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LGBTQ+ TRAVEL GUIDE TO PUERTO RICO
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The island of Puerto Rico always greets its guests with ¡bienvenidos! This unrivaled Caribbean getaway has a vibrant culture, year-round warm weather, spectacular scenery, and dozens of one-of-a-kind experiences. Since Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States, American citizens don't need a passport to visit. And Puerto Ricans—who culturally are a fusion of Spaniards, Africans, and Taínos—are welcoming, friendly, and strive to make everyone's visit memorable. They don't just invite you to the party; they want you to dance.
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A DIGITAL RECORD OF LGBTQ+ VENUES FROM THE '60s AND BEYOND
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While on his frequent business trips around the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bob Damron wanted to find bars and other locales to meet other men like him. A gay man, Damron sought friends, companions, and safety at friendly businesses in the various cities he visited. He began jotting down the names of the spots he frequented, sometimes loaning out his notebooks to fellow gay friends to take with them on their own journeys. His prolific lists became the basis of the gay travel guide he began publishing in 1964. To be sure, Damron’s guidebooks are not a perfect source base. Since these guides were aimed mostly at gay men, they overlook large swaths of queer culture. However, Mapping the Gay Guides believes that mapping Damron’s guidebooks can offer valuable insight into the queer world beginning in the 1960s and into the present.
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| | Image credit: Matthew Wexler | TAKE IT OUTSIDE: OUR FAVORITE LGBTQ MURALS IN THE US | From graffiti to high art, murals are some of the country's most glorious sights. Often, they reflect and honor local communities, with ever-more LGBTQ artists expressing themselves through colorful murals in cities from coast to coast. There is a risk behind mural art, however. As part of urban streetscapes, murals often are impermanent and subject to every building's and neighborhood's evolution.
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