Why Key Wt Endur as a Gay Paradise

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Answer 11 of 46: Is Key Wt maly gay/lbian? I am not p and have seen a gay para before as Iive Hoton (and have nothg agast gays/lbians) but before I make a trip to Key Wt I'd like to know HOW gay is the days?

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HOW THE GAYS SAVED KEY WT

How Island Hoe helped transom Key Wt to the Wild Wt of gay getaways. * gay history of key west *

Word was circulatg among the creative gay culture New York Cy, Philalphia, Chigo, Washgton, D.

Other gay artists, notabl, cultural arbers, doyens, publishers, eccentric illumati and jt cur gay travelers followed wh their own entourag, assorted iends and acquatanc. Back when gay life existed a parallel universe—clared a natnal secury threat by the feral ernment, thlsly vtigated by the Florida state legislature and stigmatized as mentally ill by the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn, so many this generatn were separated om jobs, birth fai and a harshly tolerant mastream society.

By the 1970s the stream of gay visors to the island had turned to a torrent wh more than thirty same sex gut ho on the small island terg to gay men.

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It was 1967 that a gay native Key Wter, David Wolkowsky built the first te rort on the island, the Pier Hoe loted at Zero Duval Street.

By the early 1970s word had begun to filter north throughout gay culture that Key Wt was one of the few tly acceptg, e-as-you-are, quirky, fun plac the world where LGBTQ people uld exprs their creativy, their eedom and their love. Other gay thet and lears such as New York attorney Ferdand Court; real tate veloper and Washgton cultural force Bob Alfandre (1927-2014); publisher/thor Joe Famularo; Jam G.

HOW THE GAYS SAVED KEY WT

Gay owned art galleri opened, performg arts flourished, bs lnched.

A BRIEF HISTORY OF LBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, AND TRANSGENR SOCIAL MOVEMENTS

Richard was later elected Mayor of Key Wt 1983, beg the first openly gay mayor elected a U. This tasteful ti of sign and rtoratn washed over the island driven by dozens of gay men, and the real tate market rpond wh fervor!

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