Best place to be gay

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An estimated 4. Senior Advice, a website that focuses on senior living, recently ranked the best cities for LGBT people to retire in The city has a Gay Easter Parade, Southern Decadence an annual gay festival and parade held around Labor Day each year and more than a dozen gay bars. West Palm Beach has more than 40 miles of beaches, plenty of shopping — like 40 antique shops on Antique Row in its Arts and Design District — and while relatively small, there is gay nightlife, including popular neighborhood gay bar H. Roosters, which has been in business since With a perfect score on the HRCMEI, Tucscon is one of the "fastest growing retirement destinations in the nation," according to SeniorAdvice, which also notes it's an affordable city with warm weather all year, with great food scene , particularly Mexican cuisine. University of Arizona's Institute For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Studies there is one of the first of its kind, according to SeniorAdvice, and Tuscon was the first Arizona city to pass an anti-discrimination ordinance protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender residents and city workers back in

Many annual Pride marches that were once solemn protests against repression have become celebrations of now-existing rights or progress, reflecting the strength of LGBT communities. Activists claim he is also against same-sex marriage and adoption rights. Studies that try to do this often look at political or legal metrics such as freedom to marry, or laws protecting against discrimination. Birmingham, Alabama, obtained a full score for passing comprehensive non discrimination ordinances , along with other cities such as Cleveland in Ohio, a state that had previously prohibited same-sex marriage and civil unions.

Same-sex marriage may be the law of the land, but before wedding bells chime, there's the dating scene. For all LGBT singles out there, it's easier than ever to navigate a city's gay community. The data was compiled by focusing on factors such as the percentage of single people; the size of the LGBT community; the Municipal Equality Index MEI , which rates cities based on their equality in relation to the gay community and is compiled by civil rights organization the Human Rights Campaign; bars per , people; and the cost of a single drink. The total possible city score was Here are 16 of those cities with the best dating scene.