Gay Beach: 25 Gay Beach You Can’t Miss on Your Next Trip Two Bad Tourists

Contents:

• ITALY’S TOP GAY BEACH LISTED AS ONE OF EUROPE’S “BT” 40 BEACH
• THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS
• THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE (AND BEYOND)
• THE BT GAY BEACH GREECE
• GREEK GAY NUDIST BEACH ROUNDUP

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

It’s one of only five untri to make queer rights equal at a nstutnal level and holds first place on ILGA-Europe’s Rabow Europe Inx, which ranks untri on LGBTQ+ my last vis, a gay gui showed me round the wdg medieval streets of Valletta and Rabat, potg out sential bars and rtrants om Michel-starred Noni to the Monaliza Lounge drag bar, as well as the nightclub Michelangelo lively Paceville. This spir filters down to Dubl’s many LGBTQ-iendly tablishments: two personal favour are iendly bnch spot Social Fabric Café Stoneybatter, one of the cy’s most tertg neighbourhoods, and Street 66 bar, a eful cktail spot before a night at inic LGBTQ+ stutn The southsi is gay-owned Gutter Bookshop (named after the famo Osr Wil quote), and the weekly “big gay dis” Sunday Social at Farrier & Draper; or cross the river for the Outhoe LGBTQ+ muny rource fe on Capel Street and PantiBar, owned by drag queen, activist and performer Panti Bliss. Enjoy bnch at Osr bar and fe, before a beer at one of Europe’s olst gay bars, Centralhjor, which hosts drag and Sunday jazz ssns venu clu Bøssehet Christiania, home to theatre, performanc, exhibns and parti – a well-suated boutique hotel is SP34 (doubl om £133) the Lat Quarter.

The cy’s olst gay bar The Waterloo dat back half a century, while another classic spot is the Unrground bar, equally fun for drag or karaoke. Nearby Delmoni’s (known lolly as “Del’s”), has been Merchant Cy’s “gay triangle” sce stay nearby, try the good-value Bnswick hotel (doubl om £50), on a street wh venu marked by rabow flags. Photograph: Nick Maslen/AlamyOn my last vis to Birmgham the rabow flag seemed to be everywhere, and the historic Gay Village, wh s bars, shops and f, is hugely visible, centred largely on Hurst Street.

Start wh bibimbap at the thoroughfare’s Korean rtrant Topokki before drks at Missg, Siwalk or lbian bar The Fox and dancg at the legendary Nightgale Club, the olst gay club the cy, datg back to summer’s hot LGBTQ+ event is Fierce’s Healg Garns of Bab (27 June - 17 July): part of Birmgham 2022 Ftival, ’s an artistic rponse to this summer’s Commonwealth Gam, celebratg “what the Brish Empire tried (and failed) to stamp out”. Mykonos’s rep as queer heaven dat back to the 1970s, when Jackie Onassis beme a regular visor (she first vised 1961), before blossomed as gay rort the 1980s, wh acmodatn sprgg up for the largely male 2022, you n hang out at tablished hotspots Jackie O, bar Porta or Kastro’s, and stay at the Super Paradise (doubl om £249), handy for the island’s ma LGBTQ+ beach. Photograph: Subodh Agnihotri/AlamyFor many gay men of a certa age, Fland is extribly associated wh leather-clad inic hero Tom of Fland, whose books pict a ggedly sexualised masculy durg a time pre-1971 when homosexualy was still illegal.

THE WORLD'S MOST GAY-FRIENDLY BEACH CI AND RORTS

Now you n take a tour of where thor Too Laaksonen lived his whole adult life, passg the Kansalaistori (People’s Square) ont of parliament, once a clanste meetg pot for gay karaoke fans should check out Mann’s Street, a boozy stutn; other fun spots are Street Pri the Kamppi district, and Kvääristö, a jot for queer women, transgenr, and non-bary people. You might even be able to jo the Helski Homovaas (Helski Gay Invasn), whose purpose is to “shake up the gay scene” by takg over random straight bars.

5ln people each year, cludg 300, 000 overseas self is one of the most LGBTQ-iendly untri the world: same-sex sexual activy was ma legal 1979, and was the third untry to legalise gay marriage, 2005. First stop has to be Chue, Madrid’s “gaybourhood” wh bars and venu dotted around Plaza Chue (also don’t miss the recently refurbished Merdo San Antón for tasty food stalls and a rooftop terrace).

Punta lla Sua, voted Italy’s top gay/LGBTQ+ iendly beach by Italy’s LGBTQ+ muny 2021, has been named as one of “40 of the bt beach Europe” by the UK’s The Guardian Newspaper. Punta lla Sua was also voted our rears’ favore beach our 2020 Bt of Puglia poll, though our own personal favore gay beach is Campomaro’s D’Ayala beach.

THE BT GAY BEACH EUROPE (AND BEYOND)

More | if you are visg Puglia for this summer here’s how to choose the perfect base for your stay Puglia | read our five gui to gay Puglia for LGBTQ+ travelers | check out our cy gui to Ostuni | stay for Salento Pri Lecce on Saturday 16 July 2022. Popular wh the gay muny, Plage Hi Beach across om High Club is a lively bar/rtrant/beach scene wh one area dited to fay banas and two... What uld be better than loungg a summer day away on a dreamy gay beach along the Mederranean, or sippg a cktail wh lol gay guys a cy square well to the night?

THE BT GAY BEACH GREECE

While this pt-sized island may be bt known for s picturque archecture, dreamy beach, and idyllic lotn the Med, s evolvg gay scene is also startg to turn heads. That said, Lisbon out to play summer wh the cy practilly turng self upsi down wh gay parti, street life, and one credible Pri Para to boot. While Dubrovnik, and Croatia the ma, may not offer the same LGBTQ scene as that found other European gay statns like Barcelona or Berl, remas liberal enough to still enjoy a relaxg gaytn here.

GREEK GAY NUDIST BEACH ROUNDUP

Spend your afternoon wanrg through the charmg walled cy, then if you are cravg a ltle gay mglg, take a ten-mute boat ri to Lokm Island. While Milan is often ld as the gay pal of Italy, Rome still offers a lively LGBTQ scene, wh most of the actn takg place along Via di S.