![]() We've showed them some of our favorite hang outs, and they've introduced us to places now that we would have never entered, or probably known about. (not why we asked them to join us, but because we enjoy their company) and they also fell in love with the place, and still vacation there, we've never missed a year. Then our two friends who happen to be gay My husband honestly never knew or realized that Key West was a "gay destination." We loved the place.įast forward about 10 years, our kids are grown, we've been going to KW alone for a couple of years. One day my husband comes home from work and says, "Hey, my friend Al at work said that Key West is full of gay people." Well needless to say we had a little chuckle over it, and still do now. We had been vacationing in the Keys for over 10 years with our children. So now much less of a party town and anything goes now and that doesn’t apply only to gay places since the whole town has been gentrified and disneyed. ![]() Actually that was part of the reasons for my hiatus since the city had a very depressing feel for a while. Sadly, and I am not writing that in negative way, this might also be attributed to the huge toll that AIDS took around. In Key West I also noticed that what was mostly a gay male community had much more lesbians now, so yes a large GLBT community and still a strong gay tourism but not what it used to be. Trendy gays moved to South Beach and then back to Fort Lauderdale where it had all started in the late ‘60s. There are still some gay guesthouses and several bars…” As usual for many places gay males were at the forefront of urban renewal but then these places became fashionable for the population at large. I think that SDT was implying that when he wrote: “…and we do still get many gay tourists. So it surprised me a lot when I came back in the new millenium and found it less gay than what I remembered. I have visited Key West unfrequently for the last 25 years or so with a big hiatus in the middle ‘90s.
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