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Westhill Consulting Travel and Tours , Singapore sure know how to define fun. SE Asian citiessuch as KL Malaysia, Bangkok Thailand, Jakarta ndonesia, Singapore and !any !ore are notthe only cities our gay friends can en"oy tra#elling.

The Florida Panhandle

$ne !a"or gay destination is South Beach, L.%.B.T. tra#elers ha#e for countless years gatheredthere and, "ust lately, to &ort Lauderdale as too. '$ne !ight not instantly think of &lorida(s)anhandle as gay*welco!ing due to its conser#ati#e nature, +ut it has long +een a refuge for gaySoutherners looking for a +each getaway, -esiree Sousa, the owner and editor in chief of %ayTra#el nfor!ation, wrote in an e!ail. -estin, &ort alton Beach and )ensacola are a!ong theplaces Ms. Sousa sees as up*and*co!ing gay*friendly destinations, 'especially for L.%.B.T.fa!ilies with children, she wrote. 'There isn(t a plethora of gay nightclu+s /)ensacola is ho!eto the only gay nightclu+s in the area, which include the popular E!erald 0ity1, Ms. Sousawrote, +ut the area is nota+le '+ecause of its o#erall welco!ing attitude toward the L.%.B.T.

tra#eler, so!ething ha#e e2perienced ti!e and ti!e again. Ms. Sousa said she has stayed in anu!+er of area resorts, including the Sandestin %olf 3 Beach 4esort, and always felt welco!eand safe when tra#eling with her wife.

Harlem, New York

The first places that will co!e to your !ind when you think of especially L.%.B.T*friendlyneigh+orhoods in 5ew 6ork, %reenwich 7illage, 0helsea and, !ore recently, 8ell(s Kitchen or0linton. arning, these places are #ery gay999 According to Alan 8. Beck, the president andpu+lisher of 0olu!+ia &un Map and %ayosphere.co!, add to the list 8arle!, which is +it +y +itregaining the reputation that it had for +eing a gay ha#en during its renaissance nearly a centuryago. Mr. Beck wrote in an e!ail, '&un Maps, which creates gay*centric !aps of #ariousdestinations, is planning a 8arle! !ap to co!e out this su!!er. 8arle! has e#en had its owngay pride cele+ration, though 5ew 6ork 0ity already has a +ig annual e#ent since :;<;.

Pittsburgh

' understand )itts+urgh pro+a+ly con"ures up i!ages of steel !ills, foot+all and heart attack*inducing sandwiches, wrote Ji! erner, a co*founder of a tra#el we+site that offers infor!ationa+out a nu!+er of gay*friendly cities as well as re#iews, e#ent listings and special deals. But, hepointed out, )itts+urgh is, in fact, '=uirky, progressi#e, and yes, re!arka+ly gay*friendly. t(s

also the ho!etown of Andy arhol, a gay icon, and ho!e to the Andy arhol Museu!. And, asof this !onth when a "udge struck down the state(s gay*!arriage +an, )ennsyl#ania is the laststate in the 5ortheast to allow sa!e*se2 !arriage. )itts+urgh will cele+rate its )ride &est on June<> /the e#ent drew a+out ?>,;;; people last year, Mr. erner wrote1. The city doesn(t feature alarge, centrali@ed gay area, +ut the o#erall #i+e is welco!ing, he said. Still, Mr. erner added, 'ifyou want to increase your chances of finding fellow gays, head downtown to Li+erty A#enue or

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to the Shadyside or Lawrence#ille neigh+orhoods. Most of the +ars in those neigh+orhoods arewithin walking distance of each other.