"Have a talk with the kids" Top 5 Page for this destination Gay Lifestyle Tip by 850prc

Actually, I could have combined the "party hearty" AND "gay lifestyle" sections for this VT trip.

I am a live and let live kind of guy. For a conservative Republican, I do pretty well in more liberal settings and populations. In fact, I think I know some liberals who actually like or even love me. But then, they're liberals and they love everyone except George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or any combination thereof. OK, back to the tip...

Key West is an "anything goes" kind of town. There's a lot of hedonism in the party spirit, and there's a huge gay population. Needless to say, many of the establishments cater to the gay crowd. And again, it's just different. My point is that if you're traveling to Key West with kids or young adults as were we, you might want to have a little talk with the young 'uns before you go walking on Duval Street after dark.

My daughter took it all in stride, though. We were walking back to our cottage one night, and we passed some female impersonators handing out fliers for a stage show. I spoke with them for a minute, just exchanging evening pleasantries. We walked down the street just a bit and I said, "Sara, let me talk to you about those ladies back there". Before I could say anything, she smiled and said "I know daddy, they're guys." She said the voices gave them away, although I thought they had the voices down pretty well.

BTW, the bar in this tip's feature photo (Crabby Dicks) isn't exclusive a gay bar. But, I understand that there are areas within that ARE considered "foreign territory" for we straight folk.

The other photo pictures the La-De-Da Club, which features female impersonator entertainment. Some of the crowd is straight, but quite a few more are not. I understand the place is a hoot, and had this not been a family trip, me and Missus would have checked it out. I didn't watch Rocky Horror Picture Show ten dozen times without learning something. :)