The Gay Travel Gui to the Algarve - Portugalist

Contents:

• THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE (AND BEYOND)
• ITALY’S TOP GAY BEACH LISTED AS ONE OF EUROPE’S “BT” 40 BEACH
• 10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD
• THE GAY TRAVEL GUI TO THE ALGARVE
• EUROPE'S TOP GAY HOTELS & RORTS 2023
• 9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE

THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE (AND BEYOND)

Although urban statns tend to be most popular wh gay travelers bee of their rich cultural offergs, vibrant nightlife districts, and chic shoppg and dg, a number of the world's most gay-popular ci also enjoy picturque settgs on the water.

From megaci wh skyscrapers on the ocean to relatively smaller statns on tranquil bays and lak, here's a ndown of the world's 20 bt gay urban beach statns (populatn 150,000 or greater). Set along a sweepg expanse of goln Mederranean beach northeastern Spa, this dynamic and culturally rich metropolis of about 1.6 ln is possibly Europe's top major year-round cy for gay and lbian visors.

ITALY’S TOP GAY BEACH LISTED AS ONE OF EUROPE’S “BT” 40 BEACH

Wh outstandg mms, distctive archecture (cludg several treasur by Antoni Gdi) a lively gay nightlife scene centered mostly around the sophistited Eixample district, and an abundance of stylish rtrants and hotels, Barcelona is a terrific statn for urban, yet there's a sweepg and betiful gay beach, Barceloa, jt mut om the cy center.

10 BT GAY BEACH THE WORLD

It's jt a short drive south along the ast to vis some of the Southern Hemisphere's most betiful beach, cludg swank Camp Bay, which li the shadows of the Twelve Apostle mountas, and Clifton, which has a scene-y gay beach. Near the cy's uber-gay Boystown, also known as Lakeview, the GLBT set nverged for many years at Belmont Rocks, an area that no longer exists.

And as 's set on the eastern shore of Zealand Island, on Ørund (a stra that divis the North and Baltic seas), Copenhagen is close to a number of priste, wdswept stretch of sand, cludg such gay hangouts as Bellevue and Ishøj beach. For many years known primarily as Florida's "sprg break" pal, Fort Lrdale began an amb transformatn to a more sophistited rort statn startg around the early 1990s, which cid wh efforts to urt gay and lbian travelers. Sce that time, more than a dozen gay men's rorts have opened wh a few blocks of the cy's betiful oceanont beach, as have several luxury high-rise hotels.

THE GAY TRAVEL GUI TO THE ALGARVE

Fort Lrdale is also close enough to Miami and Palm Beach for quick viss to eher place, makg an ial base for a sunny and relaxg gay vatn.

The GLBT scene here is still relatively discreet, but this special admistrative regn wh some 7.5 ln rints—prisg the Kowloon Pensula, New Terrori, and Hong Kong Island—is neverthels que forward wh regard to gay and lbian issu when you nsir the regn as a whole.

EUROPE'S TOP GAY HOTELS & RORTS 2023

This dramatilly suated cy on the island of Oahu has several gay bars, a great dg scene, and proximy to many notable attractns, om Queen's Surf gay beach to Pearl Harbor. One of the world's leadg gay and lbian statns, Los Angel is much more than a sgle metropolis - rather, 's an entire llectn of both sprawlg and many s scenic neighborhoods and adjacent ci.

Here and funky Venice Beach, to the south, you'll fd que a few rtrants, hotels, and bars wh a mixed gay/straight followg, along wh one of the Wt's classic gay dive bars, Roosterfish. The cy is pecially popular as a gay statn durg Midsumma Ftival, a three-week LGBT arts and cultural ftival held om mid-January through early Febary.

The regn has been eclipsed by nearby Fort Lrdale recent year's as the state's top gay statn, but you'll still fd plenty of gays and lbians livg and playg the parts - and visg durg the several big gay circu parti held South Beach each year, om Wter Party to Whe Party to Miami Gay Pri.

9 MOST GAY-FRIENDLY COUNTRI IN EUROPE

In Miami Beach, you'll fd a pair of betiful and popular gay beach, cludg 12th Street Beach South Beach, and Hlover Beach farther north. The largt cy on the famoly swank and sophistited French Riviera, Nice (populatn 350,000) is not que a gay playground on the same plane as such Euro-queer hot spots as Ibiza and Mykonos, but this stylish cy wh an outstandg variety of tony rtrants and shops do have a growg gay prence (this is also te, by the way, of nearby Cann, which is smaller but also is beg creasgly popular wh gay travelers).

You'll fd gay bars, snas, and f mostly or Old Town, and along the curvg wateront gg the Mederranean, rabow flags note a gay prence at Co Beach as well as at Castel Plage.