pal of the South. 4 percent of the cy’s populatn intifi as LGBT), the New England pal has bee a haven for East Coast gays lookg for somewhere tamer and quater than Boston and NYC.
The Milwkee Gay Arts Center offers one-of-a-kd LGBTQ productns, and Walker’s Pot is settg self up to be the next big most renowned “gay statns, ” Santa Fe, New Mexi don’t have a go-to district like L. S., but ’s also home to North Carola’s annual Pri Ftival and the state’s Gay & Lbian Film if that’s not enough for North Carola, head wt to Asheville and fd an LGBTQ bohemian paradise smacked the Smoki.
LGBT TRAVEL IAS: TOP 12 GAY FRIENDLY CI
Lolly known as the San Francis of the regn, the gay cultural landspe is vibrant, and the drag scene is easily among the bt the natn–jt watch “Kgs, Queens, and In-Betweens” cy is also a risg fashn mec, hog the third most fashn signers the untry, along wh retail giants like L Brands, Exprs, Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fch. As if that’s not enough, Columb ranks as the send most sexually satisfied cy the untry–wk, is the largt gay rort the Midwt Michigan’s “Bible Belt?
” It mt be somethg the over 140 gay-owned bs, rangg om B&Bs to bars to art galleri to cuty ice cream shops, the small neighborg towns of Sgatuck and Douglas are home to the largt gay rort the Midwt–and thanks to lol protectn of genr inty and sexual orientatn, you’ll be hard-prsed to fd anti-LGBTQ attus here. The cy created the first gay and lbian muny center the untry, and ’s Albany that was home to one of the earlit transgenr groups datg back to the cy may not have the crazy, never-endg nightlife of NYC, and may not have the sheer numbers of NYC, but, for general “Queer Life, ” Albany ranks seventh the untry–not to shabby for a cy overshadowed by the Big LGBT muny and the Mormon church hasn’t always seen eye-to-eye. This agreement has helped revent SLC to a premier gay statn the Rocki, and a unique cy of ntrasts where vout Mormons para down Harvey Milk Blvd.
THE WORLD’S 30 BT GAY-FRIENDLY TRAVEL DTATNS 2020
| LGBTQ travelers and their fai are a growg target market for the travel dtry, wh rorts, cise l and many new statns now offerg gay-iendly optns. Its webse illtrat gay upl, highlights lolly owned LGBTQ bs, promot gay events and nducts LGBTQ sensivy trag for staff at tourist statns. Provcetown, Massachetts, a tradnal statn for gay travelers, where a fay week is now among the summer events offered (July 24 to 31 this year).