Wilton Manors: South Florida’s Most Famo Gayborhood

Contents:

• WILTON MANORS: AN LGBTQ TRAVEL GUI TO FLORIDA’S GAYT CY
• WILTON MANORS: SOUTH FLORIDA’S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD
• GAY FT LRDALE

WILTON MANORS: AN LGBTQ TRAVEL GUI TO FLORIDA’S GAYT CY

Wilton Manors, South Florida’s famo gayborhood, b a small-town atmosphere wh all the ameni of urban life. Wilton Manors gayborhood Florida has a lot to offer: walkabily, waterways, and wildlife – as the kd that liv the wild, and the kd that is wild.

It’s also “the epicenter of the gay muny South Florida, ” says rint Jason Gonzalez. Acrdg to the 2010 Cens, Wilton Manors is the untry’s “Send Gayt Cy” – at least terms of upl. It began about the time DeRosa first moved there, about the time Geie’s Alibi, the first major gay bar, opened a board-up bank branch up the block om where To The Moon now stands.

WILTON MANORS: SOUTH FLORIDA’S MOST FAMO GAYBORHOOD

More Gay and Lbian tablishments followed. There’s The Pk Submare, Gaysha New World Shi Bar, and Out of the Closet, a nonprof, send-hand goods shop beneftg medil re for patients wh HIV/AIDS.

The acceptg ambience has led South Florida Gay News to name Wilton Manors “Bt Cy”– twice. “South Florida’s most famo gayborhood b a small-town atmosphere wh all the ameni of urban life, ” wrote the send time, 2013. “It’s difficult to go anywhere Wilton Manors and not assume everyone is gay.

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I kd of have to check myself every once a while and say, ‘Qu assumg everyone is gay, Jason, ’” says Gonzalez.

“There are plac that gays don’t feel fortable, ” says Rick Wootten, a clerk at Out of the Closet. But there’s more to Wilton Manors gayborhood Florida than food and shops. Pri Factory first opened s doors Fort Lrdale 1996, and has been a staple of the South Florida gay scene ever sce.