Pool Boys: The Summer Gay Scene at the Raven Pool New Hope - Philalphia Magaze

Contents:

• BLUE MOON RORT FOR GAY MEN
• 14 OF THE BT GAY-ONLY HOTELS & GUTHO THE WORLD
• POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE
• GAY IBIZA · HOTELS
• CLOTHG OPTNAL GAY MEN'S ONLY RORT - ARTHUR AND PL (A&P)
• EUROPE'S TOP GAY HOTELS & RORTS 2023
• VILLA DA COSTA GAY MEN'S RORT & POOL CLUB
• GAY HOTELS AND RORTS 2023

BLUE MOON RORT FOR GAY MEN

Au natural rorts here have been well attend for s, and perhaps never so much as by gay men who know they don't have to get drsed up to have a good time. 5 landsped acr, the 45-room CCBC is the largt clothg-optnal gay men's rort California.

Warm Sands, Palm Sprgs, Uned Stat In the gay-popular Warm Sprgs neighborhood, The Hacienda is a clothg optnal rort that pris self on s staff-to-gutroom rat and greetg each gut wh a basket of goodi.

14 OF THE BT GAY-ONLY HOTELS & GUTHO THE WORLD

Warm Sands, Palm Sprgs, Uned Stat Gay-owned Santiago is a chic, swimsu-optnal retreat, which boasts the large swimmg pool (heated) of any gay rort town, strg hammocks for two, an outdoor spa, an outdoor mist system and plementary poolsi lunch. Loted historic Key Wt, Island Hoe is a 34-room, clothg-optnal hotel signed exclively for gay men.

Actors workg Hollywood would pe to Palm Sprgs, jt a 2 hour drive away, to let loose and mgle wh other closeted gays om the entertament dtry. The cy has plenty to offer for all ag and you’ll fd travelers of all generatns visg the cy, pecially durg major events like gay pri, The Whe Party and pecially the Coachella Mic Ftival, which draws an pecially young mographic. Gay Hotels & Rorts Palm Sprgs.

POOL BOYS: THE SUMMER GAY SCENE AT THE RAVEN POOL NEW HOPE

Palm Sprgs Gay Bars.

GAY IBIZA · HOTELS

Gay Events Palm Sprgs. Barbra Streisand lls Palm Sprgs home as well as many other famo actors, actrs and gay ins alike. You n download the Gay Palm Sprgs gui for ee.

Palm Sprgs has more all gay rorts and hotels than any cy the world. Before the days when you uld be public wh your orientatn, the were a major draw as gays uld vatn together and mgle wh others privacy. Most are small to medium siz hotels terg to gay men.

Gay & Gay Friendly Hotels Palm Sprgs. Tw Palms Rort – this paradisil gay man´s rort offers pretty much anythg you uld want om a holiday retreat Palm Sprgs by fortably blendg door and outdoor livg. Clothg-Optnal Gay Rorts Palm Sprgs.

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El Mirasol Villas– this gay men´s rort is the perfect place to say if you like relaxg while beg surround by hot men – and who don´t. Misterb&b is not a hotel or cha, but rather a bookg platform for rooms, apartments and hom and allows you to book om gay and gay-iendly hosts around the world.

Unrstandg the gay scene is much more easily done wh the help of a lol and home-sharg is one of the bt ways to meet someone livg the cy who knows how thgs work, where and when are the bt nights to go out, and what plac to eat at and which to avoid.

Misterb&b is our top choice if your prry is explorg the lol gay scene. Gay and lbian stars themselv, pl ins om a variety of s have always e to Palm Sprgs and this tour will show you the bt cludg hom om people like Lily Toml, Liberace, Judy Garland, Cher and Barry Manilow. There is not a tradnal gay sna or bathhoe Palm Sprgs, however, All World Rorts has cisg and hookup areas and sells day and night pass.

EUROPE'S TOP GAY HOTELS & RORTS 2023

Palm Sprgs Gay Pri – the gay pri Palm Sprgs tak place each November and draws a crowd of 60, 000. This magnificent gay-owned bed & breakfast is home to guts both past and prent. Gee was one of the bt known centers of gay male life Brooklyn.

Famed for s luxur public spac and s bld-eye to discreet same-sex relatnships, beme a favored cisg ground and rince for gay men, cludg Hart Crane and Tennsee Williams. Acrdg to historian Gee Chncey, was one of the few upsle hotels the cy that “earned a reputatn for their willgns to acmodate gay men on a short- or long-term basis. Gee “was almost entirely gay.

VILLA DA COSTA GAY MEN'S RORT & POOL CLUB

” Among the many long-term gay rints was playwright Tennsee Williams, who lived at the hotel for several months 1943. In 1949, Gaedicker’s Sodom-On-Hudson, the first guibook to gay life New York, listed the St.

Thomas Pater, a major rmant for the Ksey Instute on gay practic, lived at the hotel between 1953 and 1956, wrg to Ksey that spe s outwardly stuffy appearance, “L flrs du mal flourish this hotel. In the 1960s and 1970s, gay guis ntued to list the St.

Every year, gay men fan out farther and wir for summer fun. Wele to the Pool at the you don’t know the Pool, ’s probably bee you’re not gay, boozy or particularly randy, or preferably all three. But ’s been a summertime staple for gay men om Philly, New York, New Jersey and parts of what is monly lled “Pennsyltucky” for s — New Hope’s crown jewel when to summer gay tourism.

GAY HOTELS AND RORTS 2023

When a gay man texts “I’m gog to the pool, ” ’s no mystery which one — ’s not his pool, or a pool, but the Pool. But if you’re gay and not sippg mojos at the Chelsea Atlantic Cy or whiffg poppers Rehoboth, you’re at the Pool — part of a bed gay bar/motel operatn — baskg s glisteng bawds.

3, which is everyone else — a loose llectn of sociable gays summoned to the water as if by gravatnal pull, neon pool noodl potg skyward. It’s like circle time at gay summer, gays are assiatg at a faster pace than ever before. When a gay uple mov to the hoe next door, the neighborhood … boys will be boys, and this will never change: At certa tim, the tribe wants to vort s own playpen.

Which brgs back to the Pool, which is ground zero for heat-stricken gay men Philalphia and surroundg unti who lack accs to a beach hoe.

It has always applied to gay men. The abbreviated story of how the Bucks County burg beme a sort of gay-and-gltered Plymouth Rock go somethg like this: First me the nvas artists the 1930s and ’40s; soon after, retail shops pched their tents to piggyback off the scene’s growg (and marketable) diversy.

Meanwhile, a flourishg theater scene emerged, fed by Bucks County Playhoe darlgs like Angela Lansbury, Grace Kelly and Liza Mnelli (as ins, gay, gayer and gayt).

“From there, people began buyg summer hom, and wh that me the muny om New York and Philly, who found their way to New Hope, ” says Daniel Brooks, founr of the gay-tourism anizatn New Hope Celebrat.

” By the 1980s, thanks to the so-lled “Goln Triangle” of gay nightclubs — the Raven, the Cartwheel and the Prelu — New Hope had tablished self as a “Gayborhood” well before the term was ed for 13th and Loct. ” Beyond providg juicy burgers (a scene that fi crly — gay men eatg rbs?

“It’s a summer rual, ” says Philly gay-event producer Josh Schonewolf, who go every season.

Here, I meet 58-year-old Dan Schaffer, who’s bt explaed as a gay Rolox wh a pulse — the go-to guy if you want to know someone, or jt want the latt dish on who’s dog what (and to whom). Prerved, spots like the Pool are an endangered speci; gay mecs like New Hope and Key Wt are cle (or, perhaps more accurately, “gog straight”).

And if my afternoon here is any ditn, fledglg gays like myself aren’t turng up the numbers need to sta this place two s om now, when all the geriatrics check to the John C. What happens when lennials are left to choose between Grdr and a by-then-forlorn symbol of once-upon-a-time gay culture? The Pool may be a summer “rual” for young gays, but ’s a route for everyone else.

Lotn tails and gay map for Phoenix. Exact lotn disclosed after bookg below to check the neighborhood and nearby gay plac.