LGBTQ-iendly road trip route om San Francis to New York Cy, cludg LGBTQ-iendly hotels, gay bars, and queer entertament.
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HOW TO PLAN A PERFECT GAY ROAD TRIP
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In the early 1960s, Bob Damron began creatg pocket-sized addrs books to help gay men fd queer spac while travelg around the natn.
GAY TRAVEL JOURNAL: ROAD TRIPS
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But eedom wasn’t always a given for queer people, leadg LGBTQ travelers to favor well-known gayborhoods liberal ci near the US astl. Marshall’s Beach, a clothg-optnal queer hang beneath the Goln Gate Bridge, is the perfect place to dip your rriere the Pacific; Dolor Park’s southwt rner is a land-locked “gay beach” that attracts crowds on sunny days. One of the untry’s earlit gay anizatns, the Mattache Society, was found Silver Lake 1950, and historic queer protts agast police btaly at Coopers Donuts (1959) and the Black Cat (1967) led up to NYC’s Stonewall Uprisg and the Gay Liberatn Movement that followed.
Today, LGBTQ life revolv around Wt Hollywood (WeHo), where you’ll fd the hight ncentratn of LGBTQ tablishments, cludg the Abbey, LA’s go-to gay bar, and Micky’s, the bt spot to see RuPl’s army of glamazons. You’re most likely to fd queer crowds around the Pri Flag Lifeguard Tower or at Roosterfish, a gay bar that also hocks lol art. This inic Amerin roadway, mythologized by Stebeck as the “Mother Road” The Grap of Wrath, slic eastward through LA’s gayborhood as enters Ameri’s wtern wilrns.