Best gay friendly vacation spots
My love of road trips started early. As a teenager growing up in a suburb of Boston, I discovered Jack Kerouac’s classic road trip novel On the Road. The book opened a door to queer history and to places where offbeat weirdos like me could find their fit.
I wrote my college thesis on road trips, and driving myself to (and from) a summer semester at UC Berkeley as research. I guess I should have known back then that I would end up writing about travel for a living!
I’ve taken two cross-country road trips – one during college, and one when I moved to California.
I’ve also taken shorter road trips: Novel York to Florida, Fresh York to Atlanta by way of Kentucky (state #44) and Tennessee, and New York to Michigan (state #43).
I spent a month living in a ghost town in Alaska for a writer’s retreat, and stayed on for an extra two weeks to explore the state with my partner, who flew out to Juneau to meet me.
Closer to home, I loving taking weekend trips to cities and towns in the Hudson Valley, where I live.
I love the US – even if I don’t always l
Gay Travel Index: Most LGBTQ+-friendly travel destinations
For many people, camping is the epitome of freedom. The release to let yourself be driven by the want to travel, to leave exactly where it is most beautiful and to spend the night in your own home on four wheels where you like it best. Unfortunately, this feeling of release is not always a given, especially for travellers from the LGBTQ+ community. Unfortunately, people still encounter intolerance, prejudice, restrictions and sometimes even persecution because of their sexual orientation or gender identity. Travellers from the LGBTQ+ community therefore often have to choose their travel destinations even more carefully - even when it comes to camping. How free and safe are people from the queer community in different holiday destinations? Where can they undergo safe and welcome and meet like-minded people? The Spartacus Gay Travel Index takes a closer observe at holiday destinations in Europe and around the world and assesses how LGBTQ+-friendly or unfriendly they are 🏳️🌈
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Top 10 Best Gay-Friendly Explore Destinations
Vacationing and exploring a new city can be fun and exciting; however, for members of the LGBTQ+ community, it can be stressful when trying to pick a destination that is accepting and embracing. For this reason, we have compiled a list of the Top 10 best gay-friendly journey destinations from around the world:
Palm Springs, California
The Greater Palm Springs area has a large and lively lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community. As such, it has become a welcoming LGBT travel destination.
Visitors will find plenty to do in the region including LGBT events such as Pride in November, Dinah Shore in April (a 5-day lesbian celebration), and select music festivals. There are eight gay hotels in Palm Springs and an array of gay bars and nightlife options, found particularly along E. Arenas Road.
Copenhagen, Denmark
Denmark was the first territory in the world to recognize same-sex unions. Copenhagen is the capital of Denmark and is very accepting. In fact, some people consider Copenhagen to be the most gay-fri
Best Places for Gay Holidays
Sorry for the radio silence here, but after having returned home to the USA for the holidays, I’ve had a lot of time to deliberate and to reflect — mostly about the past year and a bit about the future. And in making some of my plans for the next year, I’ve thought a lot about the past year.
Namely the proof that it’s probably been my gayest year ever. Is that even a thing? Who knows. I don’t care. But I feel like this was an important year for gay rights, and also for my own interest in gay travel.
Gay travel?!
Yeah, that topic again. Tour is travel, yes. But this year I’ve also realized just how many of my own trips and experiences are almost certainly chosen because of my own sexual preference. Where I’ve traveled to isn’t necessarily anything to do with the fact that I’m gay, I guess, but these are the places that I’ve found that are actually great for other gay travelers appreciate myself—either solo or for gay couples.
I never thought I’d be the guy who ended up goi