Out the Sun: Florida’s Top 10 Gay Beach | VISIT FLORIDA

Contents:

• EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS JACKSONVILLE BEACH
•  FLORIDA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS
• GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS JACKSONVILLE BEACH
• OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH
• 12 BT GAY BEACH IN FLORIDA YOU SHOULD VIS
• THE BEST JACKSONVILLE GAY CLUBS & BARSSEE ALL THGS TO DOGAY CLUBS & BARS JACKSONVILLE
• GAY JACKSONVILLE
• JAGS' MAXEN IS FIRST MALE AMERIN PRO SPORTS ACH TO E OUT AS GAY
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS JACKSONVILLE BEACH

From private rooms and apartments to LGBTQ-iendly hotels, you have the optn to stay the heart of gay districts as well as other neighborhoods the plac you vis. A loft Soho, a shared room Barcelona or the Castro, a gay-iendly hotel Le Marais or Chelsea, experience misterb&b all gay travel statns!

 FLORIDA LBIAN AND GAY BARS, RTRANTS, LODGG, PRI EVENT, BS MAPS

Along the eastern ast of the Uned Stat, Jacksonville is the gateway to Florida, but to s LGBTQ+ visors is the gayway to Florida and has bee the statn, stead of jt part of the are many plac to vis om natural attractns, like some of the most betiful beach and some of the off the beaten path parks, to a betiful and thrivg downtown skyle, wh stunng archecture and whout the heavy traffic, to eclectic shoppg areas to some of the most enchantg street art, JAX has a spot to make you feel like you belong.

Jacksonville do not have an official gayborhood, but Five Pots the Riversi Avondale area near Downtown is the clost due to the number of rtrants, shops and bars and the many rabow flags proudly displayed. The heart of Jacksonville, where tall rporatns’ buildgs drs the skyle, known for s historic neighborhoods and what n be nsired the unofficial gayborhood – Five Pots. Home to the few gay bars left, straight alli always wele:.

Boot Rack Saloon – gay bar: 4751 Lenox Ave, Jacksonville, FL 32205Where to eat/shop?

GAY AND GAY-IENDLY HOTELS JACKSONVILLE BEACH

Although this part of the state has a somewhat nservative reputatn, Jacksonville has a lively gay scene and is beg creasgly popular as an affordable, iendly vatn optn for GLBT travelers. In Riversi, which has many of the Jacksonville’s gay bars, much of the retail and dg actn is ncentrated Historic Five Pots, which is a funky neighborhood wh a youthful, alternative personaly.

The neighborhood is also the se of the cy’s popular gay pri celebratn, First Coast Pri, held the last week of July. Affordable and cheerful Bungalow on the Park is a relative newer to Riversi, and already a favore the gay muny. You’ll fd some of the state’s iendlit gay nightspots Jacksonville, the most popular beg the Metro, which pris a number of distct bars all unr one roof, cludg a lbian lounge, dance floor, baret, show bar, and several other lively areas.

OUT THE SUN: FLORIDA’S TOP 10 GAY BEACH

Club Jacksonville, the San Mar neighborhood, is the cy’s gay bathhoe and sna. Right downtown, the gay-iendly Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Wateront has a nvenient lotn, great river views, and fy rooms. In Riversi, there are two gay-iendly ns of note.

A morate-priced, well-n, and nveniently loted cha optn, the Hampton Inn Jacksonville 9A and Baymeadows is newly built and very gay-iendly. Also check out the ornate, Moorish Revival-spired Casa Moni Hotel, an elegant, gay-iendly place to stay that also has great spots for cktails and dner, the 95 Cordova Rtrant and hip Cobalt Lounge. There are several gay-popular B&Bs St.

Two good bets clu gay-owned Casa Solana, which claims to be the cy’s send olst n and has 10 upsle rooms; and the Craftsman-style Saragossa Inn, an vg B&B set along a quiet rintial street. In Jacksonville Beach, you’ll fd the only gay bar out this way, Bo’s Coral Reef, which is a fun place to shoot pool or lger over a drks after a day at the beach. Also, if you’re head out toward the beach om downtown, you might stop by AJ’s Bar and Grill, a iendly gay hangout about 5 om the beach on Atlantic Boulevard.

12 BT GAY BEACH IN FLORIDA YOU SHOULD VIS

The most famo acmodatn on Amelia Island is also one of northeastern Florida’s most gay-iendly lodggs, the sumptuo Rz-Carlton Amelia Island, which overlooks a lovely beach and has every activy you uld want for a special getaway – spa treatments, golfg, fe dg. More timate overnight optns clu a pair of gay-iendly B&Bs, the 11-room Ash Street Inn, and the warmly furnished Hoyt Hoe B&B, which has 10 elegant rooms.

Wh the batn of a cy center enjoyg a steady renaissance and easy accs to so many enchantg beach towns, ’s easy to envisn Jacksonville velopg to a notable gay vatn statn the years to e. Jacksonville Beach Gay bars and clubs by distance.

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Jacksonville Beach gay bars and clubs are mapped the gayborhood wh an overview, tags, ntact tails, webse, social media lks, trans/walkg directns, and drivg directns. For over forty years, the buildg served as a bathhoe primarily servg a gay, bisexual and transgenr clientele.

Today, as societal acceptance of homosexualy has bee more broad and the ter has ma LGBT datg easier, stutns like the bath ho and so-lled gay bars that once provid safe-haven for the LBGT muni have cled. From gay Florida party statns such as Miami, Key Wt and Fort Lrdale to mellow, seclud spots St.

GAY JACKSONVILLE

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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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.