Best gay vacation spots
In September Instagram pushed me a post by Travel Gay, a website listing &#;the best queer bars, nightclubs, saunas, spas, beaches, shops and more, along with interesting travel ideas and fabulous offers&#;. There I saw the undated post (date your articles and posts, people) &#;LGBTQ+ Solo Travel: the Best Cities to Visit?&#; by Adam Reid. Entity a solo gay traveller, it caught my attention.
Now, while I&#;m still very much a lgbtq+, it has been a while since I last travelled solo. My last solo trip was Tel Aviv in Since then, I&#;ve travelled with Danny, Oriol, Steve, Philippe, Nicolas, Thanh, my sister Florence. In I wrote &#;SINGLES DAY | Why everyone should travel alone sometimes&#; and reading it back I touch the cringe but I withstand by its content.
It&#;s I should do a proper solo trip again soon(ish). I experience ready.
&#;LGBTQ+ Solo Travel: the Optimal Cities to Visit?&#;
&#;Solo travel is an intimidating prospect to many of us but it’s one of the most rewarding experiences you can have. Solo move is on the rise and it’s easy to underst
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 contemplate 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 idea a lot about the past year.
Namely the evidence 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. Commute 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 favor. 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 idea I’d be the guy who ended up goi
My love of thoroughfare trips started prior. 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 appreciate me could discover their fit.
I wrote my college thesis on street trips, and driving myself to (and from) a summer semester at UC Berkeley as analyze. I guess I should have acknowledged back then that I would finish up writing about travel for a living!
I&#;ve taken two cross-country thoroughfare trips – one during college, and one when I moved to California.
I&#;ve also taken shorter road trips: New York to Florida, New York to Atlanta by way of Kentucky (state #44) and Tennessee, and Fresh 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 search the state with my partner, who flew out to Juneau to gather 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 like my country&#;s l
If you had to pluck just one continent for gay travel, Europe has to be the number one answer. It has so much to provide including some of the most gay friendly, steady and welcoming cities and countries in the planet. There are many astounding gay destinations in Europe! [no_toc]
Some countries in Europe, such as Spain and Sweden, go beyond straightforward acceptance or tolerance.
They acquire developed to a aim where the LGBTQ collective is truly integrated into society, gay couples are not labelled ‘gay couples’; they are just another couple in the road – as it should be.
There are many well-known gay travel destinations in Europe, from the queer hot spots in Spain such as Madrid, Barcelona and Sitges, to Berlin in Germany, the same-sex attracted mecca of Mykonos in Greece and our UK home of Manchester.
But many lesser-known cities and countries in Europe are now following suit to welcome gay travellers into their countries which is a step in the right direction!
Why is European Homosexual Travel so easy?
So why is gay travel in Europe so easy and progressive in the first place? Here are