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Note:<\/strong>\u00a0All travel is subject to frequently-changing governmental restrictions\u2014please check federal, state, and local advisories before scheduling trips. This article was last updated July 8, 2021.
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It’s a big, rainbow planet we live on, but if you squirrel away all your pennies, max out your credit cards and use every long weekend as an excuse to travel, one lifetime may be enough to do it all. We sat down and dreamed up a list of queer experiences every LGBTQIA person should have in their lifetime including a few novel ones that might not be on your gaydar yet, but are sure to tickle you, um pink. While a few are geared toward girls and a couple are just for the boys, most of this list invites all. Grab your passport, call in sick, and go do as many of these as possible right now!<\/p>\n

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1. Have a cocktail at\u00a0the Stonewall Inn: NYC<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>Fifty years ago this Village<\/a> taproom became the catalyst for a nationwide movement when its patrons, a group of drag queens, street kids and trangender folk, fought back against police harassment. President Obama made it a National Monument. Have a drink, hang with friends, soak up the moment and just try not to shed a tear.<\/p>\n

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The Castro Theater | Photo courtesy of Jason Heidemann<\/p><\/div>\n

2. See a movie at the Castro Theater: San Francisco
\n<\/strong>As the queer community assimilates, gayborhoods are becoming scarce, but the\u00a0Castro district in San Francisco<\/a> is still a rainbow-colored beacon and its best\u00a0feature is its movie palace of the same name which opened in 1922 and whose sign is a city\u00a0icon. See a camp classic, check out the leatherette ceiling, and tap your feet along with the Mighty Wurlitzer organ.<\/p>\n

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3. Live like a Greek God: Mykonos, Greece
\n<\/strong>Ibiza, Sitges and Gran Canaria attract queer sun seekers by the thousands, but\u00a0none quite touch the eternal fascination with the island of Mykonos<\/a> thanks in part to the\u00a0Ancient Greeks and their societal acceptance of homosexuality. Not that any of them enjoyed the hedonism of modern day Mykonos, a dizzying cornucopia of nightclubs, resorts, and sun bathing in teensy swimsuits at famed Elia Beach.<\/p>\n

4. Get soaking wet\u00a0 at the Dinah: Palm Springs, CA
\n<\/strong>This sun-drenched desert metropolis<\/a> belongs to many including Hollywood A-listers, mid-century design fanatics and gay male sun seekers, but for one week annually the\u00a0city turns Sapphic as party promoters Club Skirts turn the town into a nonstop party and music fest that is bar none the largest gathering of lesbians in the United States and has attracted the likes of Lea DeLaria and Lady Gaga among others.<\/p>\n

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5. Soak up the sun with the girls and boys of Ipanema: Rio
\n<\/strong>Captivating Rio<\/a> is the place of every LGBT person’s dreams. This sunny city by the sea is hardly Brazil’s biggest (that distinction belongs to S\u00e3o Paulo), but LGBT Cariocans dance to the beat of their own Samba-infused rhythm day and night especially at Farme de Amoedo, an inviting stretch of gay beach in Ipanema. Pick up either a bikini or sunga and join the fun. You won’t be sorry.
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6. Float away on on a queer cruise: Multiple locations
\n<\/strong>Whether you’re sailing the Sapphic seas,\u00a0looking for a hot ship mate\u00a0or gathering the kids\u00a0for a getaway, at least once in your lifetime get your rainbow hands on deck and set sail on an Olivia, Atlantis, or R FamilyVacations queer cruise. For one week these floating gayborhoods\u00a0deliver our community to the most exotic places on earth\u2014no homophobes allowed!<\/p>\n

7. “Earn” a beaded necklace at Southern Decadence: New Orleans
\n<\/strong>We’re not recommending anyone drop trou or lift their shirts in exchange for beads, but we are saying that shenanigans\u00a0like these and lots more (way more, actually) go down at this legendary\u00a0Labor Day weekend party in the Big Easy<\/a>. Watch the\u00a0French Quarter get overtaken by debaucherous steamy\u00a0good times\u00a0washed down with a hurricane or two (or five or six).
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8. Harness your inner kink at Folsom Street Fair: San Francisco
\n<\/strong>Shed your inhibitions (and just about every layer of clothing while you’re at it) and hit up this legendary street fair, the largest BDSM and leather fetish event of its kind in the world. It’s a spectacle unlike any other, but also one of the friendliest and most affirming displays of body positivity in the U.S. If you bump into a co-worker getting whipped by a dominatrix, just smile or look the other way.<\/p>\n

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Cafe de Flore | Flickr CC: Karen Corby<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

9. Follow in the\u00a0footsteps\u00a0of James Baldwin: Paris
\n<\/strong>One of the most eloquent and\u00a0provocative queer\u00a0writers\u00a0of all time, American novelist turned expat James Baldwin left quite a footprint on gay Paree and visitors to the City of Lights<\/a>\u00a0who trace his steps can take in numerous legendary haunts including caf\u00e9\u00a0Les Deux Magots, Caf\u00e9 Tournon, Le Select, Brasserie Lipp, Le Montana, and Caf\u00e9 de Flore among others.\u00a0
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10. Pose for a selfie with Mickey Mouse at\u00a0Gay Days: Orlando
\n<\/strong>Gay Days started as a one-day event in which several thousand LGBT Floridians showed up at the beloved Orlando<\/a> theme park wearing red shirts as a mark of visibility. More than twenty-five years later (and still not sanctioned by Disney) it draws together an estimated 150,000 people for a week-long\u00a0gathering\u00a0that includes pool parties, A Taste of Gay Days, and Miss Gay Days Pageant and is beloved by both a party crowd and same-sex families.\u00a0
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11. Discover Heaven on earth: London
\n<\/strong>The dazzling English capital is a great queer city to live like a king or queen for a few days. Follow in the footsteps of the Royal Family, do a Notting Hill market, Ride the London Eye, and see a West End show. A visit to Heaven nightclub should top your Brit bucket list. A queer fixture since the ’70s, even if your club days are long behind you, chug a Red Bull, grab a few mates, and prepare to dance and sweat ’til dawn.<\/p>\n

12. Shout “O-69!” at Drag Bingo: Los Angeles
\n<\/strong>There’s a number of ways to get your gay on in the City of Angels (pool parties and beach days, anyone?) But in a city of famed for supposed superficiality, a night of unpretentious charity bingo at ubiquitous hamburger chain Hamburger Mary’s offers proof positive that Angelenos love to give back. Sure, there’s drag bingo in just about every city in America, but how often are they hosted a Drag Race<\/em> superstar and how often in other cities do queer celebs just happen to be in the audience?<\/p>\n

13. Find a dungeon with your name on it: Berlin<\/strong>
\nIf you want to let your hair down, as in all the way down, look no further than Germany’s loose and libidinous capital city<\/a> where bodies literally go bump in the night. No sexual fetish is too extreme and people of every gender identity and expression will find their desires catered to, especially at queer spaces like Lab.oratory\u2014perhaps the most adventurous bar and sex club on earth at the moment. Isherwood is smiling in his grave.<\/p>\n

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14. Sail the Bah\u00eda de Banderas with lady Diana: Puerto Vallarta
\n<\/strong>Sunbathing\u00a0at Blue Chairs, joining the queue at Pancho’s Takos, and strolling the Zona Romantica are all requisite PV<\/a> experiences, but so is sailing the high seas with out tour operator Diana DeCoste\u00a0who’s been setting the\u00a0standard in cruising\u00a0(of the maritime kind) for the past 17 years with a weekly excursion that includes snorkeling, secluded beach time, and sunset cocktails\u2014and always sells out well in advance.<\/p>\n

15. Have\u00a0a moment of silence at the Homomonument: Amsterdam
\n<\/strong>We can think of many ways to kill time in\u00a0Amsterdam<\/a>. The Dutch capital is deserving of its reputation as a breezy and tolerant mecca for\u00a0people of all kinds as evidenced by its tolerance for sexual pleasure and drug use, but between cruising the canals and the bars, save a moment for reflection at the Homomonument, a canal side trio of triangles\u00a0that commemorates people who have been persecuted due to being LGBTQIA.
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Pineapple Point | Photo by Jason Heidemann<\/p><\/div>\n

16. Stay at a gay resort: Fort Lauderdale, FL
\n<\/strong>Who would’ve imagined\u00a0a sun-drenched canal town best known for launching the gaudy, libidinous tradition known as spring break would reinvent itself as a high-end destination for gays and lesbians? Boasting a dozen LGBTQIA-exclusive resorts (most clothing optional), laid-back Fort Lauderdale<\/a> remains\u00a0the quintessential weekend gaycation demanding only swimming, sunning, boozing and relaxing. The city even boasts a campaign aimed at trans travelers.<\/p>\n

17. Idyll away\u00a0the summer at IDA: Middle Tennessee
\n<\/strong>Imagine a 200-acre farm\u2014in rural Tennessee of all places\u2014that ebulliently wraps its arms around a community of queer, transgender and non-binary people in the form of work projects, art making, and community building and that’s IDA (aka Idyll Dandy Arts). Come during summer and be treated to Idapalooza, a festival of music that brings in hundreds and helps pay for\u00a0and maintain this vital safe space.<\/p>\n

18. Time share\u00a0a summer home\u00a0with a half dozen\u00a0besties: Fire Island, NY
\n<\/strong>Scorching summer heat\u00a0sends New Yorkers fleeing their city in droves come June\u00a0and it just so happens they have a quick getaway in the form of a pastoral sand bar where queers have gathered openly for more than 50 years. The Pines is geared toward the monied while Cherry Grove is funkier and more inclusive, but to experience either most folks\u00a0cobble together big bucks for a summer time share\u2014and it’s worth it.
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Calypso Cabaret | Flickr CC: ecodallaluna<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

19. See a ladyboy cabaret: Bangkok
\n<\/strong>Between gay karaoke and go-go bars, 24 hour saunas, sweaty nightclubs, and friendly (wink, wink) massage parlors, rowdy Bangkok<\/a> is Southeast Asia’s undisputed queer capital and famous among nightlife offerings are ladyboy cabarets in which \u00a0transgender women (katoey<\/em> in Thai) perform gender illusions to the tunes of popular gay divas. Check out the Vegas-style revues at legendary Calypso Cabaret.
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20. Revel in the dark at the Sydney Mardi Gras Parade: Sydney
\n<\/strong>The Aussie sun is famously intense, but for one night annually it pales in comparison to the rainbow-tinged parade that is the high watermark for the annual Sydney<\/a> Gay and Lesbian MardiGras. Watch as some 8,500 participants march proudly, ebulliently, and often\u00a0scantily down Oxford Street in a blur of glitter, sequins, and breezy self-expression that epitomizes everything we love about the land Down Under.<\/p>\n

21. Break a sweat at Atlanta Black Pride: Atlanta, GA<\/strong>
\nSummers in Georgia\u00a0are notoriously sticky, but the heat brought at Atlanta<\/a> Pride Weekend is thanks to the thousands of men and women of color who converge every Labor Day weekend to celebrate the largest Black Pride event in the United States. A mashing together of daytime activism and nighttime celebration, events are neatly divided by gender, but all come together for Sunday’s Pure Heat Community Festival.<\/p>\n

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Britney Spears in Vegas | Flickr CC: ADRIANOVIAJANTE007<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

22. Mouth the words to every Lady Gaga song: Las Vegas
\n<\/strong>Credit the king of rock ‘n’ roll for\u00a0planting himself in Vegas<\/a> and turning the city into a destination hot spot for entertainers in their prime\u2014not long past it. Elton John, Cher, Britney Spears and others have stopped here for long residencies in the past decade, but today’s superstar du jour<\/em> is Lady Gaga and many a Sin City vacation is booked exclusively for a chance to clamor for a piece of the blonde chart topper.<\/p>\n

23. Discover your P-spot: Provincetown, MA
\n<\/strong>This teensy New England hamlet<\/a>\u00a0at the dangling end of Cape Cod is the very definition of queer paradise\u00a0and is so inclusive that it devotes themed\u00a0weeks\u00a0to women, women of color, same-sex families, bears, trans and non-binary people, leather folk, and more. Stay at one of dozens of gay guesthouses, see a cabaret show (as in\u00a0Miss Richfield 1981 or Dina Martina), hit up Herring Cove Beach\u00a0and do\u00a0at least one Tea Dance at the world famous Boatslip.<\/p>\n

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Sidetrack in Chicago | Photo courtesy of Monica Pedraja<\/p><\/div>\n

24. Join Musical Monday crooners at Sidetrack: Chicago
\n<\/strong>Bid adieu to the passengers aboard the Titanic with the launch of a thousand cocktail napkins, heckle Madonna’s Eva Peron, or just sing your heart out at this legendary Monday night fixture where devotees of the Great White Way\u00a0and up-and-coming talents\u00a0alike gather with fanatical devotion to watch clips from Broadway shows both past and present. A more enjoyable night in a gay bar you will not have.
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25. Meet Le Village people in the ultimate gayborhood: Montreal
\n<\/strong>The era of the gay ghetto is ending and whether that’s a good or bad thing, it’s still a joy to walk down a street where gay businesses abound and hand holding is the norm. Although cities like Toronto and San Francisco boast enviable queer ‘hoods, there’s nothing quite like strolling Montreal<\/a>‘s Rue Sainte-Catherine, a.k.a. the Village, in summer.<\/p>\n

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